Janus: The Papers of Leopold Amery

Churchill/AMEL 1 contains:
1	The Times, South Africa and "The Problem of the Army"
2	Political, up to First World War
3	First World War, Colonial Office and Admiralty
4	Secretary of State for the Colonies
5	General political, 1930s
6	India Office and the Second World War
7	1940's and post-war

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The Papers of Leopold Amery

Title	General political, 1930s
Reference	AMEL 1/5
Covering Dates	1887–1953 (The majority of files date from 1930-40, with some continuing into the 1940s.)
Extent and Medium	19 archive boxes

Content and context

Papers, correspondence, speeches and articles (including papers used by LSA as source material) from LSA's time out of office, on subjects including: Italy's invasion of Abyssinia [later Ethiopia]; the rise of fascism in Germany and Italy and the build-up to war; the Empire and Imperial Conferences; the international economic crisis; tariff reform; trade; the partition of Palestine; Germany's claim to her former African colonies.

Churchill/AMEL 1/5 contains:

Printed pamphlets by LSA. Annotated prints of articles, lectures and broadcasts by LSA on subjects including: the problem of the cession of mandated territories, or former German colonies in Africa; Paneuropa and the Ottawa conference [Canada] in July 1932, concerning imperial trade, the inadequacy of the League of Nations and resulting importance of the Commonwealth, and the road to European economic unity; the British Empire and the Pan-European idea; Imperial unity; the balance of trade and proposals for international monetary union; Empire settlement and development; German colonial demands; the Irish crisis (1914); the Commonwealth and foreign policy; economic planning (1945).
2 files; Fragile..

Jul 1910-Dec 1946

Assorted articles by LSA. Notes and prints of articles by LSA on subjects including: the economic theories of John Taylor Peddie; Imperial policy, particularly the maintenance of sea power; the Budget of 1931-2; Family Allowances. Also includes: letters from John Taylor Peddie, Economic and Currency Committee, on his book "The dual system of economic stabilisation" and the Macmillan Report on banking practice (2).
1 file.

Jul 1931-Mar 1940

Imperial Conference 1930. Papers and correspondence on the conference, including: letter from Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Cabinet] on the possibility of South Africa seeking the right of secession from the Empire; memorandum and article by LSA on the failure of the conference; Conservative and Unionist hints for speakers on the Socialists and the conference; copy of a statement by Stanley Baldwin, leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party, on national and imperial policy; extract from Hansard, including a debate on Empire trade; memorandum by LSA on the conference and Unionist policy towards the Empire, particularly on the economy; directory of the conference; evidence submitted to the economic section of the conference by the federation of Empire chambers of commerce; letter from LSA to Richard Bennett [Prime Minister of Canada] on the right of secession from the Empire; article by LSA on the conference and Imperial Preference; report of the Committee on Economic Co-operation.
1 file.

Aug 1930-Dec 1930

Letters on sanctions: A - Z. Letters received in support of LSA's stand against sanctions being imposed on Italy by the League of Nations, following Italy's invasion of Abyssinia [later Ethiopia]. Correspondents include: Charles Emmott; 7th Lord Forester [earlier Cecil Weld-Forester]; Sir Frank Fox; William Howard Gritten; 1st Lord Islington [earlier John Dickson-Poynder]; Sir George King-Hall; Godfrey Locker-Lampson; Pierse Loftus; James Little; Sir Mervyn Manningham-Buller; Sir Charles Petrie; Ezra Pound; Trevor Thornton-Berry; Jardine Whyte.
2 files.

Oct 1935

Letters on sanctions: unfiled. Letters received in support of LSA's stand against sanctions being imposed on Italy by the League of Nations, following Italy's invasion of Abyssinia [later Ethiopia]. Correspondents include: Admiral Sir Sydney Fremantle; 1st Lord Islington [earlier John Dickson-Poynder]; Frank Fehr (2); Sir Reginald Craddock; Charles Coutts (2); Arthur Brown, former Professor of Public and Private International Law, Calcutta [India].
1 file.

Oct 1935

Abyssinia. Correspondence and papers on the crisis over sanctions being imposed on Italy by the League of Nations, following Italy's invasion of Abyssinia [later Ethiopia]. Includes: copies of letters written by LSA to the press and to the Prime Minister [Stanley Baldwin] on the crisis; list of MPs and peers invited to attend a meeting on the subject, with copy of the resolution passed, calling on the Government not to support the imposition of sanctions; annotated article by LSA for the Daily Mail, on the Abyssinian crisis; extract from an interview with Benito Mussolini by Sir Arnold Wilson on the Italian attitude to the original Hoare-Laval proposals [by Sir Samuel Hoare, Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Templewood and Pierre Laval, French Foreign Minister]; summaries of speeches by LSA against sanctions.
1 file.

Oct 1935

Letters on The Empire in the new Era. Correspondence on LSA's book of collected speeches on the Empire, distributed to principal schools in Britain and the Dominions. Correspondents writing to acknowledge receipt of the book, include: William Vaughan, Headmaster of Rugby School [Warwickshire]; Alwyn Williams, Headmaster of Winchester College [Hampshire]; Robert Routh, Headmaster of Bromsgrove School, Worcestershire; Joseph Barton, Headmaster of Bristol Grammar School; Harold Sawyer, Headmaster of Shrewsbury School [Shropshire]; Henry Hardy, Headmaster of Cheltenham College [Gloucestershire]; Frank Stephenson, Headmaster, Felsted School, Essex; William Cavill, Headmaster of Hymers College, Hull [Yorkshire]; Cyril Alington, Headmaster of Eton College [Berkshire]; James Eccles, Headmaster of Gresham's School, Norfolk; John Roxburgh, Headmaster of Stowe School, Buckinghamshire; Spencer Leeson, Headmaster of Merchant Taylors' School, London; Harold Costley-White, Headmaster of Westminster School, London; [William Ferguson], Warden of Radley College, Berkshire; [Herbert] Lionel Rogers, Headmaster of King's College School, London; Terry Thomas, Headmaster, Leeds Grammar School [Yorkshire]; Cuthbert Blakiston, Headmaster of Lancing College, Sussex; David Somervell [Assistant Master at Tonbridge School, Kent]; Eric Kempson, Headmaster of Royal Naval College, Dartmouth [Devon]; Graham Smith, Headmaster, Sedbergh School [Yorkshire]; Kenneth Fisher, Headmaster, Oundle School, Northamptonshire; Robert Howard, Headmaster of Liverpool College; Charles Boughey, Headmaster of Sherborne School, Dorset; Frederick Matheson, Warden of Trinity College, Glenalmond [Perthshire, Scotland]; Edwin England, Headmaster of King Edward's School, Birmingham; Eric Whitworth, Headmaster of Bradfield College, Berkshire; Edward Owen, Principal of King William's College, Isle of Man; Edward Beckwith, Headmaster of the Imperial Service College, Windsor; Norman Whatley, Headmaster of Clifton College [Bristol]; Henry Abel, Headmaster of St Olave's School, London; Herbert Ralph, Headmaster of Plymouth College [Devon]; Frank Preston, Headmaster of Malvern College [Worcestershire]; Emmeline Tanner, Headmistress of Roedean School [Sussex]; George Turner, Master of Marlborough College, Wiltshire; John Bell, High Master of St Paul's School, London; Beatrice Sparks, Principal of Cheltenham Ladies' College; Donald Macdonald, Headmaster of St Andrew's College, Aurora [Ottawa, Canada]; John Paton, President of Memorial University College, St John's, Newfoundland; Harold Mahon, Headmaster of Auckland Grammar School [New Zealand]; Kenneth Bickersteth, Headmaster of St Peter's College, Adelaide [Australia]; Herbert Dettman, Headmaster of Sydney Grammar School; Lawrence Adamson, Headmaster of Wesley College, Melbourne; William Littlejohn, Principal of Scotch College, Melbourne.
1 file.

