Item ROBERTSON, WR 7/6/43 - Note from Robertson to Prime Minister H H Asquith, 2 Jun 1916, about a recent British-French meeting to plan Western Front operations

Note from Robertson to the Rt Hon Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister and Sir Edward Grey, 3rd Bt, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, enclosing a letter from Gen Sir Douglas Haig, Commander in Chief, British Armies in France, dated 31 May, describing a meeting between Raymond Poincaré, French President, Aristide Briand, French Prime Minister, French Gen Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre, Commander in Chief, French Armies on the Western Front, French Gen Edouard de Castelnau, Chief of Staff to the French Armies on the Western Front, French Gen Ferdinand Foch, Commander in Chief, Allied Northern Army Group, and Haig, to discuss concerted action on the Western Front, notably the need for a British offensive to divert German troops from Verdun, for which Haig requested troops from Salonika, Greece. 3pp.