AIR MARSHAL HARRIS saidhe would like to check with
General Arnold the list of Air Routes which had been inserted.
 
Subject to a final checklby Air Marshal Harris with General Arnold
of the Air Routes paragraph, the U.S. and British Chiefs of Staff
approved the memorandum (See Annex No. 1) American-British Strategy.
WW-1 (Final), on American-British Strategy as amended in the
discussion, and agreed that it should be submitted to the President and
the Prime Minister.
 
         3.        SUPPORTING MEASURES FOR THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. -
 
THE CONFERENCE considered a report (U.S. ABC-4/3, British WW
    (J.P.C. 3) by the Joint Planning Committee on supporting measures
for the Southwest Pacific.
 
                 ADMIRAL POUND said that as there would be an interval
before General Wavell could take up his conroland, he thought it would
be desirable to dispatch a telegram to the U.S. and British
Commanders-in-Chief in the Far East to inform them of the general
policy which had been agreed upon by the Chiefs of Staff. He handed
across copies of a telegram which he had drafted for this purpose. The
draft telegram was considered and a number of amendments were agreed
upon.
 
                  Later in the meeting after Admiral King had entered
further consideration was given to the telegram, and some additional
amendments made.
    A few minor amendments to the report were also accepted by the
Joint Planning Committee.
 
                   It was agreed
 
a. That the telegram, as amended in the discussion, should be
dispatched forthwith to United States and British Commanders in the Far
East.
 
b. That the report by the Joint Planning Committee, subject to
        the incorporation of the minor amendments agreed to in the
discussion, 'should be approved.
 
                 The report and the telegram in their final form were
subsequently circulated as U.S. ABC-4/3 British WW-4 (See Annex 2.)
 
                                                         
 
          4.       NORTHWEST AFRICA PROJECT. -
 
                ADMIRAL STARK said that the United States Chiefs of
Staff were not ready to discuss the report by the Joint Planning
Committee on this subject,
(U S. ABC-4/2, British WW (J.R.C.2).
 
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