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DOCUMENT C
EXTRACT
and
SEXTANT CONFERENCE¹
Minutes of First Plenary Meeting, held at the Villa Kirk,
on Tuesday, 23 November 1943 at 1100
THE PRESIDENT, extending a warm welcome to the
Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek, and to the
Chinese Delegation, said that this was an historic
meeting and a logical consequence to the Four Power
Conference recently concluded in Moscow. The effect
of this meeting would, he hoped, not only bear fruit
today and in the immediate future, but for decades
to come. He suggested that Admiral Mountbatten might
be asked to give a general survey of intended opera-
tions in Southeast Asia. The ground to be covered
mainly concerned the land, since seagoing operations
were in progress all the time. There was, he felt
sure, unanimous agreement that every effort should be
made to send more equipment to China, with a view to
accelerating the process by which we could launch an
air offensive against the heart of Japan itself.
ADMIRAL MOUNTBATTEN then outlined the operations
he proposed for the coming campaign in Burma
[long explanation of land operations].
THE GENERALISSIMO said that in accordance with the
view he had expressed at Chungking, the success of the
operations in Burma depended, in his opinion, not only
on the strength of the naval forces established in the
Indian Ocean, but on the simultaneous coordination
of naval action with the land operations.
'SEXTANT CONFERENCE November-December 1943, Papers
and Minutes of Meetings Sextant and Eureka Conferences,
Edited and Published by the Office, U.S. Secretary,
Office of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 1943, pp. 378-
381.
DECLASSIFIED
G.
11652, Sec. 3(E) and 7-13-2 S(D) of
Depr of letter,
BECKEA
WH
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