Article by Samuel McKirahan, mining engineer and metallurgist (Rapid City, South Dakota, United States) on the adjustment of foreign debts and the restoration of exchange. Sent with CHAR 2/121/82.

Cutting from the Scotsman: lecture by Professor J Shield Nicholson of Edinburgh University on the economic situation. Sent with CHAR 2/121/87.

Extract from John Stuart Mill's "Principles of Political Economy" on the ability of economies to recover from the damage inflicted by war and other disasters. Typescript.

Cutting from the Times reporting German statements about the German war economy, the dismissal of Sir John French [later Lord French and Lord Ypres], British naval construction, negotiations on the economic relations between Germany and Austria-Hungary, and German casualty figures.

Return to a House of Commons order for revised estimates of revenue and expenditure for the year 1915-16.

Notes [by Charles Watney] countering the claim by the Independent Labour Party that Russia and tropical Africa offer the best potential for the expansion of British trade. Sent with CHAR 2/141/35.

Letter from J A Beamont, (245 Battersea Park Road, [London]) to the editor of the "Daily Express" welcoming the Labour Party's adoption of Protection, which he sees as a vindication of his long campaign in Battersea, and arguing that Free Trade is unsuited to the new economic situation in which Britain is "no longer the workshop of the world" and her industries need to be safeguarded. Copy sent with CHAR 2/141/44.

Letter from J A Beamont, hatter and hosier (245 Battersea Park Road, [London]) to WSC adopting Rudyard Kipling's metaphor of Britain as a ship threatened by a minority of wreckers and calling for the "Protection of the labour of nations".

Letter from William Pollard Digby, consulting engineer (Premier House, 150 Southampton Row, [London]) to WSC enclosing a copy of the "Outlook" [not present] with an article showing that there is a danger of a decline in the standard of living in Europe as a result of growing dependence on imported foodstuffs.

Letter from 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] (Savoy Hotel, [London]) to WSC urging him not to work so hard and enjoy the fine summer weather, stressing the need for economy in national and local finance, restating his belief that the Government will fall in 1927, and criticising the placing of further burdens on industry to finance the provision for industrial widows and their children when there is scope for large economies in government.

Letter from Sir Harry Goschen (Durrington House, Harlow, Essex) to WSC on: the displeasure over the coal settlement [the granting of a subsidy to the industry and the setting up of a Royal Commission], which will probably die down; the speeches by Stanley Baldwin and WSC on the matter; WSC's speech in defence of the Gold Standard.

Letter from W Stimpson, president of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, to WSC expressing the approval of himself and his colleagues for the Budget, particularly the determination to maintain the Sinking Fund and not to raise taxation.

Leaflet published by the National Workmen's Constitutional Council: "No surrender of India. Manifesto from workers to workers.".

Cutting from the Times: report of speech by William Ormsby-Gore [later 4th Lord Harlech] on: the economic position, Russia, Ormsby-Gore's opposition to WSC, David Lloyd George and Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] and his support for the Government's Indian policy.

Letter from "Hopie" [2nd Lord Linlithgow] (29 Chesham Place, [London]) to WSC arguing that he has over-estimated the importance of the Indian issue to most voters and that the opposition to the lowering of British import duties which will follow the Government's conclusion of a series of trade agreements will arouse far more feeling and will be a much more important field in which WSC can take the lead.

Extract from the Times Trade and Engineering Supplement: report of a speech by Walchand Hirachand, president of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce, calling for commercial discrimination against non-Indians. Typescript copy sent with CHAR 2/193/100.

Letter from "Hopie" [2nd Lord Linlithgow] (29 Chesham Place, [London]) to WSC responding to WSC's arguments about India by arguing that progress is prevalent over reaction in the modern world and countering WSC's assertion that there will be an economic struggle for existence between nations by asserting that with falling birth-rates and enhanced production distribution will be the most important economic factor and this will depend on international goodwill rather than enmity.

"First interim report of the Committee on Currency and Foreign Exchanges after the war.".

Cutting from the Nottingham Guardian: article on: WSC's pre-war rejection of Imperial Preference and the present government's commitment to it; the opposition to the measure of the Asquithian Liberals; the large numbers of soldiers and others emigrating overseas and the benefits to be derived from economic measures to tie the Empire together more firmly.

Letter from Herbert Fisher (Board of Education) to WSC listing the points on which he disagrees with the proposed trade policy.

Cutting from the Manchester Guardian: article by Hartley Withers on the failure of David Lloyd George to announce measures to tackle the country's economic problems and on the need for higher taxation to restrain consumption and reduce war profits, and to tackle the depreciation of the currency. Sent by Sir Ernest Cassel.

Notes on the need to impose a levy on excessive war profits in order to reduce the National Debt. Typescript copy.

Speech by Leonard Franklin to the London Liberal Federation in favour of a levy on excess war profits to reduce the National Debt.

"Notes on the levy on war profits as against the levy on capital generally.".