MINUTE SHEET. PRHM-.NB (112) 3787/250 2.000.000 4/34 JC&SLtd Gp 644/229 (REOIMINT) .......MQP./../.,..Z.^l ^ The definition of the agreed sites in British Guiana suggested by London ran as follows:- (a) Patrol plane squadron base on the bank 25 miles up the Demerara River v/ith aerodrome. (b) Sea plane base near Suddie on the west bank of the ^ssequibo river mouth. There was no difficulty about (b) but as regards (a) the Navy Department wished this reworded to run - "an aerodrome on the bank of the/Rijjjjec Demerara 25 miles up, with emergency patrol plane gyviffinityJ'. I took this Navy Department suggestion merely to be a verbal one and as implying that the emergency patrol plane facilities would beprovided at the aerodrome on the River Demerara ,t*»fc^£ne F.O. however consider . it raises, a new point which requires further consideration. They presumably think therefore that the Navy Department are asking in addition to the aerodrome on the River Demerara for emergency facilities elsewhere. There is no suggestion in the papers that any such request for emergency facilities had been made at any earlier stage by the Americans and there may be some misunderstanding. Perhaps, therefore, the N.A. when talking to the Navy Department about Bermuda and St. Lucia could also find out rather more exactly just what the Navy Department mean. mber 18th, 1940. [OVKR.