Notes on the financial dispute between the United Kingdom and the Irish Free State [later Ireland].

Letter from Sir Henry Strakosch (Princes House, 95 Gresham Street, London) to WSC (Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, United States) commiserating with him on his accident and discussing the world economic situation, in particular the Gold Standard. Encloses CHAR 2/186/9-10.

Tables [by Sir Henry Strakosch] comparing the gold reserves of countries on and off the Gold Standard.

Newspaper cutting: comment on the Gold Standard by Reginald McKenna, chairman of the Midland Bank.

Cutting from the "Times": letter to the editor from "Peregrinus" on the insistence of France and the United States that war debts and reparations by settled on the basis of the Gold Standard.

Letter from H E Rollins (Standard Statistics Company Inc, 345 Hudson Street, New York, [United States]) to WSC (c/o Robert McCormick, Tribune Square, Chicago, [United States]) on the payment of reparations and war debts, the gold reserves of France and the United States and the recent decline in gold prices.

Letter from Brendan Bracken [later Lord Bracken] (20 Bishopsgate, London) to WSC enclosing CHAR 2/186/18-31, giving a transcript of CHAR 2/186/22, and arguing for a five-year moratorium on war debts and reparations.

Note by Brendan Bracken [later Lord Bracken] on the possibility of the United States leaving the Gold Standard and the achievement of a reparations settlement. Sent with CHAR 2/186/15-17.

Cutting from the "Financial News": article on the relationship between payment of war debts and the movement of gold. Sent with CHAR 2/186/15-17.

Newspaper cutting: report of the views of Sir Arthur Salter on the Basle reparations report. Sent with CHAR 2/186/15-17.

Letter from John Maynard Keynes [later Lord Keynes] (Tilton, Firle, Sussex) to Brendan Bracken [later Lord Bracken] on the need for the United States to cure its economic depression. Sent with CHAR 2/186/15-17.

Letter from Brendan Bracken [later Lord Bracken] (20 Bishopsgate, London) to John Maynard Keynes [later Lord Keynes] asking on WSC's behalf questions on the United States and the Gold Standard and war debts. Annotated by Keynes with his replies. Sent with CHAR 2/186/15-17.

Copy of the answers of John Maynard Keynes [later Lord Keynes] to questions by WSC on the United States and the Gold Standard and war debts. Sent with CHAR 2/186/15-17.

Supplement to the "Economist": report of the Young Plan Advisory Committee.

Letter from Sir Walter Layton [later 1st Lord Layton] (the "Economist" (8 Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, London) to Brendan Bracken [later Lord Bracken] (8 North Street, London) answering questions on: the possibility of the United States going off the Gold Standard, the debts owing to Britain, commercial loans raised in Germany and the immediate future of sterling.

Letter from Sir Frederick Leith-Ross (Treasury Chambers) to Brendan Bracken [later Lord Bracken] enclosing answers to questions on: the possibility of the United States going off the Gold Standard, the debts owing to Britain, commercial loans raised in Germany and the immediate future of sterling.

Letter from 1st Lord D'Abernon [earlier Sir Edgar Vincent] (Palazzo Sacchetti, Via Giulia, Rome, [Italy]) to WSC (New York, [United States]) criticising the accumulation of large gold reserves by the United States and France.

Letter from Sir William Wiseman (52 William Street, New York, [United States]) to WSC (Ambassador Hotel, New York) arguing that political uncertainty, rather than the hoarding of gold by the United States and France, is the real cause of the poor economic situation, and enclosing CHAR 2/186/36-50.

Memorandum [by the head of the statistical department of Kuhn, Loeb and Co of New York, United States] on the money and gold problem. Sent with CHAR 2/186/34-35.

Pages from the "Economist": article commenting on CHAR 2/186/53.

Reprint from the "Economist": memorandum by Sir Henry Strakosch on the present economic crisis.

Cutting from the "Financial News": report on Halley Stewart lecture by John Maynard Keynes in which he argued that the only alternative to world-wide organised inflation was a general default of debts.

Address by Sir Henry Strakosch to the Financial and Currency Group of the House of Commons on British monetary policy - the key to economic recovery.

Letter from Rene Leon (115 Broadway, New York, [United States]) to WSC (Waldorf Astoria, New York) on his economic discussion with bankers and senators and the need for "a little unbending on the part of Mr Neville Chamberlain" [the Chancellor of the Exchequer].

Letter from Rene Leon (the Mayflower, Washington DC, [United States]) to [WSC] enclosing and commenting on CHAR 2/186/63.