| Description | The file covers: HM Government proposed to French government that £5m of £10m advance be a free gift; Bank asked to prepare prospectus and general bond; gift altered to £4m and loan of £8m eventually agreed by Czechs, 26 January 1939; agreement signed 27 January 1939, subject to British and French parliamentary approval, but French minister of finance refused to introduce legislation before march 1939, and in the event never did. |