Paris, September 15, 1939.
 
 
Personal and
 
 
 
Dear Mr. President:
 
       I sent a telegram today which you have probably seen, describing the 
manner in which the German Air Force destroyed nine-tenths of the
 Polish Air Force at noon on the first of September. I assume that you
 saw the telegram and I want to let you know a number of related facts
 which I did not put in it.
      My informant was the French Minister for Air, Guy La Chambre, who 
had just talked with a French officer who lef't Poland three days ago and
 personally  witnessed the Polish debacle.
     In the course of our conversation, La Chambre added a number of facts
 about air fighting on the western front which I did not consider it wise to
put in my cable. He said that there had been number
 
The Honorable
 
Franklin D. Roosevelt,
 
               President of the United States of America,
 
                                Washington, D.C.