WAR AND NAVY DEPARTMENTS
                                
                           WASHINGTON
                                
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          (e) Where questions affecting any Dominions or the Dutch are under discussion by the
Combined Chiefs of Staff, the Heads of the Staff Missions concerned will be invited to attend.
 
     (f) The interests of the Dominions and Dutch are primarily confined to particular theatres
of war. The British and U. S. Chiefs of Staff on the other hand have to consider the strategy of
the war as a whole, the interests of their two nations being world-wide. The responsibility for
making final recommendations to Governments will, therefore, remain with the Combined Chiefs
of Staff.
     
     The whole question of Dominion and Dutch Representation is at present under active
discussion between His Majesty's Governments in the United Kingdom and the Dominions and
the Dutch Government. The Representatives of the British Chiefs of Staff are not yet in a position
to give the views of London on the matter.
 
                              
                    
                                        H. R. Stark
                                        H. R. STARK.
 
                                        G. C. Marshall
                                        G. C. MARSHALL