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25 Berlin. SS 3. July 31, 1945. a RECORDS AND My dear Mr. President, Thank you for your letter of July 29 on the subject of Munitions Supplies on Lend Lease in Stage II. While I will not disguise my disappointment that it has not been found possible to accept in its entirety our under- standing as set out in the memorandum which was attached to Mr. Churchill's letter of July 24, I sincerely appreciate your desire, as stated in your letter of July 25, to get a construction of the new Lend Lease Renewal Act so as to cause the least difficulty and embarrassment to us in the prosecution of the war against Japan. In accepting your decision I earnestly trust you will agree:- (a) That detailed instructions applying this decision to the British and defining the portion of our Stage II requirements as now revised which

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