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Economic conditions

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 1266 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 04 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/196/20
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Note by Guy Millard [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign secretary] commenting in detail on the background and circumstances of the visit to the United States by Robert Boothby [Conservative MP for Aberdeen and Kincardine], with particular reference to his undertakings not to criticize the economic policies of the American State Department or the Bretton Woods Agreement and his subsequent letters to the New York Times [typescript].

Dates: 04 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 28 Mar 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/81
Scope and Contents Telegram from Alfred Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord Norwich, British Ambassador to France] to Foreign Office marked "special (economic, supply and relief)" reporting on the progress of the Rosenman mission to France. States that Samuel Rosenman [Special Counsel to President of the United States] has had detailed discussions with various sections of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force concerned with with civil affairs, transportation and all supplies, including coal and Pol[and]....
Dates: 28 Mar 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 11 Feb 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/223/22
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Telegram from WSC [Yalta, Soviet Union] to Deputy Prime Minister [Clement Attlee], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir John Anderson, later 1st Lord Waverley], and others concerned marked "From: Argonaut" and "Jason 337" sending on the text of a letter from President Franklin Roosevelt on resuming high level discussion on the Lend-Lease Agreement.

Dates: 11 Feb 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Jul 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/224/2
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Telegram from [Leslie] Rowan [Prime Minister's Private Secretary, Potsdam, Berlin, Germany] to Private Office marked "From: Terminal" and "Target No. 65" passing on a message from WSC to Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir John Anderson, later 1st Lord Waverley] requesting his comments on President Harry Truman's memorandum of that date on Lend-Lease and connected subjects.

Dates: 17 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Jun 1945 - 18 Jun 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/221/62-63
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Telegram from Sir Desmond Morton [Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] (Athens [Greece]) to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" setting out suggestions for a future British policy to ensure Italy and Greece do not fall to communists. [Despatched on 18 June; carbon copy].

Dates: 17 Jun 1945 - 18 Jun 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [1945]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/229C/214
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Galley proof of an article by [Sir] George Paish entitled "The Parting of the Ways", for the Free Trader, on economic co-operation between nations. [annotated by Paish].

Dates: [1945]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Jan 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258A/137
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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on economic warfare, summarising "W.P. (R)(40) 212", commenting on German economic relations with the United States, European countries, and South America. [Copy; given running number 195].

Dates: 02 Jan 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 31 Jul 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/33/2
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Letter from "Jack" [John S Churchill] (4 Moorgate Street [London]) to "Mama" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he discusses the collapse of the "whole financial system" and says that the Stock Exchange has closed. He advises her to be careful with her finances.

Dates: 31 Jul 1913
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 20 Aug 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/1/49-50
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Letter from [Leonard Jerome] (Union Club, Fifth Avenue and 21st Street [New York, United States]) to Jennie [Lady Randolph Churchill] including: the magnificent success of [Lord] Randolph [Churchill]; hopes that Randolph may be able to speak on the issue of Protection; and financial affairs.

Dates: 20 Aug 1886
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 31 Dec 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/116/1-14
Scope and Contents Statement of events surrounding the resignation of Lord Randolph Churchill [by Sir Henry Drummond Wolff]. Includes details of the occasions on which he met Lord Randolph, including the 22 December, when he is described as "very gay and cheery..no one would have said that any great event had occurred". He relates a conversation with Lord Randolph about W H Smith, [Secretary of State for War] about the army estimates; the acceptance of Lord Randolph's resignation by [Robert, 3rd] Lord...
Dates: 31 Dec 1886
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 01 Sep 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/117/7-8
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Copy of a letter from WSC (Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland [Scotland]) to [Alfred] Harmsworth [later Lord Northcliffe] marked private in which he predicts that the [Conservative] Government will be defeated by a landslide; discusses the treatment of the issue of taxation of manufactured goods [in the Daily Mail]; suggests that he should consider the Free Trade arguments and that a "great central Government neither Protectionist nor Pro-Boer" might be established.

