I. THE FIRST WASHINGTON CONFERENCE

Chapter 1. Pre-Conference Papers

Editorial Note This chapter presents in chronological order papers showing the arrangements made for the Washington Conference of December 1941-January 1942 (code-named ARCADIA, together with papers of a substantive nature which were prepared in anticipation of that conference or which show the status, on the even of the conference, of certain subjects that came up for discussion at the conference.

Some documentation pertinent to the immediate background of the First Washington Conference has already been published. Within a week after the entry of the United States into the war, there began negotiations looking toward the coordination of the Allied war effort, particularly in the immediately threatened area of Asia and the Southwest Pacific. Some of these negootiatoins and exchanges of view were undertaken, at least on the part of Roosevelt, with the forthcoming Washington Conference in mind. This applies particularly to the "preliminary conferences" of Allied representatives that Roosevelt requested should be held at Moscow, Chungking, and Singapore prior to December 20. Documentation on these activities will be found in Foreign Relations, 1941, vol. IV, pp. 737-760. No conference was held at Moscow; see Stalin's reply of December 17 to Roosevelt, ibid., p. 760; also printed, in slightly different translation, in Stalin's Correspondence, vol. II, p. 18. For narrative accounts of the conference at Singapore and Chungking, see Matloff and Snell, pp. 85-87; Romanus and Sutherland, pp. 50-57; and Morton, pp. 154 ff. With regard to the conference at Chungking, see also post, p. 271.

General background on the evolution of political subjects discussed at the First Washington Conference will be found in a number of

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