Telegram from the Middle East Defence Committee to WSC (Minister of Defence) and Chiefs of Staff marked "most secret" listing reasons for their opposition to an early offensive in Libya: comments on the importance of Malta and states that its fall would not necessarily be fatal to the security of Egypt; comments on the difficulties of establishing a firm position in Cyrenaica [Libya] and of the dangers of launching an offensive with inadequate armoured forces; comments on the possible advantages of waiting for an enemy offensive in early June.