Letter from WSC to Rene Leon, thanking him for sending a pamphlet on the monetary question in Britain and the United States, which he has read with "great attention". [Carbon].

Remarks by William Blain [Assistant Secretary to the Treasury] on the depreciation of gold and the proposed suspension of the Sinking Fund, occasioned by a letter from Moreton Frewen to WSC [see CHAR 2/26/73] and sent by Sir Edward Hamilton [Joint Permanent Secretary to the Treasury] to Reginald McKenna [Financial Secretary to the Treasury]. Typescript copy on Treasury paper. Hamilton's introductory note initialed by him.

Letter from Moreton Frewen (37a Great Cumberland Place, [London]) to WSC discussing the depreciation of gold and advocating the suspension of the Sinking Fund. Signed carbon typescript.

Letter from Sir Felix Schuster (31 Collingham Road, South Kensington, [London]) to [Sir Francis] Hopwood [later, Lord Southborough] [Permanent Under-Secretary for Colonies] on the bad effects which would follow a reduction in the production of gold in South Africa. Congratulates Hopwood on his recent appointment.

Article on the comparison between the imports and exports of Britain, the United States, Germany and France in 1903 and 1910. Printed. Sent with CHAR 2/54/26.

Figures, with explanatory notes, on the relationship between national income and defence spending from 1812 to 1910, compiled for Reginald McKenna [First Lord of the Admiralty.] Annotated typescript.

Telegram from WSC to Prime Minister of Canada [Mackenzie King] marked "Top Secret and Personal" thanking him for his telegrams [on future trade policy]; explaining that these matters are being considered; and assuring him that the United Kingdom will give "the fullest weight to Canada's wishes and interests". Photocopy.

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.

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.

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.

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].

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].

Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "Personal and Top Secret" approving of Roosevelt's suggestion for a "high-powered economic mission" for Greece; but objecting to involving the Soviet Union and suggesting the prior establishment of a joint Anglo-American Committee comprising of British and American economic and financial experts; and welcoming the assistance of Donald Nelson [former Chairman of the US War Production Board] at any time.

Telegram from President Roosevelt to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" arguing against setting up a bilateral [Anglo-American] economic mission in Greece; but supporting continued informal co-operation between their two Embassies and the Greek Government; and giving details of existing and proposed US assistance to Greece.

Telegram from Minister of Production [Oliver Lyttelton, later Lord Chandos] (Washington [United States]) to WSC marked "Beefeater No. 28" reporting on a meeting with Lieutenant General Brehon Somervell [Commanding General of the Services of Supply, United States Army] in which they discussed bomb production for air forces in the Pacific war, and balancing food supply and requirements; and on having to address senior American businessmen on the British economy.

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.

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.

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.

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].

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].

Resolution adopted by the League of Nations International Labour Office that the Director and other representatives of the Office should put their services at the disposal of the Genoa Conference on economic reconstruction. Sent with CHAR 2/120/106.