Telegram from WSC to Premier Joseph Stalin: states that 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken] is off to Washington [United States] to "help smooth out the Treaty question" [on confirming the borders of the Soviet Union]; comments on lunch with Ivan Maisky [Soviet Ambassador to Britain] and the implications of the use of poison gas by Germany against the Soviet Union; recommends the new British Ambassador to the Soviet Union [Sir Archibald Kerr, later 1st Lord Inverchapel].

Telegram from WSC to Premier Joseph Stalin regarding chemical weapons: states that he will issue a warning to Germany and Finland about British retaliation for poison gas attacks against the Soviet Union at the beginning of May; asks that Stalin send a specialist to explain Soviet requirements; offers to supply mustard and bleaching materials to the Soviet Union in advance of an expert's report.

Telegram from Sir Archibald Clark Kerr [British Ambassador to the Soviet Union, later 1st Lord Inverchapel] to WSC reciting a message from Joseph Stalin regarding his decision to send Vyacheslav Molotov [Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs] to London.

Telegram from Harry Hopkins [Special adviser and assistant to the President of the United States] to WSC regarding accumulations of shipping for the Soviet Union and asking if more ships can be carried in the next convoys in order to clear this up.

Telegram from WSC to Premier Joseph Stalin thanking him for meeting "our difficulties in the Treaty" [Treaty of Alliance between the Soviet Union and Britain], expressing pleasure that Vyacheslav Molotov [Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs] will be returning to London, commenting on the progress of a convoy to the Soviet Union and conveying his sincere good wishes and confidence of victory. Initialled.

Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt, with minutes of a meeting held at 10 Downing Street at 11am on Friday 22 May between representatives of the British Government and Vyacheslav Molotov [Soviet Commissar for Foreign] and his advisers concerning the opening of a second front in Europe by Britain and the United States.

Telegram from the Minister of State in the Middle East [Richard Casey] to WSC marked "most secret" regarding the need for co-ordination of plans with the Soviet Union against the possibility of a German attack through the Caucasus in the autumn and suggesting ways in which the political obstacles might be overcome.

Telegram from WSC to Premier Joseph Stalin marked "immediate, personal and secret" suggesting that the Germans may be contemplating an attack on Murmansk [Soviet Union], asking for his opinion on joint operations in the area and asking whether Stalin wishes for the six squadrons of the RAF mentioned in his aide-memoire to Vyacheslav Molotov [Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs].

Telegram from Foreign Office to Moscow reciting the text of a message of support from WSC to Premier Joseph Stalin, to be conveyed to Stalin on 22 June on the occasion of the first anniversary of the Soviet Union entering the war.

Telegram from Premier Joseph Stalin to WSC marked "personal and secret" commenting on the desirability of joint operations to repel a German invasion of the Soviet Union from northern Norway and Finland, asking about participation by British naval and land forces, and inquiring when the six British squadrons will arrive in the Murmansk [Soviet Union] area.

Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "personal and secret" regarding the northern shipping convoys to the Soviet Union: reports on the heavy losses sustained by PQ 17 [June convoy]; advises against running PQ 18 [July convoy]; comments on the future prospects of supplying Russia by this northern route; states that allied shipping losses for week ending July 13 were 400,000 tons, " a rate unexampled in either this war or the last".

Telegram from Premier Stalin to WSC marked "personal and secret" informing him of the deterioration of the situation in the Stalingrad area [Soviet Union] since the beginning of September, due to German air superiority, and asking for supplies of fighter aircraft from Great Britain and the United States. Claims that Germany are manufacturing not less than 2500 combat aircraft a month, far more than the 1300 suggested by British intelligence.

Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "personal and secret" informing him that he has just received the immediately following telegram from Stalin [see CHAR 20/80/132], stating that he feels a desperate effort ought to be made to meet this request, and commenting on the implications. Initialled.

Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "personal and secret" reciting text of telegram from Stalin to WSC regarding the deterioration of the situation at Stalingrad [Soviet Union] and requesting supplies of fighter aircraft from Great Britain and the United States [see CHAR 20/80/126-127].