300-10 COPY NO. 29 (J.O.S. 283/1) (LIMITED DISTRIBUTION) 300 May 8, 1943 (1) J.C.S. 272 (2) J.S.S.C 14 Pages 11-20 incl. (3) J.C.S. 283 (4) J.C.S. 272/1 (5) J.P.S. 177 (6) J.C.S. 285 (7) J.S.S.C 14/1 (8) J.C.S. 286 (9) J.C.S. 285/1 JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF CURRENT BRITISH POLICY AND STRATEGY IN RELATIONSHIP TO THAT OF THE UNITED STATES References: a. J.C.S. Supplementary Minutes 76th Mtg., Item 1 (a) b. J.C.S. 272 Approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff - May 8, 1943 1. In accordance with the above references, as elaborated in discussion with the Joint Staff Planners, the Joint Strategic Survey Committee submit, as enclosures, their estimate of the current British military policy and strategy, with particular relation to the most probable British proposals, at the next "Casablanca" meeting. 2. In making this estimate, the Committee has examined the record of British action, proposals and announcements, insofar as available to them, and have discussed the subject with ap- propriate officials of the State Department. The most pertinent sources of available information are the record of General Marshall's visit to London in April, 1942, of the U.S. Chiefs of Staff visit to London in July, 1942, the Casablanca papers, in- cluding the recent C.C.S. 199/1, certain dispatches between the Prime Minister and the President, and Mr. Churchill's speech of March 21, 1943. 3. The paper is prepared in two parts -- Enclosures "A" and "B" -- the former a general discussion, the latter a paragraph by paragraph comparison between J.C.S. 243/3 and what is believed to be the British ideas. - 11 - |