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 The President to Former Naval Person

5/2/42

I refer to your personal and secret dispatch

number eighty five and feel that

comma following exchange of dispatches

between Admiral Pound and Admiral King

comma it is now essential for us to

acquiesce in your views regarding Russian

convoys but continue to hope that you

will be able to keep convoys at strength

of 35 ships para we propose to press

Russians to reduce requirements to absolute

essentials on grounds that preparations for

Bolero will require all possible munitions

and shipping

Roosevelt