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Hello Hon--
Between naps and sips of fruit juice, I have finished Whitaker’s We Cannot Escape History. It was an excellent book to get an over-all picture of the past 12 years from. Clarified a lot of things in my mind and also emphasizes the inevitability of this war after 1934. It makes obvious the evils of the Nazi aims and methods and the fundamental values of the democratic system. And it presents these in a realistic manner that is far from the trite platitudes by which they usually try to tell us why we fight. I think I understand the war and its necessity better from having read the book. It concludes by stressing the vital mission of the soldiers who fight the war. It is a vital one, but one we are sure to accomplish in time. Even more vital are the responsibilities of the leading nations after the war, and they are not so sure of being accepted and accomplished. But still, there is the possibility.
All my love always,
Wallace.
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