Newspaper articles by Sir Charles Sykes on the disruption caused to international trade by the fiscal barriers erected by the new states created out of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and the remedies for economic stagnation in central Europe, entailing a revision of the Treaty of Versailles. Sent with CHAR 2/124A/48-49.

Extract from the New York Annalist [United States]: letter from William Bourke Cockran to Claude Kitchin arguing that the advances of money made by the United States to her allies should be treated as gifts, not loans. Typescript copy of the original sent with CHAR 2/124A/91.

Letter from [WSC] to 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] on the McKenna duties, the Ulster boundary situation and the Budget. Carbon copy.

Letter from Lord Weir [earlier Sir William Weir] (Holm Foundry, Cathcart, Glasgow, [Scotland]) to WSC (2 Sussex Square) enclosing and summarising CHAR 2/133/7 and urging him to emphasise the importance of attention being given to the conditions in the export industries.

Cutting from the "Glasgow Herald": speech by Lord Weir [earlier Sir William Weir] calling for a national policy on Britain's export industries. Sent with CHAR 2/133/6.

Letter from [WSC] (2 Sussex Square) to Stanley Baldwin [later Lord Baldwin] (93 Eaton Square, [London]) on the Liberal position with regard to the abolition of the McKenna duties. Typescript. Carbon copy at CHAR 2/133/29-30.

Letter from ? , chairman and president of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, to WSC congratulating him on his address [on the international financial situation at the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World Convention].

Letter from Henry E Bannard (Littlewick Lodge, near [Maidenhead, Berkshire]) to WSC suggesting that war debts and reparations might be remitted in return for a guarantee for a term of years of free entry of British goods into the markets of the debtor countries.

Cutting from the "Daily Telegraph": letter to the editor from Lord Cecil of Chelwood [earlier Lord Robert Cecil] advocating copartnership between workers and employers as a cure for the country's current serious economic plight. Sent with CHAR 2/134/160.

Letter from Ben Turner, Labour MP for Batley (The Homestead, Carlton Avenue, Batley, [Yorkshire]) to the secretary of the Association of British Creditors of Russia (129 Cannon Street, [London]) answering the Association's criticisms of the Government over the terms of the Anglo-Russian treaties. Copy sent with CHAR 2/135/11.

Letter from L J Parker, secretary of the Association of British Creditors of Russia (129 Cannon Street, [London]) to Ben Turner [Labour MP for Batley] (The Homestead, Carlton Avenue, Batley, [Yorkshire]) responding to Turner's answers to the Association's criticisms of the Government over the terms of the Anglo-Russian treaties. Copy sent with CHAR 2/135/11.

Speech by Kevin O'Higgins at the Irish debating society in Oxford on the recent history of Ireland and the current political and economic situation there. Sent with CHAR 2/136/30-34.

Letter from Leopold Amery (112 Eaton Square, [London]) to WSC asserting that WSC has "a wonderful opportunity for creative finance" as Chancellor of the Exchequer, asking to talk with him about the Wembley Exhibition and other issues and arguing that the Government ought to make immediate announcements about Singapore, the Economic Conference Resolutions and the Geneva Protocol.

Letter from 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] (Claridge's Hotel, Avenue des Champs-Elysees, Paris, [France]) to WSC stating that he will tell his newspapers to support WSC when he begins negotiations for the repayment of the debts owed to Britain by France and Italy and that he has instructed them "to go slow on the food question". Asks WSC to advise his son, Esmond Harmsworth [later 2nd Lord Rothermere], to go travelling.

Letter from Sir Abe Bailey (Union Castle Line, RMS "Arundel Castle") to WSC congratulating him on his appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer, asserting that to return to paper currency after having been at par would be harmful, and assuring that a warm welcome would await WSC in South Africa.

Cutting from "Le Matin": article in French by Jules Sauerwein praising WSC's role in the negotiations in Paris over inter-allied debts. Sent with CHAR 2/141/8.

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.