DEPARTMENT OF STATE WASHINGTON PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL October 21. 1940 My dear Mr. Butler: KT, I have received your letter of October 17 in which you state that the authorization granted by the British Government to the War Department to take aerial photo- graphs of the central group of the Lesser Antilles has been extended to include British Guiana. This information has been forwarded to the War Department together with your observations concerning the lack of facilities for the landing of land aircraft in British Guiana. Charge d'Affaires ad interim of Great Britain.