Telegram from Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC on battle in Libyan desert; praises Air Vice-Marshal Arthur Coningham [Commanding Air Forces in the Western Desert].

Telegram from Minister of State, Middle East [Oliver Lyttelton, later 1st Lord Chandos] to WSC on the refusal of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Blamey [General Officer Commanding, 1st Australian Corps] to obey Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in- Chief, Middle East]; proposes Laverack as replacement.

Telegram from Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC on battle in Libyan desert.

Telegram from John Curtin [Prime Minister of Australia] to WSC promising Australian personnel to operate light tanks in Malaya [later Malaysia]; requires transport and adequate air support for additional force.

Telegram from Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC on battle in Libyan desert; bad weather has blocked communications; enemy reported to be destroying own aircraft at Sidi-Magrun.

Telegram from General Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] to WSC on Japanese threat to the Pacific which must be countered by United States Navy.

Telegrams from Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC on battle in Libyan desert; prisoner of war figures (T 1067); Royal Dragoons occupied Benghazi (T 1068); Indian forces have occupied Barce [later Al Marj] (T 1069); Churchill tanks rusted in transit, need refitting (T 1070).

Telegram from WSC to Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] asking him to spare United States tanks and aeroplanes from Acrobat [codename for the operation against Tripoli, Libya], to defend Malaya [later Malaysia] and Singapore; United States will send troops to Northern Ireland, bomb Germany from Britain, and support Gymnast [codename for the plans for the British occupation of North West Africa].

Telegram from WSC to John Curtin [Prime Minister of Australia] on defence of Malaya [later Malaysia], Singapore and Philippines; "it would be quite impossible ... to make a bargain with Stalin involving forcible transferring of large populations ... into communist spheres". [See CHAR 20/47/120-121 for Curtin's reply].

Telegrams from Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck to WSC on battle in Libyan desert; Germans near Agedabia [Ajdabiyah], Italians near Ghemines.

Telegram from Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC on battle in Libyan desert.

Telegram from Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC on battle in Libyan desert; enemy defence of Agedabia [Ajdabiyah]; lists equipment and troops which could be spared for defence of Far East.

Telegram from WSC to General Sir Archibald Wavell appointing him Supreme Commander of Allied Forces, South West Pacific; with agreement with the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] on the war aims of Britain and the United States, structure of command and areas of influence.

Telegram from Government of New Zealand to WSC expressing confidence in General Sir Archibald Wavell [Supreme Commander of Allied Forces, South West Pacific]; feels proposals need greater emphasis on naval power to succeed against Japanese; asked for clarification on protection of New Zealand.

Telegram from Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC with message from Lieutenant-General Neil Ritchie [Commander of 8th Army] on battle in Libyan desert; recent tank encounters; enemy will stand at Agedabia [Ajdabiyah].

Telegram from William Bullitt [Special representative of Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States, in the Near East] and the Minister of State, Middle East [Oliver Lyttelton, later 1st Lord Chandos] to WSC and Roosevelt debating invasion of Tunisia following discussions with General Georges Catroux [Commander-in-Chief, Free French in the Levant].

Telegram from Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC noting tank casualties and a request by Lieutenant-General Neil Ritchie [Commander of 8th Army] for reinforcements.

Telegram from [Alfred] Duff Cooper [Resident Cabinet Minister at Singapore for Far Eastern affairs, later 1st Lord Norwich] to WSC expressing dissatisfaction with waging of land campaign in Singapore; cites reasons for Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham's removal [as Commander-in-Chief, Far East].

Telegram from Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC with limited news of battle.

Telegram from WSC to Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon, in Moscow, Soviet Union] suggesting recent Soviet success may make Stalin willing to declare war on Japan.

Telegram from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to WSC deploring Japanese treachery and hailing Britain and the United States as allies.

Telegrams from WSC to Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon, in Moscow, Soviet Union] with [? Chiefs of Staff] views on "whether it would be to our advantage if Russia declared war on Japan"; asking whether Soviet government would lend part of Far Eastern Submarine fleet and crew to sail under British flag.

Telegrams from Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon, in Moscow, Soviet Union] to WSC asking opinion on the Soviet Union declaring war on Japan; will explain to Stalin importance of Libyan campaign, Crusader [codename for major British operation in North Africa].

Telegram from WSC to [Alfred] Duff Cooper [Resident Cabinet Minister at Singapore for Far Eastern affairs, later 1st Lord Norwich] advising that Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall's appointment as Commander-in-Chief, Far East should not yet be announced; transfer of troops to Eastern theatre; German defeat at hands of Soviet Union.

Telegram from WSC to the Governor-General of Burma [Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith] advising that General Sir Archibald Wavell has been appointed Commander-in-Chief, Burma [later Myanmar]; extra troops will be transferred following decisive success in Libya.