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