Mar 1930-Jul 1930

Political speeches and articles: general. Texts of speeches and articles by LSA on subjects including: protection of manufacturers and the removal of the McKenna Duties on luxury imports; Benjamin Disraeli [1st Lord Beaconsfield]; the silk industry; Imperial Preference; unemployment; the economics of Empire; the monetary crisis; the Representation of the People Bill; the meaning of politics; the National Government; disarmament; Cabinet reform; the future of Europe; the Peace Ballot; uprising in Austria (1934); the 1935 General Election; the League of Nations and sanctions against Abyssinia [later Ethiopia]; colonial policy; Jan Smuts; [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain; National Service; German colonial claims; LSA's book "The Forward View" and the state of Europe and the Commonwealth (1938). Also includes: transcript of a speech by Adolf Hitler to the German Reichstag (Jan 1939); note by Robert Menzies on a speech by LSA (1935).
3 files.

Apr 1930-Jan 1939

Political speeches and articles: Pan Europa. Texts of speeches and articles by LSA on the Empire and the Pan-European Idea.
1 file.

Jan 1930-Feb 1934

Empire speeches. Texts of speeches by LSA on the Empire, particularly: the Empire partnership; the disadvantages to Britain of a pan-European idea; the future of the Empire, in policy and in contribution to world affairs; the Singapore naval base; trade and an Empire Trade Week.
1 file.

May 1929-Apr 1935

Empire articles. Texts of articles by LSA on the Empire, particularly: the Imperial constitution; the Jubilee and the new era; problems of the Commonwealth; Cecil Rhodes and his vision of a Greater British Africa; the future of East Africa and the Hilton Young Commission; possibilities in developing the Empire; visiting the Empire. Also includes: letter from Sir [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain, asking LSA to write an article on the Commonwealth for the Foreign Affairs quarterly.
1 file.

Sep 1930-Dec 1936

Miscellaneous speeches and articles. Texts of speeches and articles by LSA on subjects including: the report of the Palestine Commission; colonial claims; the Geographical magazine; British agriculture in relation to the Dominions; sugar duties and Imperial Preference; the Import Duties Bill (1932); maintaining naval strength; the worldwide economic depression; Kingsley Fairbridge and the Empire Farm Schools; failures of the League of Nations; Magna Carta and political freedom in the modern era; Dutch policy in the East Indies; the need for Cabinet reform; agricultural policy; the political future of India; Imperial forces; an appeal for a new college for students from the Dominions in London. Also includes: catalogue and photographs from an exhibition of Persian art, including a piece lent by LSA; report by Ronald Russell, Research Secretary of the Empire Economic Union, with speech by LSA on the 1947 Trade and Employment Conference at Geneva [Switzerland]; annotated copy of a 1907 memorandum by Sir Eyre Crowe on German foreign policy.
2 files.

Dec 1929-Aug 1947

Empire Marketing Board: summary of work and recommendations. Papers including: report of the Board's constitution committee; report on the work of the Board (May 1932); letters from Sir Stephen Tallents, Secretary (2); reports on the general work of the Board, grants for scientific research and other schemes, statistics, market research and economic investigation, market promotion, publicity and illustrations of the Board's work; appreciations and regrets on the work of the Board on its termination, including resolutions and comments from public and trading bodies, the press and other individuals. Also includes: text of a speech by John Grierson, Film Controller of the Central Office of Information, looking back on national film services in the Dominions, and the role of the Empire Marketing Board [c 1948-50].
1 file.

Jun 1931-c 1950

Sugar. Papers on the sugar industry, including: report on the Mauritius sugar industry, by Sir Francis Watts; report of the British Sugar Beet Society's annual general meeting; statements by LSA as Chairman of the Sugar Federation of the British Empire, on Empire sugar policy, British sugar duties and Imperial Preference, and while representing the industry in a deputation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer; memorandum by LSA on Empire sugar policy, presented to the Imperial Economic Conference, Ottawa [Canada]; statement of proposals on colonial sugar preference, by the Chancellor of the Exchequer [(Arthur) Neville Chamberlain].
1 file.

Mar 1930-Apr 1934

Economic articles. Texts of articles by LSA on economic affairs, including: the Empire and economic unity, and the business men's manifesto; improving trade with Imperial Preference; Conservative policy on safeguarding British industry and Imperial trade; the state of the iron and steel industry; the Import Duties Bill (1932); faults in the National Government and Cabinet system; the history of the campaign for Imperial Preference, including Joseph Chamberlain and Free Trade; the International Economic Conference and the gold standard; trade treaties with Germany, Denmark and Argentina; vote of censure against the Government over Canadian tax proposals (1936); unemployment and the export market. Also includes: memorandum on Imperial Economic Co-operation by R F Irvine, former Professor of Economics, University of Sydney [Australia].
2 files.

Nov 1929-Nov 1948

Imperial Economic Conference, Ottawa [Canada] 1932. Papers including: notes by LSA on the principles of preferential policy, and on the international monetary situation; minutes of the Federation of British Industries industrial committee and price levels sub-committee; statement by LSA on the conference; letters by LSA to the press and articles on the Anti-Ottawa Thesis, Imperial Preference and gains and losses from Ottawa; Conservative and Unionist Central Office hints for speakers on the Ottawa agreements; articles on the implications of the agreements, by Sir Benjamin Morgan and Malcolm MacDonald, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs; souvenir record of the conference.
2 files; File 2 (an article, "The Ottawa Conference and its lesson for Europe") is unfit for production..

