Scope and Contents Includes galley proofs for Volume 1 including: title pages; prefaces; contents tables; Appendix A "A Conversation with Count [Dino] Grandi" [Italian Ambassador to Britain]; Appendix B "A Note on the Fleet Air Arm"; Appendix C "Memorandum on Supply Organization"; Appendix D "My Statement on the Occasion of the Deputation of Conservative Members of Both Houses to the Prime Minister, July 28 1936". Annotated with comments and suggestions by various individuals including WSC, Sir Edward Marsh,...

Scope and Contents Includes typescript and galley proofs of: contents tables for Book 2; Chapter 16 "The Battle of Britain"; Chapter 17 "The Blitz"; Chapter 18 "'London Can Take It'"; Chapter 19 "The Wizard War"; Chapter 20 "United States Destroyers and West Indian Bases"; Chapter 21 "Egypt and the Middle East"; Chapter 22 "The Mediterranean Passage"; Chapter 23 "September Tensions"; Chapter 24 "Dakar" [Senegal]; Chapter 13 "At Bay" (provisionally entitled "Alone"); Appendix A "Minutes and Telegrams, May -...

Scope and Contents Includes galley proofs of: contents tables for Book 2; Chapter 16 "The Battle of Britain"; Chapter 17 "The Blitz"; Chapter 18 "'London Can Take It'"; Chapter 19 "The Wizard War"; Chapter 20 "United States Destroyers and West Indian Bases"; Chapter 21 "Egypt and the Middle East"; Chapter 22 "The Mediterranean Passage"; Chapter 23 "September Tensions"; Chapter 24 "Dakar" [Senegal]; Chapter 25 "Mr Eden's Mission" [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon, Secretary of State for War]; Chapter 26...

Scope and Contents Includes galley proofs of: contents tables for Book 2; Chapter 16 "The Battle of Britain"; Chapter 17 "The Blitz" (provisionally entitled "The Blitz Continues"); Chapter 18 "'London Can Take It'"; Chapter 19 "The Wizard War"; Chapter 20 "United States Destroyers and West Indian Bases"; Chapter 21 "Egypt and the Middle East"; Chapter 23 "September Tensions"; Chapter 24 "Dakar" [Senegal]; Chapter 25 "Mr Eden's Mission" [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon, Secretary of State for War]; Chapter 26...

Scope and Contents Includes galley proofs of: contents tables for Book 2; Chapter 16 "The Battle of Britain"; Chapter 17 "The Blitz"; Chapter 18 "'London Can Take It'"; Chapter 19 "The Wizard War"; Chapter 20 "United States Destroyers and West Indian Bases"; Chapter 21 "Egypt and the Middle East"; Chapter 22 "The Mediterranean Passage"; Chapter 23 "September Tensions"; Chapter 24 "Dakar" [Senegal]; Chapter 25 "Mr Eden's Mission" [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon, Secretary of State for War]; Chapter 26...

Scope and Contents Includes galley proofs of: contents tables for Book 2; Chapter 7 "Back to France"; Chapter 16 "The Battle of Britain"; Chapter 17 "The Blitz"; Chapter 18 "'London Can Take It'"; Chapter 19 "The Wizard War"; Chapter 20 "United States Destroyers and West Indian Bases"; Chapter 21 "Egypt and the Middle East"; Chapter 22 "The Mediterranean Passage"; Chapter 23 "September Tensions"; Chapter 24 "Dakar" [Senegal]; Chapter 25 "Mr Eden's Mission" [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon, Secretary of State...

Scope and Contents Includes galley proofs of: contents tables for Book 2; Chapter 16 "The Battle of Britain"; Chapter 17 "The Blitz"; Chapter 18 "'London Can Take It'"; Chapter 19 "The Wizard War"; Chapter 20 "United States Destroyers and West Indian Bases"; Chapter 21 "Egypt and the Middle East"; Chapter 23 "September Tensions"; Chapter 24 "Dakar" [Senegal]; Chapter 25 "Mr Eden's Mission" [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon, Secretary of State for War]; Chapter 26 "Relations with Vichy [France] and Spain"...

Scope and Contents Includes typescript and galley proofs of Chapter 28 entitled "Lend-Lease", annotated with suggested amendments and corrections by various individuals including: WSC, William Deakin, Charles Wood, Denis Kelly, [?] 1st Lord Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann], 1st Lord Ismay and CSC.Some source material is also present in the file, including: Treasury memoranda on Overseas Finance and Exchange Control, and the United States side of Lend-Lease.Also includes: a letter from Sir Edward Bridges...

Scope and Contents Includes galley proofs from: Chapter 12 "The Apparatus of Counter-Attack. 1940"; Chapter 16 "The Battle of Britain"; Chapter 19 "The Wizard War"; Chapter 20 "United States Destroyers and West Indian Bases"; Chapter 21 "Egypt and the Middle East"; Chapter 23 "September Tensions"; Chapter 25 "Mr Eden's Mission" [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon, Secretary of State for War]; Chapter 27 [Benito] "Mussolini Attacks Greece"; Chapter 28 "Lend-Lease"; Chapter 30 "Ocean Peril" (provisionally...

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Proofs and offprints of articles including: "Thoughts on Prohibition" (including research notes by Shane Leslie); "Are we too clever?" on economic depression and overproduction; and "Defence in the Pacific" on the policy of the United States towards the Philippine Islands (including notes from Colin Coote and Shane Leslie).

