House of Commons "Parliamentary Debates" including adjournment debate on national finance.

Return relating to the National Debt presented to the House of Commons by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury.

Return to the House of Commons: "Statement of expenditure on Consolidated Fund services and net expenditure on supply services (excluding Post Office) for the years 1924 to 1929 inclusive adjusted in respect of accounting changes introduced in 1928".

WSC's speech on making the Financial Statement.

House of Commons return: "statement of revenue and expenditure as laid before the House by the Chancellor of the Exchequer when opening the Budget.".

Statistical tables relating to national finance.

"Tables illustrating the income tax payable under the proposals of the Chancellor of the Exchequer as compared with the income tax payable in the years 1913-14, 1929-30 and 1930-31.".

"An account of the total revenue of the United Kingdom, in the undermentioned periods of the year ending 31st March, 1932, as compared with the corresponding period of the preceding year.".

"An account showing the receipts into and issues out of the Exchequer in the period ending 30th September, 1931, as compared with the corresponding period of the preceding year.".

Memorandum on the visit of Joseph Caillaux [the French finance minister] to London in August 1925 regarding the French war debt.

"Agreement for the settlement of the war debt of France to Great Britain. With an exchange of letters between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the French Minister of Finance.".

Letter from [1st Lord Rothermere, earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] (Royal Hotel, San Remo, [Italy]) to WSC disagreeing with him in supporting the attacks by "Max" [1st Lord Beaverbrook, earlier Sir Max Aitken] on the Conservative Party machine by means of by-elections and predicting that Britain will be economically ruined by 1935.

Letter from Harold Macmillan (Red House, Norton Green, Stockton-on-Tees, [County Durham]) to WSC thanking him for hosting Macmillan and others to dinner and for being so tolerant to "a group of young men whom, I have no doubt, the House and party will soon regard as more and more intolerable." Refers to his efforts in Stockton "to defend even the more indefensible of your government's actions" and to the relative forbearance of the workers there despite bad economic conditions.

Letter from Sir Alfred Mond [later Lord Melchett] (37 Lowndes Square, [London]) to WSC stating that though they have disagreed in the past on questions of financial policy they agree on the need for the anti-Socialist forces to unite. Congratulates him on the settlement of Italian war debts.

Letter from Lady Oxford and Asquith [earlier Margot Asquith] (44 Bedford Square, [London]) to WSC on: her approval of his policy on war debts to the United States; her request to him to write to [st Lord Oxford and Asquith, earlier Herbert Asquith] to cheer him up; the ignorance of the Liberal rank and file over party unity; David Lloyd George's leaning to the Labour Party and his betrayal of Lord Oxford and Asquith.

Letter from Sir Abe Bailey (Union Castle Line, RMS "Arundel Castle") to WSC congratulating him on his appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer, asserting that to return to paper currency after having been at par would be harmful, and assuring that a warm welcome would await WSC in South Africa.

Cutting from "Le Matin": article in French by Jules Sauerwein praising WSC's role in the negotiations in Paris over inter-allied debts. Sent with CHAR 2/141/8.

Notes [by Charles Watney] countering the claim by the Independent Labour Party that Russia and tropical Africa offer the best potential for the expansion of British trade. Sent with CHAR 2/141/35.

Letter from J A Beamont, (245 Battersea Park Road, [London]) to the editor of the "Daily Express" welcoming the Labour Party's adoption of Protection, which he sees as a vindication of his long campaign in Battersea, and arguing that Free Trade is unsuited to the new economic situation in which Britain is "no longer the workshop of the world" and her industries need to be safeguarded. Copy sent with CHAR 2/141/44.

Letter from J A Beamont, hatter and hosier (245 Battersea Park Road, [London]) to WSC adopting Rudyard Kipling's metaphor of Britain as a ship threatened by a minority of wreckers and calling for the "Protection of the labour of nations".

Letter from William Pollard Digby, consulting engineer (Premier House, 150 Southampton Row, [London]) to WSC enclosing a copy of the "Outlook" [not present] with an article showing that there is a danger of a decline in the standard of living in Europe as a result of growing dependence on imported foodstuffs.

Letter from W Stimpson, president of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, to WSC expressing the approval of himself and his colleagues for the Budget, particularly the determination to maintain the Sinking Fund and not to raise taxation.

Message from WSC to the electors of Ilford [Essex] denying David Lloyd George's claim that government spending has increased dramatically and defending the Government's record generally. Draft in the hand of Edward Marsh with annotations by WSC. Carbon typescript copy at CHAR 2/157/44-46.

Article from the "Banker": "The real financial situation in France" by Joseph Caillaux. Annotated with comments by WSC.