DRAFT FROM THE PRESIDENT TO THE GENERALISSIMO In my judgment it is of the highest importance steps be taken to prepare the way for our common action against our common enemy. To this and I respectfully suggest that you call a joint military conference to take place in hungking not later than December seventeenth to exchange information and to consider the military and naval action particularly in Eastern Asia which may most effectively be employed to accomplish the defeat of Japan and her allies. I suggest that the conferees consist of representatives of Ahina, Great Britain, the Dutch, United States and the U.S.S.R., and I am prepared to designate at once Major General George H. Brett as representative of the United States assisted by Brigadier General John Magruder. It is my thought that this conference arrive at a concrete preliminary plan and that this plan be communicated in the greates confidence to me by Saturday, December twentieth. It should also be communicated by the Russian, British and Dutch representatives in the utmost secrecy to their respective Governments. While your preliminary conference is meeting in Chungking, I am asking the British to hold a military and naval conference in Singapore to include Chinese, American and Dutch officers and report operational plans as they see the situation in the Southern zone. I am also asking Mr. Stalin to talk with the Chinese, American and |