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My dear Mr . President:-

Hotel Edmund ueany Seat tle , Washington

5 . 1. 39.

First of all , I want to t hank you . Felix ' s

nomination means more to me than I know easily hoVI to say .

Not merely, I hope , out of friendship, but as much because

it is so splendi d a symbol ic confirmation of the essenti al

t hings in your Administration, its toler ance, its insistent

liberalism, its continuity of gr eat purpose . And if I read

the signs of suoh opinion as it has J) ari ght, I think

the public also has taken it in that spirit.

And , second, I o~e you an apology . I had

hoped so much to get back to Washineton befor e I left for

t he West, but I foWld myself tied down by an inescapable

press of academi c duties and I could not get away . 'llhen

we r eturn in the early part of May, I hope eagerly that

we may spend a little time ~1th you . There i s so much I

want t o tell you of things and people seen i n the United

States -- not least the happy chance of an encounter 17i th

Senator Vandenberg a t Duke Univer sity where he gave me

one of those opportuniti es whi ch come just once or twice

in a lifetime .

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I have read wi t h enthueiaom your Message of

yeeterdcy . You cannot easily i magine the exhilara tion

an Englishman f eels in reoosnizing in your words t he spirit

he had hoped to find in hi e own rulers . It will, I am

confident, reinforce both i n mlnd and heart the best there

is among t he British people , I imagine you are not goi ng

t o have t he easi est of times wi t h t hi s Congress . But I

do want you t o know t hat t here a re many, like myself, who

t hough not American, look to you for that lead to the

demooratio peoples upon whioh, in t hese next years , the

fate of civilization depends. Your cour age and s tead­

fastness are, I t hink, t he mai n bulr.e.rk we have against

a new dark age. I know bow grim a responsi bility that

pl aces on your shoulders . But I hope I may cl aim to know

you well enough to say that for you the pr ofounder the

reaponAibility t he greater the opportuni t y . It i e that

sense which has made your Presidency, in my Ol'ln view,

the moat notable achievement in American histor y since

Lincoln ' s .

I hear constantly from England - - not t he

best of news, especially not on the s ide of mi litary

preparation . But my friends tell me that there is a

growing revulsion against the pol i cy of surrender, and

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that the P . ll . l oses ground. I fear he may get a new lease 'll I •

on life after hie visit to Rome by &tioki ng a bargain with

Tony Eden, and that may precipitate a spring election. If

I may say so, it is very i mportant,from the angle of our

common hopes, that J oe K. be made to unders tand that hie

speeches in London, after hi s r e turn, may , unless he is

very careful , be turned t o t he service of t he worst

elements of reaction in Grea t Britain . There is , I fear ,

little doubt but t hat his speech of l as t October was

interpreted to mean that you were solidly behind the

Chamberlain policy .

The few days I have spent in t he Wes t have

introduced me t o a new world. But even the se few days

have been enough t o show me how real is the hold you have

upon the common folk out here . Talk of Schwellenbach

and t he instant reaction is that be i s "a fine fe llow

who has been consistently loyal to t he President" . The

big business el ements, of course , are like their kind

everywhere. What you have on your aide are the young

and the little people the Americans still able to

dream of a new America. I do not think you would wish

it otherwise ,

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I muet not buxden you further; but there i s one

other t hing I want to aek . In April , I am going to give

six publi c lectur es at the University of Indiana, which

I have t o publish in a small book . I propose t o discuss

the Presidency an ampl i fication of that piece of mine

on your papers which you have seen. Would i t embarrass

you i f the book were dedicated t o you? Please tell me

f r ankly if it would. But if i t did not , i t -:.ould be a

special pleasur e t o me t o mnlce i t say by tha t means

something of what I have been made able to hope about

democracy i n t he years since 1933.

Wi th aff ectionate gree t ing,

Beli eve me,

Yours always ,

(Si gned) HAROLD J . LASKI

I s t ay here until the beginning of lla.roh

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Dear Harol4•-

)tany t hAnk!V for the reprint OD tb• ·~110 Paper• an4 Addr•eeea•. Beoaaae it 1• an ••8e.l' a.nd not a. re•1ew, I wteb mob \bat lt oould be reprinted 1n eo11e magasin• with a lllllllon otraulatton. But auol\ a magasine would not d~ to p\lbllah lt.

