(Untitled), 18 Aug 1942

Item

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/87/56

Scope and Contents

Telegram from WSC [Cairo, Egypt] to Deputy Prime Minister [Clement Attlee] marked "most secret and personal" regarding the publication of press releases relating to his first visit to Cairo and to the appointment of Major-General Richard McCreery as Chief of General Staff Middle East, but urging that no reference should be made to his second visit and stating that misleading rumours are already being put out that he has reached Khartoum [Sudan] Annotated.

Dates

Creation: 18 Aug 1942

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