Office of the Historian

J. C. S. Files

No. 1276
Text Proposed by the United States Chiefs of Staff
[Extract1]
top secret
Enclosure to C. C. S. 877/5
[Babelsberg, July 21, 1945.]

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6. The following additional tasks will be undertaken in order to assist in the execution of the over-all strategic concept:—

a. Encourage Russian entry into the war against Japan. Provide such aid to her war-making capacity as may be necessary and practicable in connection therewith.

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  1. For the full text of this document, see the enclosure to document No. 1264. The same language had appeared in drafts of June 14 (see vol. i, document No. 600, footnote 1) and July 20 (see the enclosure to document No. 1263).↩