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Mra. Franklin D. Roosevelt: (personal, urgent.)

Pleaee, please let me rpeak to the Preeident on the telephone. I believe I know how to save German:y, eaft Pol.alld and aToid a war. I think I know the mind ot Bitler and the mind ot GeMiaJ17. I will acre• that i t 1e praot1oall:y aU I do lulow. But pleau let ae epeak to hta aarl1eet toaorrow aorning, betore it 1e too late. X7 telephone 1& Hotel LotlbardJ, Plasa :5-8600. !he Pree1dent will UDderstud 111 idea, but it 11 eeeential t o get 1t to Britain before thq answer Jl1tler.

DorothJ !bo-.p•on.

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" '-ita .~1'1:7, became :r think there -~gbt ,t,o b6 more clrculat1on o.t ~Ood - I don't like to­see all, the L1berlil. wr1te1'li in one p1.ace and aJ.1 the. oanhrvat'iu 1;1. another, or all the pro-. ·' Admill1.st~t1on .and all. thi) an1;1- Admiru,strat1on '" 11,ne!1 up under separate . .roots, ~

, ~.. \ • • • I , want you· to !mOll' ~~t ·I do not sutte:t'. . t1nanoia1:ty •b;r the change-. YO!+ are so kind, 1;hat I teared< :jroU might near •ot 'it an!i that it WOUld worQ 7bu, · s6 I wsn,t yoil' to !mow this. ' . , . .

• Allii ·- a ' tavor, Do yOu -:think that s-ome time soon 'I oould have a talk with the

• PreSident. There are a tew things that I am ,. deeply anxloua' to c11apu.ss' with llimt ; I ha~e .

r~raihed tram pj.!shing , this , b.~oause ~ lm:ow how .1 burdened, he iS, but Ji ASVB\.Orie Or l two idea's 'that

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' 1 Bare 1:a -the aeaohndllll about which I apoke, It i l badly t,ped, be~auee l . aa a bad tJ,Piet, and I do . not:.· wish t e <uota_h it, or gin it to tn~e. ·•v•n to _, own aeoretary, Bee1.4ee, · abe 11

·.oe'll'brat1.ng Thankagiving', · . I lhou14 l ike to add th1' 1 'l'he

powe~ ot the~· powers derivee !troa the1.r oo~lete . o?n!Jequen'tiali t;r,. TheY, do i;lot · act in· a • co~~~plioa ted 'wq, but ... in a limple w~. So should we. 'l'he a1mple ~ waT- ia' to ' oknow wb_o your el)emiea are, and d.et,ea~ thea, b:r ·evert ~own political, pe;rohologioa.l , and

, m1:Ut"rt aeana, ·going on the t ull.J juat1t1ed anuaption t}).at &n1 quarter giv'en' b7 u'a wiJ.l be abueed and • exploAted by them,

. In advinoe ot being able to aot f~7 mllitarilt, we auat act tull~polit1oall7 and peJoholog1oall;r, In· the present wora, onl:r the m_ i 1 or diplomatic i~ortanoe, Hitler~e pol~t1c• ooneieta entirely ot aot•; ' worda are onl:r ueed to secure time tor aot1; nona ot the tiae eeoured1 however, muet aid the enem:r against whom the aot il to oe di.reoted. '

Ir we take Martinique 1holding 1t in a !lduoiar:r qapaoit:r t or a free rranoe 1 , the Act 111111ed1ately hal All 111menae pol1t1ca.l &tid PI:Ychological etteot, in lurope (in trance; Ge~many, and Britain), in South America (lbe United f!tatn means what ehl 8&18, and 11 audaoioue jllld' powe'rtul:), in the rar ll:aat, t or the eame r.ea1o~, and on ~erioan,publio opinion, America will beooae exo~ted with t he t1rat American coup. · Ot herw11e aer eati1m and appeaeement, •entiaent will grow. One 1uooeutul act prepare~ tor another. !loth1~,~-g • 1Uooeed1 like auooeu . Nothing i e 10 adaired &I • 1trength, !he tl!k'ng or Kal>t1D1que, itl occupation· b:r American marine•, make• the Wee~ern Bell11phere policJ viei~le and actua11 Talk won•t. The repercu111on1 1n the "war ot .nervn will be world-wide, 'l'he ualleat a'ct 11 more i mportant than the b1ggnt talk, 'l'h.re au1t be no 'preparation t or it nth public op1n1on, Pllbl1.o opinion 1n th11 oa1e au1t follow, not . preoede--b-oau•a .

