Telegram from Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood, then Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States] to WSC assuring him that rumours of ill-health about President Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins [Personal Assistant and Aide to President of the United States] are greatly exaggerated.

Telegram from President Roosevelt to WSC suggesting Bathurst [Gambia], Freetown [Sierra Leone] and Liberia as delivery points in Africa for planes supplied by the United States; also comments on favourable American reaction to Freezing of German and Italian assets in the United States.

Telegram from Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood, then Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States] to WSC reporting President Roosevelt's proposal for United States air bases at Bathurst [Gambia], Freetown [Sierra Leone] and Liberia, and the necessity of getting fighters to that part of the world to ease anxieties of Free French colonies.

Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt welcoming the proposed ferry service for aircraft from Brazil to West Africa; and commenting on the failure of the latest offensive to recapture the initiative in Western Desert.

Telegram from WSC to Wendell Wilkie asking him to be cautious "lest in trying to galvanize American opinion" he discloses information which may dishearten British merchant seamen.

Telegram from Eric Seal [Deputy Secretary of the Admiralty, British Admiralty Delegation, United States] to WSC reporting the wide distribution of libellous remark attributed to WSC about United States entry into World War One, and advising WSC to make a public denial [see CHAR 20/40/94-95 ].

Telegram from Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood, then Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States] to WSC reporting his discussion with President Roosevelt regarding timing of publicity relating to arrival of first contingent of United States forces in Iceland.

Telegram from President Roosevelt to WSC "am asking Congress... to substantially increase our building of merchant ships so that we should build a minimum of five to five and a half million tons in 1942 and seven million in 1943".

Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt suggesting alignment of British, American and Canadian tank design via the creation of a joint Anglo-American Tank Board .

Telegram from WSC to Harry Hopkins [Personal Assistant and Aide to President of the United States] on need to maximise tank production in the next 6 to 9 months in order to meet the German threat in the Middle East and counter a possible invasion of the United Kingdom.

Telegram from WSC to General Sir Archibald Wavell [outgoing Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] suggesting that Averell Harriman [Special Representative of the President of the United States] should be told of changes and should await arrival of Oliver Lyttelton [later Lord Chandos, Minister of State in the Middle East] in Cairo [Egypt].

Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt on the expansion of the American merchant shipbuilding programme and commenting on the destruction of enemy submarines and merchant vessels.

Telegram from WSC to Eric Seal [Deputy Secretary of the Admiralty, British Admiralty Delegation, United States] thanking him for his telegram of 24 June [see CHAR 20/40/50 ] and referring to the denial issued by the British Embassy. With covering note from John Peck [Prime Mnister's Private Secretary To V Lawford (Foreign Office).

Telegram from Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood, then Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States] to WSC asking for the reason that [General Sir Claude] Auchinleck is replacing [General Sir Archibald] Wavell as Commander-in-Chief, Middle East. He explains that President [Franklin] Roosevelt will ask what the reason is and that it will be easier to influence comment favourably if he has the information. Typescript.

Telegram from Harry Hopkins [Personal Assistant and Aide to the President of the United States] to WSC acknowledging receipt of message about tanks.

Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt on plan for the defence of the Atlantic: He comments on implications of U-boat attacks for convoys and escorts, and regrets Senator Wheeler's indiscretion revealing the destination of United States expedition recently departed from Newfoundland [later part of Canada] for Iceland. [Telegram has been bound incorrectly, with first page at back].

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 Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood, then Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States] to WSC on legal problem of allowing American army troops to be sent abroad, which means that only marines can go to Iceland.

Telegram from WSC to General Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] on the commitment of the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to attacking Axis ships within proscribed waters.

Telegram from General Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, to WSC expressing disappointment over the lack of full commitment by Franklin Roosevelt [President of the United States].

Telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to WSC on increased tank production.

Telegram from WSC to the Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] advising on his speech as Governor of the Bahamas to the Dollar Press Club, concentrating on partnership with the United States. [See CHAR 20/42B/139 for Windsor's letter].

Telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to WSC on projected supply of tanks.

Telegram from 11th Lord Lothian [British Ambassador to the United States, earlier Philip Kerr] to Foreign Office on unfavourable United States newspaper reports that the ship of the Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] will be accompanied by a convoy in breach of United States neutrality; Lothian will maintain that "I have no precise knowledge about His Royal Highness's plans or arrangements". [Copy].