1. Meeting with H.M. Ambassador, Moscow; 2. The Likelihood of a General War being Deliberately Provoked by the Soviet Union in the Imeediate Future; 3. Review of the Situation round the Soviet and Satellite Perimeter; 4. United Kingdom and Soviet Propaganda; 5. Service Attaches in China; 6. Operation 'Mincemeat'; 7. Christmas Arrangements

TOP SECRET It might be of value if the War Office could arrange through the Documents Research Section organisation for the views of eminent German generals to be obtained on this aspect. REAR-ADMIRAL LONGLEY-COOK emphasised that in appreciating Soviet intentions and capabilities, the importance of political and psychological aspects should not be weakened by overemphasis on the military aspect. DR. BLOUNT pointed out that so far from inducing the Soviet Union to provoke war, Western rearmament might cause some satisfaction as imposing upon Western economy such a strain as to hasten the, in Soviet eyes, inevitable, collapse of the economy of the Capitalist Powers.