Office of the Historian

811.7441/39

The British Minister of Supply (Beaverbrook) to the Presidents Special Assistant (Hopkins)

Washington, January 3, 1942.

My Dear Harry: You spoke to me the other day about direct Cable and Wireless communication between the United States and British Empire countries. You asked that direct communication should be permitted for Government messages for the duration of the war and I have now received a report1 on the position from Sir Walter Layton.

The Advisory Committee on Imperial Communications is meeting next week and I am putting forward the request for direct communications for Government messages during the war.

It is expected that the Committee will consent to your plan.

Yours ever,

Max
[Lord Beaverbrook]
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  2. Brackets in source text; signature “Max” typewritten in source text.↩