Office of the Historian

740.0011 European War 1939/11141: Telegram

The Minister in Egypt (Kirk) to the Secretary of State

Cairo, May 20, 1941—4 p.m.
[Received May 21—6:18 a.m.]

541. A report has been received here that intensive military operations were started by the Germans against Crete this morning using parachute troops and gliders.

Kirk