Letter from WSC to King George VI accepting his invitation to dinner that evening to discuss with the Field Marshal the strategic scene and stating that there is no possibility of reversing the agreement as the United States Staff and Marshal Stalin would oppose this and highlighting that it is only in Britain that the Metropolitan Fighter Air Force can have full effect Signature in typescript.

Telegram from Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder [Air Officer Commanding in Chief, Middle East] to WSC expressing confidence in assisting the army offensive.

Telegram from WSC to the Minister of State, Middle East [Oliver Lyttelton, later 1st Lord Chandos] for Commanders-in- Chief Committee Middle East advising against relying on German engagement in the Soviet Union; feels Whipcord [codename for a British plan for the invasion of Sicily] should proceed immediately relying on superiority of Allied air power, to link up with Mediterranean; Germany will be threatened in Europe and provoke resistance by Spain.

Telegram from Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder [Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC: battle report; mentions Tobruk, Derna, Bardia [Libya], Malta and Benghazi.

Letters from 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister of Aircraft Production, earlier Max Aitken] to WSC tendering his resignation; with WSC's reply refusing to accept his resignation. [Carbon].

Letter from 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister of Aircraft Production, earlier Max Aitken] to WSC on air policy, advising dispersal of production. [Copy].

Telegram from WSC to Prime Minister of Canada [Mackenzie King] reciting telegram correspondence between himself and President Roosevelt and requesting co-operation with Roosevelt's proposal that United States aircraft for the RAF should be delivered via Canada.

Telegram from Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada] to WSC pledging Canadian commitment to Roosevelt's delivery of United States combat aircraft.

Telegram from Robert Menzies [Prime Minister of Australia] to WSC reiterating desire of Advisory War Council for increased air support [for Cyprus] or immediate withdrawal.

Telegram from WSC to General Sir Archibald Wavell Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] thanking him for recent report but requesting details of air power, transport and reinforcements required, and reiterating that objective is not capturing targets but destruction of the armed forces of the enemy.

Telegram from President Roosevelt to WSC suggesting Bathurst [Gambia], Freetown [Sierra Leone] and Liberia as delivery points in Africa for planes supplied by the United States; also comments on favourable American reaction to Freezing of German and Italian assets in the United States.

Telegram from Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood, then Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States] to WSC reporting President Roosevelt's proposal for United States air bases at Bathurst [Gambia], Freetown [Sierra Leone] and Liberia, and the necessity of getting fighters to that part of the world to ease anxieties of Free French colonies.

Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt welcoming the proposed ferry service for aircraft from Brazil to West Africa; and commenting on the failure of the latest offensive to recapture the initiative in Western Desert.

Telegram from WSC to Robert Menzies [Prime Minister of Australia] with precise figures of forces, tanks and aircraft involved in Middle East warfare for Australian Advisory War Council, as requested.

Telegram from WSC to Air Officer Commanding Iraq congratulating him on vigourous action [in suppressing the revolt].

Telegram from General Henry Arnold [Chief of the United States Air Corps] to WSC blaming division of responsibility for underproduction by assembly points at Takoradi [Ghana]. With accompanying letters of 11 May 1941 indicating that WSC replied and that Arnold's message and WSC's reply were forwarded by WSC's Private Office to the Foreign Office and Buckingham Palace.

Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt accepting offer from General Henry Arnold [Chief of the United States Air Corps] for one third of United States airforce pilot training places to go to British pupils.

Telegram from WSC to General Henry Arnold [Chief of the United States Air Corps] thanking him for information on problems with aircraft assembly at Takoradi [Ghana] and repying to the points raised.

Telegram from WSC to General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] on impending air attack on "Colorado" [codename for Crete][T179]; with reply from Wavell on operation "Scorcher" [codename for British occupation and defence of Crete] [T180].