Telegrams from General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander- in-Chief, India and Burma, and Supreme Commander, South West Pacific] to WSC requesting he postpone announcement of changes in office until he has consulted the Viceroy and Governor-General of India [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun]; requests Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall as Chief of Staff, Brett [? General Brett, United States Army] as deputy; Burma [later Myanmar] should remain with India command.