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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT
TO BE KEPT UNDER LOCK AND KEY.
It is requested that special care may be taken to ensure the secrecy of this document.
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SECRET.
C.O.S. (40) 491.
25TH JUNE, 1940.
WAR CABINET.
CHIEFS OF STAFF COMMITTEE.
COPY NO.
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DEMILITARISATION OF THE CHANNEL ISLANDS,
Memorandum by the Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff.
The military evacuation of the Channel Islands
has now been comploted. The Chiefs of Staff in
C.0.S. (40) 472 pocormended the policy of demilitarisa- The Cabinet accepted this policy (W.M. (40) 172
Conclusions, Item 12).
tion.
I suggest that the Chiefs of Staff should (through the War Cabinet if necessary) now ask the Foreign Office to inform Germany that the Channel Islands have been demilitarised and aro declared undefended arecs.
The War Office,
25TH JUNE, 1940.
(Signed) R.H. HAINING,
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