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

J.C.S. Files

Note by the Secretaries of the Combined Chiefs of Staff¹

secret
C.C.S. 288/3

[Quebec,] 14 August 1943.

Quadrant Conference Agenda

The following subjects will be considered by the Combined Chiefs of Staff in the sequence in which they are listed. A detailed agenda will be issued daily.²

a. european theater

1. Strategic Concept for the Defeat of the Axis in Europe (303)³

2. “ Overlord ”

a. Outline Plan and Covering Note by British Chiefs of Staff.

b. Air and Naval Command.

3. “ Pointblank ”

(Paper by the Chief of the Air Staff)

4. Mediterranean Operations

5. “ Rankin ”

(Progress Report)

b. the war against japan

6. Appreciation and Plan (Long Term)

7. Operations Against Japan 1943–44 (Short Term)

(In the Pacific.) (Paper by U.S. Chiefs of Staff, C.C.S. 301)

8. Operations Against Japan 1943–44 (Short Term)

(From India)

9. Southeast Asia Command

(Memorandum by the British Chiefs of Staff)

10. Deception Plan for the War Against Japan

c. the u–boat war

11. General

12. “ Alacrity ”

d. miscellaneous items

13. “ Habbakuk ”

(Memorandum by the British Chiefs of Staff)

14. Landing Craft

a. Allocation.

b. Manning.

15. Use of “Plough” Force

(Memorandum by the British Chiefs of Staff.)

16. Equipping Allies, Liberated Forces, Friendly Neutrals

17. Civil Affairs Matters

e. final stages

18. Relation of Resources to Plans

19. Final Report to Prime Minister and President

20. Preparation and Approval of any Directives Arising from Quadrant Decisions, and of any Reports to Other Allies

H. Redman
J. R. Deane

Combined Secretariat

1. Prepared by the Secretaries at the direction of the Combined Chiefs of Staff at their 106th meeting, August 14, 1943 (see post, p. 850).
2. The daily agenda are not printed.
3. For the individual papers referred to in the agenda, see the notes to the meetings of the Combined Chiefs of Staff at which the relevant agenda items were discussed, post.