AF                                                     London
This telegram must be 
closely paraphrased be-                      Dated December 27, 1941
fore being communicated 
to anyone.    (SC)                                Rec'd 5:15 a.m.
 
 
Secretary of State,
 
     Washington,
 
     6254, December 27, 7 a.m. (SECTION ONE)
 
     TO THE SECRETARY AND THE UNDER
 
SECRETARY.
 
          At my request Lord Swinton furnished me with a
 
memorandum on the (*)ity Executive of the British
 
Government. I thought you might find it useful to
 
have this at once and I am telegraphing the text
 
herewith. In his covering letter, Lord Swinton, the
 
head of the Executive, explains he has endeavored
 
in the memorandum to anticipate the type of questions
 
the American Government authorities might wish
 
ask and that he has tried to show what are the rela-
 
tions of the Executive with a variety of Government
 
Departments and why it works as smoothly as it does,
 
He mentions further that the spirit of approach is
 
more than half the battle and that today all the
 
Departments look upon ths Executive not merely as a
 
coordinator but as a helpful partner to which they
 
gladly bring their problems. He continues that the
 
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