Telegram from WSC to Prime Minister of Canada [Mackenzie King] advising breaking off diplomatic relations with Vichy France and conveying message to General Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] for French Legation in South Africa.

Telegram from the French Naval Attache, (London) to the French Ministry of Marine, on reports that the Germans intended to make use of the Spanish coasts for sowing mines in the Strait of Gibraltar and along the south coast of Spain; the Attache suggests that a French ship should visit the Spanish ports to help Spanish destroyers keep a lookout. [Carbon].

Note by the Admiralty War Staff, showing the strength of French, Italian and Austrian Fleets in the Adriatic. [Typescript].

Note by the Admiralty War Staff, listing available French Warships from the Mediterranean. [Typescript].

Statistics on changes on military and naval expenditure in Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary and Japan, 1904-1913. [Carbon].

Precis of conversation between WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty and the French Naval Attache, on Anglo-French naval co-operation in the event of war. [Carbon copy with ms annotations, initialled by WSC].

Letter from Ava, Lady Anderson [earlier Ava Wigram, later Ava, Lady Waverley] to WSC sending a letter [enclosed, in French] from [Andre] Charles Corbin [former French Ambassador to Britain] asking her to write to him and speaking of the hope in France for a British victory; Lady Anderson also passes on a comment from Sir Eric Phipps [former British Ambassador to France] on the escape of General Henri Giraud from France. [See CHAR 20/55/67 and also.

Cutting from the News Chronicle of article on Admiral Jean Darlan [Commander-in-Chief of land, air and sea forces, Vichy France] by [Charles] Vernon Bartlett, including letter of praise from WSC and Bartlett's reply.

Memorandum from Sir Waldron Smithers on the part played by Pierre Laval [Prime Minister of France] in making peace between France and Germany; with covering letter from Henry Strutt [Principal Private Secretary to Home Secretary] to John Martin [Private Secretary to WSC], annotated by Major Desmond Morton [Personal Assistant to WSC].

Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] regarding the assent of General Charles de Gaulle [Chief of Free French] to the publication of a communique by the United States, British and Canadian governments on the subject of the overthrow by an overwhelming popular vote of "Vichy-ites" on "two tiny islands" [? Saint Pierre and Miquelon].

Telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to WSC enclosing a copy of the United States statement of policy towards France sent to Marshal Philippe Petain [Head of Vichy Government in France] on 20 January 1942, with account of message from William Leahy [United States Ambassador to Vichy France] containing Petain's response and Leahy's conclusions.

Collected telegrams from the French Admiralty on the chances of the [German battle cruiser] Goeben escaping from the Dardanelles [Turkey] and also on suggested naval reinforcements. [Duplicate typescript].

Agreement between the Admiralty and the French Ministry of Marine on joint Anglo-French naval policy, particularly in the Mediterranean, for the destruction of the [German battle cruiser] Goeben and the [light cruiser] Breslau. [Duplicate typescript].

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] reporting his meeting with the French Naval Attache, Jean, Comte de Saint- Seine, on the possibility of joint action in the Mediterranean. [Hand-written copy by Edward Marsh, Private Secretary to WSC].

Precis of a conversation between WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty and the French Naval Attache [Jean, Comte de Saint-Seine], on co-operation between the two navies on the outbreak of war. [Carbon copy].

Telegram from the Ministry of Marine, Bordeaux [France], to the [French Naval Attaché, (London)], asking about the Admiralty's intentions for supporting the French Army on the Western Front. [Carbon].

Letter from [Sir] William Garthwaite to WSC describing a trip to Berlin in 1935 where he met [Hermann] Goering, von Duerckheim and [Joachim] von Ribbentrop, and asked them about France, Italy and attitudes to German Jews.