Economy: Alan Walters diary (exchange rate) [Harold Lever wants to manage exchange rate as he did under Wilson] [released 2012]

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Walters MSS (Churchill Archives Centre): WTRS 3/1/1
Editorial comments:	Read other entries from this diary. View all Walters documents. The original diary can be studied here
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	64
Themes:	Monetary policy

Thursday 11th June 1981

Paddie [Paddie Walters] very glum about buying 45 Arthur Road.

Lunch with Harold Lever, Knight (Ed. Economics) American State Department of the Economy, Editor of the Guardian and DW [Andrew Knight, David Wolfson]. Lever wants to manage exchange rate as he did under Wilson and Callaghan

Knight quite sharp - asked me for economist like Fred Hirsch - who was there? I said none