Naval Policy Between the Wars - II: The Period of Reluctant Rearmament 1930-1939 by Roskill Stephen

Author:Roskill, Stephen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / Military / Naval
ISBN: 9781473877467
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
Published: 2016-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

1 La Preparazione e le Prime Operazioni. (Eng. Trans., 1967.)

2 Letters C-in-C, Mediterranean to Admy. of 10th April and 20th June 1933. Adm. 116/3473.

3 AL of 3rd Oct. 1933. ibid.

4 Fisher to Chatfield 17th Nov. 1933. Chatfield papers, CHT/4/5.

5 25th to 27th Meetings of JDC 27th April 1933 to 12th April 1934 and CID. 402c of 1st Oct. 1934. Cab. 5/8. This volume is ‘closed’ until 1989, but the deliberations on base defences in Malta and Egypt will be found in Adm. 116/3473.

6 COS. 333 of 2nd May (Cab. 53/23) and CID. 1141B of 4th Nov. 1934. Cab. 3/23.

7 Admy. to C-in-C, Mediterranean 2nd Aug. 1934. Adm. 116/3489.

8 AL of 24th Jan. 1935. ibid.

9 C-in-C, Mediterranean, to Admy, 30th March 1935 and Admy. to same 22nd May 1935. ibid.

10 C-in-C, Mediterranean, to Admy. 28th June 1935 and 151st COS meeting of 4th Oct. 1935. Cab. 53/5.

11 Appreciation of March 1931, sent to CID 31st May 1932. Adm. 1/8739–47/30.

12 See pp. 214–6.

13 Hoare-Bingham conversation of 29th July 1935. Cab. 29/149.

14 The Times 16th, 17th, 18th July 1935. The paper’s Special Correspondent remarked on the large proportion of small ships present, that ‘the real strength of the Navy, which lies in its heavy ships, had been whittled to the bone’, and that ‘many of them are elderly veterans’; but he claimed that the 100 Fleet Air Arm aircraft which flew past showed that ‘in all other respects’ the Navy was ‘truly up to date’. If there was some substance in the first part of his commentary the second part was nonsense. The Times, 16th July 1935.

15 Chatfield to Fisher 23rd Jan. and reply by latter of 21st Feb. 1935. Adm. 1/8777–164/34. See also Chatfield to Dreyer 31st May 1935 ‘I am taking the King out… to see our gunnery practice including HA firing against the “Queen Bee” aeroplanes. The Press will be present and I hope we shall shoot down the “Queen Bee”, as we usually do now, and thereby counter the insidious propaganda that battleships are defenceless against air attack’. Chatfield papers, CHT/4/4.

16 The Times, 18th July 1935.

17 146th COS meeting on 5th July 1935. Cab. 53/5.

18 COS 147th and 148th meetings of 30th July and 8th Aug. 1935. Cab. 53/5. COS. 388 reviewed the military implications of sanctions. Cab. 53/25.

19 Adm. 116/3038.

20 Vansittart to Little 9th Aug. 1935. ibid.

21 Little to Vansittart 10th Aug. 1935. ibid.

22 C-in-C, Med., to Admy. No. 426 of 20th Aug. 1935. ibid.

23 Secret Office Acquaint of 16th Aug. 1935. ibid.

24 Admy. to C-in-C, China 29th Aug. and Navy Board Melbourne to Admy. 13th Sept. 1935. ibid.

25 Adm. 116/3296.

26 I am indebted to Dottore Rosaria Quarteraro for this information, culled from her doctoral thesis Y Rapporti Italo-Inglesi Fra Europa e Mediterraneo 1933–1936 (Rome University), which I have been allowed to study in draft.

27 Report of 29th Oct. 1935 by Captain H. Pott. Forwarded to FO by Sir E. Drummond, the ambassador on 5th Nov. However the DNI probably received a copy direct from the attache earlier than this official one.

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