involves any real sacrifice of our broader economic interests, and they consider that means should be found to maintain British agriculture by measures other than encouraging additional wheat acreage. 3. If the United States insist upon our promising a reduction of our pre-war wheat acreage, we are of course not in a position to refuse, having regard to the vital importance of the fullest economic collaboration; but to give such a promise now or even to undertake that our post-war wheat acreage shall not in any event exceed the pre-war figure is likely to cause grave political difficulty here.