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have available in this area in ships and man power.
 
 
   5. The British to take the primary responsibility for re-
 
 
inforcing Burma immediately and defending Rangoon. The United
 
States to provide such supplementary aid as is available.
 
  6. The United States to continue to take the primary respon-
 
sibility for military assistance to China in terms of materiel, but
 
confining that materiel for the present to the urgent munitions of
 
war such as aircraft, ammunition, high octane gasoline and such
 
other weapons of war as can be utilized when they reach the Chinese
 
Army. The volunteer air force now in Rangoon to be considered part
 
of American support of Chiang Kai-shek.
 
7. Intensification of the campaign against submarines in the
 
Atlantic, including the great extension of the use of smaller ships.
 
8. The Russian Protocol, the supplies to the Middle East, the
 
Persian Gulf, the United Kingdom and to selected South American
 
countries.