capable of dealing with this situation should it develop.
 
      
 
 
11. In the face of these dangers, we must try to use the year 
      1940 to build up such a supply of weapons, particularly aircraft, 
      both by increased output at home in spite of bombardment, and 
      through ocean-born supplies, as will lay the foundation of victory. 
      In view of the difficulty and magnitude of this task, as outlined 
      by all the facts I have set forth to which many others could 
      be added, I feel entitled, nay bound, to lay before you the various 
      ways in which the United States could give supreme and decisive 
      help to what is, in certain aspects, the common cause.
 
      
 
 
12. The prime need is to check or limit the loss of tonnage 
      on the Atlantic approaches to our Islands. This may be achieved 
      both by increasing the naval forces, which cope with attacks, 
      and by adding to the number of merchant ships on which we depend. 
      For the first purpose there would seem to be the following alternatives: 
      (1) the reassertion by the United States of the doctrine of the 
      freedom of the seas from illegal and barbarous warfare in accordance 
      with the decisions reached after