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Telegram from WSC [Yalta, Soviet Union] to Deputy Prime Minister [Clement Attlee] for the War Cabinet marked "From: Argonaut", "Jason 221", and "Personal and Top Secret" enclosing the texts of the Soviet proposal and the revised [Allied] proposal on the future Polish frontiers and government.

Scope and Contents Telegram from [John] Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary, Yalta, Soviet Union] to Private Office marked "From: Argonaut", "Jason 321", and "Personal" passing on a message from WSC to Deputy Prime Minister [Clement Attlee] for the War Cabinet: reporting discussions [at the Yalta Conference] on Soviet representation in the United Nations Assembly, Poland, France and General Charles de Gaulle [President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic], and military...

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Telegram from the Foreign Office to Sir Louis Mallett, [British Ambassador to Turkey], on the Russian decision to recall their Ambassador in Constantinople [later Istanbul], and on Britain's response to Turkey's violations of neutrality. Mallet is ordered to leave Constantinople unless the Turkish Government dismisses the German Military and Naval Missions. [Carbon].

Scope and Contents Letter from David Lloyd George [Chancellor of the Exchequer] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on that day's Cabinet discussion on the political and military situation in Eastern Europe: Lloyd George passes on the Cabinet's decision not to send in ships if France and Russia did not, in order to give Austria a free hand; explains his fears that a naval failure could mean the end of the Triple Entente; and his decision to support the policy of Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary]. [Marked...

Scope and Contents Letter from Desmond Morton (Earlylands, Crockham Hill, Edenbridge, Kent) to WSC, congratulating him on his speech [on the Anglo-German Naval Agreement], "recalling attention to the fact that Germany remains the true menace to European peace", and remarking on how those ministers previously mildly opposed to the anti-German attitude have reversed their positions. He also points out the Foreign Secretary [Sir Samuel Hoare, later 1st Lord Templewood]'s sudden change of attitude, the lunacy of...

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Letter from Leo Amery (112 Eaton Square, London SW1) to WSC, sending copy of book [? The Forward View], explaining his opposition to the League of Nations as a coercive body.

Scope and Contents Letter from Desmond Morton, Crookham Hill, Edenbridge, Kent, to WSC, congratulations on speech in the House of Commons on German re-armament, commenting that Germany had not liked the speech "but resentfully admired it in private". Also commenting that League of Nations sanctions were becoming a mockery, and that although Britain should continue to support the League it should not overrate the League's power "when opposed to that of Germany whose strength and cunning, compared with Italy,...

Scope and Contents Letter from Captain Gerald Muirhead-Gould, Naval Attache, British Embassy, Berlin, (sent from Warsaw, Poland) to WSC, praising his speech of 24 Oct in the House of Commons on German re-armament. Commenting that he had to wait until he left Germany before sending the letter, as the Germans were so annoyed with WSC for telling the truth that no letters addressed to WSC would have got out of the country. Also commenting that the Germans feared that WSC would become First Lord of the Admiralty...

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Letter from Roy Harrod, Christ Church, Oxford, to WSC, on the international situation, particularly the need to offer "something reasonable, even generous, to Italy". Also commenting on the Oxford Union's "won't fight" debate, stating that the "won't fight" brigade were "precisely all that is best in the country. They are willing to fight and die - more willing than any generation has been - but not for outworn causes".

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Letter from William Athelstan-Johnson, Albemarle Street, London to WSC, on the political situation in Germany, and the international situation.

Scope and Contents Letter from WSC to Roy Harrod, on the harm done by the Oxford Union resolution [that "this House would not fight for King and Country"]. Commenting that it played a traceable part in feelings of contempt for Britain "which led Mussolini into adventures so perilous to him and to us all". Also commenting that he had declared himself against handing over British Colonies to the League of Nations "as if they were cattle we could no longer afford to look after ourselves" and predicting that "we...

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Letter from Cecil L'Estrange Malone, Phene Street, Chelsea SW3 to WSC, enclosing cuttings from the Northampton Chronicle and Echo, on his decision not to stand as Labour candidate for Northampton in the forthcoming General Election, because of his disagreement with the Party's foreign policy.

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Letter from Roy Harrod, Christ Church, Oxford, to WSC, on the international situation, particularly the Italo-Abyssinian dispute.

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Letter from Pierre Flandin, Ministre d'Etat, Paris to WSC, congratulations on election victory.

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Letter from C Collingwood Townshend, Chalfont St Giles, Bucks, to WSC, on the international situation [with note by Violet Pearman that it was not answered].

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Letter from WSC to Anthony Eden, [later Lord Avon], Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, reporting that it had been suggested that at his forthcoming meeting at the Royal Albert Hall he should propose intervention by the League of Nations in Spain. Commenting that he wished to keep in step with the Foreign Office, suggesting meeting to discuss the matter [carbon].

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Letter from Henry Wickham Steed, Lansdowne House, Holland Park, London W11 to WSC, reporting conversation with the German writer and philosopher F W Foerster on the international situation, particularly relations between Germany, France and the Soviet Union.

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Cutting from The Morning Post - The International Situation - What he Public Ought to Know.

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Cutting from The Morning Post - National Defence: The Whole Truth - What the Country is not Told - Inside Story of the Peace Crisis.

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Cutting from The Morning Post - The Facts About the Fleet - Shortage of Men, Ships, Shells and Oil.

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Cutting from The Morning Post - Germany, France and Italy - reactions of "Morning Post Disclosures" [on the inadequacy of Britain's defences].

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Cutting from The Morning Post - What They Say - Views of the Men Who Know - comments on the disclosures by the Morning Post of the inadequacy of Britain's defences by The Archbishop of York (William Temple), Admiral of the Fleet Lord Beatty, Lord Tyrrell, Lord Milne, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Lord Winterton, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, Sir Edward Grigg (later Lord Altrincham) and Sir Arnold Wilson.

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Cutting from The News Chronicle - Sir Samuel Hoare's Defence to his Constituency - Could not Refuse Ambassador's Insistent Request to Call on Laval in Paris - giving the text of personal statement by Sir Samuel Hoare (later Lord Templewood) defending his action in negotiating the Hoare-Laval Peace Plan.

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Cutting from the Sunday Express - column - Politicians and Politics by Peter Howard.

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Cutting from the Evening Standard - article by WSC "Stop it Now", on the international situation.