Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt]: comments on a plan to strengthen the British fleet in the Indian Ocean by using United States ships to reinforce the British Navy at Scapa [Scotland]; states that he is sending a note drafted by Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal [Chief of the Air Staff] regarding air reinforcements for Burma [later Myanmar], India and Ceylon [later Sri Lanka] but welcomes the proposal to use the United States aircraft carrier Ranger; comments on a telegram from Generalissimo Chiang-Kai-shek [Chinese Nationalist leader, see CHAR 20/73/120-123] and the difficult situation of General Harold Alexander [General Officer Commanding, Burma] in Burma.