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    "ocrText": "TOP SECRET\nC-12\nFinally on November 30, 1943 while at Ramgarh,\nIndia, the Generalissimo once again agreed\nto Admiral Mountbatten's campaign plans for wresting\nBurma from the Japanese (Doc. J, p. C-42)\nAfter the Tehran Conference the President and\nthe Prime Minister met again in Cairo from December 4\nthrough 6, 1943. At the Second Cairo Conference\nplans for military action against Japan were re- -\nviewed and considerable time was spent discussing\nBUCCANEER;\nAt the beginning of the third Plenary Meeting\non December 4, 1943 Prime Minister Churchill\nemphasized the importance of Marshal Stalin's\nstatement, made at Tehran, that the Soviet Union\nwould enter the war against Japan. Mr. Churchill\nstated that since the Soviet Union promised to enter\nthe war in the Pacific 'operations in the Southeast\nAsia Command had lost a good deal of their value\"\nIn the course of the discussion the Prime Minister\nsaid that the Generalissimo had departed from Cairo\n\"under the impression that we were going to do\nBUCCANEER\", and suggested that it. be left until\nafter the monsoon. When Admiral King said that\nthere was a definite commitment\" to the Generalissimo\nthat there would be an amphibious operation in the\nspring of 1944, the Prime Minister recalled that he\nhad not agreed when the Generalissimo had insisted\nthat an amphibious operation be undertaken simul-\ntaneously with land operations in Burma. When the\nPrime Minister suggested that it might be necessary\nto withdraw resources from; BUCCANEER to strengthen\nproposed operations in Europe the President said that\nhe could not, agree and added: \"We had a moral\nobligation to do something for China and he would\nnot be prepared to forego the amphibious operation,\nexcept for some very great and readily. apparent\nreason\" The Prime Minister replied to this\nobservation that the 'very good reason might be\nprovided by OVERLORD. Admiral Leahy indicated\n1\n1code name for the proposed cross-channel\ninvasion of Europe.\nTOP SECRET"
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