Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference at Quebec, 1944

J.C.S. Files

Note by the Secretaries of the Combined Chiefs of Staff

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C.C.S. 678/1

[Washington,] 19 September 1944.

Planning Date for the End of the War Against Japan

The President and Prime Minister approved¹ the recommendation of the Combined Chiefs of Staff that the date for the end of the war against Japan, for planning production and for allocation of manpower, should be set at 18 months after the defeat of Germany; this date to be adjusted periodically to conform to the course of the war.

A. J. McFarland
A. T. Cornwall-Jones

Combined Secretariat

1. By the approval of C.C.S. 680/2. See post, p. 475.