WAR AND NAVY DEPARTMENTS
                                
                           WASHINGTON
 
                              February 4, 1942.
 
The President,
 
     The White House.
 
Dear Mr. President :-
 
     The Combined Chiefs of Staff have considered the Presidents outline proposals for the
representation of the Dutch and of the British Dominions. In their view these proposals would
work out as follows:-
 
          (a) A separation will be made between political and strategical questions, borderline cases
being treated as strategical.
 
          (b) All discussions on political questions will be conducted in London where the principal
representation of the Dominion and Dutch Governments is centred.
 
     (c) Strategical questions will be handled in Washington through the Combined Chiefs of
Staff in accordance with procedure to be prescribed. This procedure will be laid down in the final
agreed version of  "War Collaboration between United Nations."
 
          (d) The Dominions and Dutch Staffs will be represented by Staff Missions in Washington,
each primarily responsible to their own Chiefs of Staff. While there will be the normal contacts
between Dominion Staff Missions and U. S. Staffs, it will be the responsibility of the United
Kingdom Joint Staff Mission to conduct preliminary discussions with Dominion Staff Missions
and to evolve, if possible, a co-ordinated British Commonwealth point of view.  The U.S. Chiefs
of Staffs will be responsible in a similar way for preliminary discussions with the Dutch Staff
Mission.
 
 
 
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