Telegram from WSC to President Harry Truman marked "Personal and Top Secret" requesting his support for British intervention to stop fighting in Syria; and repeating the text of a message he intends to send to General de Gaulle [President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic] on hearing from Truman, appealing for French troops to withdraw to their barracks.

Telegram from WSC to Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander [later 1st Lord Alexander of Tunis, Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean Theatre] marked "Personal and Secret" congratulating him [on arranging the withdrawal of French troops from north-western Italy].

Telegram from WSC to President Harry Truman marked "Personal and Top Secret" hoping he will not visit France before he visits Britain. [Carbon copy].

Draft telegram to the British Ambassador [to France, Alfred Duff Cooper, later 1st Lord Norwich] (Paris) passing on a message from WSC to [Felix] Gouin [President of the French Assembly] thanking him and the members of the Consultative Assembly for their "generous message".

Telegram from [Alfred] Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord Norwich, British Ambassador to France] (Paris) to Foreign Office passing on a message from [Felix] Gouin, President of the French Assembly, to WSC congratulating him on behalf of the Assembly members on victory. [Carbon copy; despatched on 9 May; received on 10 May].

Telegram from WSC to General [Charles] de Gaulle [President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic] (Paris) thanking him for his message, commenting on de Gaulle's stature, and generally on France's role in the war and prospects for the future, ending "Vive la France!". [Carbon copy; annotated by D Mackay].

Telegram from WSC to General [Charles] de Gaulle [President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic] thanking him for his message, commenting on de Gaulle's stature, and generally on France's role in the war and prospects for the future, ending "Vive la France!". [Carbon copy of text].

Telegram from General [Charles] de Gaulle [President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic] (Paris) to WSC paying tribute to WSC at the end of hostilities and hoping for close future co-operation between their countries.

Statement on 10 Downing Street paper containing the text of a telegram from WSC to General [Charles] de Gaulle [President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic] thanking him for his message, commenting on de Gaulle's stature, and generally on France's role in the war and prospects for the future, ending "Vive la France!". [annotated and initialled by WSC].

Telegram from the Foreign Office to Paris [France] passing on a message from WSC to [Felix] Gouin [President of the French Assembly] thanking him and the members of the Consultative Assembly for their "generous message". [Carbon copy].

Letter from WSC to Rene Massigli [French Ambassador to Great Britain] thanking him for his letter of 8 May and for his "loyal co-operation during the difficult days" of the war. [Carbon copy; annotated by the Private Office].

Letter from [Rene] Massigli, French Ambassador [to Great Britain] (London) to WSC describing his feelings on VE-Day, remembering the British and Resistance dead, and the broadcasts from Britain to France. [signed with manuscript annotations].

Draft letter from WSC to French Ambassador [to Great Britain, Rene Massigli] thanking him for his letter of 8 May and for his "loyal co-operation during the difficult days" of the war.

Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "Personal and Top Secret" repeating the text of his telegram to Marshal Stalin on the questions of a Franco-Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance and extending France's eastern frontier to the left bank of the Rhine [CHAR 20/176/83-84].

Letter from Charles Montag (Paris [France]) to WSC asking him to meet Roland Pre who has worked for the French Resistance with great success; led the French mission to Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; and organised the Republican Guard and police force in France before the liberation of Paris. Signed typescript.

Letter from Charles Montag (72, Rue de Paris-Meudon, Paris [France]) to WSC asking him to meet Roland Pre who will discuss French affairs with him confidentially and suggesting that such a discussion will unify British and French interests. Signed typescript.

Note from Desmond Morton [Personal Assistant to WSC] to WSC enclosing a report [CHAR 20/198B/199-201] about internal politics in France after an interview with [Roland] Pre suggesting that WSC should send a reply to [Charles] Montag. Typescript signed with initials.

Extract from an article by Alistair Forbes in the Daily Mail commenting on the recall of Major General Sir Edward Spears from Beirut [Lebanon] [where he had been First Minister to the Republics of Syria and the Lebanon] and stating that this "removes the most obstinate fly, or should one say wasp, from the Anglo-French ointment". [Typescript].

Extract from an article in the Sunday Pictorial commenting on the resignation of General "Sir Arthur" Spears [Major General Sir Edward Spears] from his job as "British Minister to Syria and Lebanon" [First Minister to the Republics of Syria and the Lebanon], and stating that, "In fact he is coming home because de Gaulle [General Charles de Gaulle, President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic] has had enough of him". [Typescript].

Letter from Austen Chamberlain (11 Downing Street) to WSC expressing agreement with WSC's telegram about the Washington Conference and with David Lloyd George's memorandum from Cannes and suggesting that nothing more can be done until Raymond Poincare has defined his attitude.

Letter from William Tyrrell [later 1st Lord Tyrrell] (Foreign Office) to Edward Marsh asserting that the publication of CHAR 2/120/81-86 and that some one like WSC must tell France that Britain attaches no conditions to its friendship but France must help it recover economically.