Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1941, The Far East, Volume V

740.0011 P. W./186

Memorandum of Conversation, by the Under Secretary of State (Welles)

[Washington,] April 10, 1941.

The British Ambassador called to see me this afternoon at my request.

The Ambassador gave me a copy of a secret memorandum⁶⁰ containing information regarding British naval and military forces at Singapore which he had prepared in response to a request made by Secretary Hull. (I subsequently handed this memorandum to the Secretary personally.)

S[umner] W[elles]

60. Not printed; it indicated the British Government’s intentions to increase British air strength in Malaya to 22 squadrons of 336 aircraft (846d.20/62).