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(b)
(c)
that we persuade Turkey to withdraw the
majority of her forces to the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus;
that we should inform Greece that we propose to consolidate a position to cover Southern Greece 210 Crete;
(a) that we should concentrate on the aerodromes
necessary to implement the above policy.
Admittedly, the above proposals teem with difficulties. I am convinced that unless these difficulties are overcome Germany will repeat her political triumphs merely by the threat of military action, and will establish herself without the slightest military effort on a line which safeguards the whole of her interests in the Balkans and threatens the whole of ours in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Great George Street, S.W. 1.
23RD JAĴUARY, 1941.
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