Speech by Leo Amery [Secretary of State for India and Burma (later Myanmar)], at Newmarket [Suffolk] on Benito Mussolini's attack on Greece and the overall position of the Empire in the war. [Typescript copy].

Notes on the sale of Defence Bonds in the Colonies detailing the sales procedure of Bond Books being sent to each colony, which in turn would issue the bonds to itself then sell them on to the local public, thereby avoiding the 1000 pounds limit. [Typescript carbon] [no indication of authorship].

Letter from Josiah Wedgwood to WSC criticising 1st Lord Lloyd [Secretary of State for the Colonies] for sinking a ship, pleasing Hitler and annoying the United States; should pursue aggressive policy including greater use of colonial labour and an end to appeasement of Spain, Japan and Italy. [Manuscripts].

Letter from Charles Foot (Nayliring, Piesse Siding, Western Australia) to WSC explaining their proposals for inter-Empire agreements to carry out large public works schemes.

Letter from Edward Marsh (Dominions Office) to Violet Pearman stating that it does not appear that the Government would be able to institute any action on the plan [for large public work schemes in the Empire] outlined in CHAR 2/204/11-14.

Reminder to write to 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] and Clare Sheridan.

Typescript copy of CHAR 2/204/38-39.

Minutes of a meeting of the India Executive Committee recording discussion of: fiscal policy, the White Paper on India, the effect on Lancashire's trade of a Government of India Act based on the White Paper, and the possibility of a mission to India to take part in a tripartite conference with India and Japan. Typescript.

Memorandum by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Cabinet, with notes prepared by the Admiralty War Staff and the Hydrographer [Rear-Admiral Herbert Cust (Herbert Purey-Cust)] on the strategical value of the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba [later Tanzania]. [Printed].

Draft Admiralty memorandum on the naval defence of the Empire for presentation to the Canadian Parliament. [Printed].

Admiralty memorandum with prints of the correspondence between WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty and Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada, on the naval defence of the Empire, including Canada's contribution. [Printed].

Admiralty memorandum with prints of the correspondence between WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty and Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada, on the naval defence of the Empire, particularly the Canadian emergency contribution to the Royal Navy. [Printed].

Admiralty memorandum on the naval position of New Zealand. [Printed].

Letter from James Allen [Minister of Defence, New Zealand] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on New Zealand's naval policy. [Printed].

Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to James Allen [Minister of Defence, New Zealand] on New Zealand's naval policy. [Printed].

Extract from speech by Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada] to the Canadian House of Commons on the Canadian Naval Aid Bill. [Printed].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] and the Chief of Staff [Sir Henry Jackson], asking them to discuss New Zealand's naval policy with James Allen [Minister of Defence, New Zealand]. [Typescript, initialled].

Letter from Lewis Harcourt [Secretary of State for the Colonies] (Colonial Office), to WSC, asking if it would be possible for HMS Cumberland, with Prince Albert [later King George VI] aboard, to visit Grenada and St Vincent, enclosing a copy of a telegram from Sir James Sadler, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Windward Islands, describing the success of the ship's visit to St Lucia.

Letter from Admiral Sir Alfred Winsloe, [Admiral Commanding China Station] (HMS Minotaur, Hong Kong) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] with an account of his visit to the French colony at Saigon [later Vietnam], arrangements for joint British and French action against Germany in Far Eastern waters in case of war, pay levels and the problems of transferring officers from merchant shipping to the Navy.

Letter from Herbert Asquith [Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] stating that the Admiralty should not have provided a ship to convey the Papal Legate [Cardinal Ferrata] from Sicily to Malta for the Eucharistic Conference without consulting himself and the Secretary of State for the Colonies [Lewis Harcourt].

Letter from Rear-Admiral Herbert King-Hall, Commander- in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope [South Africa] to WSC, on the defenceless state of St Helena.

Letter from Edward Grigg [editorial staff of the Times, later 1st Lord Altrincham] (The Round Table, Piccadilly, London) to James Masterton-Smith, [Private Secretary to WSC] sending an extract from a letter from the Australian correspondent of the Times on Imperial defence.

Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to an unidentified [? South African] correspondent, on South Africa's contribution to Imperial Naval Defence. [Carbon copy].

Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to James Allen [Minister of Defence, New Zealand] on the naval defence of New Zealand.