I have received the Government's promise to send an Admiral here at once for a conference.

We must work out with the British Navy a programme whereby we can best help; and we must carry it without hesitancy or delay.
Sending over an expeditionary military force immediately--a small one, but as large as we can, as an earnest of a larger one to come.
This immediate small one will have a good moral effect; and we need all the moral reinstatement that we can get in the estimation of the world; our moral stock is lower than, I fear, any of you at home can possibly realize.

As for a larger expeditionary force later--even that ought to be sent quite early.

It can and must spend some time in training in France, whatever its training beforehand may have been.

All the military men agree that soldiers in France back of the line can be trained in at least half the time that they can be trained anywhere else.