File contains correspondence, agreements, and memorandum of agreements between various authors, The Canadian Institute of International Affairs, and The Ryerson Press about the Contemporary Affairs series of pamphlets and booklets. These include "The New Western Front"; "Canada and the United Nations"; "Canada's Role in Geopolitics"; "German Immigration into Canada"; "Are Empires Doomed?"; "Can We Govern Ourselves"; "Why Colonies Anyhow?"; "India Today"; "Immigration policies: Canada and America"; "The Treatment of Post-War Germany"; "The British Commonwealth and International Security"; "Canada and Pan-American Sentiment"; "British Preference in Canadian Commercial Policy"; "The Growth of Peaceful Settlement between Canada and the United States"; "Economic co-operation between Canada and the United States in World War II"; "Bulwark of the West - implications and problems of NATO"; "The Kashmir Impasse"; "NATO - Achievement and Prospect"; and "American Goods in Canadian Markets".

File contains two agreements between The Ryerson Press and John W. Holmes, in his role as executive secretary for the Canadian Insitute of International Affairs, for the books "India Today" by W. E. Duffett, A. R. Hicks, and G. R. Parkin and "Population: Canada's Problem" by Stephen Cartwright.