Item ISMAY 3/4/10 - Text of speech by Ismay to the Foreign Policy Association of New York, Oct 1945, on the events of World War Two

An address by Ismay to the Foreign Policy Association of New York, USA on World War Two and its aftermath; the Battle of Britain, Aug-Oct 1940; the decision not to withdraw RAF fighter squadrons from UK after the meeting of the British and French war leaders at Briare, France, 1940 when the French requested assistance to enable them to continue the war against Germany; Combined Chiefs of Staff organisation. Typescript 13pp