Jun 1932-Dec 1935

Imperial Economic Conference, Ottawa [Canada]: correspondence. Correspondents include: Edward Beatty, Chairman of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Richard Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada; Stanley Baldwin; Henry Stevens, Canadian Minister of Trade and Commerce, on a scheme for an Empire Bank. Also includes letters from LSA to other individuals including: Nicolaas Havenga [South African Minister of Finance] on sugar preference and the gold standard; Stanley Bruce [Australian Minister in London] on sugar preference; 1st Lord Lloyd on the progress of the conference; [Harold] Leslie Boyce [ Chairman and Managing Director of the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Limited] on the railway wagon-building industry in the Dominions; Sir Robert Horne, on monetary negotiations; 1st Lord Hailsham [earlier Douglas Hogg], on sugar preference and agricultural duties in general; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken] on monetary negotiations; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [Secretary of State for the Colonies, earlier Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton]; Sir George Schuster; [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain [Chancellor of the Exchequer].
1 file.

Jul 1932-Aug 1932

Economic files: Old War Debt to United States. Includes: Foreign Office statement of amounts due to the United States with copy of related correspondence between William Phillips, American Under-Secretary of State, Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador to the United States and Henry Stimson, American Secretary of State; Conservative and Unionist Central Office hints for speakers on war debts; press cuttings reporting speech by LSA on avoiding a default on the debt and also American replies to proposals from Britain; article by Archibald Campbell on the American record of defaulting on loans.
1 file.

Nov 1932-Nov 1934

Economic files: Central Chamber of Agriculture. Includes: press cuttings and extracts from the Journal of the Chambers of Agriculture, reporting speeches by LSA as President of the Chambers on agricultural policy, particularly on import duties and production quotas, and results of the Imperial Economic Conference, Ottawa [Canada]; letters received on the state of farming.
1 file.

Nov 1931-Jun 1936

Economic files: Canadian currency. Papers and correspondence on linking the Canadian dollar to sterling, with correspondents including: Sir Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Lord Cranborne, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs [later 5th Lord Salisbury]; Arthur Greenwood [Minister without Portfolio]; Vincent Massey, High Commissioner for Canada (3); Henry Clay [Economic Adviser to the Bank of England]; James Ralston, Canadian Minister of Finance; Montagu Norman [Governor, Bank of England] (2); John Darling. Also includes: article by John Darling on the Imperial Economic Conference, Ottawa [Canada] and the Canadian currency; press cuttings on stabilization proposals for the Canadian currency; memoranda by LSA from the Ottawa Conference on the Canadian currency problem and the general monetary situation; memorandum by LSA on the need for a stable exchange rate, and whether the Canadian dollar should be linked to sterling.
1 file.

Feb 1932-May 1941

National and monetary crisis 1931: correspondence. Correspondence and papers, with correspondents including: Professor Gustav Cassel; Sir Cecil Kisch [Secretary, Financial Department, India Office]; Sir Henry Strakosch. Also includes: texts of articles and letters to the press by LSA on the crisis; published statements by Sir John Simon, [James] Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister, and Stanley Baldwin on the need for national unity; statement by Sir James Lithgow, President of the Federation of British Industries, on correcting the balance of trade; Conservative and Unionist Central Office hints for speakers on the crisis; memoranda by LSA on the 1931-2 Budget, the silver problem, and a sterling monetary system; prints of a speech and article by Sir Robert Horne on the currency problem; print of a speech by 1st Lord d'Abernon [earlier Edgar Vincent]; currency notes from the Imperial Economic Conference, Ottawa [Canada]; reports and resolutions of the League of Nations Monetary and Economic Conference; article and speeches by Gustav Cassel on the crisis; statement by [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, at the Monetary and Economic Conference (1933); extracts from speeches by Sir Robert Horne, LSA and Winston Churchill, in the Budget debate (1932).
3 files.

May 1931-Jul 1933

National and monetary crisis 1931: booklets and publications on monetary policy. Includes: "Monetary Leadership, with plan for an Empire Currency" and "A New International Currency", by John Darling; Lloyds Bank Limited monthly review, on the world depression and economic relations between France and Germany (March 1932); "On Money" by 1st Lord Desborough [earlier William Grenfell]; London Chamber of Commerce report on monetary policy, with notes by LSA; article on remedies for fluctuations of general prices, by Alfred Marshall [Professor of Political Economy, Cambridge University]; "The Road to Recovery" by Sir Henry Strakosch.
2 files.

Mar 1887-Jan 1935

Economic file: Currency - silver. Includes: press cutting on silver legislation in the United States; "Money and the World Crisis" by Henry Denny; "The World Crisis and the Depreciation of Silver" by Constantino Perez Duarte; article on the remonetization of silver, by Herbert Rothbarth; address on the rehabilitation of silver, by John Darling; extracts from the American Congressional Record, with statements by Senator Key Pittman on the world silver problem and Britain's payment of war debts; copy of the silver agreement between Canada, Australia, India, China, Mexico, Peru, Spain and the United States (1933); speeches given in the House of Lords on the rehabilitation of silver (1932).
1 file.

Nov 1931-c 1935

Miscellaneous speeches and articles. Texts of speeches and articles by LSA on subjects including: patriotism; health education; freedom; the future of Canada and the world; limitations of the League of Nations; Empire co-operation in social hygiene; the coronation and role of King George VI; the value of education; the city of Birmingham [Warwickshire]; the development of East Africa. Also includes: report of the Army League Committee on a policy for the army; statement on new Conservatism by the Oxford University Conservative Association (secretary, Julian Amery).
1 file.

Apr 1936-Jul 1939

The Abdication. Papers relating to the death of King George V and the abdication of King Edward VIII, later Edward Duke of Windsor, including: copy of the Abdication Bill; telegrams from Queen Mary and Edward VIII, thanking LSA for his condolences on the death of George V; note from LSA's memoirs on advice given to Edward VIII, not to send out a broadcast during the Abdication Crisis; press cuttings.
1 file.

