DRAFT                            
 
                         February 5, 1942                   
 
       SUGGESTED DRAFT FROM THE PRESIDENT TO MR. CHURCHILL  
 
                                                            
 
 
Since you left with me the draft communiqué regarding 
      the islands of St. Pierre-Miquelon, and since your message of 
      January 23, there are increasing signs that a further German 
      movement in the Mediterranean is seriously threatening, that 
      German pressure on France is increasing, and that dangerous developments 
      in that area may occur in the near future. This situation has 
      become so menacing, particularly in the face of certain definite 
      information which has come to us, that we have informed our military 
      and naval people that it is more than likely that we shall not 
      be able to remain much longer in North Africa. They tell us they 
      have also informed your military and naval staffs here
 
      In the face of this situation, in which St. Pierre-Miquelon played 
      its part for whatever importance it may have had, I feel that 
      our common purpose would not best be served now by presenting 
      the proposed formula or by further elaborating a new formula 
      of which there would be little or no likelihood of acceptance 
      by Vichy in the present state of