Letter from WSC [to King George VI] requesting permission to visit President [Franklin] Roosevelt in Washington [United States], with the 1st Sea Lord [Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound] and the Chief of Air Staff [Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal], whilst Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary] is in Moscow [Soviet Union] visiting Marshal Stalin; adds in post script that he will delay the journey until Germany and Italy declare their intentions towards the United States. [copy, with manuscript annotations by Francis Brown].