His Excellency Harold B. Butler -3 August 5, 1942.     
 
                                                            
 
 
case in logic, gets backing from an admirable national misconception. 
      For the average American still believes that America is invincible 
   on the home rounds. That is our danger as well as America
 
      Nothing effective has been done to meet this situation. I have 
      no doubt that immense industry and scholarship is being poured 
      into your propaganda machine. But the machine is whirling in 
      thin air. In little ways, it may palliate the dancers. But it 
                      cannot effect a cure.                 
 
                                                            
 
 
For this is not a problem in propaganda. The job is not to 
      expound Britain to America. It is definitely more fundamental 
      than that. The job is not to tinker up the old situation. It 
      is to build a new one. It is to change the present ill-designed 
      relatively unworkable scheme of British American partnership 
      into absolute British American unity. It is to convince the common 
      man of America that there will not be victory unless America 
                 and the British Empire are one.            
 
                                                            
 
 
In the philosophy of the old order, America and Britain were 
      designed to be competitors and opponents. War in itself cannot 
      wholly overcome that fact. It will take a revolutionary act to 
      unite the English-speaking people. It will take a new purpose, 
inspiration, and leadership. It will take a new order of dem
 
                                                            
 
 
This problem in British American unity arose when war began. 
      For then it was plain to thinking men that world fascism was 
      on the march against world democracy; that nothing but the maximum 
      efficiency of English-speaking democracy was good enough to win; 
      that maximum efficiency depended upon the absolute unity of the 
      English-speaking people;