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].

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].

Letter from T B Johnston (Bristol) to David Lloyd George (Gairloch, [Ross and Cromarty], Scotland) arguing for an international agreement to take the index number of the cost of living as a basis for fixing exchanges. Typescript copy sent with CHAR 2/116/72.

Letter from T B Johnston (Bristol) to David Lloyd George (Gairloch, [Ross and Cromarty], Scotland) arguing that unemployment has been caused by currency restrictions and that the problem can be addressed by a departure from the Gold Standard accompanied by a regulation of prices brought about by the organisation of industry into a number of industrial councils co-ordinated by a national council. Typescript copy sent with CHAR 2/116/72. Leaves filed in wrong order.

Pamphlet: "Industrial peace: capital, labour and consumer: a basis of co-operation. A paper delivered before the British Association . . . by T B Johnston." Advocates a system of industrial councils.

Precis of an article [by Philip Kerr] on "national prosperity and industrial peace" reprinted from the Round Table.

Letter from John Baugh (John Baugh & Co, importers and exporters, 52 Gracechurch Street, London) to WSC enclosing a copy of a letter from him to [David Lloyd George] on export credits [see CHAR 2/116/95a-112] and asking for support for his proposals.

Letter from John Baugh (John Baugh & Co, importers and exporters, 52 Gracechurch Street, London) to [David Lloyd George] proposing the establishment of a British Bank of Commerce with branches in trading countries to facilitate the obtaining of export credits by British firms. Typescript copy sent with CHAR 2/116/95.

"The Valve World", the staff magazine of Crane Co of Chicago [United States], containing an article on the cancellation of debts owed to the United States. Sent with CHAR 2/116/121 .

Letter from T B Johnston (Bristol Pottery, Fishponds, [Bristol]) to the editor of the Bristol Times and Mirror advocating the organising of industries into cartels co-ordinated in a central council and describing the successful establishment of such a system in Germany. Reprint sent with CHAR 2/116/143.

Note from [John Stephenson] to Edward Marsh stating that since the proposals [? in CHAR 2/116/147-156] are not confined to the Empire they are primarily a matter for the Board of Trade rather than the Colonial Office.

Letter from Sir John Pilter [honorary president of the British Chamber of Commerce, Paris] (48 Rue Michel-Ange, Paris, [France]) to WSC (House of Commons) enclosing a paper by him on British export trade [see CHAR 2/116/147-156].

Paper by Sir John Pilter, honorary president of the British Chamber of Commerce in Paris [France], on the need for government, employers and labour to co-operate in forward-looking policies which will enable Britain to retain her trading position in the post-war world. Sent with CHAR 2/116/146.

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.

Cutting from the Scotsman: article by Professor J Shield Nicholson on fluctuations in the value of the German mark (29 Oct). With covering letter to WSC from Robert Wallace (University of Edinburgh, [Scotland]) (9 Nov).

Letter from George Stanley (Maybank, Farncombe Road, Worthing, [Sussex]) to WSC enclosing a paper by him on proposals for improving trading conditions [see CHAR 2/117/62-96] and explaining that he has also sent copies to Austen Chamberlain, Sir Robert Horne [later Lord Horne of Slamannan], Stanley Baldwin [later Lord Baldwin] and Sir William Clark.

"The collapse in the exchanges. A proposal for ameliorating trade conditions." By George Stanley, former Deputy Comptroller-General of the Commercial, Labour and Statistical Departments of the Board of Trade and Assistant Secretary for the Board's Commercial Department. Sent with CHAR 2/117/61.

Memorandum by H W Collins [fellow of the Institute of Bankers] suggesting how the problem of the German exchange could be overcome by the supply by other countries of raw materials for German industry, the payments received by the supplying countries due to their ownership of the resulting manufactured goods being taxed by the German government and the taxes being paid in foreign currency direct to the Allies in part satisfaction of reparation payments. Sent with CHAR 2/118/18.

Memorandum criticising the economic doctrines of John Maynard Keynes [later Lord Keynes].