His Excellency Harold B. Butler -5 August 5, 1942.     
 
                                                            
 
 
of self-sufficiency. Speaking generally, it almost seemed 
      as if the British Government had aimed to set out the reasons 
      why America should not come into the war, rather than why it 
                             should.                        
 
                                                            
 
 
Yet British leadership towards British American unity could 
                   have been given in this way:             
 
                                                            
 
 
  1. By a declaration of what democracy was fighting for.   
 
                                                            
 
 
Suppose the British Government had declared that Britain was 
      fighting for a new order of security and happiness for the same 
      man; and that the defeat of Hitler was an incident on the way 
                       to that achievement.                 
 
                                                            
 
 
Then Britain would have arisen as the champion of the common 
      man not only in Britain but in America as well. The people of 
      America would have moved in spirit and perhaps in fact to the 
                    support of their champion.              
 
                                                            
 
 
That would have the sure way to British American unity. Because 
      that would have been the only way to swing the people out of 
      the mentality of defense into the morality of attack. You know 
      that defense means defeat. Yet our people cannot attack for what 
      they now have. They can and will attack only for what they have 
      not and want. Today we are asking them to attack for an old order, 
      which they already have and do not particularly want. 
 
                                                            
 
 
2. Having declared what democracy was fighting for, the British 
      Government should then have set out to build the new order. It 
      should