Minutes of meetings, December 1936-June 1938, of various committees of the British Section of the New Commonwealth. These include a committee established to consider the organisation of an International Police Force, and the Military Research Committee.
The records of the New Commonwealth Society established by Lord Davies in 1932. These include a large corpus of minutes of meetings of its many committees and sub-committees, reports and memoranda, correspondence files, accounts and financial documentation, material on the World Shilling Fund, conference and meeting documentation, material on various study schools, papers concerning the Military Round Table organised after World War Two and the David Davies Memorial Institute in the 1950's.
Correspondence, 1929-34, with F. E. Hamer of Llanidloes relating mainly to the development and activities of the New Commonwealth Society. There is also a typescript memorandum, 31 October 1933, to its Executive Committee, bearing notes and comments in the hand of F. E. Hamer.
Memoranda prepared by Ivor Griffiths, December 1932-November 1933, submitted to the Executive Committee of the New Commonwealth on publicity, together with related papers and correspondence.
The memoranda include 'Notes on Organisation of Research', 'Research on the Composition and Activity of an International Air Fleet against a Peace Breaking Power', and 'Notes on Lord Davies' Interview with General Spears, Colonel Raynsford and Captain Liddell Hart, May 1933'. The main theme of the documents is the creation of an International Police Force or an International Air Fleet.
Correspondence and papers, January 1933-January 1936, relating to the Italo-Abyssinian dispute, including drafts of a petition to the government, covering letters and various proposals.
Miscellaneous papers, May-December 1934, including agenda of meetings, circular letters, and reports, mainly to the British Executive Committee or the International Executive Committee.
New Commonwealth British Section executive committee.
Memoranda, June 1934-March 1935, on interviews between Lord Davies and various individuals including Stanley Baldwin, Arthur Chamberlain, Sir Edward Grigg, Reginald McKenna, Sir Josiah Stamp and J. H. Thomas. The interviews related to the role of the New Commonwealth and foreign affairs more generally.
'Memorandum on Equity Tribunal circulated by the Welsh Council of the League of Nations Union for the consideration of union branches in Great Britain', together with related papers and correspondence, February-March 1935.