Dec 1935-Dec 1936

The Assyrian Settlement National Appeal 1936-40. Papers and correspondence on the appeal for Assyrians living in Iraq, chaired by LSA, with correspondents including: George Rendel [Head of the Eastern Department, Foreign Office] on the background to the situation; 1st Lord Noel-Buxton, President of the Save the Children Fund, on helping the appeal (2); Alan Don [Chaplain and Secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury] (10); [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon] on the possibility of returning the Assyrians to Turkey or Syria, the results of the emancipation treaty between France and Syria, the Government's contribution to a settlement and the future of the Patriarch, Mar Shimun and his family (6); William Ormsby-Gore [Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 4th Lord Harlech] on the possibility of settling the Assyrians in Cyprus or Nyasaland [later Malawi] (4); Cosmo Lang [President of the appeal, Archbishop of Canterbury]; 1st Lord Lugard, suggesting that the Assyrians might return to Syria; Lord Cranborne [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, later 5th Lord Salisbury]; George Gracey, General Secretary of the Save the Children Fund and secretary of the appeal (9); Robert Buxton, Director of Martin's Bank Limited (2); Francis Walters [Deputy-Secretary-General of the League of Nations]. Also includes: Foreign Office memoranda on the Assyrians; pamphlets on the appeal, including an address by Cosmo Lang, in launching the appeal; League of Nations report on the settlement of the Assyrians; article by Hugh Champion de Crespigny on the Assyrian cause.
2 files.

May 1933-Jul 1945

Disarmament. Annotated papers, including: Conservative and Unionist Central Office hints for speakers on disarmament; copy of the Government's declaration on disarmament policy (1932); draft disarmament convention (1933); Government memorandum for the 1934 Disarmament Conference; exchange of notes between Britain and Germany on the limitation of naval armaments; copy of a treaty between Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, the United States and France on the limitation of naval armaments (1936); memorandum on the London Naval Conference; journal of the German Association for League of Nations Questions, on the 1937 Disarmament Conference and naval armaments.
1 file.

Nov 1932-Apr 1937

India discussion. Texts of articles by LSA on the future constitution of India, particularly: the Joint Select Committee's report on India; the problems of Indian nationalism and the structure of British India; Dominion status; Conservative policy.
1 file.

Nov 1934-Feb 1935

Burma-India separation. Papers and correspondence on the separation of Burma from India, particularly on LSA's work as chairman of the financial settlement tribunal. Correspondents include: Sir Samuel Hoare [Secretary of State for India, later 1st Lord Templewood] (11); David Monteath [Assistant Secretary, India Office]; Sir [Samuel] Findlater Stewart [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India]; William Croft [Private Secretary to Hoare]. Also includes: report of the Financial Settlement Tribunal; memoranda by LSA on the separation and financial settlement.
1 file.

Feb 1933-Sep 1935

Social reform. Includes: print of a speech by Sir John Pilter on his scheme for the betterment of the rising generation, with letters from Pilter (2); pamphlet on the Ark Industrial Association; copies of the National Industrial Council Bill, Industrial Councils Bill and Works Councils Bill.
1 file.

Jun 1934-Feb 1935

South African Protectorate. Papers and correspondence on the transfer of the protectorates of Basutoland [later Lesotho], Swaziland and Bechuanaland [later Botswana] to South Africa. Correspondents include: Sir John Harris, Secretary to the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society, on the formation of the Parliamentary Committee on the position of the South African protectorates, and publishing a letter in the press on the future of the protectorates (10); 2nd Lord Selborne on the formation of the Committee (2); 1st Lord Lugard on pressing for reforms in administration of the protectorates; 11th Lord Lothian [earlier Philip Kerr] on changes to the Committee and interference from elements outside Parliament. Also includes: memoranda by the Committee (in 1934 and an amended version in 1938) on the position of the South African protectorates and minutes of the preliminary meetings; print of an article by Lugard on government of the protectorates; memorandum by the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs [James Thomas] on High Commission territories in South Africa; outline of policy followed by the South West Africa administration in Ovamboland [Namibia]; text of a speech by Lionel Curtis on the protectorates.
1 file.

Apr 1934-Apr 1939

Tariffs Committee report. Report of the Conservative Research Department's tariffs committee, chaired by Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton], particularly on an emergency protective tariff on imports and tariffs on manufactured foodstuffs.
1 file.

1931

Defence, 1930s. Includes: note from Major-General Henry Rowan-Robinson congratulating LSA on a speech on co-ordinating the armed forces (July 1937); memorandum by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury [(David) John Colville, later 1st Lord Clydesmuir] on defence loans; statement on defence by the Prime Minister [(Arthur) Neville Chamberlain] (February 1939); article by Sir [James] Arthur Salter on food storage for defence; copy of Hansard, including a debate on national service (December 1938).
1 file.

Feb 1937-Feb 1939

Trade files: German Trade Agreement. Annotated papers, including: a print of notes exchanged between Sir John Simon [Foreign Secretary] and Leopold von Hoesch [German Ambassador to Britain] on commercial relations; issues of Hansard, including debates on trade agreements, the German agreement in particular, and also most-favoured-nation clauses; prints of the Anglo-German Exchange Agreements relating to commercial payments; print of an exchange of notes between Sean Lemass, Irish Minister for Industry and Commerce, and H R Hemmen, Chairman of the German delegation to the Irish Free State [later Ireland] on commercial relations; print of the Anglo-German Transfer Agreement; print of the Anglo-German Payments (Amendment) Agreement; memorandum by the Empire Industries Association on agreements with Germany.
1 file.

Apr 1933-Jul 1938

Trade files: Trade Agreements. Annotated prints of trade agreements with countries including: Argentina; Australia and Belgium; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; Italy; India and Japan; Latvia; Lithuania; the Netherlands; Norway; Peru; Poland; Canada and Poland; the Soviet Union; Sweden; Sweden and New Zealand; the United States; Uruguay. Also includes: text of LSA's article "Three Ill-Starred Agreements: Mr Runciman Queers the Pitch", criticising trade agreements made by Walter Runciman [President of the Board of Trade] with Germany, Denmark and Argentina; letters between LSA and Sir [James] Arthur Salter (2), some published in the Times, on the influx of gold into the United States and Anglo-American trade; pamphlet issued by the Federation of British Industries on tariff policy; letter from Herbert Williams with a memorandum on the revision of trade agreements; issue of the Economist on the British-American Trade Agreement; graphs issued by the Danish-British Association Committee for Trade Development, on changes in British exports, 1929-34.
4 files.

