Subjects include: finding a post for JA as an Honorary Attaché in Yugoslavia on the outbreak of war; the build-up to war, particularly in the Balkans; Leslie Hore-Belisha's removal as Secretary of State for War; the fall of France; tussles with Winston Churchill [Prime Minister] over India; the India debate, Aug 1941; the Atlantic Charter; John Amery's internment in France; the progress of the war; events in Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; events in Burma [later Myanmar]; Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps's mission to India; the breakdown of talks on the future constitution of India and the difficulty with the Indian Congress; JA's political future and whether he should stand as an MP with Randolph Churchill; JA's health problems; the debate on the Indian famine; JA's visit to King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, Dec 1943; lectures by John Amery on behalf of the Germans, [? Dec] 1943.

Other correspondents, mainly responding to Leo Amery's letters of introduction and recommendation concerning JA include: Sir Kingsley Wood, Secretary of State for Air; Harold Balfour, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Air (3); Alexander Lindsay, Master of Balliol College, University of Oxford; Major-General Frederick Beaumont-Nesbitt [Director of Military Intelligence, War Office] on finding a job for JA (2); [Edward] Hugh Dalton, Minister of Economic Warfare.