Telegram from Stalin to WSC on Anglo-Soviet solidarity following German aggression towards the Soviet Union; with reply from WSC promising help via the North, as allowed by limitations of resource and geography.

Telegram from WSC to Stalin promising to send 200 Tomahawk Fighter planes and 2 - 3 million pairs of ankle boots.

Telegram from WSC to 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister of Supply, British Supply Mission to the Soviet Union, earlier Max Aitken] asking him or Sir Stafford Cripps [British Ambassador to the Soviet Union] to stress to Stalin the importance of the scorched earth policy with relation to ships.

Telegram from WSC to 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister of Supply, earlier Max Aitken] enclosing telegram to Stalin with list of tanks, aircraft and supplies in October convoys.

Telegram from Sir Stafford Cripps [British Ambassador to the Soviet Union] to WSC and 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister of Supply, earlier Max Aitken] requesting trained staff, and transportation, to handle goods arriving in Archangel.

Telegram from WSC to Stalin promising lorries as requested; also will uphold Soviet interests in Caspian Basin if Soviet divisions are required elsewhere.

Telegram from WSC to Stalin agreeing to declare war on Finland if they do not break with the Axis in 2 weeks; if German-Italian Army defeated in desert will send Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon] to discuss progress of war and post-war peace settlement.

Telegram from Stalin to WSC on declaration of war on Finland, Romania and Hungary; welcomes visit by Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon].

Telegram from WSC to Sir Stafford Cripps [British Ambassador to the Soviet Union] (Moscow), for personal delivery to Marshal Stalin, informing Stalin that Germany had been transferring Panzer Divisions from Romania to Southern Poland, but has stopped due to the Serbian revolt [information learned from Enigma decrypts].

Telegram [from WSC] to [Sir Stafford Cripps, British Ambassador to the Soviet Union] (Moscow) on the postponement of German plans to attack the Soviet Union, suggesting Marshal Stalin should begin defensive preparations and court allies.

Cuttings from the Times reporting a speech by Oliver Lyttelton, Minister of Production [later 1st Lord Chandos] on Anglo-Soviet week, the German onslaught against the Soviet Union and the need to do more to help; with letter of complaint from William Gallacher [with transcript]; includes filing note.

Telegram from WSC to Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon, in Moscow, Soviet Union] suggesting recent Soviet success may make Stalin willing to declare war on Japan.

Telegrams from WSC to Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon, in Moscow, Soviet Union] with [? Chiefs of Staff] views on "whether it would be to our advantage if Russia declared war on Japan"; asking whether Soviet government would lend part of Far Eastern Submarine fleet and crew to sail under British flag.

Telegrams from Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon, in Moscow, Soviet Union] to WSC asking opinion on the Soviet Union declaring war on Japan; will explain to Stalin importance of Libyan campaign, Crusader [codename for major British operation in North Africa].

Telegram from WSC to [Alfred] Duff Cooper [Resident Cabinet Minister at Singapore for Far Eastern affairs, later 1st Lord Norwich] advising that Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall's appointment as Commander-in-Chief, Far East should not yet be announced; transfer of troops to Eastern theatre; German defeat at hands of Soviet Union.

Telegrams from Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon] to WSC on discussions with Stalin who proposed signing secret protocol on post-war frontiers; Eden agreed to pass on details to British and United States governments; German links with Japan; effect of winter on German forces in the Soviet Union.

Telegram from WSC to Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon] (Moscow, Soviet Union) rejecting discussion with Stalin about post-war frontiers.