Telegram from WSC to General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, marked "most secret" stating the position of the Chiefs of Staff, the Defence Committee and the War Cabinet that "Malta shall not be allowed to fall without a battle being fought by your whole army for its retention"; comments on the implications if Malta should fall and states that the very latest date for engaging the enemy is one which provides a distraction for the June convoy.