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Telegram from Robert Menzies [Prime Minister of Australia] to WSC on need for capital ships in Far East to defend Singapore, Malaya [later Malaysia] and Thailand and discourage Japan from entering the war.

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Telegram from [Franklin Roosevelt] President of the United States to WSC on discussions with the Japanese Ambassador to the United States [Kichisaburo Nomura]; Roosevelt insisted that hostile actions by the Japanese Government in the Pacific must cease before informal talks could recommence.

Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to the British High Commissioners in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa for the Prime Ministers [Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia, Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand and General Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa] with account of WSC's meeting with Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States [at Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, later part of Canada] on: United States convoys to Iceland;...

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Telegram from WSC to Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand [Arthur Fadden and Peter Fraser] on favourable situation in Japan following declaration from United States on Pacific, and Soviet commitment.

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Telegram from Prime Minister of Australia [Arthur Fadden] to WSC thanking him for his reassurances over Japan.

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Telegram from WSC to the Prime Minister of Australia [John Curtin] advising that evacuation of Tobruk [Libya] has begun; doubts that Japan will attack until the Soviet Union falls; will send new battleship Prince of Wales to join Repulse in Indian Ocean.

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Telegram from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to WSC on Japanese preparations to attack China at Kunming; suggests once China has been defeated Japan will turn attention to the West so British and United States air force help now would decisively frustrate Japanese aggression.

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Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] and General Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's plea for air support; suggests a joint ultimatum to Japan, but asks advice.

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Telegram from WSC to the Prime Minister of Canada [Mackenzie King] on sending of Prince of Wales to join Repulse in the Indian Ocean, to contain Tirpitz.

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Telegram from General Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] to WSC favouring aid for China against Japan, as this may encourage the United States into the war.

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Telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to WSC on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's appeal for support; does not believe Japan will attack but will try to increase Lend-Lease assistance to China.

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Telegram from WSC to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on provision of 3 squadrons under Major-General Claire Chennault [Commander of the United States Army Air Force Units in China] for China.

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Telegram from General Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] to WSC on talks with Admiral Sir Tom Phillips [Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Fleet]; expresses doubts about capability of 2 separate fleets to combat superior Japanese fleet.

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Telegram from WSC to the Prime Minister of Australia [John Curtin] on the co-ordination of defence between Britain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, including the need to incorporate the United States contribution into the south western Pacific, and the defence of Australia itself; Australian, New Zealander and Dutch representatives will report via London to Washington until a Supreme Commander has been appointed.

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Telegram from General Sir Archibald Wavell [Supreme Commander, South West Pacific] to WSC responding to T 33/2 [CHAR 20/ 68 A/47]; Dutch submarines already in use in Malaya [later Malaysia].

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Telegram from the Prime Minister of New Zealand [Peter Fraser] to WSC thanking him for essential arms and equipment for the defence of Fiji and New Zealand.

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Telegram from the Prime Minister of Australia, John Curtin, to WSC urging air-borne reinforcement of Malaya [later Malaysia] before the 8th Australian Division fight a decisive battle against the Japanese.

Scope and Contents Telegram from the Prime Minister of New Zealand [Peter Fraser] to WSC reviewing recent developments, including: an anticipated German attack in North Africa; the feeling that Britain is less concerned with the Pacific than with Europe; WSC's discussions with the President of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt; the definition of South West Pacific; the division of the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean into different theatres; the need for naval supremacy against Japan which has already...

Scope and Contents Telegram from [Alfred] Duff Cooper [Resident Cabinet Minister at Singapore for Far Eastern affairs and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, later 1st Lord Norwich] to WSC and the Secretary of State for the Colonies [1st Lord Moyne, earlier Walter Guinness] on a lack of confidence in the local administration: suggests Major-General Keith Simmons, Fortress Commander, be appointed as military governor, supported by Brigadier Simson, Director General of Civil Defence, and that Hugh Fraser...

Scope and Contents Telegram from General Sir Archibald Wavell [Supreme Commander, South West Pacific] to WSC with impressions of personalities in Batavia [later Djakarta, Java, Dutch East Indies, later Indonesia]: Hart, [Admiral Thomas Hart, United States Admiral in the Pacific], Palliser [? Rear-Admiral Arthur Palliser, Chief of Staff to Commander- in-Chief, Eastern Fleet], Brett [Lieutenant-General George Brett, Commander of Allied air forces, Dutch East Indies], General Hein ter Poorten [Commander-in-Chief,...

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Telegram from the Prime Minister of Australia [John Curtin] to WSC asking for confirmation of press statement that General Sir Archibald Wavell will command United States and British land operations in the Pacific whilst Admiral King [? Admiral Ernest King, United States Navy] will command the combined navies.

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Telegram from General Sir Archibald Wavell [Supreme Commander, South West Pacific] to WSC on defence of Batavia [later Djakarta, Java, Dutch East Indies, later Indonesia] against Japanese attack across Johore Straits.

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Telegram from WSC to the Prime Minister of New Zealand [Peter Fraser] sympathising with his complaints about lack of support [see telegram T 42/2, CHAR 20/68A/60-66] and explaining developments for defence of the Anzac [Australian and New Zealand Army Corps] area, especially a representative council in London, and the scope of the ABDA [Australian, British, Dutch and Australasian] area.

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Telegram from the Prime Minister of Australia, John Curtin, to WSC on disagreements over the defence of Malaya [later Malaysia] and the speed of Japanese advance and vulnerability of Australia if Singapore falls.

Scope and Contents Telegrams from WSC to General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander- in-Chief, Middle East, on redeployment of troops: Australians to move from Middle East to Far East; United States forces to Northern Ireland (codenamed "Magnet"), the Levant and Caspian Sea, and to Iceland for training; United States contribution to "Gymnast" [codename for the plans for the British occupation of North West Africa] will be "Super- Gymnast" [codename for a combined landing by British and United States forces], and...