Cablegram 235 LONDON, 21 February 1942, 1.25 a.m.
MOST IMMEDIATE MOST SECRET AND PERSONAL
My telegram of 20th February No. 233. [1]
Following for Prime Minister from Prime Minister. [2]
I have received the following telegram from President of United States. Begins.
I hope you can persuade Australian Government to allow proposed temporary diversion of their leading Australian Division to Burma.
I think this of utmost importance. Tell them I am speeding additional troops as well as planes to Australia and that my estimate of the situation there is highly optimistic and by no means dark. Roosevelt. Ends.
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1 Document 352.
2 Winston Churchill.
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[AA:A2937, FAR EAST POSITION 1942]