Telegram from Minister of State, Middle East [Oliver Lyttelton, later 1st Lord Chandos] to WSC on bitterness of Free French and General Charles de Gaulle [Chief of Free French].

Telegram from Minister of State, Middle East [Oliver Lyttelton, later 1st Lord Chandos] to WSC on General Charles de Gaulle [Chief of Free French]'s mistrust of the English over Syria and negotiations concerning a Free French navy.

Telegram from Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander- in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC requesting transfer of Major- General Alan Cunningham [General Officer Commanding East Africa Forces] from East Africa to Libyan Desert.

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.

Telegram from the Prime Minister of South Africa [General Jan Smuts] to WSC reporting on trip to Middle East with predictions of direction of war in future months.

Telegram from Minister of State, Middle East [Oliver Lyttelton, later 1st Lord Chandos] to WSC relating the decision by Major-General Alan Cunningham [General Officer Commanding- in-Chief, 8th Imperial Army in Middle East] to continue to blockade Djibouti [French Somaliland] rather than attack as Vichy will not surrender if General Charles de Gaulle [Chief of Free French] and Free French are involved in assault.

Telegram from Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander- in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC on projected German and Italian progress over the summer especially in Tobruk [Libya].

Telegram from WSC to Minister of State, Middle East [Oliver Lyttelton, later 1st Lord Chandos] insisting that if Djibouti [earlier French Somaliland] will surrender to the British the complaints of General Charles de Gaulle [Chief of Free French] should be ignored.

Telegram from the British High Commissioner in South Africa [4th Lord Harlech, earlier William Ormsby-Gore] to WSC on his recent visit to Middle East; more tanks needed in Libyan Desert before Germans return from Soviet front; agrees that Imperial War Cabinet a bad idea.

Telegram from WSC to Minister of State, Middle East [Oliver Lyttelton, later 1st Lord Chandos] and Commander-in-Chief, Middle East [Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck] advising blockade of Djibouti [French Somaliland] and acceptance of Vichy surrender even if dependent on Free French exclusion.

Telegram from British High Commissioner in South Africa [4th Lord Harlech, earlier William Ormsby-Gore] to WSC on behalf of General Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] suggesting the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Middle East [Major-General Sir Alan Cunningham] attack the Germans in Africa before October.

Telegram from Minister of State, Middle East [Oliver Lyttelton, later 1st Lord Chandos] to WSC advising that Djibouti [French Somaliland] will not surrender to the British unconditionally and to exclude the Free French from any deal would break General Sir Archibald Wavell [former Commander-in-Chief, Middle East]'s written promise to General Charles de Gaulle [Chief of Free French].

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.

Telegram from WSC to [Franklin Roosevelt], President of the United States, on improvements to railway linking Persian Gulf to Caspian Sea; asks for loan of United States ships to transport British troops to Middle East.

Telegram from Minister of State, Middle East [Oliver Lyttelton, later 1st Lord Chandos] to WSC on drought and low supplies in Cyprus; defences good.

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

Telegram from Prime Minister of Australia, Arthur Fadden to WSC on decision to reconcentrate Australian Imperial Force in one corps and relief of division at Tobruk [Libya].

Telegram from Stalin to WSC thanking him for the aircraft but regretting they will be of little use due to German advances at Eastern Front; asks for a second front to be started in Balkans.

Telegram from WSC to Stalin: "no possibility of any British action in the West, except Air action" without Turkish help; provision of supplies from United States and Britain via Persian railway.

Telegram from General Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, via British High Commissioner in South Africa [4th Lord Harlech, earlier William Ormsby-Gore] to WSC on German movement into Anatolia to attack Egypt; position of Turkey must be clarified and assistance offered to defend Middle East.

Telegram from WSC to Sir Stafford Cripps [British Ambassador to the Soviet Union] detailing why it is impossible to divert Germans from Russian front.

Telegram from Sir Stafford Cripps [British Ambassador to the Soviet Union] to WSC thanking him for his pledge for limited help; "I hope very much it will enable them to hold on till next Spring".

Telegram from Minister of State, Middle East [Oliver Lyttelton, later 1st Lord Chandos] to WSC on negotiations over Djibouti [French Somaliland]; recommends continuing blockade not accepting Governor's terms.

Telegram from WSC to Prime Minister of Australia [Arthur Fadden] on German advance through Middle East; situation in Tobruk [Libya] in event of Turkey resisting and the Soviet Union collapsing.