Cutting from the "Yorkshire Observer": speech by Sir John Simon [later Lord Simon] criticising Government policy on taxation and public spending and the obstructed negotiations for the admission of Germany into the League of Nations. Sent with CHAR 2/147/62.

Letter from WSC to Sir William Tyrrell congratulating him on his appointment as ambassador to France, recalling their time together at the Admiralty and referring to the need for reconciliation between Britain, Germany and France. Typescript copy.

Letter from Sir William Tyrrell (Foreign Office) to WSC thanking him for his letter [congratulating him on his appointment as ambassador to France], expressing support for WSC's policy towards France and Germany, praising his work at the Admiralty in 1914 and noting that CSC is making good progress after her illness.

Letter from [WSC] to Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] commenting on proofs [of "Politicians and the War"] , mentioning that he is about to set off on a pilgrimage and commenting on the cost of keeping troops on the Rhine. Carbon typescript copy.

Letter from Sir Abe Bailey (38 Bryanston Square, [London]) to WSC arguing that with the departure of [1st Lord Birkenhead, earlier F E Smith] from the Cabinet WSC is in a dominant position. Expresses opposition to the Anglo-French alliance because it threatens to make Germany and the United States enemies of Britain.

Notes by the Royal Institute of International Affairs on political union between Austria and Germany ('Anschluss'). Sent with CHAR 2/177/19.

Cutting from the Daily Telegraph: letter to the editor on the speech by Count Hertling suggesting that representatives of the belligerent powers should meet for "an intimate discussion", expressing support for an impartial court of international arbitration and intimating that Germany does not wish to absorb Belgium.

Letter from Lord Wimborne [earlier Ivor Guest and Lord Ashby St Ledgers] to WSC referring to the speech of Sir Joseph Compton-Rickett on the grave war situation, denying that Bolshevik Russia has any claim on Britain, expressing confidence that German power is set off by English-speaking solidarity, urging WSC to his use his influence "in the direction of sane accommodation", and referring to the Convention in Ireland.

Letter from [WSC] to General Sir Ian Hamilton thanking him for a copy of his letter advocating the arming of Germany against the Bolsheviks [see CHAR 2/110/77]. Typescript copy.

Letter from General Sir Ian Hamilton to WSC congratulating him on the way in which the confrontation between Poland and the Bolsheviks is developing and enclosing a copy of a letter from him to the Times advocating the arming of Germany against the Bolsheviks which he decided not to send [see CHAR 2/110/77].

Letter from General Sir Ian Hamilton to [the editor of the Times] advocating the arming of Germany against the Bolsheviks. Copy sent with CHAR 2/110/76.

Cutting from the Times: leading article agreeing with WSC about the gravity of the Bolshevik threat to Poland but asserting that his publishing in a newspaper [the Evening News] of a call to re-arm Germany is constitutionally improper. Another copy sent with the original of CHAR 2/110/82-84.

Letter from Henry Wickham Steed (The Times) to WSC explaining why his paper criticised WSC's article in the "Evening News" calling for the arming of Germany against Bolshevism as a departure from the principle of Cabinet responsibility.

Letter from [WSC] to [Henry Wickham Steed] denying the contention by the Times that WSC's article in the Evening News on the Bolshevik threat and the need to arm Germany against it departed from the principle of Cabinet responsibility. Typescript copy.

Letter from [Edward Marsh] (War Office) to William Loftus Hare on the interpretation of WSC's references to Germany and attacking the "crude travesties and perversions" that are appearing in the "Westminster Gazette". Typescript copy. Another copy, without the paragraph attacking the "Westminster Gazette", at CHAR 2/110/104.

Letter from Colonel Hans von Herwarth (Munich, [Germany]) describing the political upheavals in Bavaria and arguing that the Bavarian self-protection organisation, the Einwohnerwehr, is a bulwark against Bolshevism and more such organisations are needed throughout Germany if the country is not to succumb to revolution.

Letter from [WSC] to Sir Sydney Chapman (Board of Trade) asking if it is true that France is obtaining large quantities of coal from Germany for nothing and then exporting it to neutral countries at prices fatal to Britain's coal export trade. Typescript copy.

Letter from [WSC] to 17th Lord Derby arguing that Mustafa Kemal Pasha [later Ataturk] and a reconciled Turkey should be used as a barrier against the Bolsheviks and to safeguard British interests in the Middle East and India, and that an Anglo-French defensive alliance would be a good idea provided France agreed to let Germany revive economically and so form a barrier to the westward spread of Bolshevism. Also discusses Derby's Territorial Army division. Typescript copy.

Letter in French from ? (Chambre des Deputes, Paris, [France]) to WSC explaining why he encouraged general public discussion of Germany's plans and praising WSC and wishing him well.

Cuttings from the Morning Post: correspondence of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II between 1895 and 1914.

Letter from [Edward Marsh] to Colonel Hans von Herwarth asking on behalf of WSC questions about the Bavarian self-protection organisation, the Einwohnerwehr. Typescript copy.

Letter from Sir Alfred Yarrow to Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] enclosing an estimate of the German capacity for building submarines [see CHAR 2/74/89] and suggesting that the Germans are devoting all their ship-building resources to this. Typescript copy.

"Estimate by Sir Alfred Yarrow of the probable German means of constructing submarines". Typescript copy. Sent with CHAR 2/74/88.

Circular letter from Brigadier-General Henry Malcolm (Privatklinik Drs von Norden and Lampe, Schiferstrasse 78-82, Frankfurt-am-Main, [Germany] to the members of the Supreme Allied Council and others describing the dangerous increase in the number of criminals in Germany and the need for the German police force to be augmented and fully armed if Germany is not to succumb to Bolshevism. Typescript copy sent with CHAR 2/117/102.