THE WHITE HOUSE                       
 
                            WASHINGTON                      
 
                       September 30, 1942.                  
 
                                                            
 
 
      MEMORANDUM FOR ADMIRAL LEAHY AND CAPTAIN MCCREA       
 
                                                            
 
 
  Will you jointly prepare a nice letter for my signature?  
 
                                                            
 
 
                           F.D.R.                           
 
                                                            
 
 
Letter from General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander in Chief 
      in India, New Delhi, 8/27/42, to the President, enclosing a personal 
      copy of the dispatch which General Wavell has compiled on his 
      tenure of the ABDA Command, together with a copy of the official 
      account of events which he has had drawn up. The first mentioned 
      is a copy of "ABDACOM", An Official Account of Events 
      in the South-West Pacific Command, January-February 1942, General 
      Staff, India, and the second is "Dispatch on Operations 
      in South-West Pacific January 15th-February 25th, 1942, by General 
       Sir Archibald Wavell, G.C.B., C.M.G., M.C., A.D.C."  
 
                                                            
 
 
The above papers sent to Admiral Leahy with the original of 
      the President's memorandum; copy of memorandum and explanation 
      of enclosures sent to Capt. McCrea.