Item PYMAN 7/1/13 - Diary, Jan 1948, with related papers, on subjects including the withdrawal from Palestine

Diary containing daily entries by Pyman with memoranda, telegrams and copy correspondence, including minutes of Chief of Staff's meetings; notes from a conversation with FM Bernard Law Montgomery 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Chief of the Imperial General Staff over a possible early withdrawal from Palestine and the risks of losing stores that this would entail; notes on a conversation with Brig (Hon Maj Gen) James Malcolm Leslie Renton regarding the status of the British Major General in Iraq; directive relating to the relinquishment by the British Government of the British Mandate for Palestine and the process of evacuation of troops; letter to Montgomery from Gen Sir John Tredinnick Crocker, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East Land Forces (MELF) copied to Pyman relating to the British Mission to Greece and its limits of operation. 1 file