Australia, 1939-1940

Component identifier:

File 6

Content Summary:

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: Colonial stock acts; gold transactions; loans; wartime controls and regulations; 'Blind loyalty to England whether her methods are applicable here or not' (Rusden, 7 November 1939); Australia's economic position at outbreak of war; gold production; economic impact of the war on Australia; Japanese wool payments; restriction of imports.

Correspondents include: AH Lewis (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); Sir Henry J Sheehan (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); LU Rusden (Sydney); Treasury; RW Dalton (Sydney).

Includes:

Record of a meeting held at the Foreign Office on 29 December 1939 to discuss the export of wool from Australia to Japan. (attended by personnel from Foreign Office, Treasury, Board of Trade, Ministry of Economic Warfare, Dominions Office, Bank of England, Ministry of Supply).

(203p.)

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M2948

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