Senator Pittman of Nevada, chairman of the important Foreign Relations Committee, suggestd a trade of United States destroyers for British battleships as a solution to the question of law and self-defense involved in the proposed outright sale of fifty over-age destroyers to help Britain arm for the expected invasion.
It might work, but we would have to move the steering wheels on the battleships over to the other side. How many BB's do you think we should ask for 50 DD's?
LOL! That would be a heck of a refit, but if you don't do it, the captain will keep creeping to the wrong side of the buoys. I would have to say a 10 to one ratio might work. That would mean 5 battleships.