AF London This telegram must be closely paraphrased be- Dated December 27, 1941 fore being communicated to anyone. (SC) Rec'd 5:15 a.m. Secretary of State, Washington, 6254, December 27, 7 a.m. (SECTION ONE) TO THE SECRETARY AND THE UNDER SECRETARY. At my request Lord Swinton furnished me with a memorandum on the (*)ity Executive of the British Government. I thought you might find it useful to have this at once and I am telegraphing the text herewith. In his covering letter, Lord Swinton, the head of the Executive, explains he has endeavored in the memorandum to anticipate the type of questions the American Government authorities might wish ask and that he has tried to show what are the rela- tions of the Executive with a variety of Government Departments and why it works as smoothly as it does, He mentions further that the spirit of approach is more than half the battle and that today all the Departments look upon ths Executive not merely as a coordinator but as a helpful partner to which they gladly bring their problems. He continues that the secret |