Office of the Historian

Editor’s Note

—No official record of this conversation has been found. The following subjects were discussed: allocation of shipping for civilian and military passengers;2 extension of the time during which the United States should have the use of the Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mary;3 the conversion of 100 vessels by the United Kingdom; the allocation of captured German passenger vessels for United States use in the movement of troops;4 the use and possible conversion of the Gripsholm and the Drottningholm; American and British trooplift programs;3 the possible admission of Italy to the United Maritime Authority and the Mediterranean Shipping Board;5 possible British payment of charter hire for Italian vessels; the distribution of captured German vessels and their use during the war against Japan;4 and problems relating to the striking Polish crews on British-operated Polish vessels.6

  1. The discussion of this subject presumably centered on the report of the Combined Transportation Committee which was circulated on July 21 as C. C. S. 897. See document No. 1192, post.↩
  2. See document No. 1191, post.↩
  3. See document No. 1190, post.↩
  4. See document No. 1191, post.↩
  5. See document No. 1110, post.↩
  6. See document No. 1190, post.↩
  7. See documents Nos. 1124 and 1125, post.↩