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Cutting from the Times: statement by Otto Kahn, a banker, on the economic situation in Britain and the rest of Europe and the war debts owed by European countries to the United States.

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Letter from William Beveridge [Master, University College Oxford] to WSC offering to help in any way with economic planning or devising new Government machinery; has arranged meeting with Edward, Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin, Foreign Secretary] to discuss a proposed trip to America.

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Letter from "A N R" [Arthur Rucker, Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minster Neville Chamberlain] to Sir Patrick Hastings on his suggestion of raising finance by compulsory subscriptions to a National Loan, stating that there was considerable objection to the scheme when raised in 1916 as "a fixed percentage of income with no abatements" would not be equitable. [carbon].

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Notes by [Herbert] Brittain, Sir Frederick Phillips, and [Ralph] Hawtrey [of HM Treasury] discussing a reply to Sir Patrick Hastings' suggestion to Prime Minister [Neville Chamberlain] of raising finance by compulsory subscriptions to a National Loan. [typescript and manuscript].

Scope and Contents Memorandum and covering note from Sir Patrick Hastings to Prime Minister's [Neville Chamberlain] Private Secretary setting out his proposal for a scheme to "effect a form of compulsory investment in a National Loan without confiscation and . . . without the disadvantage of direct taxation", as devised at the request of [1st] Lord Reading [earlier Sir Rufus Isaacs] and presented to the Cabinet in 1916, but abandoned as a result of opposition by Arthur Henderson [later Lord Rowley, Labour...

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Letter from Sir Patrick Hastings to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain recalling a scheme he proposed in 1916 for raising money; with notes and copies of correspondence from [Arthur] Rucker, [Principal] Private Secretary to Prime Minster, and [?Christopher] Hankey, [Herbert] Brittain, [Thomas] Padmore, and Sydney Turner of HM Treasury asking if anyone including [1st] Lord Hankey recalls details of the scheme and why it was rejected. [typescript with carbons and manuscript notes].

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Letter from Sir Henry Fairfax-Lucy to WSC criticising the economic situation ("percentage increases for the cost of living") and agricultural policy (ploughing up of grazing land resulting in slaughter of Dairy cattle); encloses copy of letter to Captain Harry Crookshank MP [Financial Secretary to Treasury] and a newspaper article from the Warwick Advertiser.

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Letter from H Freeman Matthews [Counsellor, United States Embassy in London] to WSC reciting the text of a telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to WSC regarding the Lend-Lease Agreement: states that Britain is not being asked to trade the principle of Imperial preference, but wants nothing to be excluded from discussions on post-war economic policy.

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Pamphlet entitled "Premier Winston Churchill on the Protection of Private Capital as a feature of Economic Justice" edited by Louis Wallace [New York, United States].

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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].

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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].

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Remarks by William Blain [Assistant Secretary to the Treasury] on the depreciation of gold and the proposed suspension of the Sinking Fund, occasioned by a letter from Moreton Frewen to WSC [see CHAR 2/26/73] and sent by Sir Edward Hamilton [Joint Permanent Secretary to the Treasury] to Reginald McKenna [Financial Secretary to the Treasury]. Typescript copy on Treasury paper. Hamilton's introductory note initialed by him.

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Letter from Moreton Frewen (37a Great Cumberland Place, [London]) to WSC discussing the depreciation of gold and advocating the suspension of the Sinking Fund. Signed carbon typescript.

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Letter from Sir Felix Schuster (31 Collingham Road, South Kensington, [London]) to [Sir Francis] Hopwood [later, Lord Southborough] [Permanent Under-Secretary for Colonies] on the bad effects which would follow a reduction in the production of gold in South Africa. Congratulates Hopwood on his recent appointment.

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Letter from Thomas Gibson Bowles (25 Lowndes Square, [London]) to WSC urging him to take the opportunity to get a commercial treaty with France.

Scope and Contents Letter from ? Paul Schoeberg (W.Behren-Strasse 62, [Berlin, Germany]) to WSC on: the copy of the life of Lord Randolph Churchill which WSC sent him; the current slowness of business being blamed by many people in England on free trade in Germany; the unpopularity in Turkey of the Dette Publique and the Regie des Tabacs and what the attitude of the "Powers" should be to this issue; Schoeberg's forthcoming trip to see the Baghdad Railway [Iraq]. Typescript copy of this letter at CHAR...

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Note on the National Expenditure Committee by WSC Typescript, with ms annotations.

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Notes by WSC on defects in financial control, with his recommended remedies.

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Note by WSC on National expenditure, 1895-1902.

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Letter from Arthur Balfour [later Lord Balfour] to WSC, on national expenditure, particularly the character, composition and terms of reference of Select Committee on the National Expenditure.

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Letter from Postal Telegraph Clerks Association to WSC, asking if it would be possible for them to give evidence to Committee on National Expenditure [annotated by WSC].

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Letter from Sir Austen Chamberlain, Treasury, to WSC, commenting on WSC's notes on the National expenditure [carbon].

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Letter from Sir Austen Chamberlain, Postmaster-General to WSC, commenting on WSC's memorandum on the National Expenditure Committee.

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Letter from Sir Thomas Elliott, Board of Agriculture, to WSC, on findings of Committee on National Expenditure, and WSC's memorandum, particularly on method of presentation of accounts, and on question of "grants in aid".

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Letter from J. Moore Bailey to WSC, on national expenditure and army reform.