'Economic, trade and finance', 1941-1955

folder

Held at the Weston Library

Contains:

(fols. 1-3) 'Colonial Economic Policy during the War': Labour Party International Department Memorandum No. 234A, Jul 1941
(fols. 4-7) 'Mining in the British African Colonies': memorandum by W. Arthur Lewis, 31 Oct 1942
(fols. 8-10) 'Mining in the Colonies - Supplementary information': FCB memorandum, Apr 1943
(fol. 11) news release by Council on African Affairs, New York, on the adoption of the Bretton Woods Agreements, 8 Mar 1945
(fols. 12-20) 'Some notes on bulk purchases of Colonial commodities': Colonial Office Information Department, Memo. No. 3, May 1946
(fols. 21-23) memorandum on Colonial Mining Policy - Secretary of State's Reply: FCB(47)4, 27 Mar 1947
(fols. 24-26) 'Notes on the expansion of Colonial production': Colonial Office Information Department, Memo. No. 17, Jun 1947
(item 1) 'Economic Unity within the British Commonwealth': address given by E.M. Hanlon, Premier of Queensland to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association in London (pamphlet, pp. 16), 30 Nov 1949
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(items 2-4) Central Office of Information memoranda, 1952-1953:

no. R.2479, Notes on Commonwealth Finance, Trade and Resources - Extracts from Commonwealth Survey (pp. 31), 10 Oct 1952
no. R.2614, Commonwealth Economic Aims (pp. 10 and iv), 20 May 1953
no. R.2726, Commonwealth Finance, Trade and Payments (pp. 22 and v), 14 Dec 1953.

Also contains:

(fols. 27-28) Commonwealth Economic Conference: release by the Commonwealth Relations Office, listing Ministers attending the Conference, 26 Nov 1952
(fols. 29-30) Conference of Commonwealth Auditors General: press notice by the Commonwealth Relations Office, 10 Sep 1954
(fols. 31-36) 'Development planning in the Colonies with special reference to physical development and the Economic Survey', by Sir William McLean: Colonial Office Memo. No. 21, Apr 1955.