Believe me, it is a question of life and death for all of us and, in view of  
recedented drama, the United States bears the supreme respon
 
                                                            
 
 
For everything depends on you, from this time forward.  Unfortunate England  
can no longet win the war alone; she can no longer even continue the struggle  
alone.  Besides, she made a grave error in not settling matters with Italy last  
winter.  As I wrote to you at the time, morale was so low in Italy that if the  
English had treated the population harshly, bombing their cities, they could   
have, I believe, produced serious disturbances in Italy.  But they are too  
much "gentlemen."  They let the moment slip by.  They were wrong also in not  
going as far as Tripoli.  In short, at the present time, Mussolini's stock  
has risen.  England is going to have a terrible part to play from now on.  And  
what if she should get discouraged too?  You alone can maintain all the world   
in resistance, material or moral, by casting into the balance the decisive   
weight of your force.  If you go to war, then victory cannot go to Germany.  
Everyone knows that.  The reactions will be immediate.  The will to continue  
ight will be increased tenfold.  All the birds of ill men, a