Foreign Relations of the United States, Conferences at Washington and Quebec, 1943

Editorial Note

President Roosevelt conferred with the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the White House on May 2, 1943. No official record of this meeting has been found. Regarding the absence from the official files of such records, see Matloff, p. 125, footnote 57. According to the very brief account in Leahy, p. 156, Roosevelt, Hopkins, Leahy, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff were present, and the subject of the discussion was the impending conference with the British. Leahy recalls in particular that consideration was given to the questions of the contemplated Allied military actions in Burma and the supplying of material to the Chinese Army.