A delightful deeorlptlon ha.a OOM fro11 ADDa telling of the furor 1ou ha•• oauaed at tu WOIPfln' a olaba, golf oovaea, plllk '9a partlee and un1••rs1tJ oirolu. May tbe ~ liaorea.ae in tv.rioa1'1t

eo.e and aee 118 ae eoon u JOU get

Profeeaor Harold J. J.utl. ~tllent of Politloe.l sc1enoa. Unl,,.relt1 of Waabl~on. seattle, Waablngton.

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llE!.!ORAllDU'..: FOR

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to Laski?

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lly dear llr. President:

One iuropean , at Any rate , rlnde it cllti'ioult to di&cover words

to OOID .. Y hia gratitude ror the epeech to the Pan-AMrican Union and

the note to Hitler and lluaeolini. 1 euepeet that it ie pernape too late

t o alter the course that have obnrtad. But at least tbey tit a~uurely

the re1pon1ibility tor oontliot , it conflict i t must be, and it arucea

their cnm people a..,._ or the tact that it la ~eir choice, dellberatelY

made, it 'they aake it. I have one. orratbor two, anxleties. I hope

that you will preea the British 80verrunont to hasten tho complat1on

or an qlo-Soviet arrall8•ent. That will have ilaenae in!luence in

building unity with Labour in England: without it, there ia bound to

be deep eu.apicion or Ch11111berlain ' a motl•es, and 1 hope , too, that you oan

make thoa begin.!!!!:! to t hillk out the te:noa or poea1ble accommodation , e.

definition ot am.a, war or no war. Yor l tear, •• I r.ar nothin,; alee,

the ooainc1 or an lllperle.l1st war on the old model in 1'blch tboro eaorgee an

unbridgeable gap between the Toriee and ourssl voa out or which tlloro coi:iea

tho gra•• da.n;ier, above all if there ia to be war, or intenial o1•11

d1aaana1on.

One other thing. I bava arranged with the Labour Party to publieb

in ~land a paapblet or your apaecbea on tho 1~terna t 1onal aitUA!.tion

ainoe the Chicago epeeoh. Would H t>e a great trouble to ba•o aauone in

the State Department send autbori:.ed texts aa soon •• poeeibl• to

l e.mes ll1ddleton The Labour Party

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l aboW.d oe ury gratetul.

Tb• Un1YaraH:r ot Indiana ia ury plee"""t. I.;' lecturee on the Presidency ••OJ:I to i ntsreat them and it the horizon wer e not so black I should al.moat tb1ak it eutbo.naaia . It is good to f ind that the lawyer• 8l"e all enthuaiaatic about then.,. coaposition ot the court; and I t1Dd with joy t hat it ia a pretty general opinion that it wsr does come, you have necessarily to be dratted tor a third ter1D. Any otbor altarnat he ia unth1Dkable .

Yours ae alwaya,

Harold Laski

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So rt~GSe :.tee? flt ti..~O well . Ple~~e ~eop your couraao an•i your belief in the bi~ things . Y ?\I c••nnot appo ••O your eno10ifts . I want your adl:linist rntion to ond with thu ,,r<tnd 1teRtur e th·1t makes the hhtorian suy 'He ended oven mo1·e splend idly than he her.an .• I know that i s your own vision of whut 111'1) bo . It is the thi"<. in Anerics that seeas to me to a&tter J10st in its destiny . In fi.,ht~ for your <ilDCric, , plea'° ''""ocher al. y tn~t you .Cee;. all ve the dr<' .. <>f what •ti 11 11ay be in Europe . Md you 6 1 Vd us all ther who care f or tho} bia thin11 , the rli;ht to hopu uncl to cour~e .

lily wurm a.ffec ti.,n to you always .

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I shall be e,18d to bri 11u yr . aesire for employment to the utten . of tne Dir~c . of the USES in the hope that he mu.i• be able to make a helpful sui es . to you.

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grateful .

Iii th war., regards .

