Following is text of message from the Prime 
      Minister to the President.
 
      
 
 
Greatly cheered by news about "Navy of 
      Western Hemisphere defence plan number two". It almost 
 
      entirely covers points made in my cable to you which crossed 
      the official communication. We are 
 
      deeply impressed by rapidity with which it is being brought into 
      play. We have just received a report 
 
      Which indicates that a surface raider is operating in a position 
      about three hundred miles North-East of 
 
      Bermuda. Everything will be done to tell Commander in Chief, 
      United States Fleet, about our convoys 
 
      and other matters. Admiral Ghormley is in closest touch with 
      Admiralty and necessary staff 
 
      arrangements will be perfected.
 
      
 
 
2. The route taken by British shipping to 
      and from Cape is dependent on areas in which U-boats are 
 
      suspected, but a route West of 26 degrees West is being used 
      at present time and will be used 
 
      whenever possible.
 
      
 
 
3. We welcome energetic steps the United States 
      Navy are taking to prepare bases in North Western 
 
      approaches. The Anzacs have been fighting all day in pass of 
      Thermopylae; but Mr. President you will 
 
      long have foreseen conclusion of these particular Greek affairs. 
      I wish we could have done more. I am 
 
      sure we were bound to do our utmost.
 
      I am, as I told you in my last, not at all discontented with 
      Libya. The magnet of Tobruk is