Item PYMAN 7/1/8 - Diary, Aug 1947, with related papers, on subjects including Libya, Palestine and Egypt

Diary containing daily entries by Pyman with memoranda, telegrams and copy correspondence, including minutes of Chief of Staff's meetings; papers relating to future order of battle and manpower; paper entitled 'Settlement of Libya' including the terms of the Italian peace treaty, the attitude of foreign parties in the settlement of Libya and the forms of settlement; conference papers relating to Palestine and to the reduction of troops under British military command in Egypt; copy of letter to Gen Sir John Tredinnick Crocker, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East Land Forces (MELF) from Gen Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, High Commissioner for Palestine regarding the question of Martial Law in Palestine; Pyman's notes on a visit to Greece and the work of the British Military Mission there; paper listing the decisions given by FM Bernard Law Montgomery 1st Viscount Montgomery Of Alamein, Chief Of The Imperial General Staff on MELF size and composition of British forces, location of Headquarters, surplus stores; copy of correspondence between Pyman and Maj Gen Alfred Dudley Ward, Director of Military Operations regarding the problem of illegal Jewish immigrants, the American Joint Distribution Committee and the internment of the Jews in Cyprus; papers on the command organisation in the Middle East and the future location of MELF General Headquarters and MEDME [Mediterranean Middle East] General Headquarters. 1 file