Commentary on the draft 'Official History of the War against Japan', written by Thomas with assistance from C.W. Dawson (Malayan Secretary of Defence, 1941-1942); copies of Dawson's correspondence, Mar 1955, with Major-General S.W. Kirby of the Cabinet Office Historical Section; annotated carbon copy of the commentary with a covering letter to Sir John Martin, Assistant Under-Secretary of State at the Colonial Office, protesting against the decision not to allow Thomas to see any of the documents on which the history was based.