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U.S. MILITARY MISSION TALKS IN WASHINGTON (Special Australian Correspondent.) (10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 8. The military mission sent to Washington from the south-west Pacific has returned to Australia after a month in the United States. The mission was led by General MacArthur’s Chief of Staff, MajorGeneral Richard Sutherland, and the commander of the Allied Air Force in this theatre, Lieutenant-General Geo. Kenney. Major-General Sutherland was th-’ personal representative of General MacArthur. In (he United States the mission bad important talks with President Roosevelt and high officers of the American War Department. Vital issues were discussed, including additional aid for this war theatre, and broad plans for the whole Pacific area.
Generals Kenney and Sutherland have made no statement beyond that they “fully presented the military situation in this .area and General lVTacArthur’s comments and recommendations thereon.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21064, 8 April 1943, Page 3
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