Description [? by WSC] of the serious unrest within the army in January and February 1919.

Letter from Brigadier-General Christopher Baker-Carr (6 Nevern Road, [London]) to WSC stressing the importance of the Madden Gun (light automatic machine gun) and the difficulty of getting the military authorities and leading members of the government to see this.

Extract from the "Times": statement by 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] at Oxford rejecting the charge that WSC as Chancellor of the Exchequer was advocating increased spending on the Army and Navy. Typescript copy.

Letter from Sir Philip Chetwode [later Lord Chetwode] (Government House, Farnborough, Hampshire) to WSC congratulating him on his appointment [as Chancellor of the Exchequer], expressing the Army's relief at the return of the new government and asking him not to be "too ferocious with the poor Army", which is beginning to get back to 1914 standards.

Letter from Colonel Sir Weston Jarvis (1 Hobart Place, [London]) to WSC referring to the military aspect of Indian constitutional reform.

Letter from George Jeffreys (Headquarters Southern Command, Poona, [India]) to WSC describing the attitude of various classes in India to the proposed reforms, approving the recent strong measures by government, describing the reaction to the indianisation of the army and the declining standard of living of British officers in India. Typescript copy. MS notes on reverse.

Cutting from the "Morning Post": article illustrating the problem of the defence of India by comparing its population and area to that of Europe.

Telegram from General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander- in-Chief Middle East] and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder [Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Mediterranean] to WSC marked "most secret" reciting the proposed text for his communique and describing fully the progress of the battle in the desert in Libya from 26 May.

Telegram from Minister of State in the Middle East [Richard Casey] to WSC and Secretaries of State for War and Air listing the equipment which is urgently required by the army in the Middle East [see also CHAR 20/77/83].

Telegram from Minister of State in the Middle East [Richard Casey] to WSC and Secretaries of State for War and Air asking that special steps be taken to supply those emergency requirements for the army in the Middle East which are listed in his immediately following telegram [see CHAR 20/77/84-86].

Copy of part of letter from unnamed sender (19 C.A. Unit, Inchdrewer House, Colinton, Edinburgh [Scotland]) to Irene Ward [Conservative MP for Wallsend-on-Tyne, Northumberland] in which the writer refers to a recent visit to Belgium and Holland and reports a dinner conversation with the Brigadier of an independent company of the 21st Army Group, in which the Brigadier complained about the inadequate nature of his reinforcements. [Typescript].

Copy of letter from Mrs Gentry (111, South Croft Road, Tooting, SW17 [London]) to [David Robertson, Conservative MP for Streatham, London] regarding her two sons, Fred and Charles Gentry, who are both serving overseas. She comments on Fred's poor health and the fact that Charles has been gone nearly four years without leave, and asks for his help, particularly in getting leave for Fred. [Carbon, see CHAR 20/199/37 for original letter].

Copy of letter from Mr Gentry (111, South Croft Road, Tooting, SW17 [London]) to [David Robertson, Conservative MP for Streatham, London] regarding the poor health of his son, Private [Fred] Gentry, who is serving overseas and who has been in hospital with chest trouble and is now in a convalescent camp, and asking if arrangements can be made to transfer him over here. [Carbon, see CHAR 20/199/35-36 for original letter].

Letter from Catharine Ryan (43 Parkland's Road, Streatham, SW16 [London]) to "Mr Robinson" [David Robertson, Conservative MP for Streatham, London] asking if he can possibly do something to speed up "demobbing" and commenting on the case of her husband who is in Group 24 and last spent a Christmas with his little girl in 1938 and has been abroad nearly three years.