(Untitled), 04 Oct 1942

Item

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/80/120-122

Scope and Contents

Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "most secret and personal" commenting on the Progress Report of the Combined Production and Resources Board: suggests that the programme for tank provision is on a scale out of all proportion to anything that might be brought to bear on the enemy in 1943, and advocates a more careful scrutiny of targets to avoid exhausting resources; states that a further effect of setting the targets of the main items too high is that everything else is then calculated in proportion, and cites figures for ball ammunition to illustrate point.

Dates

Creation: 04 Oct 1942

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