Letter

Letter from L.S. [Leo] Amery to Auchinleck, reporting on his visit to Italy to see the Indian divisions there, on the need for all serving men in these divisions to have leave on their return, on the inferior welfare centres provided for the Indian Army, on the arrangements made to send woollen clothing to the Indian soldiers facing a winter in Italy, on the keenness and high morale of the Indian troops, on the calibre of the officers, on his talk to the press after his return, on the success of the story of the Indian divisions in the North African campaign (The Tiger Kills, by W.G. Hingston and G.R. Stevens), on the possibility of a small token force of the Indian Army taking part in the future march into Germany and Berlin, and on the anxiety expressed in Britain concerning the welfare conditions of British troops in India. Typescript, signed.