Letter from Major-General Sir Ernest Swinton [former Colonel Commandant, Royal Tank Corps] to WSC on the campaign in Libya, proposing Major-General Percy Hobart to lead the mechanized forces of the 8th Army; with reply, annotated to express WSC's own belief in Hobart, but the violent opposition of many others to him, and covering note from Lieutenant- Commander M H Knott [Private Secretary to Deputy Secretary of the War Cabinet] on returning Swinton's letter.