Letter from [Christopher] Eastwood [Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for the Colonies] (Colonial Office) to [John] Colville [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] enclosing newspaper cuttings on the Duke of Windsor's [earlier Edward, Prince of Wales, and King Edward VIII, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bahamas] visit to Miami [United States]. Signed typescript preceded by file note and followed by the cuttings.

Minute from WSC to Secretary of State for the Colonies [1st Lord Moyne, earlier Walter Guinness] on a possible American publicist for the Duke of Windsor [earlier Edward, Prince of Wales, and King Edward VIII, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bahamas], suggesting they need "someone of sufficient character and standing" to dissuade the Duke from giving "unhelpful opinions". Carbon copy.

Telegram from Secretary of State for the Colonies [1st Lord Moyne, earlier Walter Guinness] to Governor, Bahamas, [the Duke of Windsor, earlier Edward, Prince of Wales, and King Edward VIII] sending on a message from [Sir Walter] Monckton [Director-General of Ministry of Information] on finding the Duke a Press Attache, suggesting trying Rene McColl "as an experiment", and arrangements for the Duke's proposed visit to the United States and Canada. Copy.

Telegram from the Duke of Windsor [earlier Edward, Prince of Wales, and King Edward VIII], Governor [and Commander in Chief] of the Bahamas, to Secretary of State for the Colonies [1st Lord Moyne, earlier Walter Guinness], passing on a message to [Sir Walter] Monckton [Director-General of Ministry of Information] on matters including his preference for [Rene] McColl [as his Press Attache]. Despatched on 25 July and received 26 July. Carbon copy. [sent with CHAR 20/31B/130].

Telegram from Sir [Ronald] Campbell [British Minister Plenipotentiary to Washington, United States] to [the Governor and Commander in Chief of] the Bahamas [the Duke of Windsor, earlier Edward, Prince of Wales, and King Edward VIII] suggesting policy towards the press for the Duke's visit to the United States. Despatched on 10 September. Copy sent on by the Foreign Office.

Note from [Frances] Brown [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] to WSC sending on a press cutting of an article by John Walters of the Sunday Pictorial entitled "Sneer Campaign Against Duke [of Windsor, earlier Edward, Prince of Wales, and King Edward VIII, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bahamas]".

Telegram from Oliver Lyttelton [later Lord Chandos, Minister of State in the Middle East] to WSC advising against appointing Duff Cooper [later Lord Norwich] to a ministerial post in the Middle East; suggests instead Walter Monckton at a lower level as Minister of Propaganda to control publicity and censorship.

Telegram from Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood, then Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States] to WSC reporting rumour in American press that he is to be removed from his post as Ambassador to Washington following his visit to England, and asking WSC to issue a public contradiction if this is not true.

Telegram from WSC to Oliver Lyttelton [later Lord Chandos, Minister of State in the Middle East] agreeing that Duff Cooper [later Lord Norwich] should not be appointed as a second Minister in the Middle East, proposing Hubert Young (Governor of Trinidad) as Minister of Propaganda in Middle East to control publicity and censorship, and stressing the need for propaganda to be confined exclusively to the Middle East.

Telegram from WSC to Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood, then Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States] assuring him that there is no truth in the News Chronicle paragraph, and that his role as Ambassador to Washington will continue.

Telegram from WSC to General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander -in-Chief, Middle East] rebuking him for a recent statement to the press calling for American man-power to fight Germany, and criticising him for his "almost disparaging" reference to the Russian war effort.

Telegram from WSC to Oliver Lyttelton [later Lord Chandos, Minister of State in the Middle East] (Cairo, [Egypt]) requesting that he should not make informal statements to the press.

Telegram from Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada] to WSC on censorship of his speech in Britain leading to distorted reporting.

Letter from WSC to Geoffrey Dawson [Editor of the Times] asking what he thinks should be done in the light of his recent leading article.

Letter from WSC to Cecil King [Director of the Daily Mirror] rebuking him for his newspaper's attempts to discredit the Government and create class disturbances: "it is no defence ... to say that your papers specialise in vitriolic writing. Indeed throwing vitriol is thought to be one of the worst of crimes".

Letter from WSC to Sir Walter Citrine [General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress and President of the International Federation of Trade Unions] informing him that it was not desirable to have land mines with parachute attachments discussed in the press; censors have kept them secret to avoid giving Germany a huge advantage.

Letter from WSC to Major David Davies [Deputy Editor, News of the World] on a misleading article, entitled "With plenty of bombs we shall smash Berlin" [Germany] about WSC's most recent broadcast [9 February 1941 "Give us the tools"].

Letter from Commander Sir Walter Windham to WSC repeating his request of May 1940 begging to be allowed to travel to Canada and the United States to conduct a press campaign to gain more aeroplanes for the war effort; has conducted similar "rousing" missions in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. [typescript].