-2- #1211, May 15, 2 a.m. from London
You do not need money or credit now. The bulk of our navy
is in the Pacific and we have not enough. airplanes for
our own use and our army is not up to requirements. So
if this is going to be a quick war all over in a few
months what could we do. He said it was his intention
to ask for the loan of 30 or 40 of our old destroyers
and also whatever airplanes we could spare right now.
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