Memorandum advocating innovation and the application of scientific knowledge to agriculture and industry.

Letter from the private secretary of Sir Henry Strakosch (Princes House, 95 Gresham Street, London) to Violet Pearman returning CHAR 2/178/29-36.

House of Commons "Parliamentary Debates" including committee proceedings on the Budget proposals.

House of Commons "Parliamentary Debates" including committee proceedings on the Budget proposals.

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.

Notes on the financial dispute between the United Kingdom and the Irish Free State [later Ireland].

Letter from Sir Henry Strakosch (Princes House, 95 Gresham Street, London) to WSC (Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, United States) commiserating with him on his accident and discussing the world economic situation, in particular the Gold Standard. Encloses CHAR 2/186/9-10.

Tables [by Sir Henry Strakosch] comparing the gold reserves of countries on and off the Gold Standard.

Newspaper cutting: comment on the Gold Standard by Reginald McKenna, chairman of the Midland Bank.

Cutting from the "Times": letter to the editor from "Peregrinus" on the insistence of France and the United States that war debts and reparations by settled on the basis of the Gold Standard.

Letter from H E Rollins (Standard Statistics Company Inc, 345 Hudson Street, New York, [United States]) to WSC (c/o Robert McCormick, Tribune Square, Chicago, [United States]) on the payment of reparations and war debts, the gold reserves of France and the United States and the recent decline in gold prices.

Letter from Brendan Bracken [later Lord Bracken] (20 Bishopsgate, London) to WSC enclosing CHAR 2/186/18-31, giving a transcript of CHAR 2/186/22, and arguing for a five-year moratorium on war debts and reparations.

Note by Brendan Bracken [later Lord Bracken] on the possibility of the United States leaving the Gold Standard and the achievement of a reparations settlement. Sent with CHAR 2/186/15-17.

Cutting from the "Financial News": article on the relationship between payment of war debts and the movement of gold. Sent with CHAR 2/186/15-17.