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(includine definitions of the g:me): special arran<;ements for ,ert
leadig industries and commodities; and relations ,-ith the U. S. A. ,
Canadian and Sterling Area Controls.
Prt 111 deals ,-1th fina-cial relations uith the U.S.A.,
Canada and certain other (e.g. Special Account) countries; it
includes chapters on the Bretton 'ioods di, cussions, on the B.1.S.
and on repatriations and conversions in the Dominions,
Also,
since Exchange Control was primarily instituted in order to
protect them, on variations in the central reserves - their
expansion and contraction as the external Balance of Pa'ments (of
the U,K, alone and of the Sterling Area as a unit) improved or
(more often) deterioriated.
Part JV may be said to be concerned uith all other
aspects of the Bank's particular functions an the country's
Central Bank: its relationships ''lith various organisations with
which its buniness is intimately connected - o-her banks,
Accepting and Discount Houses, Insurance Co:npanies, the Uational
Debt Commissioners (of pramount importance as a medium for "",ll"
savings and important also as an instrument of Vrkot control),
other Government Departments, the Capital Ismcs Coml1ittco and the
Stock Exchange, The administration of stoff and premises, a wide
subject, also comes Nithin its scope.
The History is set out as a series of ch"iptcrs in which'
treatment of their subject mater is designed to tell the :lJin
story - sectionally rather than chronologically, though chapters
endeavour to record develoments in their correct sequence. he
many de'ailed explanations of arranc:lents r.ade to meet various
contingencies are in practice relegated to a series of apendices,
some very long, to V/hich ap!ropriate reference is made '.n the
chapters of the main History. This should enble rcdin to be
transferred from the one to the other as and 'he: necessar, or
desirable.
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The balance bet'een the main story and the appendices
naturally depends upon the character of the subject mtter. The
chapter on "Gold" in the main History contains less than 8,000
Nords I'1hile the appencices run to about 35,000. Under "Finnlcial
Relations Wth the U. S. A . '` the proportions are reversed: the
main chapter contains some 20,000 words and the apendices on
Lend-Lease administration, Mutual Aid, etc. about 10,000.
Appendices are of t\\fO kinds: some consist mainly of J nte"p"etati"
of the Regulations to were refugees, internees, etc., and what
treatment did they receive?); others are more in the nature of
supplementary chapters. All Establishments :natters (in Part IV)

are collected in appendices.

