London, Scotland and Europe. Frequent meetings at the Bank of England of the Committee...

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1928

London, Scotland and Europe. Frequent meetings at the Bank of England of the Committee of Treasury and the Bank Court and with the governor; visits the Foreign Office to discuss Chinese affairs, attends meetings of the B& C Corp. and the Eastern Telegraph Company, in this year especially concerned about amalgamation with Marconi, the United States Debt Committee, the Universities' China Committee, the P& O, the Tuesday Club and the RIIA and travels to Bank of Morocco and Reichsbank meetings; also dinner engagements, concert and theatre visits and family affairs.

JANUARY Search for employment by son George; attends discussions on rotation of governors and meetings of Committee of Treasury at the Bank of England; B& C Corp. meeting; Eastern Telegraph Company meeting over financial arrangements with Marconi; RIIA meeting on China; to Berlin.

FEBRUARY 'Two hours hard discussion at Treasury Committee; one hour or more at B& C. 1½ hours at F.O. with Indemnity Committee. Four solid hours in the chair at Tuesday Club', 8; continued Eastern Telegraph Company and Marconi discussions; United States Debt Committee meeting; opposes Sir Henry Strakosch, financier as a director of the Bank of England, 'His name is against him', 22; talks with Norman about French loan to Rumania.

MARCH Chairs council meeting of the Royal Economic Society; to Berlin and Paris and to visit daughter Jean in Switzerland; continuing Marconi and Rumanian loan discussions and talks on German reparations.

APRIL With wife to Antwerp; talks on note amalgamation at the Committee of Treasury and on the future of the Tuesday Club; to Berlin.

MAY To Braemar and Cheshire with wife; discussions at Bank of England on electing Ernest Harvey, controller, a deputy governor; chairs Royal Economic Society annual meeting and speaks at China Society dinner; to Paris.

JUNE Meetings at Bank of England on the rotation of governors; to Berlin; continuing talks with Marconi.

JULY Visits the Foreign Office to talk on British policy in China; to Paris, Eastern Telegraph Company meeting; attends a dinner for General Hu Han-min and Dr. Sun Fo, Kuomintang delegates, death aunt Mansfield, 28; to Berlin for Reichsbank and gold exchange talks.

AUGUST Family holiday at Hartrigge, Scotland; returns to London for ETC and Committee of Treasury meetings and for China talks at the Foreign Office.

SEPTEMBER To Paris; attends meetings of the ETC and Committee of Treasury, talks with Schacht about gold discount scheme and at the Foreign Office about China; to Berlin with wife and two children.

OCTOBER Visits Berlin, Vienna, Budapest and Prague; attends meetings of the ETC and at the Foreign Office; the possibility of Addis' succeeding Norman as governor of the Bank of England under discussion; 'it is urged against it that I am not popular in the City! Interesting to hear that. I should dread popularity', 12; agreement reached with John Pratt of the Foreign Office and Stabb on salt proposals; continued talks on rotation of Bank of England governor; to Paris for Bank of Morocco meeting and talks with de la Chaume on salt gabelle.

NOVEMBER Makes speech to National Savings Committee lunch; attends Indemnity Committee meetings at the Foreign Office and agrees to a memorandum on a remission of £11½ million indemnity to China; problems with employment of son Tom; meeting of Cable Boards; to Berlin.

DECEMBER Continued meetings; to Paris; working on criticisms of Foreign Office proposal to use indemnity funds for the Hankow-Canton Railway and on HSBC chairman's speech.

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