(Untitled), 08 Mar 1944

Item

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/188A/49-52

Scope and Contents

WSC's copy of a Government paper for the Chiefs of Staff Committee of the War Cabinet marked "Most Secret" including minutes of a Staff Conference attended by WSC, Clement Attlee, Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon], Oliver Lyttelton [later 1st Lord Chandos], Lord Leathers and the Chiefs of Staff, which concluded that no decision on strategy for the war against Japan could yet be made, but that reconnaissance of bases in Australia should be arranged; that preparations for Culverin [attack on the Japanese-held Dutch East Indies, later Indonesia] in Spring 1945 should be continued and the United States Chiefs of Staff informed of their present position on the subject. Flagged: "O".

Dates

Creation: 08 Mar 1944

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