Overseas Finance Division. Registered Files, January 1940-September 1956

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Series T 236

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182 items

Content Summary:

Files of the Overseas Finance Division of the Treasury which was set up in 1914 under JohnMaynard Keynes. Initially concerned with mobilising overseas investment and borrowing, it later dealt with reparations and the balance of payments.

Selected items copied by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJcP) relate to: United Kingdom's economic policy towards Australia; economic relations between the United Kingdom, its dominions, Australia and New Zealand; the termination of lend lease and reciprocal aid; Sterling Area Statistical Committee; the Commonwealth Prime Minister's Conference of 1948; the 1949 Conference of Commonwealth Finance Ministers; economic condition of Australia; papers pertaining to the Committee on Commonwealth Economic Affairs (1950-1951); Menzies' visit to the United Kingdom; Commonwealth Economic Conference (1952); Colombo Plan; meeting of Commonwealth Finance Ministers in Australia (1954); General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; statistics and balance of payments for 1953-1956.

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