Yours very sincerely,

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My dear I.Ir. Presiden t•

llanor Cot t11; e , Little Ba.rdfield , Br&J.ntroo , Eaaex. &lglend. s. 11. 39. :i •

I listened to your t&lk lant night, and I do want to tell you how exactly r i ght I thought 1t wao. Xl< The 1U1dertono came through, and ea we listened to the air-raid warning (rort1U1ately a !alee ono ) i t gave us heart and faith. , J..,,,,,

lie shall need 1t all ;~ut do not think there wna any alt<irna-t ive. II)' ciotion in the executive the Labour Party, 'Ibo Trades Union Congress and the Parli,.,,..,,t&ry /pe,rt7 was U!la:Wlous with a vigour and intensity that moYed M deeply. Thoee work.in;: ""'" know what tyr411'1)' means, and t.'1e7 will give all t.'iey bavo Md are to the teal< of f18'iting it . te agreed unaniaoual] too not to go witb the goveTl'llltnt . lie 11\lat be C'ree to cr iticise, above all, in the aal<ing of ail!s (anu?), and the aethoda of dooestic organi:atioo. f,o should not be free if "" were coaaitt.ed to aup­port a minority representation in th• cabinet. And the queotion of who holds the essential(?) keya ii pivot&l(?) . Party goverDJOant baa a vital place eve=> in war. l'le Join fUlly in the cocmon task of adal.niotr tttion(? ) We must state our or.n policy in our own we.y .

I have novor aeon the people so doteMllined . Ther e is no exhilara­tion , Tbe»e is just a sober oonse that life in a world subJ oo t to oer petual cr isis is not worth living, and that the search for parmanent .._(1)or ),.,,:• peace must be found , whntevor tho cost . I do not find 8n;f hate for the masses in G&rtlBJ1YJ on the contrary rather a sense of pity for the degree to which they have followed a bad ruler . How far this will last if air bombing begins it ie of courH illposai ble to pr odict1 certainly tba llillldng of the "Atheni a" is blued on tho government rather t han on the people .

-re ""' I do hope TOU "ill be able to keep A!!Oer ica out . At ..... early stage we llWlt bave vital Mdia tion, and no ooe but yourself 1'ill t.bon be in the position to ""68••ti... consis tent with t.'ie preaervation ot int.>rna-tiooal decency. And it is llOre than over vital to go on Ml ate .. ahead with the Ne., Deal. 1he "°"" the United States no• can show aucceaafUl results in the wor kine of democracy, the greater the put it can play in the ll&ldng of a new • • • • • • • of world direction . I can not think or a great er contribution to peace t.'ian this, tbo greater because tbe Soviet Union h•s, I fear , co"""1tted one of the supreme psychol ogicrll blunders of history. I underetMd its .. • • • •• . but it has thrown away an initiative which would have enabled i t to share in the moral l eadership of the wol'ld . Now I s ee no pr ospect of tru•t in ite good fal th for a l ong poriod to como .

IC;y warm r sgard1 to you . Take care of yourself as novor before .

'lours always,

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lfe nhall need it all; but I do not think Ulen waa tmy al terna­tive . My ootion in the executive ••• the Labour Par ty, The Tradu Union Conereu and the ParllanMtAry (abo•e Party wae unanimoue with a ngour and 1nten1i ty that moved me deepl,y. n>eee working men lcnow what t )Tanny meane, end they llill give all they havo and 11.1·e to the t ask of fightine 1 t . We agreed unanimously too not to eo w1 th the gove rru:ient . lie lCUst be free to e r ! t i cise, 11bovo all, in tt.e aakJ.n of aiat (&me?), ar.d !Jio aethode of dot-_.aotic orcanbe.ticm . 'tre ahould not be .!'roe if we we~ collllll tted to sup­port a minoril;;' ropresontl\tion in the cabinot. And tile question of who holds the essential(?) lceya 11 RivoW(?} • Party gov..r·nment he.e ti. vital pl&ce oven io 1Tar . llo j oin fully in the C00."101' tack or 1d11l n!stratioo(? ) Tie 10W1t etato our om policy in our 01lll wa.y .

I have r:over 60"'1 tJio poonle co dot-•·t.d:1ed. T!loro is no oxhil era­t ion . Ther e is ju• t a sobflr eense thc.t 11~0 i n a irorld subject to perpe tual cri a.h 1a not worth living, e11d that t he search ror p rma.~e:i~ caree(?)of peace 1111at be found, w!lateYOI' the co•t. I do no t f'1nd any ha.to for the Naees in Cana.vi oo the contrary rather a senen of pity for tto degree to which they have f ollowed a bad ruler . How far thia will laat if air bombins begins it ie of eour£o impoui ble to pred1ct1 cor tainly tho einking Of the "Atheni.&" i a blmaed on tho i;ovem:ent. rathor tJ1&11 M the people ,

