Cablegram 111 CANBERRA, 26 January 1942
IMMEDIATE MOST SECRET AND PERSONAL
1. In my No. 15 [1] I asked you to convey Prime Minister’s [2] personal message and I regret that without any authority you circulated such a document to British Chiefs of Staff. Such a course is embarrassing in the extreme and may be prejudicial.
2. The JOHCU series is a personal series of messages and that is why it was intended for the eye of the President [3] alone.
3. If I correctly gather from your para. 2 [4] that specific operation referred to was not mentioned to President, whole purpose of our suggestion may be frustrated; it does not follow, because you are not supposed to know, that Prime Minister here is not informed, because of liaison over Anzac area.
EVATT
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1 See Document 294, note 10.
2 John Curtin.
3 Franklin D. Roosevelt.
4 Of Casey’s cablegram 148, published as Document 299.
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