Editorial Note
No official record of this informal meeting has been found. At the meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the following day Marshall referred to his dinner conversation with Churchill and indicated that the latter had discussed operations in the Dodecanese, the capture of Rhodes, the deployment of landing craft, the progress of the Italian campaign, aid to the guerrillas in the Balkans, the relation of operations in the Mediterranean to the date of Overlord, and coordination of the command of strategic air operations. Churchill discussed the same subjects on the following day at the meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff with Roosevelt and himself, post, p. 331.