Correspondence with Ferdinand Tuohy of Dieppe concerning the proposal to establish a society to implement international sanctions and the idea of setting up an international police force.

Some of the material relates to plans for the establishment of an International Police Force.

Copy of a lengthy memorandum entitled 'Memorandum on Functions of International Air Police Force', c. 1936.

Copy of a 'Memorandum on Functions of International Air Police Force', December 1934.

Typescript drafts of a proposed work by Lord Davies provisionally entitled 'The Economic Advantages of an International Police Force'.

Drafts of a New Commonwealth memorandum entitled 'The Economic Advantages of an International Police Force'.

Drafts of an article or writing by Lord Davies on 'The History of the Idea of an International Police Force'.

Cuttings from various newspapers and journals relating to disarmament, the Manchurian question, the Geneva Conference on disarmament and the idea of an International Police Force. Many refer to the writings and ideas of David Davies.

Memorandum by Oscar T. Crosby, February 1931, 'On Organisation of an International Society for the Promotion of these Objects', together with a 'Preliminary Draft of the Objects of a Society for the Establishment of an International Police Force', November 1931. There is also a copy of the latter document in French.

Copies of correspondence and papers relating to the proposal that an International Police Force be established.

Papers, December 1933-May 1936, relating to the Executive Committee, International Section, British Section and Finance Committee. They include papers on the membership of the New Commonwealth, the idea of an International Air Police and the French Peace Plan.

Lists of MPs who signed a petition urging the government to establish an effective international authority for the impartial settlement of inter-state disputes and an International Police Force.

The memoranda include 'United Nations Military Staff Committee Report: Second Round Table Discussion'; ' The Armed Force of the Security Council' by P. H. H. Bryan; and 'International Police Force: Political direction'.

Include a lengthy memorandum on the establishment of an International Police Force.

Includes memoranda, 'An International Police Force: Political Direction', by Brian Tunstall; 'Committee on Atomic Energy: Comparison of the British and American Atomic Energy Bills'; 'Text of Resolution on Principles governing the General Regulation and Reduction of Armaments'; and 'United Nations Military Staff Committee Report: Round Table Discussion: Amended Draft Report'. memorandum entitled 'A World Peace Force'; 'An International General Staff'.

Includes copies of the Annual Reports of the New Commonwealth Society and Institute, 1935-1936 and 1936-1937; the text of a petition, 20 January 1936, to the government concerning the dispute between Italy and Abyssinia; the text of Churchill's speech at the New Commonwealth Luncheon, the Dorchester Hotel, 25 November 1936; emergency resolutions passed at the annual conference of Young Liberals at York, 1936; a copy of Major C. R. Attlee, An International Police Force, published by the New Commonwealth; and various press cuttings.

Miscellaneous documents, 1922-39, mainly typescript memoranda relating to the background to the establishment of, and the development of the New Commonwealth Society set up primarily by David Davies in 1932. The documents relate to themes including the League of Nations Union, disarmament, the Covenant of the League of Nations, the American Peace Society, and the concept of setting up an international peace force in the 1930s. There is also a detailed memorandum, November 1929, drawn up by David Davies on a recent visit to Paris and Switzerland and discussions there.