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Advancing the interests of Australia and Australians internationally

Australian Government - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Advancing the interests of Australia and Australians internationally

265 Lord Cranborne, U.K. Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, to Commonwealth Government

Cablegram 69 LONDON, 31 January 1941, 10.30 p.m.

MOST SECRET

Your telegram 57 of 29th January. [1]

It is understood from the Commander-in-Chief, Far East [2], that arrangements are now being made for a meeting at Singapore on 22nd February between representatives of the United Kingdom, Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand, and the Netherlands East Indies.

1 Document 259.

2 Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham.

[AA:A3195, 1941, 1.1531]

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