Letter from Leslie Hore-Belisha (16 Stafford Place) to WSC suggesting that they do not wait for the peace conference before making their first act of restitution and hand back the Dodecanese to Greece, arguing that this would enable the Hellenic Government to continue its war of liberation on Ancient Greek soil and that the Turks will not resent the return of a patrimony to their Ally adding that there is no national case for giving Rhodes to Turkey Signed. Annotated.

Telegram from [Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton], Commander- in-Chief, Ceylon [later Sri Lanka] to WSC explaining that his intention had been to give a definite ruling regarding evacuation and regretting that he had omitted to take precautions with censorship. [See CHAR 20/71B/141 for WSC's telegram].

Telegram from WSC to Field Marshal Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] informing him of the decision to storm and occupy Diego Suarez [Madagascar]: comments on the background to the operation [codenamed "Ironclad"] and asks for help should it become necessary to intercept French reinforcements from Dakar [Senegal] at the Cape.

Telegram from the Prime Minister of New Zealand [Peter Fraser] to WSC accepting proposals for the direction of war in the Pacific, but commenting on some areas which may require further clarification. Received 23 March 1942 British Time.

Minutes [from 1st Lord Cherwell, earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on the idea of WSC writing a letter to the managing director of a particular firm, producing weapons which effectively deal with tanks and aircraft, countering radio beam bombing, and comparing RAF, and German and Italian air force strengths in the Middle East and Mediterranean. [Copies; given running numbers 334, 335, 336, and 337].

Page proofs for a supplement to the London Gazette entitled "The Evacuation of the Allied Armies from Dunkirk [France] and neighbouring beaches", May to June 1940, reprinting a contemporary despatch from Vice-Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, Flag Officer Commanding, Dover [Kent] (18 June 1940), with later Admiralty footnotes. [annotated by ?Kathleen Hill, WSC's secretary].

Page proofs for a supplement to the London Gazette entitled "Fleet Air Arm Operations Against Taranto [Italy] on 11th November 1940", reprinting contemporary despatches and reports from individuals including Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean (16 January 1941) and [Denis] Boyd, Commanding Officer, HMS Illustrious (13 November 1940), with later Admiralty footnotes. [annotated by ?Kathleen Hill, WSC's secretary].

Page proofs for a supplement to the London Gazette entitled "The Battle of Matapan [Greece]", 27-30 March 1941, reprinting contemporary despatches and reports from Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Station (11 November 1941), and Vice-Admiral [Henry] Pridham-Whippel [Second in Command Mediterranean Fleet] (10 April), with later Admiralty footnotes. [annotated by ?Kathleen Hill, WSC's secretary].

Page proofs [for a supplement to the London Gazette] entitled "Sinking of the German Battleship Bismarck on 27th May, 1941" reprinting contemporary despatches and reports from Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet (5 July), and Vice-Admiral James Somerville, Flag Officer Commanding Force H (4 June), with an appendix and later Admiralty footnotes. [annotated by ?Kathleen Hill, WSC's secretary].

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].

Proofs [for a supplement to the London Gazette] entitled "Battle for the Java Sea, 27th February, 1942" reprinting contemporary despatches and reports from Commodore [John] Collins, Commanding China Force (17 March 1942) and Captain H M L Waller, HMAS Perth (27 February 1942), with a later appendix by Captain [Oliver] Gordon (1 October 1945), and Admiralty footnotes. [annotated by ?Kathleen Hill, WSC's secretary].

Proofs [for a supplement to the London Gazette] entitled "Actions against Raiders" reprinting contemporary despatches and reports on the "destruction of enemy raider No. 16 by HMS Devonshire" (November 1941), "sinking of the German Supply Ship Python" (November 1941), and "action by HMIS Bengal and MV Ondina with two Japanese raiders" (November 1942), with later Admiralty footnotes. [annotated by ?Kathleen Hill, WSC's secretary].

Comments by [Commodore George Gordon] Allen on [the proofs of the London Gazette supplement of] "The Battle of Sirte [Libya]" [for the supplement see CHAR 20/241/218-227]. [initialled].

"Final revise" of a supplement dated 3 July to the London Gazette of 2 July entitled "Operations in the Middle East from 7th February, 1941, to 15th July, 1941", reprinting a contemporary despatch by General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander-in-Chief in the Middle East, (5 September 1941) including coverage of the situation in Libya, Greece, and the Western Desert. [annotated by WSC's literary assistant Denis Kelly].