Joint Secretaries
 
Colonel E. I. C. Jacob
Commander R. D. Coleridge, R.N.
Captain J. L. McCrea, Aide to Chief of Naval Operations Lieut. Colonel
P.M. Robinett, 6-2, GHQ, U.S. Army Major W. T. Sexton~ Assistant
Secretary, W.D.6. S.
 
1.      PRIORITIES FOR UNITED STATES AND UNITED KINGDOM OVERSEAS
        EXPEDITIONS IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.
 
               THE CONFERENCE approved a final draft of the Joint
Planning Committee's Report on Priorities for United States and United
Kingdom Overseas Expeditions in the Atlantic Ocean. (U.S. Serial
ABC-4/1, British Serial WW
(J.P.C.) 1) . (See Annex 1)
 
        2.       AMERICAN-BRITISH STRATEGY (WW-1).
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                 At the request of REAR ADMIRAL TURNER, action on this
paper was
deferred.
 
    3.  NORTHWEST AFRICA PROJECT, U. S. ARC-4/2, BRITISt{ WW(J.P.C.)2.
Action on this paper was deferred at the request of the British.
 
    4.  SUPPORTING MEASURES FOR THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC.
 
                 Action on U.S. ARC-4/3, British WW(J.P.C.)3, was
deferred by
common    consen t.
 
               At this time, the following officers withdrew from the
Conference' Rear Admiral W. R. Sexton~ U.S. N.; Rear A/hniral P.. K.
Turner, U.S. N.;
Rear Admiral J. H. Towers, U. S. N.; Major General Thomas tIolcomb, U.
S. M. C.; Captain J. L. McCrea, U. S. N.; Brigadier General Raymond
Lee, U.S. A.; and Commander R. D. Coleridge, R. N.
 
        5.       UNITY OF CO~[MAND IN THE SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC
TItEATER.
 
                 a      METHOD OF HANDLING QUESTIONS CONCERNING THAT
TNEATER.
 
                      ADMIRAL POUND said that the proposal for the
establishment of unity of command in the Southwestern Pacific'Theater
had been referred by the Prime Mirlister to London, for consideration
by the War Cabinet. In his telegram he had included the following
sentence, "He (General Wayell) would receive his orders from an
appropriate .joint body, who will be responsible to him as Minister of
Defense, and to the President of the United States, who is also
Commander-in-Chief of all U.S. forces."
 
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