Message to W. Churchill (Correspondence Vol. 1, No. 314)

With regard to sending six British submarines into the Baltic I must say this. The White Sea-Baltic Canal has been heavily damaged by the Germans and cannot be used this year. But if the British submarines could make their way into the Baltic through the Skagerrak and Kattegat, as they did during the last world war, that would be a magnificent exploit and would be a fresh blow to the Germans.

August 5, 1944