Minutes of meetings and telegrams on the situation in France, including: telegrams between ELS, Winston Churchill and Major-General Sir Hastings Ismay [Deputy Secretary (Military) to War Cabinet]; notes of a meeting on the military situation, between Marshal Philippe Petain [Minister of State], ELS and Major Archdale [British liaison officer with French northern command]; notes of meetings with Paul Reynaud; Prime Minister of France; notes of conversations with Petain, General Louis Colson, head of the French War Office, and Georges Mandel; rough minutes of the meeting between the British and French at the Supreme War Council, 31 May; telegram from General Joseph Vuillemin, Commander of the French Air Force, on the need for British reinforcements.