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it baa &lrea<S,;r been ~epmd. ~:"the whole J!e,a~i,;.n hemi11phere po,li;o:r and 'be lloN"'a Doo'trtn~ hae preparrd u.- ·· ·' . . '

Beg the Pru1den\', troa me, to }Ia hie 9wn to reign .lllip.1.tt!lr! and ·. to !.Ill th'e •State Departunt, not l1eten. the Pree dent 11 ~onl;r.man in Waabington with an inattilo~ about foreign pollo;r~ InaUnot-- thf intangible tliLige ;rour unooneoioua mind' arid' your ner<'• enda tell 1ou ie right; the aoou.ulation ot doeaiere, diplomatic reporta, eto. eto, tell nothing, tor tbe:r are 'moetly written b7 people without noaea, wbo report what the Italian ......, baaaador told at ainn~r the night bet~re. iYer;rthing baa

. an .inner logic and we know all we need to know- at leaet the Pree!dept ~oeal namely~. that the laeoie! ,

, · power• ~tend to conquer, th"$ -world aJ?od exploit all ot ~s. , and· that the only thing that g1 vee them pause 1B aot.1on,

And t~t democracy 1a pe~ish1~ beoa~se it ie impotent to take audacious action,

The minute we take Mart!hique, the Preeident ahould make a peace apee~, 1broadoaat on all the ehOrt~ wavea ot the world, and to .Ainerioa-- all languages, But it eh6uld be a totall;r dttterent sort ot peace epeeo~ than any we have beard yet • • not a plea, a 1tatement, It; ebould enYhage the k1nd or wor~d we intend to live in. Be a payobologioal blit&-krieg •

• One muet search out .. every payohologioal weakness in 'the enemy; every ~obillee heel, the moment anyone pulle a 1'aet one on Bitler and aaa oatchee h1ll ( or hia henchmen) napping, hie magnetism begins to tail, lor the Unite~ States to be, tor twenty- tour houra, .the world a headlines in an audaoiaaa oo~p d'etat • a«a• . detleote attention from Hitler, We Bboul~ crowd the Ax1a o~t ot the newe, Only the' pol~tioal . and payohologioal o!'tenaive hae glamour-- when it ie auooeeatul, ,

Absolute and oo~le~e ooneequentialitr-- the deed always oompletely integrated with the word-- 11 the whoie secret. .

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aet up a foreign trade 1;rltdioate in America.&.. through which. all trade and 1nnatment ttill be t.tltered, ~• 1e tbe Schacht plan. tliat eyndioate would be .. a. to aerYe the Germane. Wh7 not make 1t now, to help def eat tbe Axiaf

thank you Yery muob tor 11sten1~ to me--lith warmest iOOd wlahee--

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, Dear Q-ene ra:J, WatsoM .,

. I am' agdn en.t1:ue J;1:Ug to you a h1gpl'y o'onf.1dential l etter to the Pres1din;t; wh1oi) ..1hvolves ·a s e.('1ous _ mat~er a~d ~h1ch I beg you to put directly lnto his hands. 1 am sure tha~ h~ will be grateful for the 1nformat~on in it. c Otherwis e I would not bother you .Uhder any o1rcumstsnce a. • "

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General ~win M. Watson The WlU t e House Waehtngto~, D. o .

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SOlO: NOTU OH I'OIW:<Hl POLlOI,

z. llegar41.11B Joreip Pol~o:r 1n General,

'l'bere 111&111 be one toreign poUo:r tor the United St&11ea, oon4~ote4 bf the lrieident and the State Depa:rtae~~ an4 there a11et be JilL nesot1at1one or •111' lt1n4, exoept th:ro the gonm~~ellr."

~..•·•• One oannot deal nth toUJ.1ta:r1an pol1~1o• and econoa1oa "1:1iro~ d1epa:rate ageM1111 111oh u the Red "ro••~ Jlr, K9on:r1 e OolUJ. the. 'br an:r other that aa:r be tol'lleil1 and. what 11 completely neglected now, the pri~ate b11aineaa and oorp_orat1on negotiation• w1 th totall_ta:rian oollfttrlea and the'lr caplS~u.

Aa illlletrat1ona or the latter Mr, ro:rd 11 a 1 f 1 1

cond11ot1ng oonatant negotiation• wi!h Gaaton de. BerierJ, .So 11 hie at~ne:r and b11atneae agent in Parle ~d f••ember or the Vioh:r go~ernaent, lfr. Rene de Chambrllll, lfr. La~il • aoh-ln-law 11 1n touch with American corporation•. Mr. La:~al 11 an agent ot Hitler, in the moat proto~~nd political eenae~ and ia the political heir to Peta1n, according to the new rrenoh conaUtution'. Genera1 llotora hal heav:r intereah in Geraan;r whioh it ia trying to protect, and llr. llooney and Jlr, Boward ot the Export Company ot General llotors are recognized leading appeaeera. But whether they were or not, tala ia no moment when any American oitizen ahould be confr onted by divided loyalties, or permitted to aalte cholcea, amd conduct any form of relation 1 prt~ately, with any ot the totalitarian government& or tneir append&gee,

- fhe United States government baa frozen the 'tllnde ot the oonq11ered natione and the Treaaur:r haa control ot all dle­buraementa in connection with deposita and gold and other aeseta ~t theee powera. Iet our own private corporatlone are permitted latitude euoh ae they hold in a normal capital1et1o society. !hie makea it absolutely impoasible tor thie government to :!'~~notion powerfully and in a unltied manner ~is-a-via t .he totalltar.lan powere.

