Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to the Prime Minister of Australia [John Curtin]: recites telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to WSC regarding American reinforcements for Australia, New Zealand and the South West Pacific [see CHAR 20/71B/101-104]; comments on plans to ship British divisions to the Middle East or India; states his belief that the presence of United States forces in ANZAC [Australian and New Zealand Army Corps] area will lead to United States naval...

Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to the Prime Minister of New Zealand [Peter Fraser]: recites telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to WSC regarding American reinforcements for Australia, New Zealand and the South West Pacific [see CHAR 20/71B/101-104]; comments on plans to ship British divisions to the Middle East or India; states that presence of United States forces in ANZAC [Australian and New Zealand Army Corps] area will lead to United States naval protection and...

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Telegram from Field Marshal Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] to WSC regarding the need for a definite strategical plan for the British and United States navies in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

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Telegram from the Prime Minister of New Zealand [Peter Fraser] to WSC regarding reinforcements for New Zealand: comments on dates for the despatch and arrival of United States troops; comments on the difficulties in leaving a New Zealand division in the Middle East; comments on the strength of proposed reinforcements for the Far East from the United States and Britain.

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, January 1944.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; General Sir Henry Wilson [Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean Theatre]; Desmond Morton [Prime Minister's Personal Assistant]; the Chiefs of Staff; senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the...

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, February 1944. Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; the Chiefs of Staff; Colonel Ian Jacob [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Thomas Dugdale [later 1st Lord Crathorne, Chairman of the Conservative Party];...

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, March 1944.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers, particularly Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon]; senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; the Chiefs of Staff; Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant...

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, April 1944.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers, particularly Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon]; the Chiefs of Staff; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; General Sir Bernard Montgomery [General Officer Commanding the Eighth Army]; Director of Military Intelligence [Major-General Francis...

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, May 1944.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: the Chiefs of Staff; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers, particularly Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon]; Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the...

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, June 1944.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers, particularly Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon]; the Chiefs of Staff; Major-General Leslie Hollis and Colonel Ian Jacob...

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, July 1944.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; the Chiefs of Staff; "C" [Major General Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service]; Major General Robert Laycock [Chief...

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, September 1944.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Major-General Leslie Hollis and Colonel Ian Jacob [Military Assistant Secretaries to the War Cabinet]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; "C" [Major General Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of...

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, October 1944.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Air Chief Marshal Arthur Harris [Commander in Chief Bomber Command]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers, particularly Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon]; the...

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, December 1944.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Major-General Leslie Hollis and Colonel Ian Jacob [Military Assistant Secretaries to the War Cabinet]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; the Chief Whip [James Stuart].Subjects covered by...

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Telegram from WSC to Governor of Burma [later Myanmar, Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith] ordering him to return by air to India "If and when you feel you cannot do any good by remaining". Repeated to Viceroy and Governor-General of India [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun] with a request to pass a copy of the telegram to General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander-in-Chief, India].

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Telegram from the Governor of Burma [Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith] to WSC stating that he will leave Burma [later Myanmar] at dawn on 5 May 1942: "With a very heavy heart I will obey your orders.".

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Telegram from General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander- in-Chief, India] stating that he cannot extract General Harold Alexander [General Officer Commanding, Burma] from Burma [later Myanmar] until he reaches Kalewa.

Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander-in-Chief, India: undertakes to keep Wavell more fully informed of the whole picture and states that Lieutenant-General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to WSC] has responsibility for this; comments on "Operation Ironclad" [codename for operation against Diego Suarez, Madagascar]; comments on naval strength in the Indian Ocean; comments on the effect of damage to HMS King George V and the presence of the German battleship Tirpitz...

Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, commenting on the improving situation and declining Auchinleck's offer to denude the Middle East further for the sake of India; comments on the war in the Far East, the possibility of the Japanese menacing Port Moresby [Papua] and Darwin [Australia], and the Japanese reinforcement of the Russian - Manchurian front; comments on reasons for believing that a heavy invasion of India is not imminent and describes...

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Telegram from General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander- in-Chief, India] to WSC commenting on "Ironclad" [codename for operation against Diego Suarez, Madagascar], the situation in Ceylon [later Sri Lanka] and Burma [later Myanmar], General Harold Alexander [General Officer Commanding, Burma], and the defence of India.

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Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt]: "Delighted to hear your good news from the Solomons" [victory over Japanese invasion fleet].

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Telegram from WSC to the Prime Minister of New Zealand [Peter Fraser] regarding Operation "Ironclad" [codename for operation against Diego Suarez, Madagascar]: "There were considerable risks which up to the present seem to have been successfully overridden.".

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Telegram from WSC to Rear-Admiral [Edward] Neville Syfret and Major-General Robert Sturges [Commanders of taskforce for operation against Madagascar, "Ironclad"] congratulating them on the operation with an added remark for 29th Brigade only.

Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] marked "personal and secret" requesting supplies of aircraft: asks for help in securing a loan of 200 Martlets (fighter aircraft) to help meet the threat posed by Japanese aircraft carriers equipped with fighter dive-bombers; asks for an early supply of transport aircraft for use by British airborne forces during the summer; suggests that American airborne units should be sent to train alongside their British...

Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to Rear-Admiral [Edward] Neville Syfret [Commander Force "H" Sea Command] marked "most secret" commenting on the Madagascar operation [codenamed "Ironclad"]: states that the 13th and 17th Brigades must go on to India almost immediately; comments on the change in situation in the Indian Ocean, the build-up of the British fleet and the unlikelihood of an attempt by the Japanese to occupy Madagascar; states that Syfret must decide whether to take Tamatave and Majunga in the...