Sep 1930-Jun 1939

Trade files: Most Favoured Nation Clause. Correspondence and papers on LSA's concerns about a threat to Imperial Preference in the Lend-Lease agreement with the United States, with correspondents including: Sir Herbert Williams to LSA and Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] on a trade agreement with the United States (2); John Llewellin [President of the Board of Trade]; Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England. Also includes copies of letters from LSA to correspondents including: Vice-Admiral Ernest Taylor; Sir Andrew Duncan; "Bendor" [2nd Duke of Westminster, earlier Lord Belgrave]; Henry Drummond-Wolff; Sir Herbert Williams; 1st Lord Bennett; Robert Menzies; 1st Lord Swinton [earlier Philip Cunliffe-Lister and Philip Lloyd-Greame]; 1st Lord Hankey; Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]; 1st Lord Greenwood; [William] Stephen King-Hall. Also includes: text and summary of an address by LSA to the International Parliamentary Conference on the Most Favoured Nation clause; Federation of British Industries pamphlets on commercial policy; memorandum by Roy Glenday [Economic Director, Federation of British Industries] on the origin and development of the Most-Favoured Nation principle in tariff treaties.
1 file.

Dec 1933-Mar 1950

Empire Unity Campaign speeches. Texts, prints and notes of speeches by LSA for the Unity of Empire Campaign at Bournemouth [Hampshire], Central Hall [London] and Exeter [Devon] and Llanelly [Carmarthenshire, Wales].
1 file.

Nov 1936-Dec 1938

Empire speeches and articles. Includes: extracts from the British Empire Review, with texts of speeches by LSA; texts, prints and press cuttings of articles by LSA on the case and future for Imperial Preference, dominions policy and the future of the Empire; trade statistics for the Empire; issue of and extracts from Hansard, including speeches by LSA on tariff policy and Imperial Preference; prints of trade discussions and agreements with Australia, India, South Africa and Canada; Empire Industries Association trade bulletins; notes for a speech by LSA on the ideal of Empire.
1 file.

Aug 1935-Apr 1939

Pre-war political speeches and articles. Annotated speech notes, press cuttings and texts of speeches and articles by LSA on subjects including: Joseph Chamberlain's centenary; the need for national unity; foreign policy; defence; supporting the foreign policy of [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister; the need for a smaller Cabinet for policy making; social reform; Czechoslovakia; responsible government; the case for a War Cabinet; future Conservative and Unionist policy.
2 files.

Jul 1936-Jul 1939

Reviews. Texts of book reviews by LSA, including: "Politics from Inside" by Sir [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain; "Mandates" by Neil Macaulay, on Germany's claim on her former African colonies; "Ordeal in England" by Sir Philip Gibbs on the state of the country; "The Colonial Problem" by the Royal Institute of International Affairs and "The Imperial Factor" by Professor de Kiewiet; "The Defence of the Empire" by Sir Norman Angell, on collective security; "Great Britain and Palestine" by Herbert Sidebotham; "Germany's First Bid for Colonies" by A J P Taylor; "Son of the Mountains" by Julius Kugy; "The Colonial Empire and its Civil Service" by Charles Jeffries [Colonial Office]; "An African Survey" by 1st Lord Hailey [Director, African Research Survey]; "The Building of the British Empire" by James Adams and "The British Empire" by Professor Mullett; "The Life of Edward Whymper" by Francis Smythe; "Germany's Claim to Colonies" by [Ferdinand] Stephen Joelson.
1 file.

Nov 1936–1940

Imperial Conference articles. Texts and cuttings of articles by LSA on the 1937 Imperial Conference, particularly the state of the Commonwealth, the rise of fascism and communism, defence and foreign policy.
1 file.

Mar 1937-May 1937

Food storage and other stocks. Correspondence on discussions between LSA and Sir [James] Arthur Salter on wartime supply organization, with correspondents including: Salter on the need for increased food and raw material reserves (3); [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister, on the practicalities of increasing reserves. Also includes: extracts from Hansard on responsibility for food reserves; copies of letters from LSA to 1st Lord Camrose [Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Telegraph, earlier William Berry], Winston Churchill, James Garvin [Editor of the Observer], William Hadley, Editor of the Sunday Times and [Edward] Leslie Burgin [Minister of Supply]; memoranda by Salter on food and raw material reserves.
1 file.

Jul 1938-Sep 1939

Family allowances: articles and speeches. Texts and cuttings of articles and speeches by LSA on family allowance reform. Also includes: studies by [Colin] Fraser Brockington, Medical Officer of Health, on the diet of rural and urban families; notes by Horlicks Limited on LSA's family allowance campaign; papers given by Sir Kenneth Lee, Laurence Cadbury and George Gibson at the National Nutrition Conference.
1 file.

1937-Feb 1940

Family allowances: correspondence. Correspondents include: [John] Allan Wright [later Allan Cecil-Wright] (3); Sir John Anderson [Lord President of the Council, later 1st Lord Waverley]; Sir Herbert Williams; Eleanor Rathbone, Chairman of the Family Endowment Society (3); Arthur Greenwood (2); Sir [George] Joseph Ball [Director of the Conservative Research Department] (4); [?] Laurence Cadbury (4); Henry Wilson Smith [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; [Estelle] Sylvia Pankhurst (3); [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister (3); [William] Hamilton Whyte, Professor of Economics, University of Bristol; Eva Hubback, Principal of Morley College; Sir Walter Citrine, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress; Reginald Northam; Sir Geoffrey Peto; Sir John Percival; [William] Stephen King-Hall, K-H News-Letter Service; John Maynard Keynes; Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams; 1st Lord Samuel; Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith [Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries]; Ernest Brown [Minister of Labour]. Also includes: copies of letters from LSA to Herbert Harvey, Editor of the Birmingham Mail, 1st Lord Woolton [Minister of Food, earlier Frederick Marquis] and Sir Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer; scheme for family allowances at Cadbury Brothers Limited.
2 files.

Jul 1936-Jun 1942

Shipping. Papers on the state of the shipping industry, including: prints and cuttings of speeches and articles by LSA; figures for the use of British and foreign ships; Board of Trade memorandum on assistance for shipping; issues of Hansard covering the British Shipping (Assistance) Bill; report of the Tramp Shipping Administrative Committee; pamphlets including "A New System of Preference" by Carlyon Bellairs, "Shipbuilding Outlook" by [Alexander] Murray Stephen, President of the Shipbuilding Employers Federation, a circular on the Merchant Navy by Sir Westcott Abell and "British Shipping" by 1st Lord Lloyd, President of the Navy League; reports of the Imperial Shipping Committee, on a passenger and cargo service between Canada and Australia and New Zealand, and on British shipping in the Far East.
1 file.

