His Excellency Harold B. Butler -14 August 5, 1942.     
 
                                                            
 
 
speaking people; or if he saw the need, should have ignored 
      the only basis on which unity could be brought about. 
 
                                                            
 
 
Let me say this, once more. To do better in the old way is 
      not good enough. English-speaking democracy must strike out in 
      a new way. We must attain a new quality of thought. Then we will 
      achieve a new quality of performance. We must start this war 
              afresh. Then we will start to win it.         
 
                                                            
 
 
Give the war a meaning to the common man, give victory a personal 
      significance, and the common man in Britain and America will 
      be one. In that kind of unity, there is no room for criticism 
         and hostility. The isolationist is blotted out.    
 
                                                            
 
 
The only way to energize democracy is to give it hope. Proclaim 
      a new order and give the people a plan by which to attain it. 
      I tell you that behind that plan, the people of democracy would 
                      rise like a great sea.                
 
                                                            
 
 
I know that you are capable of revolutionary thinking. That 
      kind of thinking and that kind of action are essential now. We 
      can win this war. But the time accorded us in which to begin 
                 to do so is distinctly limited.            
 
                                                            
 
 
I could arrange to meet you, if you would like to talk. Indeed, 
    I am at your service in every way, if I can be of servic
 
                                                            
 
 
Yours sincerely,