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Telegram from WSC [Yalta, Soviet Union] to Deputy Prime Minister [Clement Attlee], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir John Anderson, later 1st Lord Waverley], and others concerned marked "From: Argonaut" and "Jason 337" sending on the text of a letter from President Franklin Roosevelt on resuming high level discussion on the Lend-Lease Agreement.

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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.

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Galley proof of an article by [Sir] George Paish entitled "The Parting of the Ways", for the Free Trader, on economic co-operation between nations. [annotated by Paish].

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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.

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Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "Personal and Top Secret" approving of Roosevelt's suggestion for a "high-powered economic mission" for Greece; but objecting to involving the Soviet Union and suggesting the prior establishment of a joint Anglo-American Committee comprising of British and American economic and financial experts; and welcoming the assistance of Donald Nelson [former Chairman of the US War Production Board] at any time.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Telegram from Sir Desmond Morton [Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] (Athens [Greece]) to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" setting out suggestions for a future British policy to ensure Italy and Greece do not fall to communists. [Despatched on 18 June; carbon copy].

Scope and Contents Papers on the 1945 loan to Britain from the United States, including: rough notes by LSA; reports of the Federation of British Industries on the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, 1944-45; pamphlet by LSA on an economic policy for Britain and the Empire; statement by the Empire Industries Association on the agreement; texts and speech notes of speeches and articles by LSA; print of the agreement, annotated by LSA; material from the American Information Service, including...

Scope and Contents Correspondents on the 1945 loan to Britain from the United States include: Sir William Larke; 2nd Lord Barnby [earlier Francis Willey]; Robert Boothby on subjects including differences between Britain and the United States over the agreement, the sterility of the Conservative leadership and concerns about the views of Oliver Lyttelton [later 1st Lord Chandos] (4); Thomas Balogh [Oxford University Institute of Statistics]; Charles Fay, Cambridge University Reader in Economic History; James...

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Briefings, arrangements (including correspondence with Peter Mandelson, producer) and transcripts for NK’s interviews with Brian Walden for Weekend World. Subjects include: economic policy and Labour’s attitude to the City; NK’s visits to Europe, the Stockholm Conference on arms control [Sweden] and the situation in the Lebanon; foreign policy; renationalisation; pensions; defence; energy.

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Briefings, arrangements and transcripts for NK’s interview with Brian Walden for Weekend World, Jan 1984. Subjects include: electoral strategy; economic policy; renationalisation; trade unions; defence; pensions. Includes a transcript of an earlier Weekend World interview with [William] John Biffen, Leader of the House of Commons, on Government cuts to public spending.

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Correspondence with: François-Xavier Ortoli, President of the EEC, on taxation of vegetable oils; 3rd Lord Cromer [earlier Lord Errington] on monetary union and American trade relations with Europe, including papers on EEC monetary development, New Zealand and sterling parity, notes of Ortoli's visit to the United States, Oct 1973 and copies of messages on talks between the EEC and the United States, Mar 1974; Sir Marcus Sieff on the European textile industry.