Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, The Conferences at Cairo and Tehran, 1943

Roosevelt Papers

Paper Prepared by the Joint Staff Planners¹

secret

[Aboard the U. S. S. “Iowa”, undated.²]

Enclosure “B”³

Proposed Agenda

For the First Meeting of the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Great Britain

1. Command Arrangements:

a. Urgency of Installing Over-All Commander

b. Commander for “Overlord”

c. Commander for the Mediterranean

d. Necessity for Unified Strategic Bomber Command European Theater

2. Spheres of Responsibility for “Rankin” (North Europe versus Southern Europe)

3. U. S. Policy on U. S. Non-Participation in Operations in the Eastern Mediterranean-Balkan Area

4. Soviet Collaboration

a. Strategic Bombing Including Bases for U. S. Forces

b. Coordinating Ground Operations

c. Turkey and Sweden

d. Against Japan

5. U.S. Facilities in the Azores

1. For Roosevelt’s request for a paper of this kind, see ante, p. 190. The paper apparently was submitted directly to the President. It was not considered or approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
2. Prepared between November 15 and 19, 1943.
3. No covering paper has been found.