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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelFile
Reference Number GAITSKELL/C/172
TitleTribunal of inquiry into the leaks about the raising of the Bank Rate and the Commons Debate
Date1957-1958
DescriptionCorrespondence and papers:

'Proceedings of the Tribunal' (HSMO) December 1957
'Report of the Tribunal' (HMSO) January 1958
Copy letter and memorandum from Harold Wilson to the Lord Chancellor October 1957
Statement by Gaitskell as Leader of the Opposition (draft and 3 copies - 2 annotated) October 1957
Copy letter from Gaitskell to Harold Macmillan's Private Secretary October 1957
Correspondence with Francis Williams ('Forward') and Gaitskell to Harold Wilson November 1957
Memorandum by Harold Wilson November 1957
Statement by the Prime Minister November 1957
Copy statement by Cameron Cobbold to the Bank of England, letter to Gaitskell and reply by James Griffiths on Gaitskell's behalf December 1957
Correspondence with Sir Alfred Roberts (National Association of Card, Blowing and Ring Room Operatives) January 1958
Correspondence with Ernest Davies January 1958
Letter from Peter Gladwin, Australian Consolidated Press January 1958
Main points of a meeting of the Finance and Economic Policy Sub-Committee 16th January 1958
Notes on the Report of the Tribunal (annotated) January 1958
Extracts from the Proceedings of the Tribunal 9annotated [January 1958]
'Daily Telegraph' cuttings January 1958
Annotated notes (by Gaitskell?) on 'Lord Cunliffe' , 'Norman and Churchill', 'Part Time Directors', 'Treasury and Bank of England' and 'Tribunal' [?1958]
List of Parliamentary references to the Bank of England since nationalisation, and covering letter from the House of Commons Library January 1958
'Hansard' House of Commons 14th Novemner 1957 amd 3rd February 1958
Copy of speeches by C.F. Cobbold, Governor of the Bank of England. at the Institute of Bankers' Dinner in Ipswich (11th October 1957), and the Guildhall (17th February 1958), and a statement before the Parker Tribunal (16th December 1957)
Letter from Gaitskell to 'The Times
MS and typed drafts (12 ff) final copies and press cutting and correspondence with Shri Avtar, Singh Rikhy (Lok Sabha Secretariat, New Dehli) asking permission to reproduce the 'Times' letter (February and April 1958)
Gaitskell MS notes on the Tribunal Debate (14 ff) [1958]
Extent1 folder
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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