I'll v. 1460¥'11"' B ••• The q11eat1onmot ~e r we should or ehould not

send Aoodt. medloamenta, or tll1ng elae to france, ahould not be lert to the Red Croa nor to the grace• ot the Britieh go~ernment. The 1aame th!"nf appllea to Ger~~~n-Americana who are eendlng tood to German;r gl~1ng Gel'lllln;r thereb:r extra valuta.

WI: SHOULD DO NOTHING WHA'rSOII:VIR li:XOJ:H fOB A OLEAR POLl'riOAL PURPOSE .AND BY' AND 'ri!ROUClH 'l'RIIl GOVEBNBNT. A Mi11111

GOVER!IIIltN1' PERIIITTlHG INDIVIDUAL OIUuHSL~OJOO:'MEII:~d OOBPORAUONS TO rtl'NO'riON Hli:'riBOGDIOUSLY lt..IW IHDJI:PJ:N~ IS UNDIRKINiliG ITS OWN .lU'l'IIORI!I .uiD DJ:n:A'l'DIG I!l OWN DDS. I1' WILL n:~ ~ A!L1: TO ACT iffiiii1~8-A.-VIS the COIIPLII:HLY IJIHGBA'RD .AND GOV LLID AO'l'IONI Or '1'HJ: 'rO!ALI'l'AJUA.H JIORR8, 'rHI OOft!W)I: 0' WHOSil INUGRA'l'ION J:NOOIIPAISU HO'l' ONLY PPW CAPtiVE GOVI!UIIDTS BUT UPI!!IHG STOOL PIGEONS IN DEUOCRJ.OIJ:S.

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I! legielation ia neoeaaar1 !or euch aotion, or 1! the regulation 1ee•e 11kel.Y to encounter obetinate di!!icultieai important coluanista~ editorial writere, group• like the WU lam A1l1n White Ocmmittee, radio broadcaetere, ehould be brought Into con1ulation i.mediatelt to prepare in advance a demand !or auch action fro• the American public.

n . } THI ~OH SI TUATIOI AND OUR AtTITUDE TOWARDS IT.

'1'he V1ch7 gonrllll8nt 1e a pawn 1n the hand1 or Ge%'11&D7. It ha1 no independence what1oner. It hal no power or ' 5 3 independent action. The Ger.an gonr~ent 11 holding mlllon• or pr11onera aa hoa~agea. Pilrre~val il an ab1clutel1 unecrupuloue and dangeroue IDI.n, who a i a 1 to aecure hie own power by pl&fing the Gerqn gue. ·He IIUl have a Total Gerqn vlctor1 or he loeee hie own b1~etain ie de!eatilt, an~i­demooratic, and een1ll. He il kept there !or hie preetigl a1 a 11anhall or J'ranoe and u a !aoade !or Laval. Laval hae hh own daughter and 1on-in-law in ~e Un1~ed Statee.

lotblng whatever can be &obieved thro\18b the Vich7 govertllllnt and not~ ebould be done to etrengthen n. ive1'7th1ng lhould be done to weaken it... even wi ~out knowing what the ruult or ~at Wlaken1ng will be. n. oh1e! value or the Vioh1 gonrnaent ! or Chti'IUD1 11 that it 11 the Fi!th c oluan of the Geraan sover~ent 1n the UnUed Btatee

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Juot •• tho 110111 etfooU'ft ftnh Oolun 1D Br18ala '11.1 tho ll11ooolill1 oroWt.. Bw Gor 11 I,'O'fornaoat 111 uu;Jriu .... triu alwqo wull:a thrl!lltl1Dttmtaiar1u that art •re palatable to tho dtaooraoiu thin tht7 are th•ool'ftl.

lhat lhould bo otrengthoned io the deOaulle aonaent and tho ant~·Viob1 anti•B1tler, anti-Appeaoeaent, pro-Brit11h, pro­demooraoieo oloaonto ~J'ru9- II&IH17 the fronoh people. We believe 1n d .. oo1&o7\ don t we truot that the7 w1ll find loader~p -eben thor~ t aoaent ooau; that reboll Will ar1ool !her oan t arioe if we elp their onolavorol !bio io ~ot A.B. a.

