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December 17th, 19U1
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My dear Mr. President,
A message has been received from
Mr. Duff Cooper at Singapore on the subject
of the proposed naval and military confer-
ence there, to the following effect:-
"I have now secured
representation for Australia, Kew
Zealand, United States and Netherlands
and am arranging that conference shall
start December 18th.    If we were to
await arrival of representative from
Chungking there would be much delay and
report by December 20th aa requested by
the President would certainly be
impossible/
The Honourable
Franklin D. Roosevelt,
President of the United States of America,
Washington, D. C.
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"impossible.    Should representative
from Chungking arrive in time we
shall of course be delighted to
receive him.n
Believe me,
Yours very eincerely,
(SOD) HA&IfAX