Jun 1934-Jan 1939

Political files: Palestine. Papers and correspondence on the Royal Commission investigating the partition of Palestine, with correspondents including: Mrs Edgar Dugdale [Blanche Dugdale]; Sir [Arthur] Henry McMahon; 1st Lord Peel [Chairman of the Palestine Royal Commission]; William Ormsby-Gore [Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 4th Lord Harlech] (2); John Martin, Secretary of the Palestine Royal Commission; Prince Abdullah, Emir of Transjordan [later King Abdullah of Jordan]; Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary, Committee of Imperial Defence]. Papers include: notes on a conversation between LSA and the Palestine Royal Commission; print of LSA's article "The Future in Palestine" (1929); map of Palestine showing Jewish land ownership; statements of British policy and the proposed new constitution for Palestine; print of correspondence between Sir [Arthur] Henry McMahon, British High Commissioner in Egypt, and the Sherif Hussein of Mecca (1915-16) with related documents from the Jewish Agency for Palestine; print of Palestine Land Transfers Regulations; notes by Leonard Stein [Honorary Legal Adviser, Jewish Agency for Palestine] on the Palestine conferences; documents relating to the Balfour Declaration, including a pamphlet on its origins by Mrs Edgar Dugdale; prints of papers giving the Jewish case against partition; statement by Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organisation and Jewish Agency for Palestine, to the Palestine Royal Commission; draft speech notes by LSA on Palestine; copies of letters from LSA to 2nd Lord Melchett [earlier Henry Mond], Jan Smuts, [? Robert] Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] and Malcolm MacDonald [Secretary of State for the Colonies]; account of a conversation between LSA, Josiah Wedgwood, Blanche Dugdale and others on bringing Palestine within the Commonwealth.
2 files.

Jul 1928-Mar 1940

Political files: Palestine. Papers and correspondence on Palestine, with correspondents including: Marcus Sieff (4); Malcolm MacDonald [Secretary of State for the Colonies] on alleged ill-treatment of Jewish political prisoners; 4th Lord Harlech [former Secretary of State for the Colonies, earlier William Ormsby-Gore] on his disagreement with current policy; Richard Casey, Australian Minister for Supply and Development, on a Jewish settlement in Australia; Reginald Coupland [former member of the Palestine Royal Commission] (2); 2nd Lord Lytton, Chairman of Palestine Potash Limited, on producing magnesium in Palestine (3); 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister for Aircraft Production, earlier Max Aitken] on producing magnesium; [Henry] Wickham Steed, on raising a Jewish army; Paul Goodman; Frank Aydelotte, member of the Anglo-American Palestine Commission (3); Harold Beeley, Secretary of the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry on Palestine (2); Victor Gollancz, Director of Victor Gollancz, Limited, on publishing LSA's evidence to the Committee of Enquiry, and an informal group on partition (2); Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi; Mrs Edgar Dugdale [Blanche Dugdale] on partition (2); 1st Lord Moyne [Secretary of State for the Colonies, earlier Walter Guinness] on Jewish defence and policy towards the Arabs (2); Lewis Namier; Sir Firoz Khan Noon [High Commissioner for India] on the risk of alienating Moslem opinion over Palestine (2); 2nd Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy of India [earlier Lord Hopetoun]; Sir Simon Marks; 5th Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne] on criticism by the United States of British policy towards Palestine; Isaiah Berlin on American policy; 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Edward Grigg]; Oliver Stanley. Also includes: memoranda by Marcus Sieff on British policy towards Israel, the shooting down of British aircraft by Israel and a speech by Ernest Bevin, Foreign Secretary, in a debate on Palestine (January 1949); memoranda by LSA on partition; memorandum by Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, suggesting a Jewish homeland in Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe] rather than Palestine; memoranda by Reginald Coupland on a scheme for the federation of Palestine, territorial limitation and the Jewish frontier; statements by Moshe Sharett, Israeli Foreign Minister, on Arab refugees; report of the Palestine Currency Board, 1948-49; issue of Hansard covering the debate on Palestine (January 1949); copies of letters from LSA to individuals including Winston Churchill [Leader of the Conservative Party] and [Robert] Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon].
5 files.

Jan 1938-Jul 1949

Political files: Palestine. Papers and correspondence on Palestine, with correspondents including: Marcus Sieff (6); [Syed] Waris Ameer Ali; Edwin Samuel. Also includes: memoranda by Marcus Sieff on Israel as a industrial and supply centre, the effect of the Arab-Israeli war on oil supplies, Britain's Middle East policy, resettlement of Arab refugees, the development of British trade with Israel and the Middle East and oil development in Israel; text of a speech by David Horowitz, Economic Adviser to the Israeli Government, on economic relations between Britain and Israel; speech notes for LSA's address to the Hebrew University (November 1950); Israeli memorandum submitted to the United Nations on the question of Jerusalem.
1 file.

Mar 1949-Jul 1951

German Colonial Claim. Book of newspaper cuttings, including articles and letters from LSA and others to the press, on Germany's claim to her former colonies in Africa.
1 volume; Fragile..

Jul 1936-Nov 1938

German Colonial Claim. Speeches, articles, notes and correspondence on Germany's claim to her former colonies in Africa, including: extracts from Hansard with House of Commons speeches by [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain [Prime Minister], LSA, David Grenfell, James Thomas, Secretary of State for the Colonies, Winston Churchill, Geoffrey Mander, [Samuel] Vyvyan Adams, Lord Cranborne, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs [later 5th Lord Salisbury], [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon], David Lloyd George and Sir [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain; general speeches and articles by LSA; general notes by LSA, including notes for broadcast debate with George Glasgow; letters from correspondents including William Ormsby-Gore [Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 4th Lord Harlech] (2) and 1st Lord Lugard [former British Member of Permanent Mandates Commission, League of Nations]. General speeches and articles by individuals including: LSA;.
2 files.

Apr 1936-Dec 1939

The Anglo-French Colonial Committee. Correspondence on the committee, or Comite Franco-Britannique d'Etudes Coloniales, with correspondents including: Jacques Bardoux on forming the committee, his despair at the state of Europe, the future victory of General Francisco Franco in Spain and British policy towards Czechoslovakia (5); Sir Malcolm Robertson, on his attitude to German demands for the return of her former colonies; 17th Lord Derby [earlier Lord Stanley], explaining that he could not join the committee as it might become an embarrassment to the Government (2).
1 file.

Dec 1937-Jan 1940

Speeches on German Colonial Claim. Annotated texts and press cuttings of speeches by LSA on Germany's claim to her former colonies in Africa.
1 file.

