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we may derive from the planned output in the United States 
      can we hope to achieve the necessary ascendancy. I invite you 
      then, Mr. President, to give earnest consideration to an immediate 
      order on joint account for a further 2,000 combat aircraft a 
      month? Of these aircraft I would submit that the highest possible 
      proportion should be a heavy bomber, the weapon on which above 
      all others me depend to shatter the foundations of German military 
      power. I am aware of the formidable task that this would impose 
      upon the industrial organization of the United States. Yet, in 
      our heavy need, we call with confidence to the most resourceful 
      and ingenious technicians in the world. We ask for an unexampled 
      effort believing that it can be made.
 
      
 
 
15. You have also received information about of our armies. 
      In the munitions sphere, in spite of enemy bombing, we are making 
      steady progress. Without your continued assistance in supply 
      of machine tools and in the further release from stock of certain 
      articles we could not hope to 50 divisions in 1941. I am grateful