Best Informed sources predict ca that the most pressing British needs at the present moment are merchant tonnage, destroyers, guns and por sibly "food. They said that the obvious need of prines already being mel as speedily as production permits and that the United States would be unlikely to turn a considerable number of warplanes nov in US. service {0 Britain since it would interfere with the U.S. Far Eastern policy which depends largely, fon the availability of a superior air force in the Pacific.
Nevertheless. as the law provides authority for immediate transfer of 'US$1.300,000,000 worth of supplies. now on hand most informed soure:3 believed the Administration would avail itself of this authority to strengthen Britain immediately where Britain is weakest—in air transport Informed sources felt there would be little opposition to immediate transfer of all. available merchant tonnage. The possibility also loomed of some additional transfers of des troyers.—United Press.
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