Apr 1937-Jul 1937

Colonial League Bulletins. Prints of the Colonial League weekly news bulletin, mainly on Germany's claim to her former colonies in Africa and colonial affairs in general, particularly relating to Africa. Also includes: notes by LSA on publishing colonial propaganda through the weekly bulletins, and on the League's purpose.
1 file.

Feb 1939-Mar 1940

Colonial League correspondence. Correspondents include: Sir Abe Bailey; [Ferdinand] Stephen Joelson, Director of East Africa Limited, on founding the League with LSA; 4th Lord Harlech [earlier William Ormsby-Gore] on the implications of German colonies in Africa, and the importance of retaining Tanganyika [later Tanzania]; Sir Henry Page Croft, on his hopes for agreement with Germany; 1st Lord Trenchard on publicizing the risks of giving back Germany's former colonies and his reasons for keeping out of the League (2); 1st Lord Lugard on his view that the Government would not surrender the colonies to Germany, risks from imposing international administration, the effect of German claims on other countries, accepting the presidency of the League and a speech by Adolf Hitler on British and German colonies (7); Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso] on the risk of weakening anti-Nazi forces in Germany by an absolute refusal of German claims (2); Sir Ernest Oppenheimer; [William] Lionel Hichens; 1st Lord Hailey, Member of Permanent Mandates Commission, League of Nations; Sir Donald Cameron [former Governor of Nigeria]; Sir Cecil Hunter-Rodwell [former Governor of Southern Rhodesia, later Zimbabwe]; Charles Ponsonby; Sir Samuel Wilson (2); Jacques Bardoux; 2nd Lord Selborne on disagreeing with the League's policy (3); Philip Noel-Baker; 16th Lord Perth [Chief Adviser on Foreign Publicity, Ministry of Information, earlier James Eric Drummond] on publicising the League (2); Malcolm MacDonald [Secretary of State for the Colonies]; John Summerscales, Secretary of the League (3); Deneys Reitz, Minister of Native Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of South Africa, on South Africa's preparations for defence; Sir Dougal Malcolm on the end of the League (2). Also includes: copies of letters from LSA to 2nd Lord Selborne; resolution from the Nigerian Youth Movement, passed by the chiefs and people of Nigeria, against the cession of Nigeria to Germany; memorandum by Lord Trenchard on the threat to Nigeria from bombing if Germany had an African airbase and the implications for having to raise more troops for Africa.
1 file.

Oct 1938-May 1946

Munich Crisis and congratulations. Papers and correspondence on the agreement to cede the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, to Germany, with correspondents supporting LSA's criticism of the Munich Agreement including: Anthony Crossley; John Hammond; Harold Armstrong; Alexander Fraser, Warden of Newbattle Abbey College; Joseph King; [Frederick] Victor Fisher. Papers include: extracts from the German press; text of a broadcast by [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain [Prime Minister] on the Munich Agreement; prints of official correspondence on Czechoslovakia, including the Agreement; poem by Anthony Crossley against the Agreement.
1 file.

Sep 1938-Oct 1938

Austria. Papers and press cuttings on Germany's occupation of Austria, including: text of letter to the Times by LSA; print of speeches by Kurt von Schuschnigg, Chancellor of Austria, and Adolf Hitler; monthly surveys of German publications, by Friends of Europe, on Hitler's cession of the South Tyrol to Italy and the occupation of Austria; bulletin from the Committee of Austrians in England, including a letter of support from LSA.
1 file.

Mar 1937-Oct 1939

Negeb. Memoranda on the strategical problems, importance and potential for development of the Negeb desert [Palestine, later HaNegev, Israel], in relation to the partition of Palestine.
1 file.

Aug 1938-Mar 1939

National Service - Manifesto of 1 Nov 1938. Correspondence on a manifesto in favour of National Registration and National Service, published in the national press. Correspondents replying to LSA's requests to sign the manifesto include: Admiral Sir William Goodenough; Sir Robert Webber [Chairman of the Federation of Southern Newspaper Owners]; Sir Charles Hyde, owner of the Birmingham Post; Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury; Antony Head; 1st Lord Southwood, Chairman and Managing Director of the Daily Herald Limited [earlier Julius Elias]; David Lloyd George; 4th Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne] (2); 1st Lord Kemsley [Chairman of Kemsley Newspapers, Limited, earlier James Berry]; 1st Lord Greenwood, President of the British Iron and Steel Federation; Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Chatfield; Arthur Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London; 1st Lord Willingdon [earlier Freeman Freeman-Thomas]; 1st Lord Horder; 10th Lord Strabolgi [earlier Joseph Kenworthy]; [Robert] Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon]. Also includes: print of the manifesto; extract from the National Review with an article by LSA on National Service.
1 file.

Oct 1938-Mar 1949

General correspondence on the Magna Carta. Correspondence, mainly with James Hamilton, Secretary of the International Magna Carta Day Association, on establishing a Magna Carta Day, with other correspondents including: Arthur Bryant; Alan Don [Chaplain and Secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury] (2); Nugent Hicks, Bishop of Lincoln; 11th Lord Lothian [British Ambassador to the United States, earlier Philip Kerr] on moving a copy of the Magna Carta to the Library of Congress, and on American neutrality; Vincent Massey, High Commissioner for Canada (2); [Alfred] Duff Cooper [Minister of Information, later 1st Lord Norwich] on a proposal to give a copy of the Magna Carta to the United States; Brendan Bracken [Minister of Information] (2); 1st Lord Trenchard; Gervas Huxley, Adviser to Ministry of Information on Empire Publicity; Paul de Labilliere, Bishop of Westminster; Eleanor Emery [Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for the Dominions]; Richard Rendall, Controller, Talks Division, BBC; Gordon Cawston, National President of the International Magna Carta Day Association (4). Also includes: pamphlets issued by the International Magna Carta Day Association.
2 files.

Aug 1938-May 1947

Joseph Chamberlain centenary. Annotated texts and press cuttings of speeches and articles by LSA and others to mark the centenary of Joseph Chamberlain's birth, particularly his views on Free Trade and Imperial Preference. Also includes: telegram from 1st Lord Craigavon [earlier James Craig], honouring Chamberlain; letter from Sir [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain; letter from 1st Lord Hailsham [earlier Douglas Hogg].
1 file.

