Telegram from WSC to Prime Minister of Canada [Mackenzie King] marked "Top Secret" giving details of the number of Canadian troops likely to be repatriated before the end of 1945, and general troopship availability in the Atlantic.

Telegram from WSC [Yalta, Soviet Union] to Deputy Prime Minister [Clement Attlee] marked "From: Argonaut" and "Jason No. 285" passing on the comments of Minister of War Transport [1st Lord Leathers] on [?oil], food and shipping resources.

Telegram from President Harry Truman to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" giving the proposed submarine [anti-U-boat] statement for April. Copy.

Telegram from WSC to Prime Ministers of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa marked "Top Secret and Personal" summarising the major operational decisions reached at the Malta and Yalta [Soviet Union] Conferences: on the U-boat War; operations in North West Europe; strategy in the Mediterranean; operations in the Pacific Area and South East Asia Command; estimating dates for the end of the war against Germany and Japan; and explaining the shipping position. Photocopy.

Telegram from President Roosevelt to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" giving the suggested text of the February Anti-U-Boat statement, indicating losses and successes. Photocopy.

Telegram from WSC to British Minister in Sweden [Sir Victor Mallet] informing him of his intention to press Sweden to begin mobilisation and to converse with General Dwight Eisenhower [Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force in Western Europe, United States Army]; and emphasising the damaging effect of the continued German naval presence in Norway.

Letter from Sir Francis Hopwood [Additional Civil Lord of the Admiralty, later 1st Lord Southborough] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on dealing with ship-owners over the programme for arming merchant shipping, particularly Sir Thomas Sutherland, Chairman of the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company [P and O].

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the need for discretion on the subject of supplying ammunition to merchant ships. [Carbon copy].

Letter from WSC to David Lloyd George [Chancellor of the Exchequer], objecting to the Treasury decision to block construction of oil tankers. [Manuscript copy in letter book].

Letter from Admiral Sir Reginald Custance to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the defence of trade.

Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "Personal and Top Secret" requesting assent for publication of British, Allied and neutral merchant shipping losses since the outbreak of war.

Telegram from President Roosevelt to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" stating that he has no objection to the publication of shipping losses up to and including December 1943, but does not want losses after that date published.

Letter from Colonel Hugh Higgon (Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire) (Cuffern, Roch, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire [Wales]) to WSC marked "confidential" requesting that Milford Haven be included in the itinerary of the captured U-Boat visiting the western ports because of its role during the war as a collecting base for convoys. He gives figures for the number of vessels and the tonnage sailed out of the port. Signed typescript.

Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "Personal and Top Secret" informing him of the suggested text for the November U-boat report.

Telegram from President Roosevelt to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" agreeing with the suggested text for the November U-boat report.

Telegram from President Roosevelt to WSC marked "Personal and Secret" informing him of the suggested text for the October anti-U-boat statement. Copy.

Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "Personal and Top Secret" asking for a slight amendment to the October anti-U-boat statement.

Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "Personal and Secret" stating that publication of shipping losses will not include those lost since 1 January 1944.

Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "Personal and Top Secret" stating that he has inquired into Air Vice-Marshal Sir Aubrey Ellwood's statement on U-boats [which Roosevelt had questioned] and that he is satisfied that it was within the limits of previous official announcements; but that future statements should just concentrate on achievements and should not take newspaper or German-broadcast disclosures into account.

Note from "G R G A" [Commodore George Gordon Allen] to WSC commenting on the despatches concerning Mediterranean convoy operations to Malta, suggesting the most important operation was "Pedestal" in August 1942. [initialled; annotated by WSC's literary assistant Denis Kelly].