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REPRESENTATIVES OF CONFERENCE HOPE WILL SOON BE ESTABLISHED AS 
 
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION INVS PARA 
 
THE PRESENT THE REPRESENTATIVES OF A CONTINUING
 
SHOULD CONSIST OF HOYINGCHIN AND CHIEFS OF BRITISH
 
MISSIONS SEMICOLON TWO THAT THE CHAIRMAN OF THE
 
BE AN AMERICAN APPOINTED BY THE CHIEF OF US MILITARY MISSION PARA
 
UNTIL THEIR ARRIVAL IN CHUNGKING WAVELL AND BRETT WERE WITHOUT
 
ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PRESIDENTS TERMS OF REFERENCE TO THE 
 
CONFERENCE STOP WAVELL HAD THREE THINGS IN MIND COLON ONE TO 
 
OBTAIN CONTROL CHINESE LEND LEASE MATERIAL IN BURMA SEMICOLON TWO. 
 
TO PERSUADE GENERALISSIMO TO ASSIGN AT LEAST TWO OF THREE AVG 
 
SQUADRONS FOR DEFENSE BURMA SEMICOLON THREE TO DISCUSS 
 
PARTICIPATION CHINESE TROOPS DEFENSE BURMA X PART FOUR REFERENCE 
 
LEND LEASE MATERIAL IN BURMA MY PERSONAL EFFORT WAS REQUIRED 
 
BECAUSE WAVELL ABANDON APPAKENT INTENTION
 
TO MAKE BLANKET DEMANDS ON CHINESE RATHER THAN REQUESTS FOR 
 
SPECIFIC ITEMS DEFENSE MATERIALS X I HAD REPEATEDLY TO IMP~SS WAVELL 
 
WITH MY INSTRUCTIONS THAT CHINESE ACQUIESCENCE WAS A PREREQUISITE 
 
TO RETRANSFER OF LEND LEASE MATERIAL PARA THE CHINESE OFFER OF TWO
ARMY CORPS FOR DEFENSE OF NORTHERN BURMA WAS DECLINED BY WAVELL 
 
UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES SOMEWHAT DISPLEASING TO GENERALISSIMO AND 
 
INCONSISTENT IN VIEW OF PICTURE PRESENTED OF BURMAS DEFENSELESSNESS 
 
DURING BRITISH PLEAS FOR AIR ASSISTANCE AND TRANSFER OF LEND LEASE 
 
MATERIAL X PART FIVE NO DECISION WAS ELECITED FROM GENERALISSIMO 
 
RELATIVE STATIONING ADDITIONAL AVG SQUADRONS IN BURMA X HIS 
 
ANNOUNCED REASON
 
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