So, since you have been generous enough to transcribe so much material,
please supply the contents of Para 1 from Tovey's letter. (Or do I have to ask Cag to overcome his scruples and supply them?)Bravo! Correct, but to speak about this signal (repeated to other ships too, so a well meditated stupidity, I would say
It clear that since it was still Priority One for Tovey by the time he wrote to Roskill many years later, it is likely C-in-C Home Fleet was incandescent with rage at the time the famous telephone call was made. Since we have eliminated the possibility that the CMDS threat was made at any other time, eg after actually analysing any reports, as Kennedy incorrectly alleges, it is essential to assessing the CMDS threat that we know the detail of the thing that was more important to Tovey in 1941.
We know Pound was covering, at this time, for the Churchillian origin of the ""Stupidest and most Ill-Considered signal ever made" , and who he is recorded as considering "childish" on occasion, which probably made him doubly defensive and resulted in a fit of pique with his junior.
Criticism
Once again the Conspiracy Filter boosts the output from something said in the War Room and apparently contradicted by all other attendees, to "Official".officially at least from Tom Phillip
to make it official he would have had to write it down. Where is it written down....... with signature? His only written criticism is of Dalrymple-Hamilton.
excusatio non petita
You already supplied
You provided the reason in the very sentence you supplied."The shadowing by W-W's two cruisers could not have been bettered and excited the admiration of all of us. Tom Phillips's criticisms of him have no substance whatever, and our opinion was that W-W never put a foot wrong.".
All the best
wadinga