Item PYMAN 7/1/27 - Diary, May 1949, with related papers, on subjects including former Italian colonies in North Africa

Diary containing daily entries by Pyman with memoranda, telegrams and copy correspondence, including minutes of Chief of Staff's meetings; papers relating to the Bevin-Sforza or Anglo-Italian proposal for the former Italian colonies of Libya, Cyrenaica and Tripolitania; brief prepared for Gen Sir John Tredinnick Crocker, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East Land Forces (MELF) for talks in UK on 'Denial of Middle East Oil' regarding the policy of restricting oil supply to delay an enemy advance; brief prepared for Crocker for talks in UK on 'Redeployment of MELF garrison'; memorandum relating to artillery equipment in Ceylon; digest on Anglo-American planning in the Middle East prepared for FM Bernard Law Montgomery 1st Viscount Montgomery Of Alamein, Chief of the Imperial General Staff by Pyman; record of meeting between Pyman and the Rt Hon Sir Ronald Ian Campbell, British Ambassador in Cairo to discuss technical talks between the British and the Egyptians. 1 file