Cutting from the "Glasgow Herald": speech by Lord Weir [earlier Sir William Weir] calling for a national policy on Britain's export industries. Sent with CHAR 2/133/6.

Letter from [WSC] (2 Sussex Square) to Stanley Baldwin [later Lord Baldwin] (93 Eaton Square, [London]) on the Liberal position with regard to the abolition of the McKenna duties. Typescript. Carbon copy at CHAR 2/133/29-30.

"The economics of the oil industry": a paper read by Sir Robert Waley Cohen at the Empire Mining and Metallurgical Congress.

"First interim report of the Committee on Currency and Foreign Exchanges after the war.".

Cutting from the Nottingham Guardian: article on: WSC's pre-war rejection of Imperial Preference and the present government's commitment to it; the opposition to the measure of the Asquithian Liberals; the large numbers of soldiers and others emigrating overseas and the benefits to be derived from economic measures to tie the Empire together more firmly.

Letter from Herbert Fisher (Board of Education) to WSC listing the points on which he disagrees with the proposed trade policy.

Cutting from the Manchester Guardian: article by Hartley Withers on the failure of David Lloyd George to announce measures to tackle the country's economic problems and on the need for higher taxation to restrain consumption and reduce war profits, and to tackle the depreciation of the currency. Sent by Sir Ernest Cassel.

Notes on the need to impose a levy on excessive war profits in order to reduce the National Debt. Typescript copy.

Speech by Leonard Franklin to the London Liberal Federation in favour of a levy on excess war profits to reduce the National Debt.

"Notes on the levy on war profits as against the levy on capital generally.".

Letter from Sir Alfred Mond [later Lord Melchett] (Office of Works) to WSC criticising the schedule of key industries in the Imports and Exports Regulation Bill.

Letter from Sir Abe Bailey (38 Bryanston Square, [London]) to WSC urging him to comment on the proposal of 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] that Jamaica or other colonies should be sold, and making suggestions for the paying off of the National Debt.

Letter from WSC to Edwin Montagu [Secretary of State for India] protesting about the ability of India to impose a protective tariff against British goods under the Government of India Bill. Typescript copy.

Notes on the profitability of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and the vital importance of its output to the war effort. [Left with WSC by Sir Frederick Black].

Cutting from the Financial Times on the share issue of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. [Left with WSC by Sir Frederick Black].

"Final report of the Committee on Currency and Foreign Exchanges after the War.".

"The need for saving in peace time" by Hartley Withers. Published by the National War Savings Committee.

Letter from John St Loe Strachey (Newlands Corner, Merrow Downs, Guildford, [Surrey]) to Edward Marsh (Colonial Office) rejecting the arguments of the Controller of the National Debt against Strachey's scheme for converting the Debt into ninety-nine year leases and asking Marsh to get WSC to look at the Controller's memorandum.

Pages from the Spectator including article by [Joseph St Loe Strachey] proposing the conversion of the National Debt into ninety-nine year leases. Annotated.

Letter from John St Loe Strachey (Newlands Corner, Merrow Downs, Guildford, [Surrey]) to WSC arguing that WSC is the one member of the present Government who could lead a new administration pledged to the reduction of taxation, which is vital in the country's current parlous financial position.

Letter from [WSC] (Colonial Office) to John St Loe Strachey outlining the objections to Strachey's idea of converting the National Debt into ninety-nine year leases, suggesting a forced loan at a low rate of interest, as has been introduced in New Zealand, and referring to Government efforts to reduce expenditure, including his own twenty million pounds worth of savings on Mesopotamia [Iraq, and parts of southeast Turkey, southwest Iran and Syria] and Palestine. Typescript copy.

Letter from John St Loe Strachey (Newlands Corner, Merrow Downs, Guildford, [Surrey]) to WSC discussing means of reducing the National Debt, rejecting WSC's idea of a forced loan, warning him "to prepare at once against a flood which may be upon us at any moment", asking him to read various newspaper articles and urging him to help stop the sale of Runnymede [Surrey].

Memorandum by Leopold Amery on the need for a clear and consistent monetary policy which takes account of the new situation after the war. Covers the debt owed to the United States, the internal debt, the avoidance of deflation except as a result of increased production, and stability in the international exchanges.

Letter from T B Johnston (The Bristol Pottery, Fishponds, Bristol) to WSC (Colonial Office) enclosing copies of letters he has written to [David Lloyd George] on unemployment and the collapsed exchanges [see CHAR 2/116/73-74 and CHAR 2/116/75-80].