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Cuttings on the economy: Budget (attacks on WSC’s handling including speech by David Lloyd George, and release of the new budget); General Strike and subsequent negotiations; Trade Unionism; war debts of France; taxation (especially betting); Bank Rate.
International/National affairs: WSC’s visit to Belfast, Ulster, problems with Soviet Union, Agricultural Policy; rumours of WSC being made first Minister of Defence.

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Includes newspaper index.
Cuttings and Cartoons on WSC’s budget and the speculation surrounding it: rating relief; new sinking fund; tax withdrawn on paraffin; tax on petrol and full compensation for the Irish loyalists.

Political: speculation about WSC as future Premier; election date debate; WSC criticises socialism; unionism and foreign relations (war debts).

Scope and Contents Economic affairs: Budget speculation intensifies as the General Election approaches, in particular concerning taxation; controversy over the issue of Irish loyalist compensation; the rejection, by the new Socialist administration, of unsatisfactory reparations offers. Foreign Policy: Trouble in Palestine; unease in Europe, especially concerning the ‘Danzig corridor’; WSC protests against the government’s policy towards India, highlighting his disapproval by refusing to involve...

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Background documents and briefing notes for an interview on subjects including: health; education; the economy; defence.

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Includes: dictated speech on overseas aid policy (side 1); dictated notes on Empire and Commonwealth economic co-operation during and after the Second World War (side 1); various dictated letters (side 2); dictated notes on Imperial Preference and tariff policy in the 1930s, particularly relating to the Ottawa Imperial Conference [Canada], 1932 (side 2).

Scope and Contents Interview for the magazine of the Institute of Directors on Labour’s relations with the business community. Subjects include: Labour's plans for spending on public services and tax increases; levels of inflation; the national minimum wage; high executive pay rises, especially among privatised industries; Labour's relations with the trades unions; the Government's attitude towards the manufacturing industry; investment from overseas employers, particularly from Japan; the effects of European...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: David Eccles; Norman Robertson, High Commissioner for Canada, on the feasibility of Canada leaving the dollar area to join the sterling area; Walter Nash [New Zealand Minister of Finance]; Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the economic influence of the United States; 1st Lord Croft on the Export Guarantees Bill and Imperial Preference (2); Robert Brand [Treasury Representative in Washington] on keeping confidence in sterling; Sir Hubert...

Scope and Contents Texts of articles by LSA on economic affairs, including: the Empire and economic unity, and the business men's manifesto; improving trade with Imperial Preference; Conservative policy on safeguarding British industry and Imperial trade; the state of the iron and steel industry; the Import Duties Bill (1932); faults in the National Government and Cabinet system; the history of the campaign for Imperial Preference, including Joseph Chamberlain and Free Trade; the International Economic...

Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence on linking the Canadian dollar to sterling, with correspondents including: Sir Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Lord Cranborne, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs [later 5th Lord Salisbury]; Arthur Greenwood [Minister without Portfolio]; Vincent Massey, High Commissioner for Canada (3); Henry Clay [Economic Adviser to the Bank of England]; James Ralston, Canadian Minister of Finance; Montagu Norman [Governor, Bank of England] (2); John...

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Files on subjects from 'C' to 'W'.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Edouard Giscard d'Estaing on closer European union; Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams, Secretary, then Chairman of ELEC, on subjects including stopping Robert Boothby from resigning from the United Europe Movement, and ELEC conferences (6); Edward Beddington-Behrens, President, then Vice-President of ELEC on subjects including ELEC conferences (with a copy of a letter from R A Butler, replying to Beddington-Behrens's congratulations on becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer,...

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Draft notes for WSC's statement on the coal dispute, the 8 Hours Bill, wages, the Labour Party's vote of censure against the Government, the miners' refusal to come to terms, and the results of the strike. Manuscript in the hands of WSC and ?Edward Marsh [Private Secretary to WSC]. Several pages are written on official envelopes.

