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Date(s)
- 1949 May (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
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