Economic policy
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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 1300 Collections and/or Records:
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(Untitled), 22 Jul 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/75/134-137
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Copy of a memorandum from WSC to Sir Richard Hopkins [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue] instructing him to present WSC's view to the President of the Board of Trade [Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton] on the impact of the attitude of [Sir Otto] Niemeyer [Controller of Finance, Treasury] "of letting everything smash into bankruptcy and unemployment in order that reconstruction can be built up upon the ruins" He discusses forest...
Dates:
22 Jul 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
(Untitled), 14 Sep 1928
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/75/167-173
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Copy of a memorandum from WSC to Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary] "and others concerned" on: the possibility of shortening the occupation of Germany if Germany makes improvements in payment of reparations; the economic impact of the early return of troops; disarmament and the need for France to retain a strong army to uphold the Locarno treaty; repayment of United States debt and the need to pass on costs to Germany; the need for the Treasury to adopt am attitude of "extreme reserve...
Dates:
14 Sep 1928
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Open
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(Untitled), 14 Sep 1928
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/75/176-177
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Copy of a minute from WSC to Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary, Treasury] and Sir Richard Hopkins [Controller of Finance and Supply Services, Treasury] asking why he had not been consulted about spending £300,000 a year on improving the appearance of the bank note, which he views as an injustfiable extravagance contrary to the policy of reducing expenditure. He informs them that he intends to stop this expenditure in future and asks for information about Bank machinery and background...
Dates:
14 Sep 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 29 Jan 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/77/2-4
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Copy of a letter from WSC to Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, enclosing a paper on efforts to save £11 million expenditure and reporting that only a little over half the figure has been realised. He discusses the need for the "Boxer money" to meet the expense of keeping troops in China; naval estimates and the Admiralty's failure to find economies "They are so accustomed to carrying all before them by threats of resignation that they feel able to do themselves sumptuously in every branch and...
Dates:
29 Jan 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 18 Mar 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/100/89-98
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Report on Total Nominal Dead Weight Debt, with a covering note from Sir Richard Hopkins [Controller of Finance and Supply Services] to James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]. The introduction explains the fall of nominal dead weight debt by £107 millions since Mar 1925 and that the period has also seen the conversion of short term bonds into long term debt, and that the proportion of external debt and treasury bills and savings certificates have also...
Dates:
18 Mar 1929
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Open
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(Untitled), 29-31 Mar 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/100/137-138
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Memorandum from Frederick Leith-Ross [Deputy Controller of Finance] to Sir Richard Hopkins [Controller of Finance and Supply Services] and Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] on government expenditure, countering criticism by [David] Lloyd George by explaining government development and expenditure on housing, roads, telephones etc, and guarantees under the Trade Facilities Act and Colonial Development schemes equating to over £300 million expenditure,...
Dates:
29-31 Mar 1929
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Open
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(Untitled), 27 Mar 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/101/34-41
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Covering letter from Harold Macmillan [[later 1st Lord Stockton](Macmillan and Co Ltd, St Martin's Street, London) to WSC enclosing his handwritten notes about the election including arguments to counter [David] Lloyd George's plans for government efforts to deal with unemployment by encouraging industry to employ more men. He suggests a slogan "Modernization at Home. Markets Abroad"; and suggests that the railways and telephones should be modernised, that an Economic General Staff under...
Dates:
27 Mar 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 14 Feb 1929
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/102/23-24
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Copy of a letter from WSC [Chancellor of the Exchequer] to William Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, accepting naval estimates of £55,865,000 provided that the Treasury and Admiralty will continue to attempt to reduce expenditure; discussing scheduling of Cabinet enquiries into the Fleet Air Arm and Cordite Reserve; and undertaking to make no opposition to one larger type cruiser being built the following year.Unsigned carbon typescript.
Dates:
14 Feb 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 16 Oct 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/106/14-15
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Copy of a letter from [Sir] Horace Hamilton [Permanent Secretary, Board of Trade] to [Sir Warren] Fisher [Permanent Secretary, Treasury] about proposals for a development board and for state assistance with trade and industry. He explains that subsidies will not help put British industry on a 'proper economic basis', and would hinder progress, and that the President of the Board of Trade [Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton] believes that duties...
