Economic conditions
Found in 1266 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), [Jan] [1922]
Letter from J A Whitehead, aircraft manufacturer (The Rosary, Henley-on-Thames, [Berkshire]) to WSC asking to see him to explain a scheme which he claims will stabilise the exchanges, give work to the unemployed, reduce taxes and help Germany pay reparations without any national expenditure.
(Untitled), [Jan] [1922]
Letter from 17th Lord Derby (Derby House) to WSC congratulating him for his part in the Irish settlement, criticising Michael Collins and his supporters for permitting the election to be postponed and warning that if [David Lloyd George] shows any sign of recognising the Soviet government at the Genoa Conference he would seal the fate of his government.
(Untitled), Nov 1921
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.
(Untitled), [Dec] [1921]
(Untitled), 19 Dec 1921
(Untitled), 07 Jul 1922
Letter from [WSC] to David Lloyd George arguing that a system of embargo and licence should be applied if large amounts of cheap imports came from Germany into Britain because of the fall in the value of the Mark, which in any case he thinks is unlikely to happen for very long because it would not be in the exporter's interest. Carbon copy.
(Untitled), 15 Jul 1922
Cutting from the Scotsman: article by Professor J Sheild Nicholson on the depreciation of the German Mark. Sent with CHAR 2/123/170.
(Untitled), 22 Jul 1922
Page from the Investors' Guardian: marked article attacking the idea that Britain should pay all her debts incurred during the war whilst releasing those countries which are indebted to her. Sen with CHAR 2/123/177.
(Untitled), 28 Feb 1922
Article by Samuel McKirahan, mining engineer and metallurgist (Rapid City, South Dakota, United States) on the adjustment of foreign debts and the restoration of exchange. Sent with CHAR 2/121/82.
(Untitled), 15 Mar 1922
Cutting from the Scotsman: lecture by Professor J Shield Nicholson of Edinburgh University on the economic situation. Sent with CHAR 2/121/87.
(Untitled), 16 Sep 1920
Cutting from the Times: statement by Otto Kahn, a banker, on the economic situation in Britain and the rest of Europe and the war debts owed by European countries to the United States.
(Untitled), [Aug] [1922]
Newspaper articles by Sir Charles Sykes on the disruption caused to international trade by the fiscal barriers erected by the new states created out of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and the remedies for economic stagnation in central Europe, entailing a revision of the Treaty of Versailles. Sent with CHAR 2/124A/48-49.
(Untitled), 14 May 1917
Extract from the New York Annalist [United States]: letter from William Bourke Cockran to Claude Kitchin arguing that the advances of money made by the United States to her allies should be treated as gifts, not loans. Typescript copy of the original sent with CHAR 2/124A/91.
(Untitled), 14 Mar 1923
(Untitled), 30 Apr 1924
Letter from [WSC] to 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] on the McKenna duties, the Ulster boundary situation and the Budget. Carbon copy.
(Untitled), 01 May 1924
Letter from Lord Weir [earlier Sir William Weir] (Holm Foundry, Cathcart, Glasgow, [Scotland]) to WSC (2 Sussex Square) enclosing and summarising CHAR 2/133/7 and urging him to emphasise the importance of attention being given to the conditions in the export industries.
(Untitled), 01 May 1924
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.
(Untitled), 10 May 1924
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.
(Untitled), 17 Jul 1924
Letter from ? , chairman and president of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, to WSC congratulating him on his address [on the international financial situation at the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World Convention].
(Untitled), 26 Sep 1924
Letter from Henry E Bannard (Littlewick Lodge, near [Maidenhead, Berkshire]) to WSC suggesting that war debts and reparations might be remitted in return for a guarantee for a term of years of free entry of British goods into the markets of the debtor countries.
(Untitled), 24 Sep [1924]
Cutting from the "Daily Telegraph": letter to the editor from Lord Cecil of Chelwood [earlier Lord Robert Cecil] advocating copartnership between workers and employers as a cure for the country's current serious economic plight. Sent with CHAR 2/134/160.
(Untitled), [Sep] [1924]
Letter from Ben Turner, Labour MP for Batley (The Homestead, Carlton Avenue, Batley, [Yorkshire]) to the secretary of the Association of British Creditors of Russia (129 Cannon Street, [London]) answering the Association's criticisms of the Government over the terms of the Anglo-Russian treaties. Copy sent with CHAR 2/135/11.
(Untitled), 30 Sep 1924
Letter from L J Parker, secretary of the Association of British Creditors of Russia (129 Cannon Street, [London]) to Ben Turner [Labour MP for Batley] (The Homestead, Carlton Avenue, Batley, [Yorkshire]) responding to Turner's answers to the Association's criticisms of the Government over the terms of the Anglo-Russian treaties. Copy sent with CHAR 2/135/11.
(Untitled), 31 Oct 1924
Speech by Kevin O'Higgins at the Irish debating society in Oxford on the recent history of Ireland and the current political and economic situation there. Sent with CHAR 2/136/30-34.
(Untitled), 09 Nov 1924
Letter from Leopold Amery (112 Eaton Square, [London]) to WSC asserting that WSC has "a wonderful opportunity for creative finance" as Chancellor of the Exchequer, asking to talk with him about the Wembley Exhibition and other issues and arguing that the Government ought to make immediate announcements about Singapore, the Economic Conference Resolutions and the Geneva Protocol.