THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE f
WASHINGTON
October 30, 1940 C\tK:
My dear Mr. Butler:
The Navy Department has asked me to communicate
to you the following reo_uest:
It is requested that the British Government ap-
prove the following metes and bounds for seaplane base
as recommended by United States Board of Experts and
which are satisfactory to local authorities in order
that sufficient area may be leased from private owners
immediately to undertake preliminary construction for
accommodation of six seaplanes!
Starting at a point in Gros Islet Bay on
the shoreline on the south bank of the river
south of Gros Islet village, proceed five hun-
dred feet due east; thence due south approxi-
mately three thousand feet to latitude fourteen
degrees, four minutes, twenty-four seconds,
north; thence approximately forty-three hundred
feet due west to the shoreline; thence northerly
along the shoreline to the point of beginning,
the entire tract containing approximately one
hundred twenty acres.
Approval of the above is desired immediately without
consideration of terms of lease which will probably entail
a delay in negotiation.
I shall greatly appreciate it if you will communicate
with your Government in the sense requested by the Navy
Department and inform me of.the reply that you may receive
Believe me
Yours \
N.
M. Butler, Esquire,
British Charge d'Affa
ad interim,
Washington
cerely,