SECRET
EXECUTIVE BOARD
THURSDAY, JANUARY 20th, 1944.

PRESENT:

The D.G.

The D.D.G.

Mr. Francis Williams

Mr. Cruikshank

Mr. Grubb

Brigadier Neville

Lt.-Commander Easton

Admiral Carpendale

Mr. Cummings

Mr. Grisewood

Mr. Gates

Mr. Hamilton

1. REPORTS FROM SERVICE ADVISERS.

2. SERVICES FOR S.E.A.C.

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The Chairman pointed out that recently there had been three separate approaches from S.E.A.C. for various services, none of which had been made through Wing Commander Falk, the Liaison Officer. These were:-

1) A letter from Lord Louis Mountbatten to the Minister enclosing a digest of American articles in a form which he suggested we might copy. This proposal has been dealt with.

2) An application from Air-Marshal Joubert to Mr. Robertson, the D.D.P.R. at the Air Ministry, asking if the very large services which the India Section of the M.O.I., Empire Division, sent daily to India to be distributed among the papers there, could be made available to S.E.A.C. The Chairman suggested that it would be very much easier to distribute this service from the point of receipt.

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3) A cable from Brigadier Frank Owen to the Information Secretary, asking for 1,000 words of daily news for the S.E.A.C. newspaper. Brigadier Owen had been asked to give a fuller explanation of his request.

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The Chairman suggested that there should be a central point for handling proposals and putting them through. Justice would not be done to what was good in these cases until there was one person who could be entrusted to see them through. The Board agreed on this view and further action was left to the Chairman.