| Description | Money supply and the fall in prices 1920-24. Papers on the Fiduciary Issue by Ralph George Hawtrey and on Credit Control by D H Robertson, 1928. Enquiry by the League of Nations into the working of the gold standard 1928-1932; a summary of early developments by Sir Henry Strakosch, 17 June 1929, and an extract from the report of the Gold Delegation, 6 July 1932. Macmillan Committee: personal views of members, Feb 1930. Extensive correspondence between Osborne and Per Jacobsson (initially with Swedish Match Company, later with Bank for International Settlements [BIS]) about forged securities and the Hatry Case, trade problems, savings in the United States (US), gold, etc, 1930-32. Evolution of gold standard from 1666 (note of 20 Apr 1931). Many notes on aspects of economic policy by Henry Clay, 1931-32, and Osborne himself, 1923-32.
EID4/102-103 appear to have contained papers collected by John Arundel Caulfeild Osborne, Principal of the Statistical Section until 1934. |