Item GRANT 2/4/1-27 - Letters to Grant, 1940-1946, from and about British and French military colleagues

Letters to Charles John Cecil Grant from various correspondents, notably Lt Gen Sir George Sidney Clive, Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps, on the recent actions of French Marshal Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain in signing an armistice with Germany, 22 Jun 1940; the Hon Harold (George) Nicholson on the actions and personalities of Pétain and French Gen Maxime Weygand, and the attitude of the French populace in general to German occupation, 1940; FM John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, High Commissioner and Commander in Chief for Palestine and High Commissioner for Transjordan, on the difficulties of maintaining peace in Palestine, 1945; General Sir John Theodosius Burnett-Stuart, giving his opinions on various commanders of the armed forces, including Gen Sir John Greer Dill, Chief of Imperial General Staff, and FM Sir Archibald Armar Montgomery-Massingberd, 1941; French Gen Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny, commenting on the friendship between France and Britain, [1945]. 27 items.