36, Berkeley Square,
London,
July 11th, 1917.
My Dear Prime Minister,
In putting before your urgent notice the following two propositions, I have consulted no one, and seen no experts. It is the emanation of my own brain.
Owing to two years of departmental apathy and inconceivable strategical as well as tactical blunders, we are wrongly raided in the air, and being ruined under water.
I remember a very famous speech of yours where you pointed out that we had been fourteen times “Too Late!”
This letter is to persuade you against two more “Too lates”:
(1) The Air:
You want two ideas carried out:
(a) A multitude of bombing aircraft made like Ford cars (so therefore very expeditiously obtained thereby).
(b) The other type of aircraft constantly improving to get better fighting qualities.