At the openings of both main chapters and appendices,
references to file numbers are given from which the progress of
this or that argument, or the Bank's viei1s on the issues raised
can, if necessary, be follovred in detail.
Thus, for the account on "Gold", the reader 'dill have tq
consult Chapter V and Appendix ,
the U.S.A. '` are covered by C:tapter
"Financial Relations with
and Appendix
Appendices on the Est3blishment Departnent (Nos. record all
that it $eems necessary to say on purely domestic (Bank) History.
Reference to individuals (limited as a rule to Directors,
Advisers, or important persons outside the Bank) a change in
\'lhose style or title occurred durine the ;,ar is made consistent
referrin to them by their present rank, .'lith a footnote to t!eir
first mention givine the date of creation of new rank or
appointment.
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TAbL OF CONTENTS
Personalities
Chronological Table
Preface
PART I: INTERUAL FINANCE
1 -
JC -
23 -
9
22
25
Introductory
26
Chapter I
Early Measures
Currency Advances
Postal Orders, Scottish Irish Bank Notes
Press Censorship
Money Market
Standstill Bills
Special Advances to Acceptors
Discount Market
Appendix J (A)
W
I (B)
"
I (C)
W
I (D)
Chapter II
Internal Borrowings to 1940
35 Nar Loan
Conversions
Defence Loans & ifational Loans Acts
Chapter III
Bank Rate and Market Hates
Chapter
Floating Debt, etc; Treasury B1JJS
T.D.H's; T6 Reserve Certificates
Chapter V
Tap Loans
27 - 30
30 - 33
33 - 34
34
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58 - 67
68
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72 - 94
94 - 98
98 - 102
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129 - 152
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278 - 289
290 - 320
321 - 339
340
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348 - 353
354 - 359
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Chapter IV
Reserves and Balance of Payments
Chapter V
Gold
Appendix - Gold
A. Purchases
B. Distribution
C. Sales in Middle
E
ast & India
D. Sovereigns
E. Industry
Chapter VI
Silver
Chapter VII
Exchange Control in Practice
Control Offices -
Dealing & Accounts
Regulations General
Export Permits
Acceptance Credits
Trade Control & Investigations
Securities Control
Statistics
Overseas &.Foreign
Filing Section
Branch Controls
Glasgow
Appendix V - Review of first three years of
Glasgow Office
Appendix VI - Authorised Dealers
Vol.II
Pages
398 - 409
410 - 436
437 - 466
467 - 477
478 - 498
499 - 502
503 - 508
509 - 536
Vol.III
Pages
537 - 548
549 - 564
565 - 577
578 - 584
585
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590 -
595
596 - 606
607 - 609
610 - 611
612 - 627
628 - 629
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Chapter VIII
Relations with other Controls:
U.S.Freezing Orders
Canada
Local Controls (Sterling Area)
Appendix VII - Securities and Other Assets
Appendix VIII - Status of Individuals, etc.
Residence
Internees
Refugees
Evacuees
Profits, Interest and Dividends
M)ssionaries and Missionary Societies
Relations \ith the T .\I.E.Department
Appendix J - Special arrangements for certain
industries and commodities
Advertising
Shipping
Insurance
Films
Oil
Cotton
Rubber
Tobacco
Tin
Tea
Paper and ivood Pulp
Chapter IX
Committees
Chapter X
Exchange Control after the \ar
Vol.III
660 - 679
680 - 701
702 - 713
714 - 730
731 - 745
746 -
747
748 - 766
767 - 787
788 - 801
802 - 805
806 - 808
Vel. IV
Pages
809 - 814
815 - 826
827 -
864
865 -
897
898 - 916
917 - 927
928 - 934
935 -
944
945 - 950
951 -
955
956 - 965
966 - 987
988 - 1023
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PART 1ll' RELATIONS WITH CERT,.HI OVEHSlAS COUNTRIES
Introductory
Chapter I
Financial Relations with the U.S.A.
Appendix I - Lend-Lease Administration
Chapter II
Approach to U.S ,A. on Post-War Trade and
Financial Policy
Chapter III
Eretton Woods
Chapter IV
Financial Relations with Canada
Appendix II -
A. Canadian Mutual Aid
b. Interrupted Communications
C. Hyde Park Agreement
D. Empire Air Training Scheme
Chapter V
India's Sterling Balances, etc.
Chapter VI
South Africa
Chapter VII
Australia: Conversions, Sterling Balances
Chapter VIII
Ne\V Zealand: Conversions
Chapter J
Ba for International Settlements
Chapter
Miscellaneous - Reparations
Anglo-Belgian onetary
Agreement
Siam
CzechO-Slovak Financial
Claims Fund
1024
1025 - 1074
1075 - 1109
1110 - 1142
1143 - 1174
1175 - 1200
1201 - 1206
1207 - 1218
1219 - 1222
1223 - 1227
1228 - 1242
1243 - 1267
1268 - 1275
1276 - 1291
1292 - 1301
1302 1306
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PART IV
Chapter I
Banking Department Securities
Chapter II
riscellaneou5 Relations with Goverent
Departments
(1) \i th t.M. Treasury
(
a) British Purchasing Commission
(
b
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Financial H$sistance to Local
Authorities
(
c
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Finance of land purchase
(
d) Charges for \'lork for H .M.Goverrent
(
e) Staff
(2) \ar Risks Insurance Office
(3) National Debt Office
Chapter III
Relations with other Banks
Chapter
Criticism of the Bank and Bakers
Chapter V
U.K. Post-Var Export Trade
Chapter VI
Accountant's Department
Appendix I - ccountant!s Department
A. \'Jar-time Regulations, ete.
B. Redemption and Conversion Operations
Cha
Pter VII
Stock Exchage
Capital Issues Control
Vo1.VI
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1358 - 1360
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GOVERNORS AND DERTY GOVERNORS OF TH BAN
during the war period - 3rd September
1939 to
TH RT.HON.MONTAG COLLET NORMA,
D .S.O.,
LORD CATTO OF CAIRNCATTO, tI
BASI L GAGE CATTRNS, ES0.
CAMERON FROMANTEEL COBBOLD. ESQ.
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Governor from ++ 1920
to 17th April 1944
Created Baron Norman of St.Clere,
27th July 1944.
Deceased 4th February 1950.
Governor from 18th April 1944
to 28th February 1949
Sworn a Privy Councillor
25th July 1947
Deputy Governor from 31st March
1936 to 31st August 1945
De9uty Governor from 1st
1945 to 28th February
Governor from 1st March 1949.
DALLAS GERALD MERCER BERNARD, ESQ. Deputy Governor from 1st March
1949.
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PATRICK ASHEY COOPER. ES.
EWARD HOLLAND-MARTIN. ESQ.
' '
JAMES RGE WEIR, It SQ.,
C.M.G . C.B.E.
DALLAS GERALD MRCER
BRNARD, ESQ.
JOH COLOBROOK HANBURY
WILLIAMS, ESQ.
JOH MARTIN. ESQ.
SIR OTTO ERNST NIEMYER.
G.B.E., K.C.B.
CAMERON FROMANTEEL C0880LO,
ES.
LAURENCE JOH CADBURY. ES'.
(Re-elected 3rd April 1940)
LORD CATTO OF CAIRNCATTO .1
(Elected 3rd April 1940)
ISAAC JAMES PITMAN, ESQ.
(Elected 2nd April 1941)
JOH MAYNARD KYNES, ES1
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C.B.
(Elected 8th October 1941)
HON.JOSIAH WEDGWOOD
(Elected 15th April 1942)
BASIL SANDERSON. S.,'
(Elected 7th April 1943)
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HARY ARTHUR SIEN. ES'.
(Elected 11th April 1945)
RALPH ELLIS BROOK. ES.,
O.B.E.
(Appointed 1st March 1946)
GEORE GIBSON. ESQ., C.R.
(Appointed 1st March 1946)
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LORD PIERCY C.B.E.
(ApPo1nte: 1st March 1946)
Knighted New Year's Honours List
1944.
Retired 29th ;auary 1 94
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He red 28th February 194
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Deputy Governor from 1st March 1949.
Knighted New Year's Honours List
1950.
Retired Z8th Febr

