Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, May 1944.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: the Chiefs of Staff; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers, particularly Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon]; Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Director of Military Intelligence [Major-General Francis Davidson]; Desmond Morton [Prime Minister's Personal Assistant]; General Dwight Eisenhower [Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force in Western Europe, United States Army]; Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory [Allied Air Commander for Overlord]; Gerald D'Erlanger, [Commanding Officer] Air Transport Auxiliary; Deputy Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force [Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder].Subjects covered by the minutes include: matters concerning operations in the Far East, including air requirements, South East Asia Command issues, and British Commonwealth forces; tensions with the Soviet Union over its influence in Europe; preparations for "Overlord", including discussion of the likely German reaction, informing General de Gaulle [President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic] and the Soviet Union, the role of the Polish division, and supplying men from the RAF regiment; Italian affairs, including supplying food to Rome [Italy]; French civil affairs; Lord Beaverbrook's [earlier Sir Max Aitken, Lord Privy Seal] role; dispatching British troops to Greece; Portuguese affairs; Admiral James Sommerville's [Commander of the Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean] position; appointing Colonial administrators; relations with Belgium; the transfer of Italian warships to the Soviet Union; mistakes in SOE [Special Operations Executive Operations] and damage to Anglo-Soviet relations; honours and appointments.