German Operations Following the Balkan Campaigns. Note by the Secy.

5. Infiltration in French Morocco should have proceeded sufficiently far by the middle of may to enable us to take more open steps for the establishment of naval and air bases in North and West Africa. These will serve as bases for extending the attack on shipping and ultimately, should this be necessary, as a jumping-off point for hampering the use by the English of Freetown. 6. The full-scale air offensive against England should be timed to start about the beginning of May. 7. By the end of June, after two months of intensified air attack and four months of intensified attacks on shipping, the English should be susceptible to suggestions of a negotiated peace: These suggestions will be put forward by neutrals, with much support from the occupied territories and the Americas, who are already alarmed at the probable consequences of a prolonged stalemate.