| Description | Appear to be the papers of DGM Bernard, relating to wartime British interests in USA and sales of securities. Includes papers regarding the Bank of Montreal acting as depositary for the Bank in respect of vested securities; holdings of insurance companies in subsidiary and associated companies in America; direct investments in the USA; American securities; insurance companies' interests in the USA; branches of British companies operating in the USA with liquidating values; Canadian securities; the American Viscose Corporation; Canadian 3 1/2% loan 1930/50; and the history of dollar security vesting, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation loan and the dollar portfolio. Also includes copy correspondence between Lord Catto and DGM Bernard; communications between Sir ER Peacock and the Bank; copy agreement between the UK Government and Reconstruction Finance Corporation for a $425 million, 21st July 1941, and related announcement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer; note of a meeting at the Treasury regarding Mr Morgenthau's proposal on securities, 11th January 1940; a note on acquisition of securities for support of American Exchange in the First World War by Mr Osborne, 9th October 1939; tables of currencies sold to HM Treasury O/A proceeds of securities sold abroad, 1939-1940; tables of sales of vested American securities by Mr Gifford; and specimen forms for vesting of securities. |