ANNEX 1
 
         This paper was not approved but was returned to the Joint Planning Committee for reconsideration and re-submission for further consideration.
 
    U. S. SERIAL ABC-4/1
BRITISH SERIAL W.W. (JPC)1
 
PRIORITIES FOR UNITED STATES AND
                 UNITED KINGDOM OVERSEAS EXPEDITIONS
IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN
 
REPORT BY THE U S.-BRITISH JOINT PLANNING COMMITTEE
 
         1.    One of the directives to the Joint Planning Committee issued by the Chiefs of Staff Committee on December 24, 1941, may be summarized as follows'
 
Study and report outline plans for the overseas employment of United States and British troops in the Atlantic region, indicating recommended relative priorities of importance'
 
        _a    The relief by United States troops of British troopsin Iceland and North Ireland.
 
                  b        The occupation by invitation of the following positions'
 
(1) The Azores.
(2) The Cape Verde Islands.
(3) The Canary Islands.
(4) French West Africa.
(5) French North Africa
(6) Diego Suarez in Madagascar.
(7) Curacao and Aruba~
(8) Northeast Brazil.
 
        2.    The Joint Planning Committee recommends that the i~nitial occupation by invitation of the foreign positions indicated in the directive should be allocated as follows'
 
           To the United States- the occupation of the Cape Verde Islands, French ~!est Africa, Curacao and Aruba, Northeast Brazil.
 
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