Scope and Contents Correspondence, mainly with Association officials and other correspondents including: Sir Donald Simson; Lord Balfour of Inchrye, Chairman of the Association (7); George Drew, Leader of the Opposition of Canada, on speaking to the Association and establishing branches in Canada (2); Siegmund Warburg, Director of S G Warburg and Company Limited (2); Sir Hubert Henderson [Professor of Political Economy, University of Oxford]; Robert Menzies; Sir Chintaman Deshmukh, Indian Minister of Finance;...

Scope and Contents Correspondence, mainly with Association officials and other correspondents including: George Drew, Leader of the Opposition of Canada, on speaking to the Association and establishing links between Canada and Britain; Lord Balfour of Inchrye, on resigning as Chairman of the Association, and the Association deputation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer [R A Butler] (4); Sir Donald Simson. Also includes: minutes; Association bulletins; text of a speech by LSA given as President on the...

Scope and Contents Correspondence, mainly with Association officials and other correspondents including: Sir [Henry] Victor Raikes on his concerns at the Government's attitude to trade; 1st Lord Balfour of Inchrye, Chairman of the Association, on subjects including immediate policy and proceeding without regard to party considerations, commissioning a portrait of LSA and resigning his Chairmanship (14); Oliver Lyttelton, Secretary of State for the Colonies [later 1st Lord Chandos] (2); Maurice Petherick; 1st...

Scope and Contents Includes: draft political declaration on relations between Western Europe and the Soviet Union; papers of the European Movement's Central and Eastern Europe Commission; papers of the European and Commonwealth conference, Jun 1951; notes between JA and Robert Boothby on whether Western Europe could survive as a separate unit without help from either the Commonwealth or the United States; ELEC pamphlets on trade between the Commonwealth and Europe, intra-European convertibility, currency...

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Includes: reports by Roy Harrod on Europe and the dollar problem and general European economic strategy; notes by Leo Amery on trade and production; paper by Sir Cecil Kisch on co-operation between the sterling area and other non-dollar currencies; pamphlet on the monetary reconstruction of Europe; reports for monetary conferences, Brussels [Belgium], 1952-53.

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Includes: notes from Roy Harrod and Leo Amery; copy of Harrod's report on Europe and the dollar problem.

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Includes: note on industrial readaption and redeployment; summary of ELEC activities, 1956; Treasury information bulletin on the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC); rough note by JA on the association of other European countries with the proposed six-power Common Market; papers on the formation of a Common Market.

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Memoranda and minutes, particularly papers for the second economic conference of Westminster, London, Jan-Feb 1954.

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Papers from the second economic conference of Westminster, London, Jan-Feb 1954, including various versions of a memorandum by JA and Leo Amery on trade and production.

Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (5 October 1946, Conservative Party conference, Blackpool) entitled "Every Dog His Day" on subjects including: criticism of the Labour government; the need for a concerted opposition to Communism; foreign policy; the deterioration of relations with the Soviet Union; post war reconstruction; the electoral system; taxation; housing; the coal industry; agriculture; nationalisation; foreign policy and Indian independence; and the need for increased Conservative...

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Letters from the general public following JEP's appearance on the Fifth Column programme, talking about inflation. Also includes transcripts of the programme, and correspondence with representatives of the BBC.

Scope and Contents Correspondence on taxation legislation in the Finance Bill and Budget, with correspondents including: 9th Lord Roden [earlier Lord Jocelyn]; Anthony Sumption (3); John Moore, Financial Secretary to the Treasury; Brian O'Tierney (3). Also includes: memoranda on the bill by the British Bankers' Association; memorandum on unitary taxation by Sir William Clark and [William] Michael Grylls; notices of amendments to the bill; memorandum by the Irish League of Credit Unions; papers from a...

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Correspondence on taxation legislation in the Finance Bill, with correspondents including: William Ross; John Moore, Financial Secretary to the Treasury (4); [Mostyn] Neil Hamilton; Robert Jackson; B J Holbeche, Parliamentary Director, National Farmers' Union (3); Barney Hayhoe [Bernard Hayhoe], Minister of State, Treasury.

Also includes: brief by the National Farmers' Union; Bank of England article on funding the public sector borrowing requirement, 1952-1983.