Jul 1936-Dec 1937

National Defence: Army. Papers and correspondence on defence policy, with correspondents including: Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Chatfield [First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff] on the Singapore naval base; Leslie Hore-Belisha, Secretary of State for War, commenting on LSA's scheme for forming garrison battalions of older men for overseas service; General Sir Robert Whigham, on LSA's proposals for combining short and long service; General Sir John Burnett-Stuart, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command. Also includes: notes for a speech by LSA; print of a manifesto in favour of National Registration and National Service; prints of statements by the Prime Minister [James Ramsay MacDonald and Stanley Baldwin] on defence, annotated by LSA; cutting of an article on the Singapore naval base by Hector Bywater, naval correspondent of the Morning Post; text of a broadcast by Admiral Sir [William] Howard Kelly on naval bases, particularly Singapore; issue of and extract from Hansard covering a speech by LSA on co-ordination of defence, and the air estimates debate (1937); report of the Army League Committee (chaired by LSA) on a policy for the Army.
1 file.

Mar 1935-Nov 1938

Collective security. Includes: speech notes by LSA on the failure of the League of Nations as a peace keeping force; pamphlet issued by the League of Nations Union on the reform and development of the League; print of a speech by General Jan Smuts on the international outlook and the role of the League; text of a broadcast by LSA on Canadian radio, on the Empire and world peace; journal of the German Association for League of Nations Questions, on the 1936 disarmament conference, relating to Italy's invasion of Abyssinia [later Ethiopia].
1 file.

Jan 1935-May 1936

Tariff reform. Letters on tariff and fiscal reform, written to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph [John Le Sage], following a series of articles by J L Garvin on "Imperial Reciprocity". Correspondents include: William Ecroyd; Harold Cox, Secretary of the Cobden Club; Julius Bertram; Sir Guilford Molesworth. Also includes letters from: Joseph Chamberlain, writing to J L Garvin on the publication of the articles (4); J Wilson, secretary to Chamberlain, writing to Garvin (2); 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh [earlier Alexander Bruce], writing to Chamberlain.
2 files.

Oct 1902-Apr 1904

Tariffs Committee. Report of the Tariffs Committee of the Conservative Research Department, recommending a three-rate tariff and a Tariff Commission, and examining Parliamentary procedure for adopting their proposals.
1 file.

Dec 1930-Jul 1931

Tariff reform address, Oxford. Two drafts of speech notes by LSA.
1 file.

Sterling area. Papers including: rough notes by LSA on the balance of sterling; memoranda by LSA on the sterling problem and dealing with sterling balances, with comments by Sir Cecil Kisch [Deputy Under-Secretary of State for India].
1 file.

Jun 1944

Notes on foreign affairs. Fortnightly bulletins [? sent by LSA to W S Robinson] on subjects including: Italy's invasion of Abyssinia [later Ethiopia]; the political situation in Europe, particularly France and Germany; the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia; events in China and Japan, including Japan's withdrawal from the Washington Naval Treaty; the Disarmament Conference (1932-34); events in the Balkans; events in Greece; relations between Austria and Germany; the Pact of Rome between Austria, Hungary and Italy; trade agreements. Also includes: letter from Clive Baillieu [ British representative in Australia on Imperial Communications Advisory Committee] asking for a statement on the international situation to be sent on to W S Robinson.
1 file.

Oct 1933-Dec 1935

Notes on foreign affairs. Fortnightly bulletins [? sent by LSA to W S Robinson] on subjects including: the League of Nations; the European situation; the fall of Austria; Czechoslovakia; France; the Anglo-Italian Agreement (1934); Italy's invasion of Abyssinia [later Ethiopia]; the remilitarisation of the Rhineland; the Spanish Civil War; Germany, including treatment of the Jews; China and Japan; Britain's guarantee to protect Poland; negotiations with the Soviet Union. Also includes: print of speeches by Adolf Hitler [Chancellor of Germany], Edouard Daladier, Premier of France and [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister, in October 1939 on the outbreak of war; print of a memorandum by General Charles de Gaulle [Chief of Free French] on the new mechanised system of war; notes by LSA on the military situation (September 1939).
1 file.

Jan 1934-Jan 1940

Press reports on Empire Unity Campaign. Press cuttings reporting on LSA's speeches for the campaign, with the report of the South Africa branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association on their visit to Australia (1926).
1 volume and 1 file.

1926-Jul 1939

Coal Mines' Act. Papers relating to the 1930 act and 1937 Coal Bill, including: pamphlet, "One Hundred Questions and Answers about Coal"; copy of the 1930 act; memoranda by Sir Harry Pritchard, Secretary of the Association of Municipal Corporations, on faults in the act and possible amendments to it in the new bill; letter from Robert Dunwoody, Secretary to the Association of British Chambers of Commerce, on amending the new bill to provide for an independent coal prices tribunal; extract from the Law Journal on the bill; open letter to MPs from the Mining Association of Great Britain on their concerns about the bill, with memorandum on their suggested amendments and covering letter from Guy Locock, Director of the Federation of British Industries; report of the Association of Municipal Corporations law committee on the 1930 act.
1 file.

1930-Feb 1938

Westminster Hall Ceremony. Printed souvenir edition presented to LSA by Sir William Brass [later 1st Lord Chattisham] recording the presentation of addresses by both Houses of Parliament to King George V on his Silver Jubilee.
1 volume.

May 1935-Feb 1936

Jubilee Record. Printed edition by the Times of speeches by King George V and others, from 1910-35, published on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee, and special supplement of the Daily Telegraph reporting the King's broadcast on Jubilee Day. Also includes: note on publishing the proclamation of the accession of King Edward VIII [later Edward, Duke of Windsor].
1 file.

May 1935-Feb 1936

Programme for Jubilee Procession. Julian Amery's copy of the official programme of the procession for the Silver Jubilee of King George V.
1 file.

May 1935

Programme for Joseph Chamberlain Centenary Commemoration. LSA's copy of the programme for the commemoration of Chamberlain's birth.
1 file.

Jul 1936

Programme for Silver Jubilee of the Sultan of Zanzibar. Commemorative photographic record of the Jubilee of Seyyid Sir Khalifa Bin Harub, Sultan of Zanzibar.
1 file.

1937

Programme for the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Official souvenir programme, with LSA's invitation to the ceremony, press cuttings and other papers.
1 file.

May 1937

London House opening ceremony. Programme for the opening of the London House Hall of Residence for colonial students [later Goodenough College].
1 file.

Dec 1937

Miscellaneous papers. Includes: material from LSA's 1931 General Election campaign; programmes and itineraries.
1 file.

Sep 1928-Jun 1953

Miscellaneous papers. Pamphlets on the Classical Association, Gray's Inn and Drapers' Hall, with a map of Africa showing the Union-Castle Line routes to South Africa.
1 file.