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TO BE KEPT UNDER LOOK AND KEY,
It is requested that special care may be taken to
ensure the secrecy of this document.
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(THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT).
This document was considered at CC.S.(+) 44Meeting.
SECRE T.
C.O.S.(41) 72
6TH FEBRUARY, 1941.
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WAR CABINET.
CHIEFS OF STAFF COMMITTEE.
SUPPLIES TO GREECE.
Report.
We have considered the Report by the Chairman
of the Committee for the Co-ordination of Allied Supplies on the provision of armaments for Greece and attach for reference a summary of the conclusions reached in the report.
2. We are agreed that adequate supplies to Greece cannot be permanently secured by present methods and that armaments ordered from America cannot arrive in sufficient quantity before the end of the year.
3.
The only satisfactory solution from the Greek point of view would be the immediate re-armament of the
Even if Greek forces with British Standard weapons.
we were in a position to re-arm some 20 Greek divisions, it is very unlikely that the weapons would arrive in time. Moreover, action of this nature would preclude the possibility of our supplying the Turks with war material.
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With our present deficiencies it would not be pessible to.. contemplate completely re-arming the Greek forces. By providing the raw materials for such armaments as can be manufactured in Grocce, and by despatching to Greece additional Field and Medium artillery equipments, with adequate ammunition, Greek resistance might be prolonged, though the difficulty of shipping stores rapidly to Greuce from this country still remains.
• C.0..(41) 65.
* Annex I.
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