My telegram of 5th December No. 405. [1] Please inform the Prime
Minister [2] that the joint report by the United States staff
committee and United Kingdom delegation on staff conversations at
Washington January to March [3] has been considered by the Defence
Committee of the War Cabinet here, who gave it their general
approval.

2. We now propose to inform the United States Government that we
are in agreement with the report but before doing so we should be
glad to learn whether the Dominion Governments concerned also
concur.

3. Representatives of Chiefs of Staff in Canada, Australia and New
Zealand were associated with the United Kingdom delegation
throughout the course of the conversations and copies of the
report were communicated to Dominion Chiefs of Staff who will have
submitted the report to their respective Governments.

4. Copy of report was given to Mr. Menzies [4] during his visit
here.