| Description | Includes papers regarding specified currencies; taxation versus exchange control as a means of restraining overseas investment; contingency exchange control measures; Government acquisition of investment currency through the 25% surrender by UK residents of proceeds of sale of foreign currency securities at the official rate, and the practicalities of implementing this, including instructions for the registration of securities, restriction of dealings, and vesting of securities; and Operation Bootstrap. Includes correspondence between the Governor, Lord Cromer; the Chancellor of the Exchequer, James Callaghan; and Sir William Armstrong of HM Treasury; and drafts of the Overseas Securities Bill. Indexed. |