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Copies of Lloyd George Papers at the Parliamentary Archive,

Copies of memoranda, 1930-1936, most of them the work of Gareth Jones, taken from the Lloyd George Papers at the Parliamentary Archive at the House of Lords. They cover such subjects as India, the League of Nations, unemployment world-wide, the London Naval Conference, and the Foreign Press and the Three Power Agreement.

Peace Initiatives,

Notes and drafts of writings and articles by the Revd Gwilym Davies during the 1930s on the role of the League of Nations, international relations and peace initiatives.

Political and Parliamentary Papers,

Comprises mainly typescript memoranda on an array of political subjects including the 1923 Housing Bill; the capital levy; the new Liberal policy initiatives of the mid-1920's, including the new industrial and land policies; Germany and the League of Nations; the first Labour Government; the 1924 Russian Treaty; the organisation of the Liberal Party; the Liberal and Radical Candidates' Association, 1926; the funding of the Liberal Party; the 1937 Cost of Living Campaign; and the possible formation of 'a New Party', 1942.

Liberal and Radical Candidates' Association.

Speeches, lectures and broadcasts,

Large file of speeches, lectures and scripts of broadcasts given by William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore in his capacity as Under-secretary of State for the Colonies, mainly concerning the economic and agricultural development of British colonies, especially in Africa and southern Asia; other topics related to colonial government include education, transport, human and veterinary tropical medicine, the administrative system, recruitment to the colonial service, government policies and diplomatic relations, 1925-1933. The file includes an address on the general economic geography of the British empire [1925], the typescript of a speech made to the League of Nations Conference in 1929 on the subject of forced labour in colonial Africa, and a reprint of Ormsby-Gore 's published report on the fourteenth assembly of the League of Nations, 1934.

The Times: Letters,

Comprises the text of letters on international affairs and the League of Nations published in The Times between 3 and 21 May 1937 by L. P. Jacks and Sir John Marriott.

Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall), 1860-1955.