If we had one hundred destroyers to send, the job there could, I am told, be quickly done.

A third of that number will help mightily.

At the present rate of destruction more than four million tons will be sunk before the summer is gone.
Such is this dire submarine danger.

The English thought that they controlled the sea; the Germans, that they were invincible on land.
Each side is losing where it thought itself strongest.
Admiral Sims is of the greatest help imaginable.

Of course, I gave him an office in one of our Embassy buildings, and the Admiralty has given him an office also with them.