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TO BE KEPT UNDER LOCK AND KEY.
It is requested that special care may be taken to ensure the secrecy of this dooumant.
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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT)
This docnent was considered at was considered at
SECRET.
C.0.S. (41) 724.
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C.O. S.
Meeting.
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COPY NO.
4TH DECEMBER, 1941.
WAR CABINET.
CHIEFS OF STAFF COMMITTEE.
SUPERVISION OF THE WIRELESS TRANSMITTING STATIONS
IN ST. PIERRE AND MIQUELON.
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The Prime Minister has referred the following # to the Chiefs of Staff for consideration.
Great George Street, S.W.1.
4th DECEMBER, 1941.
(Signed) L.C. HOLLIS.
* Annex.
ANNEX.
Copy of a telogram No.245 dated 3rd December, 1941,
from the Government of Canada to Dominions Office.
Di 3rd December, 1941. 10.48 p.m.
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6.15 a.m.
Following from the Prime Minister for your Prime
Minister.Begins.
We have had under consideration for some time the question of arranging for the supervision of wireless transmitting stations in St. Pierre and Miquelon because of our concern about the possible danger to convoy movements. This matter was first brought to the attention of our Government in a communication from the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom suggesting that Free French naval forces should take over the Islands and place them under French administrations. For various reasons this step appeared to us at the time to be inappropriate. The Canadian United States Permanent Joint Board on Defence unanimously agreed on 10th November that the existence on the Islands of an uncontrolled and high-powered wireless transmitting station constitutes a potential danger to the interests of Canada and the United States.
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