Telegram from Commanders-in-Chief to WSC on limiting campaigns to strategically essential goals, the defence of the Delta and Canal [? Nile Delta and Suez Canal, Egypt], Basra [Iraq] and the Caucasus and the Bastion of Taurus Range [Toros Daglari, Turkey]; Whipcord [codename for British plan for the invasion of Sicily] not essential, should defend Soviet oil-fields and occupy Bizerta [Tunisia] to secure control of Mediterranean.