I do hope you will be ilble lo keep America out . At somo early atage we mu at have Yi t al lD&diat.ion, and no one but youraelf will than be in the position to au.gcoatiana aonliate!lt with the pr u err&tion of interna-tional decency. And i t ii aore then ever vital to go on 1'\lll. stea'O ahea.d with the Rew Deal . nte more the United Si.tea 110 can allow succeaaful re5Ult1 in the •orld:lr. or d8Docracy , tho greater the part it can plq in tho malcin& o~ a. new • • • • • or 110rld direction . ! can not thinlc: o f a greater contribution to peace than thia , the &r••ter beoauae the Soviet Union bu, I fear, committed one or tilt .upreme paychological blund.er1 of h1ato17. I under4tand ita • • ••• • • but it baa thro1111 eway an 1n1tiatin which would have e11abled i t to ehare in the moral leaderahip of t.he world, Now I aee no proapeot of tniet in Ha good fai th for a l ong period to come.

IQ' wara re,i&rda to you. fake care o f youraelt' aa neYer before.

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My dear Mr. President:

I hope t h1e ia going to a r rive Juet as America goee to the polls; and I hope it will prelude the kind of victory that makee Hitler and Mussolini eee the handwriting on the wall. I know, a t any rate, no Engliehman who does not feel t hat your triumph will be our own.

lie have had hard days since I wrote to you last; I hope we have learned something from t hem. I remain hear tened by t he spectacle of the power of t he common man to face danger with calm reaolution, and to subordinate hie private suffering to the sense that what matters ia the public cause. We have been very fortu­nate, for though bombs have come grimly near, and we have ehivrred in the basement rooms, we have, so far, only lost windows, and etill stand proudly ereot. I was etill more lucky, for a 1busI was on had 1ts Jront blown out when a time bomb blew off, and I was not even eoratohed by the flying glaaa. It is pretty ugl• to go through raid atter raid. But at least we have bede to eleep in; and my heart goes out to these grand people who sleep in the tube each night and ask for nothing but t hat they be asked to do more .

Ot the war itself, you know all there ia to know. But one comment I want to make to you personally. Winston is a V8rY great commander-in-chi ef; he has yet, in lllY view, to prove him­self a great Prime Minister. He wi l l only do t hat when he sees t hat the conditi on of a real victory is a New Deal tor Britain, and that he must begin the New Deal now ftB part ot the actual strategy or the war. It isn't a matter of socialism or oapitaliem. Ite a matter of making him eee that a better standard or lite tor the underprivileged is t he way to enduring peace; that he has got to make the victims or llaiism real1~e that he knows this; llhat the way to this reali~ation lies through action in Britain now or which they can be made to hear. Re is so preoccupied w1 t h other eidee that t his aide he doee not eee in its right perspec­tive; and among his colleagues t here ie no one with the authorJ;ty or influence to make him eee it. I want you terribly badly to do that because you ere t he only person in the world who can do it. If he tells the homeless docker and the evacuated mother who ie pining to go home to her man that the New Deal begi ns tor

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them and their children even while our nati onal existence ie at stake, he not only communicates t o t hem an unbreakabl e resolution but, also , he serves notice on the people in Europe that the world we envisage i s better than any they can crrer and ia being made even while the bombs rall. That England and F. D. R'a America i n conjunction can take over t he leadership or the maaaee t hroughout the world. There ia the beet revolution by consent in world-hiat•ry in t h1a approach. Pleaee uae your authority to make him etart. He hae the imagination and the courage; what he needs is the understanding.

I have wa tohed the campaign day b•1 day. Wi 1 lki e i e a superb example of Dr. Johnson's "No man was ever written (?) down except by himself'; I r ather guess that he is one or those forcible Americans whose views pour out rrom physical effort rather than intellectual insight . He mietakes volubility for vigour, and he obviously does not underetand that when you know nothing of a subject the wise t hing is to say eo . On the whole the poor old GOP must reel that Tom Lamont and hie friends sold them a pup . And when it is all over, Eugene Meyer will still not know how it all happened . Hie proresaional gun­men seem to me , on the whole, to have done the dirtiest Job in the fi ght that has come my way. The mo at interesting t hing is the people's instinct that they must stick to you -- eomething like that sense during the Civil War about Lincoln that transcended all the superior people 's dissatieraotion . I must not forget to add that I knew the result was alright when I read of Walter Lippmann's dieeatieraotion w~th Willkie's campaign. That Waldorf-Astoria liberal is a perfect index to the fears of respectable privilege.

