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      would make it certain that British resistance could be effectively 
      prolonged for the desired period and victory gained.
 
      (3) Failing the above, the gift, loan or supply of a large number 
      of American vessels of war, above all destroyers already in the 
      Atlantic, is indispensable to the maintenance of the Atlantic 
      route. Further, could not United States naval forces extend their 
      sea control over the American side of the Atlantic, so as to 
      prevent molestation by enemy vessels of the approaches to the 
      new line of naval and air bases which the United States is establishing 
      in British islands in the Western Hemisphere. The strength of 
      the United States rival forces is such that the assistance in 
      the Atlantic that they could afford us, as described above, would 
      not jeopardize control over the Pacific.
 
      
 
 
(4) We should also then need the good offices of the United 
      States and the whole influence of its Government continually 
      exerted, to procure for Great Britain the necessary facilities 
      upon the southern and western shores of Eire for our flotillas, 
      and still more