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.
 
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