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           The British are our partners, hence we must have the
fullest and frankest collaboration with them. Lend-Lease
and merchant shipping must naturally be integrated in an over-
all requirements pictures.
 
          I feel that we must may have our major impact with the enemy 
in the fall of 1943. Therefore it seems to me that a supreme effort from a
production point of view should be given to producing the weapons and 
military units that we can bring to bear on the enemy by that time.
 
 
      I think our general policy should be put our munitions to work
directly against the enemy as promptly as possible. We must always 
remember that the enemy is not going to wait for us to become fully
prepared.
 
 
 
Copy to General Marshall