Telegrams from Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC on battle in Libyan desert; enemy in retreat and being pursued by Air Force.

Telegrams from Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC on battle in Libyan desert (T 1041); Indian troops have captured Derna and Mechili, enemy retreating further (T 1042); with reply from WSC (T 1043).

Telegram from John Curtin [Prime Minister of Australia] to WSC on report received from General Officer Commanding the Australian Imperial Force (Malaya) [later Malaysia], Lieutenant-General [Henry] Gordon Bennett, referring to inadequate air support for Australian troops and ill-prepared response to attack in the Far East.

Telegram from WSC to the Commander-in-Chief and Governor of Hong Kong [Sir Mark Young] "We expect you to resist to the end. The honour of the empire is in your hands".

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.

Letter from [Arthur] Paul Boissier, Headmaster of Harrow School [Middlesex] to WSC describing the bombing of Harrow School when over two hundred incendiary devices fell in one night. [Manuscript].

Deciphered personal message from Sir Miles Lampson [British Ambassador to Egypt and High Commissioner for the Sudan, later 1st Lord Killearn] to the Secretary of State for War [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon] suggesting air forces are already over- depleted following air losses at Gallabat [Sudan] and the action which has been planned would be crazy; also includes filing note.

Draft telegram from Anthony Eden [Secretary of State for War, later 1st Lord Avon] to Sir Miles Lampson [British Ambassador to Egypt and High Commissioner for the Sudan, later 1st Lord Killearn] reassuring him that the planned military action following Gallabat [Sudan] is the best way of balancing conflicting demands.

Letter from Ernest Bevin, [Minister of Labour and National Service] to 2nd Lord Selborne [earlier Lord Wolmer] explaining that workers are already being billeted in co-ordination with the Ministry of Health and local authorities.