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Deouty Governor from 1st September
1945 to 28th February 1949.
Governor from 1st March 1949.
Resigned 30th June 1940 on his
apPOintment as Financial Adviser
in R.M.Treasury.
Governor from 18th April 1944 to
28th February 1949.
Sworn a Priv: Councillor
25th July 1947.
Resigned 2nd August 1945 on his
election as Member of Parliament
for Bth.
Created Baron Keynes of Tilton
11th June 1942.
Deceased 21st April 1946.
Retired 28th February 1946.
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1
Resigned November 1949 on
his appOintment as Deouty
Chairman of the Colonial
Develooment Corporation.
Resigned 15th December 1948.
- 2 -
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A GEORGE IANSBROUGH, ESQ.
(Appointed lt Je 1946)

LORD DUSTON C. B.E.

(Appointed \st March 1947)
HON.HUGH JNYON
MOLESWORTH KINDERSLEY.
C. B.E .
,
M.C.
(Appointed 1st March 1947)
LORD BRAINTREE
(Appointed 1st March 1948)
GEORGE LEWIS FRENCH BOLTON.
ES(
(Appointed 1st March 1948)
MICHAEL JAS BABINGTON
SITH, ESQ C.B .E.
(Appointed 1st March 1949)
SI GEORGE CHESTER, C . B.E.
(Appointed 1st March 1949)
SIR KNNETH OSWALD PEPPI
K.B.E M.C
(Appointed 1st March 1949)
HUHREY CHARLS BASKERVILL
MYNORS. EEC.
(Appointed 1st March 1949)
Af.TDRE NAESITH. ESQ . , C .B .E.
,
J.F.
(Appointed 30th September
1949)
GEOFFREY CEClL C ELEY.
ESQ., C .B.E.
(Appointed 25th November
1949)
+e
28th February 1949.
Deceased 14th May 1948.
Created K. C .M.G. - New Year's
Honours List 1950
Deceased 21st Aprll 1949
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CHIEF OFFICIALS OF THE BANK
3.d September _ ~ ?
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Assistant to the Governors E.H.D.Skinner
Appointed J March
(Pensioned 1 August
Chief Cashier
Chief Accountant
Secretary
Chief of Establishments
Sir G.E.B.Abell, Appointed
K.C.r.E" O."S.
Sir K.O . Peppiatt , Appointed J6 April
K.B.E., M.C.
P.S.Beale Appointed
A.M.llalker Appointed J January
{Pensioned 1JFbrry
E.M.Stapley
(Jointly
JJ May
F.e.Hawker
H.C.B.Mynors
W.H.Nevill
A ..C. Da scombe
J .D,Mackenzie
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with A '!'1.Walker from
J,, to 11 February
Appointed J June J,}6
Appointed lJ
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(Pensioned 1
E.N.Dalton
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(Jointly with J.D.Mackenzie from
August J,} to J October J,}}
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J,,
Bank of England Archive (M5/533)
OFFICIALS OF H.M. TRASURY
Sir Richard V.N.Hopkins
Sir Edward E.Bridges
Sir Frederick Phillips
Sir Wilfrid G.Eedy
Sir (Sigismund) David Waley
Sir Herbert Brittain
2nd Secretary 1932-1942
Permanent Secretary 1942-1945
Permanent Secretary 1945 - _
Joint 2nd Secretary ( in 1940-42
mainly in U. S. A. )
Died 16th August 1943
Joint 2nd Secretary 1942
Principal Assistant Secretary
do,

