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the problem of increasing our production of motors
 
and planes.
 
     I think that the French and British will have
 
sense enough to be ready to pay cash for the extension
 
of existing facilities for production in the United
 
States and for the purchase of all the production of
 
those increased facilities, but it is obvious that
 
such an increase in production can be carried out
 
only with the fullest cooperation of our government
 
and it is also obvious that such cooperation will
 
depend entirely on yourself in the first instance.
 
     I am sending this letter to you by special courier
 
on the CLIPPER, and I hope that it will reach you in
 
less than a week. If you have any comment or suggestions
 
to make, will you please send me back a word by the
 
same route.
 
     The question of the P-36s is so urgent that if
 
you see a way to get deliveries of any number of these
 
machines however small for the French -- even a dozen
 
per month -- I hope you will send me a telegram con-
 
taining Just one word, "Favorable". In that case, I 
 
could have Colonel Jacquin phone immediately to Miss
 
Le Hand