Draft message from WSC to Governor-General of the Sudan [Major-General Sir Hubert Huddleston], Khartoum, thanking him for his message and commenting on the Sudan's contribution to victory [over Germany]. [Carbon; annotated by John Peck].

Draft telegram from WSC to Governor-General of the Sudan [Major-General Sir Hubert Huddleston], Khartoum, thanking him for his message and commenting on the Sudan's contribution to victory [over Germany].

Telegram from Governor-General of the Sudan [Major-General Sir Hubert Huddleston], Khartoum, to WSC congratulating him on his war leadership.

Letter from [Colin] Thornley, [Principal] Private Secretary [to Secretary of State for the Colonies], (Colonial Office) to [Leslie] Rowan [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] enclosing a copy of a message from the Roseau Town Council of Dominica. [signed; annotated by Rowan].

Message received through the Governor of the Windward Islands [Sir Arthur Grimble] from the Roseau Town Council of Dominica congratulating WSC for his war leadership. [Copy].

Letter from [Colin] Thornley, [Principal] Private Secretary [to Secretary of State for the Colonies], (Colonial Office) to [John] Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] enclosing a copy of a telegram from the Officer Administrating the Government of Bermuda containing a message from the Bermuda House of Assembly. [signed].

Telegram from the Officer Administrating the Government of Bermuda to Secretary of State for the Colonies [Colonel Oliver Stanley] containing a message from the Bermuda House of Assembly congratulating WSC on his war leadership. [Despatched on 15 May; received on 16 May].

Letter from [Colin] Thornley, [Principal] Private Secretary [to Secretary of State for the Colonies], (Colonial Office) to [John] Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] enclosing a copy of a telegram received from the Governor of Cyprus [Sir Douglas Harris]. [signed].

Telegram from Sinanian, Honorary Secretary of the Armenian Young Men's Association, to the Governor [of Cyprus, Sir Douglas Harris] (Nicosia) requesting he convey its congratulations to WSC on victory against Germany. [Carbon copy].

Telegram from WSC [Malta] to Deputy Prime Minister [Clement Attlee] marked "From: Cricket" and "Jason No. 64" approving a telegram from the Secretary of State for India [Leo Amery] to the Viceroy [Field Marshal Lord Wavell] with some amendments.

Telegram from [John] Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary, Yalta, Soviet Union] to Private Office marked "From: Argonaut" and "Jason 502" passing on a "personal" message from WSC to the Prime Ministers of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa (repeated to the Prime Minister of Canada and the Viceroy of India) requesting they approve the redrafting of a clause on liberated Commonwealth POWs being employed by the Soviet authorities pending their repatriation.

Telegram from Prime Minister of Canada [Mackenzie King] to WSC marked "Top Secret and Personal" arguing that White Russia and the Ukraine should be admitted to the Assembly [of the future world organisation] on the basis of their individual qualifications for membership rather than multiple Soviet representation; and that the assumption that the British Commonwealth will vote as a single entity needs to be dispelled, explaining why he thinks this is not the case.

Telegram from [Terence] Shone [British Minister to Syria and Lebanon] (Damascus [Syria]) to the Foreign Office passing on a message from the wife of the ex-President of the Syrian Republic and the President of the Red Crescent, Zubra Abed, to WSC thanking him for "having saved [the] serious situation in Syria". [despatched on 4 June; received on 5 June].

Telegram Sir [John] Hathorn Hall, [the Governor] of Uganda, to Secretary of State for the Colonies [Colonel Oliver Stanley] passing on a message from the Uganda Chamber of Commerce to WSC expressing pride at his war leadership.

Minute from Oliver Stanley [Secretary of State for the Colonies] (Colonial Office) to WSC marked "Top Secret" stating that from a Colonial Office viewpoint "it is hard to see what advantage has accrued to Great Britain from the Palestine Mandate", that the final settlement can only be made at a peace conference but that there is a pressing question on the rate of immigration. [signed].

Minute from [General Sir Hastings] Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence] to WSC marked "Top Secret" giving the views of the Chiefs of Staff against WSC's suggestion that the United States take over the Palestine Mandate. [signed].

Minute from WSC to Secretary of State for the Colonies [Oliver Stanley] and the Chiefs of Staff Committee suggesting they consider whether the United States should be asked to take over the Palestine Mandate, commenting: "Somebody else should have their turn now". [Carbon copy; annotated by WSC's Private Office].

Minute from "T L R" [Leslie Rowan, Prime Minister's Private Secretary] to WSC on an attached letter from the New Zionist Organisation [CHAR 20/234/10], reporting that the Colonial Office suggest no election statement should be sent to this Organisation because of differences among Zionist groups. [initialled].

Letter from A Abrahams, member of the Presidency of the New Zionist Organisation, (25 Manchester Square, London) to WSC (10 Downing Street) on the electoral advantages to the Conservative Party of a statement by WSC on Palestine, advocating increased Jewish immigration. [signed; annotated by WSC's Private Office].

Letter from [Colin] Thornley [Principal Private Secretary to Secretary of State for the Colonies] (Colonial Office) to [John] Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] suggesting no reply is sent to a letter from the New Zionist Organisation [until after election day] and commenting on relations between this organisation and the Jewish Agency for Palestine. [signed].

Election statement on Palestine policy, commenting on the fate of Jews in the war and the need to support a "fair" solution. [copy sent with CHAR 20/234/11].