Item PYMAN 7/1/26 - Diary, Apr 1949, with related papers, on subjects including Arab-Jewish relations, planning for possible Middle East war and the reorganisation of MELF command

Diary containing daily entries by Pyman with memoranda, telegrams and copy correspondence, including minutes of Chief of Staff's meetings; record of meeting between Sidky Pasha, the Egyptian Prime Minister and the, [ACM Sir Charles Edward Hasting Medhurst], Air Commander-in-Chief in Cairo relating to the use of Egypt as a British base; signals from Maj Gen John Bagot Glubb (Glubb Pasha), Chief of General Staff, the Arab Legion, Transjordon relating to the armistice between the Arab League and the Jewish forces and the forced surrender of several Palestinian villages; proposal for composition of field forces and order of battle for the Egyptian Army; paper on 'Future of Eritrea' outlining relevant text from diplomatic telegrams; paper entitled 'New dispositions of Arab Legion and Iraqi army in Palestine and Transjordan'; paper entitleed 'Israel - Transjordan armistice' outlining the conditions of the armistice and the resulting new boundaries; notes on technical talks between the Egyptian authorities and the British services; notes consisting of summaries of diplomatic telegrams on Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, Akaba and Transjordan, Ex-Italian colonies and the Syrian coup d'etat; paper describing the planned strategy in the Middle East Region in the case of another war breaking out, possibly with Russia; Pyman's notes for meeting on the reorganisation of the higher command in Middle East Land Forces (MELF) with diagrams; draft letter from Gen Sir John Tredinnick Crocker, Commander-in-Chief, MELF to, Gen Sir Kenneth Noel Crawford, Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff on the reorganisation of the system of command in MELF. 1 file