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Memorandum by the Combined Secretariat of the Munitions Assignments Board

Assignments for Turkey

Note by Secretaries

The following agreements62 announced by the Combined Chiefs of Staff are published for the information and guidance of all concerned:

1.
Turkey lies within a theater of British responsibility. All matters connected with Turkey should be handled by the British in the same way in which all matters connected with China are handled by the United States.
2.
In particular, under the general direction of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, the British should be responsible for framing and presenting to both Assignments Boards63 all bids for equipment for Turkey. The onward despatch to Turkey of special equipment to the Middle East will be a command function of the British commanders in chief in the Middle East. Except for urgent operational reasons, they will not divert such equipment to other uses. They will report any such diversion to the appropriate Munitions Board.

  • E. C. Kielkopf
  • T. E. H. Birley
  1. Reached at the Casablanca Conference between President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill, January 14–January 24; correspondence regarding this conference is scheduled for publication in a subsequent volume of Foreign Relations.
  2. There was also a Munitions Assignments Board in London.