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PHll I.NISTERS
The Ht . Hon. Neville Chamberlain, resiged lOth r8y 1940.
The Rt.Hon . Winston ( Leonard Spencer ) Churchill,
{t
{

lement Richard Attlee, 27th July 1945 -

CHANCELLORS OF TH EXCHEQUR
13th l1ay 1940 -
27th July 1945.
Sir John A. Simon ( Viscount: 1940) until lOth May 1940 .
Sir Kingsley Wood, 13th May 1940; died 22nd September 1943.
Sir John Anderson, 25th September 1943
_r. Hugh Dalton (2?th July 1945
--
) .
1?th July 1945.
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TITLES
U
The following changes ot title of persons mentioned
in tbis record occurred during or shortly after the war:-
The Rt.Hon. H. C .Norman
Sir Robert Kindersley
K. O.Peppiatt Esq.
Henry Clay Esq.
J.M.Keynes Esq. , C . B .
Herbert Erittain Esq.
Prof.H.D.Henderson
E. R.Street, Esq. , C. B. E.
c. J. Gregg Esq., C . B .
George Ismay Esq., C . B .
Charles Lidbury Esq.
The Hon. S. tLBruce
Bank of England
do.
do.
do .
R.M. Treasury
do.
do .
Westminster Bank
High Commissioner
for Australia
Created
Baron 1944
Baron 1941
K. B. E. HI41
Knight 1946
Baron 1942
K. B .E. 1944
Knight 1942
Knight 1942
K. B.E. 1941
K. C. B. 1944
K. B. E. 1947
Knight 1941
Baron 1947
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Bank of England Archive (M5/533)
1939 (contd.)
Anglo-Turkish Pact
Italo-German Alliance signed in Berlin
U.S.denounced Trade Treaty of 1911 with Japan
Russo-German Pact
Anglo-Polish Alliance signed
My 12
tI
ZZ
July 26
August 24
1f
Z
Germany invaded Poland
September 1
Great Britain and France declared war on
Germany
south Africa entered the war
President of U.S.A. declared a state of
"limited" national emergency
Battle of Warsaw began
Canada declared war
Soviet troops entered East Poland
Poland partitioned by Russie and Germany
Empire Air Training Scheme announced
First German air raid on British Isles
(Firth of Forth)
United States Neutrblity Act passed
Russia attacked Finland
1940
Finland siged peace with RUBsia
Germany invaded Norway and Denmark
First battle of Narvik
Germany invaded Holland, Belgium and
Luxembourg
Resignation of Mr.Chamberlain; Mr.Churchill
Prime Minister
Formation of Home Guard (L.D.V.) announced
Dutch capitulation

Bismarck sunk
ff
3
ff
5
II
8
If

1t
11
If
17
ff
28
October 10
ff
16
November 4
f1
30
Mrch 12
April 9
ff
10
..
y 10
ff
10
W
14
W
15
W
Z
f1
28
fI
28
ll
Capture of Narvik
Belgian Army capitulated
Dunkirk evacuation
W
30 - June 3
Norwegians ceased hostilities June
British withdrew from Norway
ft
10
!tely
Bank of England Archive (M5/533)
1940 (contd. )
Italy declared war on Britain and France
Germans entered Paris
British offer of Anglo-French union rejected
Petein Government formed
French Armistice with Germany
French Armistice with Italy
General de Gaulle recognised by U.K. Government
as leader of Free French
Channel Islands: Guernsey occupied
Jersey occupied
Vichy Government broke off relations with
Great Britain
Italians invaded British SOm6liland
Battle of Britin began
First all-night raid on London
AnglO-American Agreement - sea and air bases
granted in exchange for 50 destroyers
Bank of England bombed
Italian invasion of Egypt
Battle of Britain climax
U. S. Conscription Act
Axis Pact: Germany, Italy and Japan
Italy attacked Greece
Allied Desert Offensive (Africa)
Mr.Ryti elected President of Finland
Fire raid on London (Guildhall and 8 Wren
churches destroyed)
1941
M. Vlnant to succeed Mr. Kennedy as
U. S.Ambassador to U.K.
Bulgaria signed pact with Axis
U. S. Lend-Lease Act
Nationel Service Bill
Pro-Axis coup d' etat in Iraq
Severance of diplomatic relations between
U.K. and Hungary
Germans invaded Greece and Yugoslavia
l<
June 11
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14
::
i
v
17
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22
::
2.
::
28
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30
July 1
u
5
August

