| Level | File |
| Ref_No | BEVERIDGE/8/14 |
| Title | Phoney War |
| Date | 1939-1952 |
| Description | Folder 1 contains papers regarding the early part of the Second World War, including:
Personal diary, 27 August-8 October 1939: this is available to download via the url below (pdf, c.3MB).
Draft letter from Beveridge to The Times regarding the war cabinet, 5 September 1939.
"Co-ordination in war", memo, nd [c. September 1939 - see BEVERIDGE/9A/74].
Memo on Price of Goods Bill, 9 October 1939.
"Some experiences of economic control in war-time", Sidney Ball Lecture, 29 February 1940 (first page only)
Letter from Beveridge to The Times, pleading for a radical reconstruction of the government, 9 May 1940 (and draft).
"The Phony War", manuscript by Beveridge, including list of letters 1939-40.
Drafts of Oxford Revisited [chapter 12 in Power and Influence].
Letter from Walter [Layton] regarding manpower in the Second World War, 18 June 1952.
Letter from Roy Harrod on a memo on fuel rationing by J M Keynes, and on Francis Hemming, 18 June 1952.
Folder 2 contains correspondence regarding a proposed visit to America (which was cancelled), 1940. Correspondents include:
Donald K Angell
H J Cody
Arthur H Cole
J B Condliffe
Stephen Duggan
Edward Mead Earle
William J Entwistle
Thomas S Gates
Herbert F Goodrich
Frank Cyril James
F P Keppel
Tracy B Kittredge
Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan
Wesley Clair Mitchell
Russell Potter
John Charles Walsham Reith, Baron Reith
John D Rockefeller
James Thomson Shotwell
John B Thayer, University of Pennsylvania Bicentenial Celebration
O G Villard
Joseph H Willits, Rockefeller Foundation
Includes correspondence regarding proposed talk as part of the University of Pennsylvania Bicentennial Celebration. |
| Access Status | Open |
| Extent | 2 folders |
| URL | http://lib-161.lse.ac.uk/archives/beveridge/8_14_1.pdf |
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| PA280 | Layton; Walter Thomas (1884-1966); 1st Baron Layton; Economist and Newspaper Proprietor | 1884-1966 |
| PA4816 | Duggan; Stephen P (1870-); Director of Institute of International Education | 1870- |
| PA6687 | Institute of International Education | |
| PA6023 | Kittredge; Tracy B (fl 1933-1940); Assistant Director, Rockefeller Foundation | fl 1933-1940 |
| PA5547 | Rockefeller Foundation; 1913-; Philanthropic charity | 1913- |
| PA4922 | Willits; Joseph Henry (1889-1979); economist and Directorof the Division of Social Sciences of the Rockefeller Foundation | 1889-1979 |
| PA44307 | Angell; Donald K (fl 1940); Assistant to the Director, University of Pennsylvania Bicentennial Celebration | fl 1940 |
| CA3156 | Pennsylvania University | |
| PA8095 | Thayer; John B (fl 1939-1941); Academic University of Pennsylvania | fl 1939-1941 |
| PA44308 | Earle; Edward Mead (1894-1954); specialist in the role of the military in foreign relations | 1894-1954 |
| PA44309 | Entwistle; William James (-1952); Professor of Spanish Studies | -1952 |
| PA4933 | Cole; Arthur Harrison (1889-1974); economic historian | 1889-1974 |
| PA35711 | Mitchell; Wesley Clair (1874-1948); economist | 1874-1948 |
| PA44314 | Condliffe; John Bell (1891-1981); economist | 1891-1981 |
| PA4986 | Rockefeller; John Davison (1874-1960); Businessman and philanthropist | 1874-1960 |
| PA7958 | James; Frank Cyril (1903-1973); Principal McGill University | 1903-1973 |
| PA44316 | Cody; Henry John (1868-1951); President, University of Toronto | 1868-1951 |
| PA44319 | Goodrich; Herbert Funk (1889-1962); judge and dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School | 1889-1962 |
| PA44320 | Potter; Russell (fl 1940); Director, Institute of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | fl 1940 |
| PA28110 | Villard; Oswald Garrison (1872-1949); journalist | 1872-1949 |
| PA6013 | Reith; John Charles Walsham (1889-1971); 1st Baron Reith; Director General of the BBC | 1889-1971 |
| PA38684 | Macmillan; Hugh Pattison (1873-1952); Baron Macmillan; judge | 1873-1952 |
| PA4832 | Keppel; Frederick Paul (1875-1943); President Carnegie Trust | 1875-1943 |
| PA4991 | Shotwell; James Thomson (1874-1965); Professor of History | 1874-1965 |
| PA44321 | Gates; Thomas Sovereign (1873-1948); President, University of Pennsylvania and investment banker | 1873-1948 |
| PA2826 | Harrod; Sir; Henry Roy Forbes (1900-1978); Knight; economist | 1900-1978 |
| PA270 | Keynes; John Maynard (1883-1946); Baron Keynes; economist | 1883-1946 |
| PA5576 | Hemming; (Arthur) Francis (1893-1964); civil servant | 1893-1964 |
| PA58398 | Beveridge; digitised material | |