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Italy thaxhe actually need.ed. What he rai±y really wanted was infantry. He could not promise to gen.S. that a newly formed Polish armoured div. would go into action for sonę considerable time.

Gen.S. drew gen.E.*s attention to the fact that according to Information 6upplJ*ied by the Polish Intelligence the Germans had at present 6 armoured divisions in Italy.

Gen.Whiteley - "Kov/ever, they use very little armour now •"

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Gen.S. said the Allied offensive might soon take them further North, where the employment of Armoured Divisions as a whole will he tactically possihle or even necessary. Furthermore, Gen.S. laid dmphasis on the had effect which the reducing of our forces in the H.E. to Tirtually one dir. only,would have on Polish oppinion in Poland and elsewhere.

The nation would like to see a fuli Polish Army Corps going into action under it*s own comnander.

Gen.E. said he appreciated very much the Polish national point of view and that he already had had ■ im i lwi¹ similar caees with regards to other Allies, where he had applied a solution which could not he justified hy operational reasonś alone.

He was perfectly r£ady to consider gen.S.*s plan and would refer to his Staff for detailed calculations. One thing* however, he h^d to point out - he could not promise an early employment of the Armrd Div.,in any case not hefore the Allied offensiwe gets them into the country where the tactical use of tanks not en masse would he possihle. Person-ally he hadAnot studied very caryfully the naturę of the tarrain very much further North^To!?' the present front, he knew, however%,that gen.Alexander had. Would gen.S. not consider sending one of his staff officerB over to meet gen.Alexs.nder and place the problem before him.

Gen.S. answered that he intended to see gen.A. himself, that he considered it his duty to see him and that he was ready to go and meet him wherever necessary. As to the working out of details concerning hi9 conception of