BRITISH EMBASSY,                      
 
                         WASHINGTON, D.C                    
 
                        January 6th, 1942                   
 
                       Personal and secret                  
 
                                                            
 
 
                       DECLASSIFIED                         
 
        By Authority of British Government Telegram1/12/72  
 
                                                            
 
 
                    Dear Mr. President,                     
 
                                                            
 
 
A telegram has just been received from General Headquarters 
      in India requesting that the following message should be conveyed 
           to you from General Sir Archibald Wavell: -      
 
                                                            
 
 
"I deeply appreciate confidence placed in me which I 
      will do my best to justify. I fully realize the difficulties 
      and dangers ahead but I am confident that they will be overcome. 
      I am on my way to my new command and I will inform you as soon 
              as it is possible to establish heads."        
 
                                                            
 
 
                        Believe me,                         
 
                       Dear Mr. President,                  
 
                      Very sincerely yours,                 
 
                             Halifax                        
 
                                                            
 
 
                       The Honorable                        
 
                      Franklin D. Roosevelt,                
 
            President of the United States of America,      
 
      Washington, D. C