Subjects include: the situation in Greece; the threat of war from the Soviet Union; Britain, Greece and the Balkans; Fitzroy Maclean's book "Eastern Approaches"; JA's visit to the Eastern Vilayets of Turkey, 1948 [see AMEJ 4/1/3 and 7/1/1]; the situation in the Middle East; impressions from JA's tour of Canada, 1949; Greece and her neighbours in the Balkans; resistance warfare; Imperial Preference and the Conservative Party; the Communist danger to the Commonwealth and Empire; impressions of post-war Turkey; politics and strategy in the Greek civil war; Yugoslavia; the rift between Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia] and the Soviet Union.

Correspondents include: Dermot Morrah, Editor of the Round Table; Cyril Connolly, Editor of Horizon; Maurice Macmillan; 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Edward Grigg] commissioning JA to write about Imperial Preference and the Conservative Party for the National Review (2); Arthur Watson, Managing Editor of the Daily Telegraph (2); Michael Goodwin, Editor of the Nineteenth Century and After (3); Colin Coote, Acting Managing Editor of the Daily Telegraph; Thomas Hutton, Editor of the Birmingham Post (2).