His Excellency Harold B. Butler -11             
 
                         August 5, 1942.                    
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
 
      --But the content of such a proclamation is clear. Its main purpose 
      would be to declare that democracy now makes a fresh start with 
      a new purpose and therefore with a new kind of unity. 
 
                                                            
 
 
How can the President become commander-in-chief of the fighting 
              forces of the English-speaking people?        
 
                                                            
 
 
Or put the question in another way. How can the various leaders 
      of democracy be merged into virtually will be a dictatorship; 
           though, of course, constitutionally created.     
 
                                                            
 
 
For a dictatorship is what the English-speaking people must 
      have. And that is what the commander-in-chief of the fighting 
          forces of the English-speaking people must be.    
 
                                                            
 
 
You will have to overcome a deep-rooted antipathy to anything 
      savoring dictatorship, even though it is the symbol of democracy 
      effectively at war. Nowhere is that antipathy more pronounced 
      than in the minds of Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill. That makes 
      a difficulty. It is unthinkable that Mr. Roosevelt on his owns 
      initiatives would aim at dictatorship over the English-speaking 
      people. You say it is equally unthinkable that Mr. Churchill 
          would propose that Mr. Roosevelt would do so.     
 
                                                            
 
 
Yet that is precisely what Mr. Churchill must do. There is 
      no one else to do it. And it must be done. It will be done if 
      Mr. Churchill can agree that absolutism in leadership is democracy's 
                          best friend.\                     
 
                                                            
 
 
The manner and timing of Mr. Churchill's speech of nomination 
      are matters of detail. By arrangement with Washington, he would 
      doubtless speak at Westminster. He would speak on behalf of the 
      British Empire.