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Australian Government - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Advancing the interests of Australia and Australians internationally

348 Mr John Curtin, Prime Minister, to Sir Earle Page, Special Representative in the United Kingdom

Cablegram 30 CANBERRA, 20 February 1942

MOST IMMEDIATE MOST SECRET

Reference Your P.47. [1] If you have not done so you should act at once on cablegrams Nos. 28 [2] and 29. [3] In No. 27 [4] you were asked, pending receipt of decision in No. 28, to ensure that convoy should not be committed to Burma.

CURTIN

1 Document 347 2 Document 345.

3 Dispatched 19 February. On file AA:A816, 52/302/142. It amplified the decision published in Document 345.

4 Document 343.

[AA:A3196, 1942, 0.5294]

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