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(Untitled), 23 Feb 1942

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/70/112-113

Scope and Contents

Telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to WSC regarding the situation in the Far East: comments on the refusal by John Curtin [Prime Minister of Australia] to divert the [7th] Australian division [to Burma, later Myanmar] and quotes the text of his message to Curtin urging the diversion of the second returning division; states that he is working on plans to make the ANZAC [Australian and New Zealand Army Corps] area more secure; states that he no longer intends to mention German ships running the English Channel [the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen] in his speech.

Dates

  • Creation: 23 Feb 1942

Conditions Governing Access

From the File:

Open

Language of Materials

English

Former / Other Reference

T 280/2

Repository Details

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