The Papers of Reginald McKenna

Correspondence on a loan to the Government from the United States, with correspondents including: Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary] on concerns expressed by Edward Grenfell [Director of the Bank of England, later 1st Lord St Just] about payments to the United States; [?] Sir Ernest Cassel on the arguments for and against a loan; Sir Edward Holden, Chairman of the London City and Midland Bank Limited, on subjects including his fear that German influence in New York would work against the mission and the shipment of gold to the United States (3); Sir Rufus Isaacs [President of Anglo-French Loan Mission to the United States, later 1st Lord Reading] on subjects including Holden and the French party taking offence at Cassel travelling with them, American uncertainty over the outcome of the war and the difficulties faced by the mission (3).