Telegram from Foreign Office to Sir Percy Loraine [British Ambassador to Italy] requiring him to apologise to Count [Galeazzo] Ciano [Italian Foreign Minister] on behalf of HM Government for the views expressed by David Lloyd George in a Daily Express article, and disassociating the British Government from any opinions voiced by the British press. [carbon].

Copy of a minute from WSC to Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance] on war reparations and the payment of war debts to the United States. WSC feels that there is a good prospect of obtaining reparations from Europe, including 25 million pounds a year from Germany, and that they should wait for proposals from France and Italy. He advocates an open statement that all previous offers have lapsed.

Letter from WSC to [Alfred] Duff Cooper [Minister of Information, later 1st Lord Norwich] disagreeing with his opinions about the defeat of the Italian Army at Caporetto [Italy, 1917]. [Copy and carbon, with envelope].

Letter from Admiral [Sir Roger] Keyes to WSC on plans to make a show of strength which would deter [Benito] Mussolini, asking to be allowed to act as quickly as possible.

Letter from R Noel Cripps to 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister of State, earlier Max Aitken] urging a bombing campaign to destroy Italian communications; details which power stations and railway lines to target, possibly using fifth columnists; refers to dynamite laid in La Poretta tunnel by Captain Piercy in 1935 which was never detonated; includes filing note. [Typescript copy].

Telegram from Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States] (Washington) to WSC on Count [Carlo] Sforza's suggestion that Britain should offer to evacuate Italian women and children from Ethiopia [Abyssinia], thus gaining international admiration and undermining Benito Mussolini's propaganda. [see CHAR 20/37/38 for President Franklin Roosevelt's comments].

Telegram from President [Franklin] Roosevelt to "the Former Naval Person" [WSC] on Count Carlo Sforza's suggestion for the evacuation of Italian women and children from Ethiopia [Abyssinia]. [see also CHAR 20/37/31 and CHAR 20/37/41-42 for WSC's reply].

Telegram from "Former Naval Person" [WSC] to President [Franklin Roosevelt] on the impossibility of Count [Carlo] Sforza's suggestion about Italian evacuation. [for Roosevelt's telegram see.

Telegram from Koryzis [President of the Council, Athens, Greece] to WSC with congratulations on the Royal Navy's success against the Italian fleet. [in French].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 3rd Sea Lord [Rear-Admiral Archibald Moore], on the report from [? Captain William Boyle, later 12th Lord Cork and Orrery], British Naval Attache at Rome [Italy], on an increase in the Italian naval programme of four battleships of the "Queen Elizabeth" type, and the implications for British battleships. [Carbon].

Speech by Leo Amery [Secretary of State for India and Burma (later Myanmar)], at Newmarket [Suffolk] on Benito Mussolini's attack on Greece and the overall position of the Empire in the war. [Typescript copy].

Letter from Guglielmo Marconi (Grand Hotel, Rome) to WSC, praising his remarks to the Giornale d'Italia on Italy and the international situation. Marconi emphasises the friendship for Britain and France in Italy, commenting that German and Austrian flags could not be shown in any part of the country.

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

Minute from Prince Louis of Battenberg [1st Sea Lord, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on observing the Italian declaration of neutrality. Includes reply by WSC. [Typescript copy].

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

Memorandum by WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, for the War Cabinet entitled "Possible Detente with Italy in the Mediterranean"; discusses need to build up common interests with Italy, perhaps in the Balkans, and to keep U-boat war out of the Mediterranean.

"Weekly Intelligence Commentary no. 51" from the War Office General Staff. Covers 1 to 8 August 1940 and divided into sections on: 1. Germany (distribution of German divisions); 2. Italy and Italian possessions; 3. Balkan States and Turkey: a) Romania; b) Turkey; 4. Finland; 5. Far East.

"Weekly Intelligence Commentary no. 54" from the War Office General Staff. Covers 22 to 29 August 1940 and divided into sections on: 1. Germany: a) German intentions; b) 18 mm Infantry Mortar; c) distribution of German divisions. 2. Italy and Italian possessions; 3. Balkan States: a) Romania; b) Hungary; c) Greece.