ANNEX I. NO DISTRIBUTION. Cypher telegram to Sir H. Kennard (Warsaw). Foreign Office, 26th August, 1939. 4.00 p.m. No. 303. SECRET. IMMEDIATE. As you are aware, His Majesty's Government had intended to send a service mission to Poland in the event of war. In the present situation they consider it desirable that this mission should leave immediately, and it is leaving London to-day for Alexandria, whence it will proceed to Warsaw under arrangements to be made locally. The mission (as Marshal Smigly Rydz has already been informed) will be headed by General Carton de Wiart.
- Collection ID
- CAB56
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Poland Romania Turkey
- Document Reference
- CAB 56/1/36
- Document Types
- Summary
- File Reference
- CAB 56/1
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.cab56.0001.036
- Keywords
- Anglo-french Relations Liaison Intelligence Gathering Information Sharing Military Observers Military Missions
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Committee of Imperial Defence Chiefs of Staff Deputy Chiefs of Staff Foreign Office Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee
- Pages
- 4
- Persons Discussed
- Andrew Barnard Frederick Beaumont-Nesbitt Ralph Skrine Stevenson
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Series
- Committee of Imperial Defence, Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee Meetings, July 1936 - August 1939
- Themes
- International Relations Surveillance
