Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt]: states that the position at home "has always been quite solid" but that disasters made people restive in Parliament and the press; comments on the new position of "Dickie" [Lord Louis Mountbatten] as Chief of Combined Operations; predicts that Japan will press northwards through Burma [later Myanmar] and comments on British reinforcements to the Far East which could be diverted to Australia in the event of an invasion; comments on the British position in Ceylon [later Sri Lanka] and the Indian Ocean; comments on the need to make Japanese anxious and asks about plans for Californian commandos; comments on Soviet-German struggle and support for the Soviet Union through shipping convoys and bombing attacks on Germany; comments on fighting at Malta; comments on support for the Soviet Union against gas attacks; comments on the successes of Averell Harriman [United States representative in London of the Combined Shipping Adjustment Board] and John Winant [United States Ambassador to Britain]; states that he may propose a week-end visit to meet Roosevelt when the weather gets better. Heavily annotated and marked "On PM's instructions no distribution given".