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(Untitled), 28 May 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/75/93-94

Scope and Contents

Telegram from WSC to Field Marshal Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] marked "personal and most secret" commenting on his recommendations regarding strategy: comments on British naval, land and air reinforcements for India; states that he believes the Japanese will strike north against Chiang-Kai-shek [Chinese Nationalist leader] and comments on the possibility of striking eastward at the Japanese through Burma [later Myanmar]; states that it will be difficult to meet a really heavy German attack by the Caucasus and Caspian but believes that there is no reason at present to assume that the Russian Front will break; comments on Britain's treaty with the Soviet Union.

Dates

  • Creation: 28 May 1942

Conditions Governing Access

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Conditions Governing Use

Copyright: Crown copyright

Extent

2 folio(s)

Language of Materials

English

External Documents

Former / Other Reference

T 770/2

Repository Details

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