Economic conditions
Found in 1266 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 17 Jul 1945
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.
(Untitled), 05 May 1945
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.
(Untitled), 04 Mar 1945
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.
(Untitled), 08 Apr 1945
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.
(Untitled), 12 Apr 1945
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.
(Untitled), 08 Dec 1912
Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to [the Chancellor of the Exchequer, David Lloyd George] forecasting the Naval Estimates for 1913-14.
(Untitled), 29 May 1935
Newspaper cutting from the New York Herald-Tribune, "Today and Tomorrow: the NRA and After", by Walter Lippman, on the United States National Recovery Administration.
(Untitled), 12 Jun 1935
Letter from Bernard Baruch (597 Madison Avenue, New York [United States]) to WSC, enclosing notes on the New Deal [see CHAR 2/235/5 and CHAR 2/236/6-10] and commenting on the world-wide trend towards greater distribution of wealth, as in the Soviet Union, the United States and Europe. Annotated "In article box - new American articles".
(Untitled), 06 Jun 1935
Letter from an unknown correspondent to Bernard Baruch, enclosing notes on the New Deal [see CHAR 2/236/6-10] in reply to correspondence relating to an article by WSC on the New Deal. [Covering letter CHAR 2/236/3-4]. Unsigned copy.
(Untitled), [06] Jun 1935
Notes on the United States New Deal and National Recovery Administration, in reply to correspondence relating to an article by WSC on the New Deal. [Covering letters CHAR 2/236/3-4 and CHAR 2/236/5]. Unsigned.
(Untitled), 12 May 1935
Letter from "Bernie" [Bernard Baruch] (Georgetown, South Carolina [United States]) to WSC, on industrial mobilization, price freezing, and prevention of profiteering in case of war. Annotated "Material for American book".
(Untitled), [Mar] 1935
Memorandum by Rene Leon on "Britain and the United States: The Urgency of Conciliating Their Opposed Monetary Concepts". [Covering letter CHAR 2/236/16].
(Untitled), 02 Jun 1934
Memorandum by Rene Leon (40 Wall Street, New York [United States]) on "Silver and the Yen: Their Influence on the American Economy". [Covering letter CHAR 2/236/16].
(Untitled), Jun 1935
Memorandum by Robert Boothby (Chase, Henderson and Tennant, 56-60 New Broad Street, London) on politics and economics in the United States. Printed. [Covering letters CHAR 2/236/20 and CHAR 2/236/21].
(Untitled), 30 Mar 1935
(Untitled), 09 May 1935
Letter from Harold Robinson, [Chairman, Lancashire Group, India Defence League], to WSC, enclosing a reprint of his article from the Oldham Chronicle, 30 March 1935, "Lancashire Demands a Square Deal - Remove the Surcharges in Indian Tariff on Cotton Goods"; reporting that the article had been issued to all Lancashire MPs.
(Untitled), 28 Jan 1935
Letter from Ian Colvin, (the Morning Post, Tudor Street, London), to WSC, giving the source of a quotation by Austen Chamberlain [former Secretary of State for India] about how foolish Lancashire would be to "boggle at a paltry four per cent India tariff against cotton imports", which was said in the House of Commons, 14 March 1917.
(Untitled), 29 Jan 1935
Letter from Ian Colvin, (the Morning Post, Tudor Street, London), to WSC, on the Times report of a deputation from Lancashire which met Austen Chamberlain, [former Secretary of State for India], 13 March 1917 on the subject of Indian duties on cotton.
(Untitled), 08 May 1935
Letter from Katharine, Duchess of Atholl, (98 Elm Park Gardens, London SW10) to WSC, enclosing a memorandum written after the Burma debate in the House of Commons, on the continuation of high duties on British cotton goods in Burma [later Myanmar], in spite of the proposed separation from India.
(Untitled), 18 Sep 1944
(Untitled), 25 May 1945
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].
(Untitled), 29 May 1945
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].
(Untitled), 04 Apr 1945
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].
(Untitled), 31 Dec 1886
(Untitled), 01 Sep 1903
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.