His Excellency Harold B. Butler -10 August 5, 1942.     
 
                                                            
 
 
That is what the unity of English-speaking democracy is waiting 
      for. A commander-in-chief. There is only one man who can be commander-in-chief. 
            He is the President of the United States.       
 
                                                            
 
 
If the President of the United States becomes commander-in-chief, 
      then Washington becomes GHQ Then a General Staff can be built 
      out of the best brains in the English-speaking world. This General 
      Staff under the commander-in-chief would have the supreme authority 
      over the fighting forces of English-speaking democracy. The business 
      of production would be a function of the General Staff. A General 
      Staff makes possible one strategy. It therefore lifts the issue 
   of a second front out of the morass of indecision and deb
 
                                                            
 
 
Give democracy a Commander-in Chief, a General Staff, one 
      strategy, and you free it from its present absurdities, contradictions, 
            incapacity. For you give it working unity.      
 
                                                            
 
 
Give democracy working unity and you give it capacity to effectively 
                 cooperate with Russia and China.           
 
                                                            
 
 
If the President of the United States becomes Commander-in-Chief, 
       I hope he will begin the fight by proclaiming that:  
 
                                                            
 
 
"Phase one of the war is ended. It was the phase of incompetence 
      and bungling. Democracy was taken by surprise and unprepared. 
                      It could only defend.                 
 
                                                            
 
 
Phase two begins. This is the phase of attack. Because the 
      people of democracy now set out to build a new order and impose 
      it on the world. This is the order of freedom and it will give 
      the people a new standard of security and happiness. The world 
      order of the Axis powers is a slave order and will be destroyed."