Telegram from WSC to Field Marshal Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] marked "most secret and personal" reciting the second part of a telegram of 7 June [see also CHAR 20/76/5] from Major-General Robert Sturges [Officer commanding land forces during occupation of Madagascar] regarding negotiations with the Vichy French authorities in Madagascar.Filed out of chronological sequence.

Telegram from Field Marshal Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] to WSC marked "most secret and personal" congratulating WSC on the blitz on Cologne [Germany] and commenting on the battle in Libya and the enemy submarine attack at Diego Suarez [Madagascar].

Telegram from WSC to Field Marshal Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] reciting text of an aide memoire sent to the French Governor-General [Armand Annet] by Major-General Robert Sturges [Officer commanding land forces during occupation of Madagascar] suggesting acceptable terms of agreement.

Telegram from the High Commissioner for Britain in South Africa [4th Lord Harlech, earlier William Ormsby-Gore] to WSC marked "most secret and personal" informing WSC of the grave apprehension of Field Marshal Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] that information about allied forces in Diego Suarez [Madagascar] and the Mozambique Channel will reach the enemy if Armand Annet [Vichy French Governor-General of Madagascar] is allowed to continue communicating freely with Vichy France.

Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] regarding the project to send supplies from the United States to French North Africa: comments on the value of contacts between the United States and Vichy France but asks that nothing should interfere with operation "IRONCLAD" [operation against Diego Suarez, Madagascar]; comments on the operation and proposes dropping leaflets suggesting the attack was Anglo-American.

Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "most secret and personal" stating his belief that the danger of offensive action by the French fleet would be reduced by the presence of United States warships in the Mediterranean, and suggesting the temporary attachment for four or five days of four American destroyers to British naval units, to be replaced in the American Atlantic flotilla by a corresponding number of British destroyers.

Telegram from President Roosevelt to WSC marked "most secret" reciting text of press release for issue to the United States press immediately following the American landings in French North West Africa [Codename "Torch"].

Telegram from WSC, Former Naval Person, to President Roosevelt marked "personal and secret" on subjects including: the good progress of the Battle of Egypt [a reference to the Second Battle of El Alamein, Egypt]; his opinion that Roosevelt's proposed message to [Marshal Philippe] Petain [Head of Vichy Government, France] is too kind and may have an undesirable effect on the de Gaullists [Free French]; and arrangements for transport for [Henri] Giraud to Gibraltar. Typescript.

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].

Minute from Desmond Morton [Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC reporting on a meeting with Colonel [Jacques] Balsan and informing him that Balsan is undertaking the co-ordination of secret resistance work in France and planning the post-liberation feeding of children in France. Typescript signed with initials.

Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] on state of offensive in Libya; essential to success to retain General Maxime Weygand [Governor-General of Algeria and Delegate-General of Vichy Government in French Africa], or not to have pro-German, as leader of Vichy France in Africa.

Telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to WSC congratulating him on success in Libya; advises that Marshal Philippe Petain [Chief of French State] has removed General Maxime Weygand [Governor-General of Algeria and Delegate-General of Vichy Government in French Africa] and French High Military Command North Africa will be administered from Vichy potentially giving Germany diplomatic control.

Telegram from General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander -in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC listing ground and air forces used for "Exporter" [codename for Allied and Free French advance into Syria] and "Bruiser"; and complaining of BBC coverage of de Gaulle's [secret] trip to Palestine [later Israel].

Telegram from General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander -in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC on local objections to General Georges Catroux's assumption of title "High Commissioner of Syria"; and noting that Edward Spears [Head of British Mission To General Charles de Gaulle] has failed to persuade de Gaulle to change the title.

Telegram from WSC to General Charles de Gaulle [Chief of the Free French] asking him not to insist on declaring General Georges Catroux High Commissioner of Syria.

Telegram from General Edward Spears [Head of British Mission to General Charles de Gaulle] to WSC on the undermining of the British guarantee to Syria by the Free French position regarding Syrian independence.

Telegram from General Edward Spears [Head of British Mission to General Charles de Gaulle] to WSC on discussion with General de Gaulle [Chief of the Free French]regarding British support of the Free French in Syria despite their local unpopularity.

Telegram from WSC to General Charles de Gaulle [Chief of the Free French] wishing him success in their joint venture in the Levant, promising not to exploit the tragic position of France, and pledging support for Free French grant of independence to Syria and the Lebanon.

Telegram from General Charles de Gaulle [Chief of the Free French] to WSC agreeing to style General Georges Catroux "Delegue et Plenipotentiare" in Syria, and promising to respect the neutrality of the states of Levant in return for a guarantee of the special interests of France, in order to maintain morale.

Telegram from WSC to Robert Menzies [Prime Minister of Australia] suggesting that their personal and confidential telegrams be coded "Winch"; stating that the outcome in Syria depends on "which way the two French cats jump" [Vichy and Free France]; and referring to operation "Jaguar".