Following for the Prime Minister [2] from the Prime Minister.

1. Reference your 72. [3] The proposal has been considered by War
Cabinet and submitted to Advisory War Council, representing all
political parties here.

2. The unanimous conclusion of the War Cabinet and Council is that
we do not agree with the proposed Far Eastern Council in London.

[4] The Council will be purely advisory and quite out of keeping
with our vital and primary interest in the Pacific sphere.

3. We desire that the accredited representative of the Australian
Government shall have the right to be heard in War Cabinet in the
formulation and direction of policy.

4. We also desire that a Pacific War Council shall be established
at Washington comprising representatives of the Governments of the
United Kingdom, United States of America, Australia, China,
Netherlands and New Zealand. This body would be a council of
action for the higher direction of the war in the Pacific and
would have associated with it the joint staff already established
on which the members of the Pacific Council would also have
representatives of their Services if they so desired.

CURTIN