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(Untitled), 02 Oct 1943 - 31 Oct 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/104/4

Scope and Contents

Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, October 1943.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: Lord Louis Mountbatten [Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Colonel Ian Jacob and Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant Secretaries to the War Cabinet]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet] and Sir Alexander Cadogan [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]; Director of Military Intelligence [Major-General Francis Davidson].Subjects covered by the minutes include: matters concerning planned operations in South East Asia, including maintaining secrecy, using Middle East bases, and "Culverin" [attack on the Japanese-held Dutch East Indies, later Indonesia]; utilising Italian ships; the loss of Kos to the Germans and plans to capture Rhodes [Greece]; United States and Soviet propaganda films; the western frontier of the Soviet Union; transferring Allied divisions to and from the Mediterranean; comparing the strength of Allied and Axis armies; the resignation of Jean Knox as Director of the ATS [Auxiliary Territorial Service]; food requirements for liberated Europe; floating airfields; the vacancy for the living of St Jude's, Birmingham; the behaviour of US "coloured" troops stationed in Britain; the reorganisation of the Italian government; the command structure in the Mediterranean; naval manpower.

Dates

  • Creation: 02 Oct 1943 - 31 Oct 1943

Conditions Governing Access

Open.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright: Crown

Extent

1 item(s) (1 43, [1]p)

Language of Materials

English

External Documents

Former / Other Reference

D 159/3A - D 203/3; M 622/3 - M 763/3; C 33/3 - C 46/3; DM 8/3

Subject

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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