1 would very much have liked 10 have stopped them and in some cases Thave reduced them in number, Tt very risky to ask a professional omer to give a weekly expatiation fon the war, when in the nature of, things, although he may be very ac~ complished, he cannot mow and ought not to know the-facts as they fare understood at the secret meetings, at the sine time one is appealed to give more informa tion to make the war more inter esting to the people and' to tell them more about what is going on, but it 4s not possible for the head' of the government or even for the Chiefs of Staff to scrutinize before hand these detafied weekly statements which are made..T think the matter must certainly "be reconsidered, Bear: Hea 1 have said nobody had Mus sions about the tremendous scale of the air borne attack, that {i would be the greatest in the world and that we should resist it without any, but the most restricted alr support on our side.
"Let is look at the anatomy of this" battle of Crete, which. was undertaken 4n these bleak clreumstances.
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