PERSONAL and CONFIDENTIAL
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
WASHINGTON
October 28, 1940
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My dear Mr. Butler:
I refer to my letter of August 13, 1940 to
Lord Lothian, conveying a request of the War Department
for permission to take aerial photographs of the central
group of the Lesser Antilles and to his aide-memoire
of September 24, granting such authorization.    The War
Department has now expressed the hope that the British
Government may extend the authority already granted to
include Jamaica, the Bahama Islands, Newfoundland,
Bermuda, British Honduras and Trinidad in view of the
probability
Mr. N. M. Butler, C.V.O.,
Charge d'Affaires ad interim of Great Britain
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probability that it may be desired to effect similar
flights over those islands.
I should be grateful for an indication from you
whether the appropriate authorities of your Government
are disposed to grant the desired permission. The
Department will, of course, inform the Embassy in
ample time of the date on which the flights are to
take place.
Believe me,