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3.

A proposed reply to General Miles has accordingly

been drafted on the lines agreed by the War Cabinet, and

is circulated herewith as a basis for discussion by the

Chiefs of Staff. A copy of this paper is being sent to

the Foreign Office for their observations from the political

point of view.

4.

Mr. Sumner Welles is very shortly arriving in

Paris, and it will be necessary to inform the French

authorities, with the least possible delay, of the line we

propose to take. It is therefore proposed to place this

paper on the agenda of the meeting of the Chiefs of Staff

to be held on Monday, 4th Larch, with a view to the

transmission to the Allied Military Committee on the same

day of the terms of our reply to General Miles.

(Signed) H.L. ISMAY.

Richmond Terrace, S.W.1.,

3rd March, 1940.

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Annex.

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