Other subjects of the letter from Anthony Montague Browne include the situation in Cyprus [the Cyprus Emergency] and [John] Harding [Governor of Cyprus, later 1st Lord Harding of Petherton] being confident that with enough troops he could "break the back of the terrorism in Cyprus in a few months"; greetings from Norman Brook [later 1st Lord Normanbrook]; draft notes from the [Commonwealth Relations Office] for a speech by WSC [for the unveiling of a statue of Jan Smuts, which WSC was not able to attend due to ill health]; telegrams from the Foreign Office for WSC; and thanking WSC for having Nonie [Anthony Montague Browne's wife] to stay [at La Pausa, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France].

The letter from Freddy Bishop [Prime Minister's Principle Secretary] outlines the latest developments relating to the Suez Crisis including the debate in the [United Nations] Security Council and the [Soviet Union] vetoing a resolution, the Prime Minister [Anthony Eden] having visited the French Prime Minister [Guy Mollet] in Paris to discuss their next steps; and a "complicated situation" between Iraq, Jordan and Israel relating to Iraqi troops wanting to enter Jordan.