8
v
26/27
September 3
::
8
::
13
::
15
:
16
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27
October 28
December 9
::
19
:
29/30
February 7
March 1
::
11
n
26
April 3
::
4
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Salonika
Bank of England Archive (M5/533)
1941 (contd.)
Salonika occupied by Germans
U.S. took Greenland under her protection
Belgrade occupied by Germans
Germans entered Athens
Allied withdrawal from Greece
Rudolf Hess landed in Scotland
House of Comons destroyed (last heavy raid
on London in 1941)
Germans invaded Crete
President of U.S.A. proclaimed state of
"
unlimited
"
national emergency
Iraqi revolt collapsed
British Forces completely withdrawn from
Crete
Germany invaded Russia
Finland resumed hostilities with Russia
Anglo-Soviet Mutual Assistance Pact
Syria and Lebanon under Allied control
Japanese troops landed in Indo-China
Mr.Churchill and President Roosevelt agreed
on Atlantic Charter (published August 12)
British and Russian troops entered Iran
French National Committee established
British and U.S.Delegations to Three-Power
Conference in Moscow
Battle for Moscow
Syria given independence
Imperial Forces took offensive in Libya
Sections 2, 3 and 6 of U.S.Neutrality Act
repealed*
Lebanon given independence
Pearl Harbour attacked by Japanese
U.K. declared war on Finland, Hungary and
Roumania
U.S.A. and U.K. declared war on Japan
Australia, New Zealand and S.Africa declared
war on Japan
*For financial section, see 21.2.42.
13
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10
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13
w
27
w
22 - My 1
May 10
n
10/11
n
20
n
27
"
30
June 1
n
22
"
26
July 1<
n
19
n
26
August 11
"
25
September 25
u
October 5 - Ic6lbr 6
"
28
November 18
n
18
w
26
December 7
n
7
n
8
n
9
lndo-China
Bank of England Archive (M5/533)
1941 ( contd. J
Indo-China declared
"
enemy territory
"
by U. K.
Thailand occupied by Japan
Prince of Vlales and Repulse sunk
Germany and Italy declared war on U. S. A.
Mr. Churchill in Washington
St .Pierre et Miquelon occupied by Free French
Fall of Hong Kong
Mr. Churchill in Ottawa
1942
26 Nations Pact signed in V/ashington
Ethiopia: Sovereignty of Haile Selassie
recognised
Fall of Singapore
Section 7 ( FinancialJ of U. S. Neutrality
Act abrogated
Mutual Aid Agreement ( U. S. A. -U. K. J
Battle of Jav Sea
St.Nazaire raid
U. S. Forces at Bataan surrendered
First
"
Baedecker
"
raid (ExeterJ
u. s. garrison at Corregidor surrendered
British land on Madagascar
Twenty-year Anglo-soviet Treaty signed
Extended Empire air-training agreement signed
in Ottawa by U. K . , Canada, Australia and
New Zealand
Mr. Churchill in U. S. A.
Fall of Tobruk
Germans reached El Alamein
Germans captured Sevastopol
Germanp withdrew from El Alamein
International wheat agreement
Montgomery took command of 8th Army
Mr. Churchill in Moscow
Comando raid on Dieppe
Brazil declared war on Germany and Italy
December 9
"
M
M
"
"
"
M
January
"
February
"
"
W
1
9
10
11
23
2.
25
29
31
15
8J
23
27
March 28
April 9
W
24
May
W
5
M
26
June 5
"
18
-
27
"
21
July 1
W
1
"
2
"
2
August 1
W
12
W
19
"
22
I4
Germans
Bank of England Archive (M5/533)
1942 (contd.)
Germens reached Stalingrad
Allied offensive resumed in Egypt:
El Alamein
Armistice signed in Mdagascar
Allied Forces landed in North Africa
U.S.relations with Vichy France broken off
German Troops entered unoccupied France
Axis forces driven out of Egypt
German forces entered Toulon.
in harbour scuttled
French warships
Russian forces flung back Germn counter
attacks on Stalingrad and central front
1943
Casablanca Conference (Churchill-Rooseveltj
Russians raise siege of Leningrad
8th Army entered Tripoli
German forces at Stalingrad capitulated
Genera 1 Eisenhower aPPOinted to Command
in North Africa
Soviet Government broke off relations with
Poland
First concentrated raid on Berlin
Tunis captured
Axis forces in Tunisia surrendered
Conference on Food and Agriculture at
Hot Springs opened
Treaties with China renouncing British and
U.S.extra-territorial rights ratified
Canadian Mutual Aid Act passed
Sicily invaded by Allies
Mussolini resigned
Fascist Party dissolved
AnglO-American Conference in Quebec
Resistance in Sicily ceased
French Committee of National Liberation
recognised by Allies
15
September 5
October 23
November 5
W
8
W