Dates: 01 Sep 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 20 Aug 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/118/8-9
Scope and Contents Typescript transcript of a letter from Lord Randolph Churchill, Secretary of State for India, to Grant Duff [Governor of Madras, India] including: his poor health; the uncertainties of party politics; his support for Duff's views on the "Botanical proposal" [the establishment of a botanical department in Madras]; the departure of [Arthur Collins], the Chief Justice of Madras; the difficulties of raising capital to finance the Indian Midland Railway; the success of negotiations with Russia...
Dates: 20 Aug 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 03 May 1887

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/119/3
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Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (2 Connaught Place [London]) to [Louis] Jennings in which he discusses measures likely to be implemented by the Chancellor of the Exchequer [George Goschen] including the taxation of foreign goods and expresses approval for an article by [4th Lord] Dunraven in the National Review.

Dates: 03 May 1887
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 30 Oct 1887

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/119/8
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Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (Floors Castle [Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland]) to [Louis] Jennings in which he discusses his opposition to the taxation of foreign imports as it would alienate the county population and asks whether there has been any developments about [Robert, 3rd] Lord Salisbury's opposition to reconstruction.

Dates: 30 Oct 1887
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Jul 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194B/195-197
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Letter from WSC to the President of the United States of America [Harry Truman] marked "Top Secret" commenting on munitions requirements and financial questions, including continued relief to Italy until UNRRA [United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration] takes over in early autumn, and proposing that a British delegation should be sent to Washington as soon as is convenient to achieve agreement on these vital post-war issues [carbon].

Dates: 24 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 25 May 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194A/46
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Letter from WSC to 3rd Lord Selborne [earlier Lord Wolmer, Minister of Economic Warfare] agreeing that the time has come to wind up the Ministry of Economic Warfare and commenting on the important part played by the Ministry in the great victory [carbon].

Dates: 25 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 29 May 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194A/56-58
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Letter from WSC to Sir Arthur Salter [Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster] explaining his responsibilities regarding European reconstruction and listing the various committees on which he will serve [carbon].

Dates: 29 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 21 May 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258B/188
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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC commenting on a paper comparing German and British intentions for a post-war Europe, particularly in economic matters. [Copy; given running number 302].

Dates: 21 May 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 10 Sep 1941 - 26 Sep 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258C/303-318
Scope and Contents Series of minutes from [1st] Lord Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on: 1. an improvement in the maximum bomb load; 2. mustard gas bombs; 3. decisions to be taken about munitions and aircraft production, army size, supplying the Soviet Union, and possible theatres of operation, with WSC's reply (13 September); 4. attaching a draft to the First Lord of the Admiralty [A V Alexander, later 1st Lord Alexander of Hillsborough] and Secretary of State for...
Dates: 10 Sep 1941 - 26 Sep 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Sep 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258C/319
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(Untitled), 05 May 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/217/121
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Telegram from Reginald Leeper [British Ambassador to Greece] to WSC stating that the Voulgaris Government "is the best we have had so far"; that their main problem is rising prices; and requesting the loan of a "really good" public relations officer to increase public confidence in the government.

Dates: 05 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Mar 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 6/3A/60-64
Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from WSC to [Dwight Eisenhower] President of the United States marked "private & personal" on East West trade; explaining his hopes to ease relations with the Soviet Union and that development of life in the Soviet Union and enjoyment of consumer goods may relax the "grim discipline"; he feels that weapons and military equipment should not be exported to the Soviet Union, but that the export of many items should not be banned because they might be used for military...
Dates: 24 Mar 1954
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Jan 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/178/7
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Letter from Lord Grey of Fallodon [formerly Sir Edward Grey] to WSC, congratulations on the success of the Paris Finance Conference.

Dates: 16 Jan 1925
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 20 Feb 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/178/13
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Letter from Sir Abe Bailey to WSC, advising him to remove restrictions on foreign loans.

Dates: 20 Feb 1925
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 10 Jan 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/60/45
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Cutting from the "Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury" on the forthcoming discussion at the conference of the Royal Economic Society on railway nationalisation and the financial relations of Great Britain and Ireland.

Dates: 10 Jan 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open