Telegram from the Minister of State in the Middle East [Richard Casey] to WSC marked "most secret" regarding the provision of bombers to protect the Malta convoys: notes the impossibility of sending required air forces; believes that the Liberators intended for India can be used for a limited time in Egypt and proposes to authorise holding these aircraft; states that the American Liberator squadron sent to operate against Ploesti [Romania] has begun to arrive and asks WSC to ask the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] whether it can be used to help the convoys.