BRITISH EMBASSY,
 
      WASHINGTON, D.C.
 
      28th May, 1941.
 
      
 
 
My dear Mr. President,
 
      As I told you in my letter of the 19th May, I asked President 
      Conant whether he would be prepared to act as Public Orator of 
      Oxford pro hac vice and present you for your degree on the 19th 
      June. He now replies that though he would have liked to have 
      accepted, he will have just concluded his own speeches about 
      the honorands at the Harvard ceremony. He thinks that it might 
      cause some confusion in the minds of those present if he also 
      presented you, and has suggested Dr. Frank Aydelotte of the Princeton 
      Institute for Advanced Study, who is the Secretary in this country 
      of the Rhodes Foundation.
 
      
 
 
The Honorable
 
      Franklin D. Roosevelt,
 
      President of the United States of America,
 
      Washington, D.C.