| Title |
Treasury official 1915-19: planning post-war reconstruction |
| Reference |
JMK/PT |
| Creator |
Great Britain and Ireland. Treasury. |
| Covering Dates |
1916–1920 |
| Extent and Medium |
1 box; paper |
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| Content and context |
This series comprises documents related to John Maynard Keynes' duties in the Treasury Office during World War I, and more specifically, documents related to planning and post-war reconstruction. Almost all of the files were created or used by Keynes as head of the 'A' Division (February 1917-January 1919). |
| King's/PP/JMK/PT contains: |
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1
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'Recommendations of the economic conference of the Allies held at Paris on June 14, 15, 16 and 17, 1916'. Published by HMSO, 1916.
1 booklet; paper. |
1916 |
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2
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Economic Defence and Development Committee. This file contains papers concerning the debate over future Inter-Ally economic organisation, incIuding the agenda and report of a conference on Inter-Ally economic problems in relation to war and the transition period, held at Balliol College, Oxford, 28-30 September 1918.
Creator: Economic Defense and Development Committee.
2 files in envelope; paper. |
Aug. 1918-Nov. 1918 |
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3
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Essays on post-war economics. This file comprises Sydney Arnold, 'Fiscal policy after the war' (1916) and Charles Gide 'Des projets d'entente financière après la guerre', extracted from 'Revue d'économie politique', 1918.
Creator: Arnold, Sydney; Gide, Charles.
2 items in envelope; paper. |
1916–1918 |
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4
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Interim report of the sub-committee on post-war iron and steel requirements.
Creator: Great Britain and Ireland. Ministry of Munitions. Council Committee on Demobilisation and Reconstruction.
1 booklet in envelope; paper. |
Aug. 1918 |
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5
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File headed by J.M. Keynes 'Enemy debts and claims'. This file comprises an interim report of the Enemy Debt Committee of the Treasury, April 1917 and their memorandum of the return of debts and property, February 1918; report of the Sub-Committee of the War Cabinet on the policy of the 'clean slate', August 1917; Treasury memorandum 'Claims by British subjects against enemy subjects and governments and vice versa', December 1918; memorandum by O.T. Falk 'Settlement of enemy debts considered in relation to the indemnity question', December 1918; Treasury memorandum 'The liquidation of private debts and obligations existing before and accruing during the War, and of claims arising from action taken during the War', December 1918.
Creator: Various.
1 file in envelope; paper. |
1917–1918 |
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6
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File headed by O.T. Falk 'Memorandum on reparation claim'. This file comprises several memoranda by O.T. Falk, including: 'Claim in respect of the improper treatment of prisoners of war and interned civilians'; 'Losses due to air raids and naval bombardments'; 'Estimated loss in respect of ships and their cargoes directly destroyed by enemy action'; 'Estimated loss in respect of ships detained before the war'; 'Estimated loss in respect of the property of British subjects in occupied territories'; 'Memorandum with regard to the account of the British government against the German and other enemy governments for reparation'.
Creator: Falk, O.T.
1 file in envelope; paper. |
Nov. 1918 |
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7
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File headed by J.M. Keynes 'Indemnities - First memorandum November 1918'. This file comprises typescript 'Notes on an indemnity' by J.M. Keynes, 31 October 1918; Treasury memorandum on the indemnity payable by the enemy powers for reparation and other claims, undated; typescript and printed version of 'The treatment of Inter-Ally debt arising out of the War', November 1918- March 1919; memorandum by J.M. Keynes and W.J. Ashley on the effect of an indemnity, 2 January 1916; Enemy Debt Committee memorandum, February 1918; comparison of the national wealths of the UK and Germany before 1914.
Creator: Great Britain and Ireland. Treasury.; Ashley, W.J.
1 file in envelope; paper. |
Jan. 1916-Mar. 1919 |
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8
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File headed by J.M. Keynes 'Indemnities - Hughes Com[mitt]ee'. This file comprises an extract from War Cabinet minutes establishing the Committee, 26 November; minutes, 28-29 November and a draft report, December 1918.
Creator: Great Britain and Ireland. Treasury. Hughes Committee.
1 file in envelope; paper. |
26 Nov. 1918-Dec. 1918 |
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9
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File headed by J.M. Keynes 'Indemnities - discussion in Imperial War Cabinet 24 December 1918'. This file comprises a report of the Indemnity Committee, December; Treasury memorandum as to the financial effort of the UK and the cost of the War, December; Cabinet minutes, 24 December 1918.
Creator: Great Britain and Ireland. Treasury. Indemnity Committee; Great Britain and Ireland. Cabinet Office.
1 file in envelope; paper. |
Dec. 1918 |
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10
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File headed by J.M. Keynes 'Indemnity - miscellaneous'. This file comprises early notes on the indemnity and reparation issues, estimates of the German Imperial budget, 1912-19 and German foreign trade, 1913; as well as a typescript note 'Procedure as to indemnities at the Inter-Ally conference', undated.
1 file in envelope; paper. |
Nov. 1918-Dec. 1918 |
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11
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File headed by J.M. Keynes 'Inter-Ally finance - post bellum adjustment'. This file comprises a note by J.M. Keynes to Sir John Bradbury on the indemnity proposals, with a tabulation of the cost of war to the USA, UK and Russia, December 1918 and a revision of the cost to the UK, February 1919.
1 file in envelope; paper. |
Dec. 1918-Feb. 1919 |
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12
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'Memorandum on the economic considerations affecting the terms of peace'. Published by HMSO, 1918. This file Includes, as annexe 8, a piece by J.M. Keynes and W.J. Ashley on the effect of an indemnity, 2 January 1916.
Creator: Great Britain and Ireland. Board of Trade.
1 file in envelope; paper. |
1916–1918 |
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13
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'Preliminary suggestions regarding indemnities'. A booklet by Paul D. Cravath, submitted originally to the American delegation in Paris, December 1918.
Creator: Cravath, Paul D.
1 booklet in envelope; paper. |
1920 |
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14
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File headed by J.M. Keynes 'Miscellaneous statistics'. This file includes post war tables of Italian indebtedness to government departments; dollar treasury bills maturing in 1919; interest payments on loans in the USA, February 1918-February 1919; Portuguese indebtedness to the UK, January 1919; iron and steel prices, December 1918 and American resources (receipts and expenditure), December 1918- February 1919.
1 file in envelope; paper. |
Feb. 1918-Feb. 1919 |
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15
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File headed by J.M. Keynes 'Eastern Com[mitt]ee - peace policy'. This file comprises minutes and presented papers of the committee.
Creator: Great Britain and Ireland. Cabinet Office. Eastern Committee.
1 file in envelope; paper. |
Nov. 1918-January 1919 |
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