Telegram from WSC to General Dwight Eisenhower [Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force in Western Europe, United States Army] marked "Personal and Top Secret" sending him the text of a minute appealing for the order to arrest all members of the Reich Food Estate to be cancelled in order to assist German food production in the following year.

Telegram from Marshal Stalin to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" proposing to postpone the withdrawal of allied and Soviet troops to agreed zones of occupation in Germany and Austria until 1 July; and suggesting they establish the French zones.

Telegram from President Harry Truman to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" repeating the text of a message from him to Marshal Stalin agreeing to begin the movement of allied and Soviet troops to their agreed zones of occupation in Germany and Austria on 1 July.

Telegram from President Harry Truman to WSC on increasing French, Belgian, and particularly, German coal production, to prevent mass unrest in western Europe that winter.

Telegram from General Dwight Eisenhower [Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force in Western Europe, United States Army] to WSC marked "Personal" assuring him that he is aware of possible difficulties involving the removal of Nazi Party members from the German civil service, but [in response to WSC's particular concern] stating that only top officials in the Reich Food Estate should be affected.

Telegram from WSC to Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery [Commander 21st Army Group] marked "Top Secret" and "Guard" and "personal and secret, private and confidential" commenting on the "winter prospect in Germany", and expressing his dislike of seeing German admirals and generals "being made to stand with their hands above their heads".

Telegram from Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery [Commander 21st Army Group] to WSC marked "Top Secret", "Guard" and "personal and private" commenting on the situation in occupied Germany: suggesting that British policy concerning the German population, particularly regarding fraternisation with troops, needs to be reviewed, and pointing to communist activity in the British zone.

Letter from ?Count Paul Metternich (German Embassy, 9 Carlton House Terrace, [London]) to WSC informing him that there is no objection to his writing direct to the Kaiser to thank him [for photographs of the German army manoeuvres].

Letter from WSC (Colonial Office) to the Kaiser thanking him for photographs of the German army manoeuvres and offering to send him a copy of his life of Lord Randolph Churchill. Unsigned copy in WSC's hand.

Report by Richard Haldane [later Lord Haldane] to [King Edward VII] on his visit to Berlin [Germany] including accounts of conversations with the Kaiser and others on military and naval policy, Free Trade and relations between Britain, Germany and France. Typescript.

Letter from T C Horsfall (Swanscoe Park, near Macclesfield, [Cheshire]) to WSC arguing that medical insurance has proved more useful to the working class in Germany than old age pensions.

Letter from Charles A'court Repington (29 Victoria Road, Kensington, [London]) to WSC on Repington's report of the German army manoeuvres.

Letter from T C Horsfall (Swanscoe Park, near Macclesfield, [Cheshire]) to WSC on the powers of beugermeisters in Germany and the possibility of introducing a system of paid mayors into Britain. Advocates the formation of the municipal and local civil service into one large body. Encloses his paper on The Government of Manchester [see CHAR 2/38/4]. Signed and annotated typescript.

Letter from Otto Ernst Niemeyer (Treasury) to Edward Marsh enclosing and commenting on notes on taxes levied by the Empire and the Federal States in Germany [see CHAR 2/42/11-12].

Notes by Otto Ernst Niemeyer on taxes levied by the Empire and the Federal States in Germany. Sent with CHAR 2/42/10.

Part of a memorandum on duties on manufactured imports in France and Germany. Typescript.

"Le rapprochement Franco-Allemand condition de la paix du monde": proof sheets of a speech of 28 April 1909 by M D'Estournelles de Constant, member of the French Senate, in the Upper House in Berlin [Germany]. Addressed to WSC in D'Estournelles de Constant's hand, 7 May 1909 15 sheets.

Letter from Count Paul von Wolff-Metternich (German Embassy, 9 Carlton House Terrace, London) to WSC reporting Chancellor Bulow's speech in the Reichstag stating that Germany's naval armament is purely for defensive purposes.

Letter from [WSC] to Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] enclosing a note of his conversation with Count Paul von Wolff-Metternich [see CHAR 2/39/86-92] and asking whether he should take this line when he visits Germany. States that he does not intend to make a special effort to discuss politics whilst there. Typescript copy.

Letter from Edwin Arrowsmith (1 Carlyle Mansions, Cheyne Walk, London) to [WSC] stating that he is a Conservative but that he supports WSC's determination to maintain Britain's naval supremacy. Reports that his nephew, Professor Douglas Savory of Belfast University [Ulster, Ireland] has encountered strong anti-British feeling on his visits to Germany.

Speech by in the House of Commons by Joseph Compton-Rickett on the need to maintain Britain's naval supremacy against a possible German threat and the "civilising" effects of a French presence in Tunis, Algeria and Morocco. Annotated typescipt.

Letter from Lord Northcliffe [earlier Sir Alfred Harmsworth] (The Times) to WSC quoting a passage on the danger of war between France and Germany and the need for Britain to be prepared. Signed typescript.