Minute from WSC to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Sea Lords, Vice-Adm Sir Frederick Hamilton, Rear-Adm Frederick Tudor and Captain Cecil Lambert, praising their "loyalty to national interests" during the present emergency, but putting on record his opinion that there was not the slightest foundation for their statement that the "method of directing the distribution of the Fleet and the conduct of the war" had been taken out of the hands of the 1st Sea Lord, stating that "no order of the slightest consequence affecting the movement of the Fleet or its distribution has ever been issued except with the authority and agreement of the 1st Sea Lord" [handwritten, initialled by WSC].