File 105 - Scrapbook 'Jan 1953 - Dec 1954'

1 vol

Press cuttings about RAB as Chancellor of the Exchequer: 1953 and 1954 Budgets, U.S.A. and Canadian talks March 1953, International Monetary Fund and International Bank talks in U.S.A. Oct 1954, U.S.A. interview on 'trade not aid' policy, Mansion House speech 1953, Commonwealth Finance Ministers Conference in Sydney, Australia. Also Glasgow Unionists Association meeting, Conservative Party Annual Conference including 1954 'invest in success' speech, reports of conferment of Honorary Doctorates of Laws from Nottingham and Bristol Universities with letter from Winston Churchill to Sydney Butler about Bristol ceremony, Honorary Freedom of Saffron Walden, Silver Jubilee as an M.P., Companionship of Honour, Essex shows etc.; speech notes for Leeds Chamber of Commerce; menus and table plans; original letter to Lady Butler from ?Lefty, Connecticut; original cartoon of RAB by Aziz of Karachi and many press cartoons; press cuttings on death of Lady Butler with appreciation from magazine of St George's School, Edinburgh, death of Sydney Butler and memorial service, marriage of Susan Portal and James Batten; photographs of Bristol Honorary Degree ceremony