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Proofs and cuttings of articles by WSC: "America and unemployment" in which WSC defends the principle of unemployment insurance; "Land of corn" on WSC's opinion that food in the United States is inferior to British food, his objections to prohibition and his experiences of travel in the United States; an article on Anglo-American economic relations including notes on British economic policy by Aylmer Valance; and "The problem of liquor control" on prohibition.

Scope and Contents War Cabinet memoranda by LSA, with telegrams between LSA and the Governor-General [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun], on subjects including: general policy on India, particularly relating to the framing of the new constitution, with draft statements on British policy towards India and a note by Major-General Robert Lockhart on the effect of the new constitution upon Indian personnel in the Indian Army; inter-Allied and inter-Imperial co-operation (written jointly with 1st Lord...

Scope and Contents Memoranda written by JA for [Maurice] Harold Macmillan, Minister of Housing and Local Government [later 1st Lord Stockton], with accompanying papers and correspondence between JA, Macmillan (3), Leo Amery and Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams (3) and Edward Beddington-Behrens, Secretary and Chairman of the European League for Economic Co-operation, on the balance of payments position, the purposes of the Soviet Union, the economic crisis, co-operation between the sterling area and Europe and the...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: Imperial Preference and expansionist policy; Britain's economic future; India's position in relation to the Commonwealth; economic discussions with the United States; Anglo-American relations; planning for after the war; overseas trade; government of Indian provinces controlled by the Congress party; India and the war; the Empire and the preferential tariff system; the post-war future of India; commercial policy; the sterling problem. Also includes: memorandum by...

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Subjects covered include: economic conditions in the United States; trade; the impact of monetary policy; Bank of England policy and the gold standard; and the financial situation of the Midland Bank.Printed.

Scope and Contents Texts of papers by LSA on subjects including: the Commonwealth and European unity; the 1948 Commonwealth conference; Empire unity and world peace; common interests of the Commonwealth and the United States; a single world economics system, compared to regional or group economics; the Commonwealth as a world power; Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; the political situation in India; Conservatism and the Conservative...

Scope and Contents Texts of papers by LSA on subjects including: Free Trade and the Most Favoured Nation clause; functions of a National Planning Board; the future of Italy; trade; Europe, the Commonwealth and world security; comparisons between the Swiss and British systems of government; Europe and Germany; economic warfare; the 1940 budget. Also includes: list of articles; pamphlet on post-war opportunities in the colonial service; notes on George Yeh, representative of the Chinese Ministry of...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with CS's friends and contacts in the United States, including: [Oscar] Henry Brandon, Associate Editor and Chief American correspondent of the Sunday Times, enclosing his columns on the American view of Margaret Thatcher and the nuclear deterrent, 1979; George Shultz, Secretary of State, on the world economic situation, enclosing his statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the international economic system and remarks by Ronald Reagan, President of the...

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Includes: papers from the Global Economic Action Institute's Western Hemispheric conference on economic and social order, 1984, with a letter to JA from Sir [Richard] Geoffrey Howe, Foreign Secretary, and rough speech notes; lecture on leadership, 1984; report of the Conservative study group on bank lending, 1981; lecture by R V Jones on Britain's post-war economic record, 1979.

Scope and Contents Includes: briefing on Europe and the Inter-Governmental Conferences from [William] Tristan Garel-Jones, 1991; submission by James Molyneaux, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, to the Strand I talks on Northern Ireland, 1991; press material from the Information Committee for the Iraqi Opposition, 1991; speech by Ion Iliescu, President of Romania, to the last meeting of the Warsaw Treaty Political Consultative Committee, 1991; transcript of a witness seminar on the building of the Berlin...

Scope and Contents Annotated speech notes by LSA on subjects including: the future of Parliament; the London Library; United Europe; the political situation in India; relations between Britain and South America; London House [later Goodenough College]; the international situation; Burma [later Myanmar]; the record of the Labour Government; the Washington Loan Agreement, and its effect on the British export trade; the Indian constitutional problem; Britain's place in Europe; Empire Preference and the export...

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Memorandum by Ralph Hawtrey [Director of Financial Enquiries] to WSC about John Maynard Keynes' article [CHAR 18/40/76-77] on the views of [Reginald McKenna, Chairman, Midland Bank, see CHAR 18/40/62] covering various subjects including: relations between price levels; Keynes' figures and figures on wages, prices and cost of living; falling prices and credit contraction; economic depression; Keynes' proposal to divert labour and capital away from export.Typescript signed with initials.

Scope and Contents Draft texts, notes and source material, including: extracts from LSA's diaries; introduction to a work by Hugh Arnold-Forster on military needs, written by LSA for Field Marshal 1st Lord Roberts; memorandum on the Army Estimates 1904-5 by Arnold-Forster as Secretary of State for War; paper by LSA on the defence problem from the Imperial standpoint, 1909; notes and proofs on tariff reform, including a draft prospectus by LSA for the Compatriots' Club advocating Imperial Preference and series...

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Annotated typescript, covering: economic and Empire policy, 1929-31; the collapse of the Conservative Government and formation of the Coalition Government; Imperial Preference; the India Act; LSA's travels in Europe, meeting with Hitler and LSA's non-political work; pacifism, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia [later Ethiopia] and the drift to war; the abdication crisis; appeasement.

Scope and Contents Includes: "Monetary Leadership, with plan for an Empire Currency" and "A New International Currency", by John Darling; Lloyds Bank Limited monthly review, on the world depression and economic relations between France and Germany (March 1932); "On Money" by 1st Lord Desborough [earlier William Grenfell]; London Chamber of Commerce report on monetary policy, with notes by LSA; article on remedies for fluctuations of general prices, by Alfred Marshall [Professor of Political Economy, Cambridge...