Dates:
16 Oct 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 16 Apr 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/7/54-58
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Minute [from ?F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, WSC's Personal Assistant] to WSC on the results of the German invasion of Scandinavia, with particular emphasis on British imports, with an analysis of findings by the Director of the Trade Division [Captain Maurice Mansergh].
Dates:
16 Apr 1940
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From the File:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
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Official: Admiralty
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Official: Admiralty: copies of minutes [?mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, WSC's Personal Assistant] to WSC, with a summary of the contents at the start of the file. Also includes a small amount of later correspondence [from the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"].
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(Untitled), 19 Apr 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/7/60-65
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Minute [from ?F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, WSC's Personal Assistant] to WSC on "The Economic Consequences of German aggression in Scandinavia".
Dates:
19 Apr 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
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Official: Admiralty
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Official: Admiralty: copies of minutes [?mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, WSC's Personal Assistant] to WSC, with a summary of the contents at the start of the file. Also includes a small amount of later correspondence [from the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"].
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(Untitled), 07 Feb 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/8/7
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Printed note by WSC for the War Cabinet on [1st] Lord Stamp's [Adviser on Economic Co-ordination to Ministerial Committee] paper regarding the war effort. [annotated by WSC: "where is it?"].
Dates:
07 Feb 1940
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From the File:
Open
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(Untitled), [1940]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/6A/53-55
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Notes on the sale of Defence Bonds in the Colonies detailing the sales procedure of Bond Books being sent to each colony, which in turn would issue the bonds to itself then sell them on to the local public, thereby avoiding the 1000 pounds limit. [Typescript carbon] [no indication of authorship].
Dates:
[1940]
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open
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(Untitled), 21 Aug 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/4B/127
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Letter from Neville Chamberlain [Lord President of the Council] to WSC on a paper by Sir Kingsley Wood [Chancellor of the Exchequer] on gold and dollars, and the coming election in the United States. [Manuscript].
Dates:
21 Aug 1940
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From the File:
Open
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(Untitled), [1933]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/200/1-8
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Prospectus of the proposed International Bank of Issue.
Dates:
[1933]
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 29 Jan [1933]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/200/9
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Press cutting: report of the call by Reginald McKenna, chairman of the Midland Bank, for a managed currency instead of the Gold Standard. Enlarged photocopy.
Dates:
29 Jan [1933]
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 1920 - 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/200/10
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Diagram of the collapse of the real medium of exchange showing changes in the composition of the medium of exchange in the United States.
Dates:
1920 - 1932
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 1920 - 1933
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/200/11
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Diagrams of the actual unsafe and proposed safe world monetary structure.
Dates:
1920 - 1933
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), [1933]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/200/12
Scope and Contents
Diagram showing the solution of the international war debt problem by the establishment of an international bank of exchange.
Dates:
[1933]
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), [1933]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/200/13
Scope and Contents
Balance sheet of the proposed international bank of issue after giving effect to payment of war debts and re-distribution of international currency.
Dates:
[1933]
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), [1933]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/200/14
Scope and Contents
More detailed version of CHAR 2/200/12.
Dates:
[1933]
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), [1933]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/200/15
Scope and Contents
Diagram showing the balances to the credit of each government after settlement of all international debts through transfer of credits at the proposed international bank of issue.
Dates:
[1933]
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), [Jan] [1934]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/204/6-9
Scope and Contents
Draft of an introduction to a book on the employment exchange system. Sent with CHAR 2/204/5.
Dates:
[Jan] [1934]
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 12 Feb 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/204/11-14
Scope and Contents
Letter from Charles Foot (Nayliring, Piesse Siding, Western Australia) to WSC explaining their proposals for inter-Empire agreements to carry out large public works schemes.
Dates:
12 Feb 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 31 Mar 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/204/23
Scope and Contents
Letter from William Archbold (Selwyn Croft, Cambridge) to [WSC] blaming the leaders of industry for the economic depression and suggesting that better management would be ensured if directors were required to take a substantial share holding in their companies.
Dates:
31 Mar 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.