| Description | Exchange policy; a plan to squeeze the bears in the foreign exchange market; prospects for 1939; some intervention figures for August/September 1938; January 1939 ban on advances against, and forward dealing in, gold, coupled with substantial gold transfer from Issue to Exchange Equalisation Account (EEA); Related Governor/Governor cables, and correspondence between Basil Gage Catterns and the Europeans, United States (US) and Canada. Other contributors: Henry Clay, Harry Siepmann and Cameron Cobbold. |