M
11
M
12
W
27
December 18
January 14 - 24
W
W
18
23
February 2
1
6
T
26
March 1
May 7
May 13
W
18
W
20
W
24
July 10
W
25
M
26
August 11 - 24
W
17
W
26
Italian
Bank of England Archive (M5/533)
1943 (contd.)
Italian Armistice signed
Mr.Churchill QB8 in Washingto,n
Italy declared war on Germany
Tripartite Conference in Moscow
Lebanon: French arrested President, Prime
Minister and other Ministers
Cairo Conference: General Chiang Kai-Shek,
Mr.Churchill and President Roosevelt
Teheran Conference: Mr. Churchill,
President Roosevelt and Marshal Stalin
Cairo Conference: President Roosevelt,
Mr.Churchill and President of Turkey
1944
General Eisenhower assumed duties of
C-in-C A.E.F.
Argentina broke with Axis
Anglo-French Mutual Aia pact signed
Mutual Aid Agreements signed between
Canada, U.K., Russia and Australia
Puppet government installed in Hungary
by Hitler
Germans occupied Roumania
Russians entered Roumania
De Gaulle became head of French armed forces
Greek Government resigned
Military and Political Co-operation Agreement
signed by Yugoslavia and Italy
Britain suspended foreign diplomats privileges
(except U.S. and Russian)
Turkey banned chrome exors to Germany
Marshal Badoglio formed new Italian
Government
Empire Prime Ministers met in London
Britain and U.S./Norway, Netherlands and
Belgium Agreement signed concerning
administration of liberated territories
Rome occupied by Allies
Allies invaded France (
"
D-Day
"
)
Portugal stopped wolfram exports to Germany
l1
September 3
M
11 - 1.
October 13
M
1.
- 30
November 11
M
22 - 26
"
28
December 4 6
January 16
M
26
February
March 16
M
22
"
23
"
31
April 4
"
5
W
10
M
17
"
20
"
20
May l
W
16
June 4
W
W
6
7
8
Marshal
Bank of England Archive (M5/533)
(contd.)
Marshal Badoglio resigned: new Italian
Government
First flying bomb launched against London
Termination of baD on use of Diplomatic
Bags by diplomatic missions
U.S. severed diplomatic relations with
Finland
Attempted assassination of Hitler by
German Generals
Allied landings in France from
Mediterranean
Paris liberated
Roumania declared war on Germany
Finland broke off diplomatic relations
with Germany
Brussels liberated
Bulgaria declared war on Germany
First V2 in London Area
Armistice signed between Russia, Great Britain
and the U.S. and Roumania
Russo-Finnish peace terms published
Mr.Churchill and Mr.Eden visited Moscow
U.K., Dominions, U.S.A. and U.S.S.R.
recognised de Gaulle's Administration as
provisional Government of France
Armistice Signed between Bulgaria and the
Allies
All Belgium freed
Lord Moyne, British Minister in Middle
East, assassinated in Cairo
President Roosevelt elected for 4th term
Anglo-U.S. air talks began
Canada: Mackenzie King announced
conscription for overseas service
Polish Premier in London resigned
Antwerp re-opened to traffic
Soviet-French Treaty
Mr.Churchill and Mr.Eden opened
Conference at Athens
Hungary declared war on Germany
June 9
W
13
W
19
ft
30
July 20
August 15
ff
25
f1
25
September
fI
ff
ff
W
W
2
3
7
8
13
20
J
October 9 - 19
ff
23
11
28
November 3
ff
6
ff
7
ff
11
ff
23
W
23
W
28
December 10
ff
23 - 26
1f
30
Bank of England Archive (M5/533)
Lublin Polish Provisional Government recognised
by Soviet Government
Russian and Polish troops captured Warsaw
Crimea Conference at Yalta
Peace Treaty in Greece concluded
Budapest completely occupied by Russians
Rhine crossed at Remagen by UoSoforces
Four-Power economic pact signed in Paris
Last rocket (V2) fell (at Orpington)
All Hungary liberated
Chile declared war on Japan
British and UoS.Governments recognised
Argentine Government
President Roosevelt died
Vienna liberated by Russians
Mussolini executed by Italian partisans
Unconditional surrender of German armies
in Italy: (Hostilities ceased 2nd My)
Death of Hitler in Berlin announced
Berlin surrendered to Russians
German First and Nineteenth Armies
surrendered to American forces
German forces in Holland, NoWoGermany,
Denmark, etco, surrendered
Unconditional surrender of all German
fighting forces
Victory Holiday
World Security Charter signed at
San Francisco
First atomic bomb dropped on Japan
(Hiroshima)
Russia declared war on Japan
Japanese surrender
1^
January 5
W
17
February 6
M
12
W
13
Mroh 7
M
20
M
27
April 4
M
5
W

