Letters to Clementine from Ronald Tree on subjects including: growing isolationism in the United States, the lack of leadership and Tree's hope that Churchill might come over to give a speech on the importance of world affairs, as he was the only man who would be listened to; the opinion of Edward Murrow on anti-British feeling in the United States; the public view of Douglas MacArthur and his hatred of Britain; the political situation in the United States and the general dislike of Dean Acheson [Secretary of State]; American alarm over Churchill's attitude as Prime Minister to Europe and a European army, and doubts about Britain's economic future; the Democratic Convention, 1952 and Tree's friendship with Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic nominee for President; the beginning of the 1952 presidential campaign.

Also includes a letter from "Cys" [Lord Asquith of Bishopstone], passing on a remark by George Trevelyan that Churchill was the greatest man Britain had ever produced.