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SIR ALAN BROOKE suggested that the Joint Planning Staff should be asked to consider, as a matter of urgency, what instructions should be sent to Admiral Mountbatten for the guidance of Major-General Harrison in Melbourne.

THE COMMITTEE:-

Instructed the Joint Planning Staff to examine the above telegram, and to prepare a reply for consideration by the Chiefs of Staff at their meeting the following day.

Offices of the Cabinet and

Minister of Defence, S.W.1.

20TH AUGUST, 1945

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