Subjects include: Clementine's Red Cross Aid to Russia Fund; the changes to Churchill's War Cabinet, and Clementine's view that it would be better to leave 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister of Supply, earlier Max Aitken] out of it and have Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps instead; her distress about Randolph Churchill joining a parachute unit [part of the SAS, Special Air Service] rather than rejoining his regiment, because of the anxiety it would cause Churchill; Churchill's visit to Washington [United States], June 1942; opening a YWCA centre for munitions workers in Birmingham and the need to raise money for them, the ATS [Auxiliary Territorial Service] and WAAF [Women's Auxiliary Air Force]; Churchill's journey to Cairo [Egypt], for the reorganisation of the Middle East command and then on to Moscow [Soviet Union], August 1942; a clumsy speech by Nancy, Lady Astor [to a United Nations rally, stating that the Russians were fighting for themselves rather than for the Allies]; having to miss Churchill being awarded the freedom of Edinburgh [Scotland], Oct 1942.