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Continued from November 3.

John Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945

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Prime Minister to General Ismay, for C.O.S. Committee 5 Nov 44

Just look at the vast numbers of staff units – ancillary and tail – which have been poured into Greece, and the very small proportion of fighting troops. Can we not send a few battalions of infantry? There seem to be only two there, and 1,500 ordinary British infantry out of 22,600 all told.

Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy