Subjects include: the Yalta Conference, February 1945; the value of Clementine's tour of the Soviet Union for Anglo-Russian relations; revelations about the Nazi concentration camps; Jack [John S Churchill]'s heart attack; the whereabouts of Clementine's nephew Giles Romilly, being kept as a hostage by the Germans; the collapse of the German forces; the Potsdam Conference, July 1945; worries about Churchill's health on his way to Yalta; his depression about the future of India; the hostile attitude in some Labour circles to British policy on Greece; fears of new wars ahead and for the recovery of the British economy after the war; the impossibility of keeping an equal place with the American forces; the loss of the goldfish from Chartwell [Kent]; the impending General Election; Churchill's holiday at Lake Como [Italy], September 1945 and work on several paintings of Como and Lake Lugano; Churchill's relief at being free of responsibility; having to wear a truss because of an old hernia; help from the Swiss painter Charles Montag; stopping off at General Dwight Eisenhower's villa at Antibes [France] on the way home and more painting at Cap Martin; Soviet demands for former Italian colonies in Africa and growing Soviet control of the Balkans and Eastern Europe behind the "iron curtain".

Also includes an extract from Churchill's personal message to Stalin, thanking him for the kindness shown to Clementine during her visit to the Soviet Union, and on her receiving the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.