W
12
W
13
W
28
M
2.
My 1
M
2
W
4
W
5
W
7
W
8
June 26
August 6
W
8
W
14
Bank of England Archive (M5/533)
lU
II Internal Administration and Financial
1936
Devaluation of French franc
1937
"Cash and Carry" Bill passed by U. S. Senate
Chancellor informed the House that the
E. E.Fund was to be increased by 200 million
1938
Mr.Eden resigned office of Foreign secretary
1939
Conscription introduced into U. K.
stock Exchenge closed
Bank Holiday (affecting Banks only)
Stock Excbange: all dealings for casb:
minimum prices for certain securities
Cbancellor' s letter to Bankers asking them te
restrict certain classes ef Advances
3% Defence Bends, Pest Office issue, placed
"on tap"
1940
Exchequer provided 1 million a week to control
food prices
3% War Loan 1955/9 Prospectus issued
5 exports to certain territories to be
invoiced in hard currencies
3% War Loan issued
All exports to certain territories to be
-
veiced in bard currencies
Angle-Netherlands Financial Agreement
2
t% National War Bonds 1945/7 : first
Tap Issue
First Treasury Deposit Receipt Borrowings
s d
Income tax 8/6 in the
"War Weapons" weeks began
September 26
Mrch 3
June 25
February 20
April 26
September 1 - 6
W
4
W
7
M
26
November 22
January 31
Mrch 5
W
7
W
12
June 7
W
14
W
24
July 6
W
23
September 18
Anglo-Turkish
Bank of England Archive (M5/533)
l(contd. }
Anglo-Turkish Financial Agreement
10 million credit to China announced
War Damage Bill introduced
2t% National War Bonds 1946/8 placed
"on tap"
3% Savings Bonds 1955/65 placed "on tap"
1941
Anglo-French Financial Agreements signed
Free French territories included in
Sterling Are8
British loan to Sp8in: 2t million
U. S. froza German and Italian assets in
U.S. A.
U.K. credit to Russia of 10 million 8t
3% for 5 years
"Vrships" weeks began
1942
Government took over Railways and L.P.T.B.
Billion dollar gift by Canada
British and U.S.Loans (50 million and
125 million respectively) to China
New Anglo-soviet Arms Agreement signed
in Moscow. Further British credit
of 25 million
B. O. T. fixed prices for all textiles
and utility boots
Beveridge Report on Social Security issued

