Item BROOKE-POPHAM 4/7 - Background information, 1936, for a lecture on Egypt and Palestine

Material collated by Brooke-Popham for a lecture on events in the Near East, at the RAF Staff College, Andover, Hampshire, on 10 Dec 1936, notably a copy letter from Brooke-Popham to the Air Ministry, 25 Jul 1936, on the final draft of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty; Brooke-Popham's notes for the Air Ministry on the introduction of martial law in Palestine; letters, newscuttings and notes on the general situation in Palestine, Sep-Nov 1936; newscutting from The Times, 25 Nov 1936, on the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty and the future defence of the Suez Canal; précis of Brooke-Popham's lecture, with manuscript additions, chiefly describing recent events in Egypt, Palestine, and Abyssinia, and their effects on the rest of the Middle East; notes on the Egyptian Royal Family, the Egyptian Cabinet, and the Combined Staff in Palestine, 1936; map of Libya and Egypt printed by the Geographical Section, General Staff, War Office, 1918, and 1932, on a scale of 1:3,000,000, with annotations showing the range of various aircraft into Libyan territory from bases at Alexandria, Mersa Mutrah and Sollum; map of the Middle East and East Africa on a scale of 1:11,500,000, showing 1000 mile radii from various air bases in British and Italian territory; diagrams showing the structure of British Forces and the RAF in Palestine and Transjordan under Lt Gen John Greer Dill, Commander in Chief, British Forces in Palestine. 1 file, 20 items.