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

J.C.S. Files

The President to the Presidents Chief of Staff (Leahy)¹

secret

Washington, September 7, 1943.

Memorandum for Admiral Leahy

In regard to the Combined Staff proposals² concerning need of closer coordination of propaganda policy as between Washington, London and the various theatres of war, I have talked this over with the Prime Minister.

Both of us would like to have further examination of this plan.

It creates three new authorities. It creates a central authority of only four, omitting OWI and the British PWE.

Personally, I wonder if it is necessary or whether it could be handled for a while under less machinery, using preferably a more informal method.

F[ranklin] D. R[oosevelt]

1. Circulated by the Secretaries of the Combined Chiefs of Staff in C.C.S. 310/3, September 8, 1943. For the consideration of this paper at the 118th Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff on September 10, see ante, p. 1226.
2. Ante, p. 1315.