Edition of the "Congressional Record": remarks on silver prices by Andrew Somers of New York in the House of Representatives. Sent with CHAR 2/186/94.

Recommendations of the House of Representatives committee on coinage, weights and measures and a resolution calling on the President to call an international conference to consider means of raising commodity prices. Sent with CHAR 2/186/74. Another copy at CHAR 2/186/100.

Another copy of CHAR 2/186/99.

Pamphlet by Professor T E Gregory: "The silver situation. Problems and possibilities. Prepared at the request of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce." Sent with CHAR 2/186/94.

Letter from H E Moon [retired exchange banker] (Mayfair Court, Stratton Street, [London]) to the chairman of the Silver Association [Sir Robert Horne, later Lord Horne of Slamannan] arguing that reparations and war debts have led to the accumulation of excessive gold reserves by the United States and France and hence to the depression of commodity prices and that therefore silver should be reintroduced into the monetary system.

Pamphlet by H E Moon, retired exchange banker, recommending the re-introduction of silver into the monetary system.

"The destruction of the world's monetary system. An address by Professor Gustav Cassel (the Swedish economist), to the Conservative Party Finance Committee at the House of Commons on the 11th May, 1932.".

Letter from Sir Henry Strakosch (Princes House, 95 Gresham Street, London) to Violet Pearman (Chartwell) commenting on an article in the "Evening Citizen" on the effects of the accumulation of gold by the United States and France arising from the payment of war debts and reparations.

Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC outlining a scheme to reduce the burden of debt in the global economy. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/187/52-54.

Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC arguing for the revaluation of gold as the means of providing justice to individual risk-taking investors as against the bankers. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/187/55-58.

Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC pointing out the injustice of not adjusting the debts of countries like Australia when the prices of the commodities in which the debts are paid are much lower than when the debts were contracted and urging WSC to take the lead in explaining why a devaluation of gold is needed. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/187/59-65.

Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC arguing that the Government should provide credit facilities of internal reconstruction schemes and that "Fair Trade" and the free circulation of money is the key to economic recovery. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/187/66-70.

Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC arguing that free trade in money and in goods are no longer workable systems in the modern world and that the level of general morality determines what monetary system is used. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/187/71-76.

Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC arguing that the revaluation of gold is the only way of justly reducing the burden of all kinds of debt, attacking the banking system for protecting gilt-edged securities at the expense of risk-taking private investors, and setting out the means by which Britain should repay her war debt to the United States. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/187/77-83.

Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC arguing that speed of circulation is much more important than the size of the currency, proposing that the Bank of England should issue 100 million pounds worth of notes for capital investment, and urging WSC and David Lloyd George to take the lead in opposing the current supine economic policy. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/187/84-89.

Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC attacking the pre-war generation's adherence to out-moded economic beliefs and asserting that in the interests of internal circulation of money in Britain holders of stock of all kinds must make active use of their assets, with the Government making investment facilities available if necessary. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/187/90-98.

Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC stressing the importance of continuing investment in the capitalist system. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/187/99-102.

Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC arguing that a conference with the United States about the settlement of war debts should precede the Lausanne Conference and outlining the advantages he believes would be derived from the devaluation of gold by 50 per cent and the provision of interest-free gold loans for reconstruction. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/187/103-106.

Typescript copy of CHAR 2/187/7-9.

Typescript copy of CHAR 2/187/10-13.

Typescript copy of CHAR 2/187/14-19.

Typescript copy of CHAR 2/187/20-23.

Typescript copy of CHAR 2/187/24-28.

Typescript copy of CHAR 2/187/29-34.

Typescript copy of CHAR 2/187/35-38.