November 6, 1941.

Hone We Pe Lamberton,
Member of Congress,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Bill:

I have the four page copy of your
radio address, also copy of Congressional
Record with your address, and also copy of
the history of Appropriations Committee. I
appreciate very much your courtesy in send-
ing me these documents.

As to the correctness of your po-
sition on current war legislation, I don't
know. Nobody knowse At this time I am sure
it is impossible to say just what a majority
of Kansas people endorse among the so-called
war issues. However, I am quite sure that
fundamentally an overwhelming majority of
Kansas citizens feel that Hitler must be de-
feated. After that, diversity of opinion
ranges widely. Also, I believe people gen-
erally have not determined when or how we
are to get full force into this war. Nei-
ther can they decide how or when we can stay
out full force. I think it is true the aver-
age citizen does not realize we are in the
war, which, of course, we are.e Probably it
can be proven we have gotten in by stealth.
Stealth seems to be the modern method of get-
ting into a war. We are simply following the
method. I sometimes feel the failure of lead-
ers to formally declare war is not so much a
strategy of surprising the enemy as it is
strategy for avoiding a formal proposition of
war to their own people. I am pretty thorough-
ly convinced the latter idea has prevailed
with our leaders up to this time. All over
the world national leaders may feel people
generally are sick of war, do not want to go
to war, do not believe in war.

This attitude on the part of nations
may come from two causes. First, that the
world has become topsy-turvy. Increase of
wealth, higher standards of living tend to
increase selfishness and decrease devotion
of the higher ideals of life. Consequently,