| Description | Contains papers relating to the Mini Brandon scheme: the exclusion from the scheduled territories of all overseas sterling area (OSA) countries, except the Irish Republic; the Hecuba scheme: contingency planning for a floating exchange rate; the Brandon scheme: plans to extend exchange control to transactions between UK residents and sterling area countries; the Proteus scheme: contingency planning for a US gold embargo; the Priam scheme: contingency planning for a sudden event which provokes widespread expectation of an imminent re-alignment of exchange rate parities, and consequent pressure on sterling (such as the overvaluation of the French franc, and the undervaluation of the deutschmark). Includes minutes of HM Treasury Group on Contingency Planning, and papers regarding capital outflow to the sterling area, taxation instead of exchange control against the OSA, private non-bank holdings of sterling in the Bahamas and Bermuda, and disclosure of customers' business to HM Treasury.
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