Letters from John Stourton to WSC on the risks of opening a Second Front in the West for political motives, abuses of privilege, particularly petrol consumption, by Canadian and United States soldiers serving in Britain, and the advantages of equalising their pay with British levels, with replies from WSC on subjects including the impossibility of dictating to the United States; also includes copies of letters between Brigadier John Macqueen [Deputy Quartermaster-General, Canadian Military Headquarters, London] and Major-General Richard Snowden-Smith, Director of Supplies and Transport, War Office, on the conveyance of civilians in military vehicles and an extract from a Canadian routine order on recreational use of such vehicles, and covering notes by John Martin, Leslie Rowan and Edith Watson [Private Secretaries to WSC] to WSC and Sydney Redman [Principal Private Secretary to Secretary of State for War], comments by Sir James Grigg, Secretary of State for War and a copy of Hansard with a statement by Sir Stafford Cripps, Lord Privy Seal on British and American pay. [See also CHAR 20/54B/188-9 ].