Copies of minutes from LSA to Winston Churchill on subjects including: the food situation; the Governorship of Madras; industrial development; a visit to Britain by General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, India]; political prisoners; the possibility of the Foreign Office taking over the India Office; Palestine; Italian prisoners of war in India; post-war civil aviation; releasing Mohandas Gandhi; the Governorship of Bengal [parts of Bangladesh and India]; self-government of Burma [later Myanmar]; finances; proposals by Lord Louis Mountbatten for his own medical staff in India; South East Asia Command; reductions in the Indian Army; growth in the Indian population; the campaign against Japan; extending the Viceroy's authority; paying tribute to the performance of Indian troops; American requests to see Gandhi and other interventions; the governorship of Bihar; finding successors for 2nd Lord Linlithgow [Viceroy and Governor-General of India, earlier Lord Hopetoun], and Lawrence Lumley [Governor of Bombay, later 11th Lord Scarbrough]; support for the Hindu Mahasabha; Gandhi and Japan; Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps's mission to the Indian National Congress, to discuss self-government; Congress's resolution to defy the Government; developing air power in India; joint efforts with American forces against Japan; the new constitution.

Also includes: minutes from Churchill warning LSA against stirring up the constitutional issue; minutes by R A Butler, President of the Board of Education, on exporting grain to India.