Cablegram 17 LONDON, 4 June 1940, 9.05 p.m.
PERSONAL FOR CASEY
Prime Minister [1] asked me at length to convey a message to you saying how admirable he thought your presentation of the position to Welles was. [2] He stressed the necessity of not allowing the President to think that whatever happened the British Fleet would be transferred across the Atlantic.
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1 Winston S. Churchill.
2 See Document 319.
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