The Rt. Hon. Leopold S. Amery,
India Office,
Whitehall, London.
Dear Mr. Amery,
It was a pleasure to receive your very interesting letter, and I am glad
to have such a frank expression of views on the subjects that were covered,
extending our conversation--which was all too brief.
There are, as you say, many other questions which we might have explored,
and a few have constantly recurred to me since the episodes of a year or
more prior to the actual beginning of the war.
Your Prime Ministers and many of your statesmen have declared that there
could, be no peace without the removal of Hitler and the destruction of
Naziism. In my discussions in various places I have encountered the
questions:
1. Whether in any situation short of complete victory by the Allies
it would be possible to remove Hitler.
2. Whether the cruel and cold-blooded character of Hitler and his
ins should not be described as Hitlerism as distinct from Na
3. As to Naziism, I have heard it spoken of as a system that had
within it many desirable features, and that it would be possible to
destroy Hitler and Hitlerism under some circumstances short of a complete
victory, whereas it would be a more difficult thing to destroy in totowhat
is known as Naziism.
I wonder if you carry any distinctions in these matters.
Another question is:
4. In view of the oft-repeated declarations that
Great Britain would go to the aid of invaded