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SECRET

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.

6.0.S.(40) 253 (J.P)

Also Paper No. .P.(40) 57.)

8th March, 1940.

COPY NO.

AR CABINET.

CHIEFS OF STAFF COMITTEE.

WOR IN THE JOINT PLANNING SUB-COMITTEE

Report by the Joint Planning Sub-Committee.

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us:

On the 4th March, the Chiefs of Staff instructed

"to put up proposals for increasing and/or re-

organising the existing Joint Planning Organisation, with a view to ensuring that long term planning can proceed uninterrupted? and with due regard to the necessity for collaboration with the French".

We have examined this question, and in the light of our experience during these first months of war, we consider that the Joint Planning Sub-Committee should be reinforced by three Staff Officers on an equal footing to the three junior Staff Officers now employed on the

This reinforcement would Joint Planning Sub-Committee. enable long term planning to proceed concurrently with the examination of the many and urgent ad hoc problems with which we are presented.

3.

and

The best form of organisation to co-ordinate plans with the French is a more difficult problem, Whatever we should like more time to consider it. decision may be reached in connection with the collaboration of plans with the French, we are convinced that reinforcement of the Joint Planning Sub-Committee is now necessary, and we, therefore, seek authority for the appointment of the three Staff Officers referred to above for thwith.

A separate report on collaboration in planning with the French will be submitted in due course.

(Signed) C.S. DANIEL.

253 (J.P.)

abinet War Room,

8th March, 1940.

I.S.O. PLAYFAIR. J.C. SLESSOR.

0.0.S.(40) 44th Meeting, Minute 5.

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