Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on future bombing strategy and the advantages of the heavy bomber. [Copy; given running number 272].

Charts showing losses at sea of goods from the United States for January to March, broken down into aircraft and equipment, munitions, raw materials, and food and feeds. [Copies].

Minutes [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on forecast food imports, referring to "W.P.(R) (41) 39", and a chart showing sinkings [see ?CHAR 20/258B/217-218]. [Copies; given running numbers 315 and 316].

Minute [from 1st Lord Cherwell, earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on sending heavy bombers into Germany to draw German fighters off Russia. [Copy].

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].

Letters from Rear-Admiral Tufton Beamish to WSC enclosing extracts from an account by his son of a journey from Singapore to Sumatra; with reply. [See CHAR 20/53C/290 for further copy of WSC's reply].

Letter from Sir Edward Campbell [Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] to WSC warning about the danger of Australia and the United States attacking Japan too soon and the efficiency and strength of the Japanese; includes manuscript, typescript copy and WSC's reply.

Cuttings from the Times reporting a speech by Oliver Lyttelton, Minister of Production [later 1st Lord Chandos] on Anglo-Soviet week, the German onslaught against the Soviet Union and the need to do more to help; with letter of complaint from William Gallacher [with transcript]; includes filing note.

Newspaper cutting from the Sunday Times entitled "Makers of Victory", by Sir Walter Monckton [former Director-General of British Propaganda and Information Services at Cairo, Egypt], on war in the Middle East; with covering note by John Martin [Private Secretary to WSC].

Correspondence between Henry Nimmo, Chief Engineering Inspector, Electricity Commission, John Martin [Private Secretary to WSC], Ronald Melville [Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Air], [?] Reginald Maudling [Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Air] and WSC on Nimmo's suggestion that German electricity generating stations would be prime targets for bombers.

Letter from King George VI to WSC congratulating him on the success of the 8th Army in Egypt [at El Alamein]; with WSC's reply on the value of the King's support and the progress of "Torch" [codename for the Allied invasion of North West Africa] and notes by John Martin and Francis Brown [Private Secretaries to WSC] ascertaining that the King's letter will not be published.

Letter from Major-General Sir Ernest Swinton [former Colonel Commandant, Royal Tank Corps] to WSC on the campaign in Libya, proposing Major-General Percy Hobart to lead the mechanized forces of the 8th Army; with reply, annotated to express WSC's own belief in Hobart, but the violent opposition of many others to him, and covering note from Lieutenant- Commander M H Knott [Private Secretary to Deputy Secretary of the War Cabinet] on returning Swinton's letter.

Telegrams from WSC to the Prime Minister of Australia [John Curtin] and to the Prime Minister of New Zealand [Peter Fraser] with a proposal for a Far Eastern council in London to co-ordinate the governments of Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands in the conduct of war against Japan.