SAVOY HOTEL LONDON
 
      20th November, 194O
 
      
 
 
Dearest Franklin, I am much distressed as I not a letter from 
      you yesterday - and have lost it. The bedroom next to mine was 
      smashed, and 2 people killed and 10 injured, so the Manager of 
      the Hotel rushed into my room yesterday and said that I, and 
      my maid must go do at once to the deep shelter here which no 
      bomb can reach. It is on bright nights that the Germans come 
      over -and ruin all our lovely London houses (It was 2 nights 
      before yesterday that two people here were killed) I flung several 
      interesting letters into the waster-paver basket, and ran down 
      to the shelter. Yours must have been among them. I am terribly 
      sorry about this, as, of course, this morning, my waste-paper 
      basket has been taken away by the very careful housemaid here. 
      Do write to me again here. I shall live here now I suppose till 
      I am killed by a bomb. You cannot see a sadder sight than London, 
      unhappy faces: If only, only there had been no neutrality, and 
      every country from the 1st day of the war had said, -"We 
      must depend upon England and France, we intend to fight this 
      horrible war, and stand up against what is cruel, wicked, and 
      against God" - then there would been no war. Now we are 
      fighting alone, with you, and all our Colonels, etc. If you had 
      been beaten, we should have lost the war. Our sufferings are 
      great, and I cry in bed to think that such vile men, as the Dictators 
      should be successful. I don't care a d-n about cleverness - I've 
      lived with it all my life - I only