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This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone. (SG)
LONDON
Dated May 19, 1941
Rec'd 8 a.m.
Secretary of State,
Washington.
TRIPLE PRIORITY.
1998, May 19, noon. (SECTION THREE)
Three. At present rate in next twelve months we
shall lose four and half million tons of shipping. The
United States by a prodigy of generous constructive
effort will build perhaps three and a half and we
build the other million. Where have we got to then?
Just making time and swimming level with the bank against
the stream. Whereas cooperation of even a third of the
American Navy would save at least one-half of the
tonnage beforehand and give that mastery which alone can
abridge the torment of mankind.