One thing more I wish you could see, ror it ia a lesson to American oollegee in the significance of intellectual freedom. I work with Attlee the riret part of the week and t hen teach in Cambridge ror two daye (the college is evacuated there). I have never known young men and women so intellectually alive, eo morally disinterested , or so aware or the values tha t are at etake . Six months ago they had too much detachment about the war ror my liking. Today, they understand t ha t what is in issue is tb4- right as persona to be ends and not means , and that t hey have an individual responsibility to assist in shaping t he outcome . I am eure they have th1a outlook becauee t he clash of views in the lecture-room rorces them to make t heir own choice; and they come to see t hat the power to make their own choice is, ultimately , the central principle in civili~ed living . I wish you could make the Howard (7) corporation see that.

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Well ! Please oonsider that on Nov. 6, I go in 1pir1t to my preoinot and oast t he vote or all Europeans who oare tor rreedom tor the Roosevelt ticket . On November 6t h , General Brooke , the moat i9tell i gena soldi er i n t h e Bri tish Army, and Brig. Gen. Groves la grand airman of t he last war, now in enemy propaganda) are dint•s together to celebrate your victory We shall drink your health in champagne and a ek you t o remember t hat your victory ie our triumph .

My warm affection , ae always.

Ever yours,

Harold J, Laski.

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I ba•• not bad a cb&Dce to tbank J.,. t or JOW' nlce letter ot J>ecnber tltth. I bad hoped t o He you thU ,.1.nter in Engl-Dd but I rear thl• 11U•t be poa tpcmed UDtil. l.ater Clll.

I will baYe t.be COIUOlatiOll. a t lea•\ of aiowlng t.ba t a li t tle later 1n t be yea r tha\ chal'lllDt clllu te of 7our• will be more bHrabl.a to •• -- more beat, 110re dql.ight, and I hope -re vei;:eublea. l ba• e a s t.lldin& order • &ailu\ Bru•••l.• 1pr out•I

I hoped y ou liked t.hu t mconaciceab.1¥ lOQ& .umual lleua1• ot iUAe to the CoDir•••· Ov 1oal 1•, Ila 7 011 aq, i d entical t or the long raA&• obJect1•e• but there a r e • o ll&Jl1 n•• pr obl ... a ri•iDJ t ha t l •till mas t ru•b•r that tile •a.r l s 7et t o be waa.

l aa 1Dcl1A9d to Ul1.Dk tlla t a t tb.e Metin& witb. larab&l Stalin and the Priu lilni s ter I can PQt tb.inga ca a a01aewbat hil!ber l•••l tbaa tbe7 b.liYe be• tor ib.e peat two or three • ootba. 11th all &ood •ilhea aDd I do bope to He )' Oil aoClll.

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The election result means one more link in the great chain whlch etretches by El Alamein through Stalingrad and the Nonnandy Beaches to final victory. I wish I had tho words to tell you how glad we were and how proud - For if you see on a rlifterent road tron mine, and if, soC18tl.mes , I do not easily understand your decisions , believe me I have never doubted that we l!lllrch to the same gret> t goal . It is marvelous to think tM t it a:ay give the common peoples of the Old World and the New the chance of a freer 111'e.

But it isn 't more than a cha.nee , That is why , with all my" heart, I beg you to make this tem the Lincoln-term ot your tour terms, in llhich the spirit of the Gettysburg ape ech comes to be a. living thing , and the Four Freedo!Oll are not ueat sections in a great speech but hopes fUl.filled in the lives of core people everywhere . To .,. , who have just seen the P • .11. begin to change from a e:reat national symbol back.into the Tory leader, it llOuld be unbearable if, a.tter all these years ot pain and suffering and death, you did not wish that the immense power of the UniteJ States bfJ used to lay t he foundations ot peace 1111d or dered living. But I know you want to tight tor this end not less than I , and that you see through U.. ioen like Jesse Jones and Bob llurphy and !1111 Bullitt; that you see the real America, the great America , in mnking the world hope for Emerson 1 s "I.Ian the Reformer ."

We who ca.re deeply for you want to soe this tera a ll'8l:IOrable epoch in the history of manlc1nd . l:ay you have the strength and the triende to end as &re&tly as those first oagic days when you entered the White House ,

With cry deep affection,

Yours alwaya,

HARDI» J . LASKI

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