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Post-tweeting 1940
PM: "Provision should be made for an autonomous Jewish State, with reasonable room for expansion". Ministers to discuss http://ow.ly/6zdaX5 months ago
Lyttelton: Unless some action is taken in Palestine before the end of the war we are "risking
a considerable explosion" http://ow.ly/6zd1F5 months ago
Lyttelton: General Brett of US Air Service "bitterly critical" of "failure to hit the enemy in Libya", disorganisation http://ow.ly/6zdgD5 months ago
Lyttelton: Transport "far too constricted", telegraph and telephone lines "source of anxiety", mail service "very bad" http://ow.ly/6zcTj5 months ago
Lyttelton: "Many tired faces" amongst officers in Western Desert. Suggest they be exchanged for officers now based in UK http://ow.ly/6zcIn5 months ago
Minister of State Middle East, Oliver Lyttelton to report situation across the region at War Cabinet meeting at 1800 hours5 months ago
Eden: Ex-Shah of Persia "on his way to India or to a port". Suggestion that he should then go to Mauritius http://ow.ly/6y4LA5 months ago
Minister of Information to "bring pressure" to discontinue undesirable newsreel statements calling for a second front http://ow.ly/6y4HB5 months ago
General Dill: Kiev has fallen. Enemy claims capture of 150,000 Russians. But morale of garrison at Leningrad "high" http://ow.ly/6y4tn5 months ago
Cabinet Secretary: Total battle casualties Middle East (Western Desert, Abyssinia, Greece, Crete, Syria, Cyprus) 55,111 http://ow.ly/6y3Uw5 months ago
Commander-in-Chief Middle East denies "false air reports" from RAF responsible for loss of Cyrenaica province of Libya http://ow.ly/6y3FD5 months ago
PM circulates "splendid" speech by Canadian PM Mackenzie King: Nazi victory would mean "slavery would everywhere exist" http://ow.ly/6w73i5 months ago
RAF: 15 bombers crashed last night in UK owing to widespread fog descending unexpectedly when 145 of our aeroplanes air-borne5 months ago
Economic Warfare Minister: US trade freeze "has brought commercial and financial intercourse with Japan to a stand-still" http://ow.ly/6w6mZ5 months ago
War Cabinet congratulates Foreign Secretary on "the successful handling of the Persian problem" http://ow.ly/6v4X85 months ago
Eden: Persian Shah has abdicated. "Matters working out satisfactorily". Shah to be given asylum in "some British Colony" http://ow.ly/6v4Us5 months ago
PM: Possibility of helping USSR on southern front will "have to be examined". Would diminish supplies to Russia, Turkey http://ow.ly/6v66U5 months ago
General Anders: Situation in the Ukraine "very serious". Germans now "astride all the land communications to the Crimea" http://ow.ly/6v4LR5 months ago
Admiralty: There has been an increase recently in the enemy's mine-laying activities on the East Coast http://ow.ly/6v4Hd5 months ago
PM has met with General de Gaulle. General expresses "frank regret" for utterances "disagreeable to British ears" http://ow.ly/6tWzf5 months ago