BRITISH EMBASSY,
 
      WASHINGTON, D.C.
 
      August 5th, 1940
 
      
 
 
Dear Mr. President, 
 
      I enclose, as I promised, a note summarising an appreciation 
      of Hitler's probable future strategy sent to the Prime Minister 
      by General Smuts.
 
      I also enclose a note of the proposals about landing grounds 
      and naval facilities in British possessions off the East Coast 
      of the United States which Mr. Churchill would agree to as one 
      of the elements in the possible deal about destroyers.
 
      It is important that no public statement should be made about 
      this as His Majesty's Government have to make the necessary arrangements 
      with the various Colonial Governments concerned.
 
      
 
 
Believe me,
 
      Dear Mr. President,
 
      
 
 
Yours very sincerely,
 
      The Right Honourable
 
      Franklin D. Roosevelt,
 
      President of the United States.