"Wings for Victory" weeks began

"Salute the Soldier" weeks began
Mr.Montagu Norman retired from Governorship
of Bank of England: to take effect from
18th April: succeeded by Lord Catto
All travel abroad from Britain banned
Government White Paper on Employment
Policy 8fter war
December 2
W
11
W
11
March 19
April 2
11
7
June 14
10
11
27
27
August 16
October 18
January 1
11
26
February 2
June 27
July 25
December 2
March 6
March 25
April 6
1
24
May 26
? O
Eire
Bank of England Archive (M5/533)
1944 (contd.)
Eire General Election: De Valera obtained
majori ty of 14
Bretton Woods discussions began
( ended 22nd July)
Bank of England's 250th Anniversary
3% Savings Bonds 1965/75 issued
H.M.G. ' s Social Security Plen published
U. K. Monetary Agreement with Belgiu
Sir E. Grigg appointed Minister Resident
in Middle East
Iron and Steel freed from Lend-Lease
export ban
1945
Anglo-French Financial Agreement signed
in Paris
s d
Price of gold raised to 172/3 (for S. A.
mines retrospective to January 1)
U. S. Reglstered Accounts become
"American Accounts"
U.K.Election: Lbour win
Authorised Banks - Extension of Exchange
Control powers
B. I.D.Company to be wound up: Gazette
Notice
3
June 1
July 1
H
27
August 15
September 25
October 6
November 21
M
30
Mrch 27
June 9
July J
W
26
August 1
M
28
Bank of England Archive (M5/533)
III Rationing
Bacon, ham, butter and sugar
Meat
Tea
Mrgarine Bnd cooking fats
Jam and marmalade
Cheese
Clothes
Eggs
Dried and canned fruits
Soap
Tinned milk
1941
1942
Petrol (none except for authorised purposes)
Chocolates and sweets
January B
March 11
July 9
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May 5
June 1
July 1
January 22
February 9
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Preface
This compilation is designed prima rily for use in
the event of another major wa r. Technicalities, therefore,
could not be a voided even if sometimes they become tedious.
But motives a re no less important and have been dealt with
wherever they could be discovered.
Some parts of the record have been contributed by
various hands and the whole is therefore less homogeneous than
could be wished. A shorter history would be more readable , but
perhaps less useful.
There were many differences between the Bank of
England of 1914 and that of 25 and 30 years later as it happened,
because of an unexampled continuity in its direction . Lord
Norma n, created a baron in 1944. ha d not only been Governor from
1920 to 1944, but for six years before 1920 he had been a n infor
a l Assistant Governor and then Deputy Governor .
Even in 1914 the Bank did not quite consciously
regard itself as a Central Bank - the term indeed ha d not then
been invented - though they understood well their responsibilis
a s such under the regime of the Gold Standard. But they still
held themselves a little too aloof from the other bankers, with
whom they continued to compete , if not very a ctively , until the
outbreak of the first World Wa r j and judged by their subsequent
relationship to the Trea sury they were remote also from Whitehall.
At that time , too , the Bank had a lmost no contacts with industry.
Lord Norman a ltered the Ba nk' s outlook in almost every
direction , and in particular drew them into close contact a nd
collaboration with the Trea sury.
But para doxca lly the co-ordination of the Bank and
Treasury, under which the Ba nk' s advice wa s sought or given with
greater continuity and on a wider range of subjects, did not in
193e-39 result in an identity of views on two main a spects of
war-time finance, whereas there ha d ben complete and a lmost
a utomatic a greement upon them at the outbrea k of, and indeed
throughout the greater part of, the wa r of 19l4-le.
There ha d
then been disagreements and misunderstandings , but on
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I n that war the Treasury and the Bank for years felt
that borrowing at increasingly high rates was unavoidable; and
both Treasury and Bank were equally anxous that London should
maintain unimpaired , at least 50 far as official actions went
the war permitted , its position as an international financial
centre.
Before the second World War broke out the U. K. had
had to abandon the Gold Standard, re-introduced in 1925 , and the
Bank, though desiring to preserve the international status of
sterling 50 far as possible, were ready , while the Treasury were
not, to impose restrictions on its free transferaility into
foreign currencies. The Bank had had seven years' experience
in the management of the Exchange Equalisation Account and fully
realised the dangers of an inadequate control; at the same time
they believed that a full control would be expected and accepted
by other countries on the outbreak of war.
Again, although urged by an ex-Treasury official of
the previous war, Lord (then Mr. J. M. ) Keynes , created a baron in
1942 , and Simultaneously by the Bank, to adopt a cheap money
policy from the outset , the Treasury before and during nearly a
year of the second World War could not quite bring themselves
to believe that this would be practicable .
This failure to agree before and during the early
months of the war on such important aspects of war finance may
perhaps have been partly due to the fact that , although the Bank
had had the same Governor for nearly 20 years before the war and
the Secretary of the Treasury , Sir Warren Fisher , had also been
in office from 1919 to 1939, the former had made an almost
complete change in the Bank' s higher officials by way of large
additions to their number, many having been brought in from
outSide , while there had been far fewer changes in the personnel
of the Treasury, which had not been adequately increased or
renewed .
ThUS , in spite of the closer relationship between the
Bank and the Treasury , the Bank had moved away from 1914-lg while
the Treasury tended to look at the new war in the light of their
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experience of the previous one.
The politicians too , or some
of them, expected a short war as they had in 1914, and this made
it more difficult for the Bank to persuade the Treasury to long
views.
During the late war the Bank and Treasury became
almost one organisation when dealing with matters where they
jointly concerned; and questions of finance, internal and
external , were discussed between them almost daily , and at
different levels; partly through joint committees but still more
through the correspondence , meetings and telephone conversations
of indi viduals .
So much of the discussion;was oral that the
record of the development of opinion between the Bank and the
Treasury is naturally at times defective .
It would have been
impossible to record on paper the gist of all negotiations , even
if there had been opportunity and no paper shortage.
Memories
also suffered from pressure of work and could not always be
relied on to supply missing information.
rany officials on both sides were involved and at the
Treasury many changes of duties took place, BO that continuity
of policy seemed to be sometimes endangered , and it has at times
been difficult for the historian to know whose views represented
those of the Treasury. Natural ly on neither side would
officials express entirely uniform views while a joint Treasury
Bank opinion was being worked out as a preliminary to action:
not all their differing contributions could reflect the official ,
even if temporary, conclusions of the Treasury and Bank
respectively; some must be personal or at best semi-official
reactions .
But in spite of all qualifications no doubt the
co-operation between Treasury and Bank over the war period was
remarkably successful: at least as complete and satisfactory as
could be expected of any two separate institutions with such
long-established traditions and different , if over-lapping,
responsi bili ties .
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