Answer We presume that "occupy" in the context means sending a force possibly including warships, sufficient to ensure an orderly transfer of authority to some interim central Greek Government. Serious disorders are likely to break out as soon as the Germans withdraw and will degenerate into civil war unless we intervene to ensure such a transfer of authority. However illogically we should get some blame if civil war beaks out. If we also failed to exploit the German withdrawal by vigorous offensive action in Greece or elsewhere the prejudicial effect of our failure to intervene would be intensified.
- Collection ID
- CAB81
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Albania Bulgaria Crete Germany Greece Italy Russia Turkey Yugoslavia
- Document Reference
- CAB 81/118/55
- Document Types
- Report
- File Reference
- CAB 81/118
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.cab81.0118.055
- Keywords
- Predicting Enemy Intentions German Strategy Contingency Planning Politics Turkish Neutrality Soviet Strategy
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Chiefs of Staff Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee Joint Planning Staff
- Pages
- 4
- Persons Discussed
- Victor Cavendish-Bentinck Francis Davidson Adolf Hitler Francis Inglis Edmund Rushbrooke Geoffrey Vickers
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Military Intelligence International Relations
