His Excellency Harold B. Butler -6 August 5, 1942.     
 
                                                            
 
 
have proclaimed its offensive strategy and attacked pursuant 
      to it. Instead, it settled down behind the Maginot line to "comfortably" 
                           win the war.                     
 
                                                            
 
 
The heroic and effective performance of Britain on the battlefield 
      would have done wonderful things to America. Remember what the 
      Battle of Britain did. But the smugness and incompetence of the 
      British Government during the pre-war decade and when war began 
              made effective performance impossible.        
 
                                                            
 
 
The heroic and effective performance of Canada would have 
      done even more to exalt the cause of Britain in the eyes of America. 
      Because the American likes the Canadian just as naturally as 
      he does not like the Englishmen. In the First Cold War, the battle 
      record of Canada was nowhere so generously acclaimed as in America. 
      We became a race of supermen credited with fabulous deeds. America, 
                      in effect, adopted us.                
 
                                                            
 
 
But in the Second World War, Canada has been stricken with 
      the same infirmities as Britain. In the early days of the war, 
      there were Canadians who realizing the potency of Canada in British 
      American relations, urged both in Canada and in England that 
      the Canadian soldier be given the right and opportunity to display 
      his battle genius. But those of us who wanted our country in 
      the forefront of the fight, got nowhere with this aspiration. 
      The Canadian Government pursued its policy of limited contribution. 
      The British Government though aware of that fact, nevertheless 
      persisted in silly and insincere commendation of our fictional 
      achievements. By so doing, the British Government immobilized 
      decency and patriotism in our country.