Item PYMAN 7/1/14 - Diary, Mar 1948, with related papers, on subjects including withdrawal from Palestine and from Iraq

Diary containing daily entries by Pyman with memoranda, telegrams and copy correspondence, including minutes of Chief of Staff's meetings; papers on Exercise INTERMEZZO on inter-service co-operation; paper on the Arab Legion and Transjordan; letter to Pyman from Brig J H Anstice, Commander Headquarters Cyprus relating to a Joint Intelligence Committee paper on Russian support for illegal Jewish immigration; letter from Pyman to Maj Gen Alfred Dudley Ward, Director of Military Operations on the military withdrawal from Palestine and arrangements for guarding the United Nations Commission and staff; paper on the composition of the Transjordan Joint Defence Board; note from Gen Sir John Tredinnick Crocker, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East Land Forces (MELF), on the object and operation of the Chief of Staff system; paper from meeting with Brig (Hon Maj Gen) James Malcolm Leslie Renton relating to the withdrawal of the British Military Mission to Iraq; draft signal message to Ministry of Defence recommending early withdrawal from Palestine. 1 file