La vall I OOn aliA •1n•l&W and !:~ter Were go1JI& tO 1a1l baok laet week and ohancec! their e. lapor'-nt.

IV. B01f OR APPIAIU WI!BOU! DOWUG Ifl 'fU ~0'1'10 or 'l'HI 8ELJ'-DILUJ)ID Al'PElBIIU.

We are 1n danger ot rtiJ)e&ting the exaot appe&~ellent.'lll-l-.!!1• prooeuu ot England and rranoe, whloh worked not 41reotl:r w1 th Germ&nJ but T1a other oountr1eo.

The proteae1onal diplomate ot Br1ta1n and Prance tell into tb1a trap, and it io a penchant ot all proteooional diplomate. Tbe1r r ecord io ot being wroGg one h11ndred percent ot the ttae.

Illua1irat1onu !he Br1t11h and J'renoh • bauadoro 1.n Ital)' assured their governaento that Ital)' wae unl1kel7 to oomt 1nto t he war. The)' told the1r gonrnaente that th~e wao a opl1 t between Mua11ol1n1 and Olano, that Italy wu econom1oall7 •11111.-t=srnhtn a 1nca~ble ot conducting the war, and that the war wao un1vereall)' u cpular with public op1n1on. One 110nth before Ital7 entered t e war I wao told th1o b7 81r Noel Charles British charge dee Atfa1reo, b7 the French &~~baooadorL b7 our own Allbaaaador (acre cuat1cuol)') b7 the Prea148nt of ~• Banoa d'fta11a, b7 11. P1roll1, and b7 o bo except the orack journalhta lc:w ::t::':. 1111.

Oorreepon ng 1 r. ao o 17 wrong about Prance-at least 1n h1a talk• with Journal1ote. That rranoe could not hol d out tor more than a few weeki wao obv1oue to me 1n a weekte time •• tbere are plentl7 of w1tneeoeo that I wao ot thio opinion in the tirat da:re ot 11&7 betore the invao1on of Bolland. I 111 not a diplomat, but a tra1nld Journal1ot, and the evidenceo we~e evtr)'Whe~e. tor tho•• Who mQve b7 ~6 oboet;tlonL and aoll, and.- nuuat1on or ~1a foro o, Ill not b.J _. _1 __ ..k.Jt. interviewing a oertain etrata ot ooo-xet:r r t. 11,.w.,.1 ' le pL\11_. OM'.,...,

Qbaaberlalll appeaoed Ge...n:r b7 appeao1ng Mueool1n1-­and allowing hta to get neoeoa&r)' war ouPJ)lieo ,up to the nr:r atnute when he entered the "Ill'• Before that, • Btr Samuel Hoare appeaoed Muoool1n1 througb LaTali franle ,appeated GermaDT ..._ throua:h. Mr. BoOk in Po and, and -bOth toroed-appeaolllent thr~ preooure on Beneo. Row we have

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freat all Y1ohJ re~reaentat1vea ~1th extr .. e oo14Deaa; rene•~no Y1aaea; reoe1Ye to Y1ohl repreeena&t1vee; organize an anU-v1ob7 oup&lgn in the preu,

fAll AC!IOJU 1fe alwllld OOOIIPl Jlar\1.nlqv,e, W1thollt arq prev101ll pabl1o1t,; whateoenr. lee llonlla7'8~ u~t· 1D the St. Louie Po1t Dj!epatoh, rroa their oorreapoD4ent 1a ~q•e who llhow1 thet 110 peroent or the p6plllat1on want Aur1oa to 1'110111 thea t t oa laz1 &gelltl who are there I&JldU \hi patronage or hneru So'liert, 1fe ahollld tho• that a 4eaooraoy oan aot •1tb lUdden audao1ty. Amer1oan publ1o op1n1on• W111 111pport thh, We are lllelf to 1011 thh hea 1 e e a lii&Jor pol1 tioal battle 1t "' del&T. e & e ar 't"f to get the llart1Mque pianu, !he a ~1on ehould -., be 111 den and ot complete audao1tyl

' 1fe 11\let 11! what 1a heppen1ng, A derel1ot lrenoh ~ire 18 an open 1ore that can 1pread to the whole hniephere pol1oy, «Jeneral ~ 1feJgand 11 playing a , ... or hh own, It V1oh1 ( m111 V1oh1:? l gete ooapleteJ.,' into Gel'lllan ban de, he •111 1et-n!ieelt up ae the adventtrer dictator or a duoh7 or h11 own and .... negotiate With the overlord to beooae the gau-leiter 1n Alrioa, The British made a aietake 1n letting tholl 1hip1 through) that r~trated Dakar, and they 11'1~ J)robably make the m .. t~e or thinking that W'l)rgand will be u'aetul to thea, He won t, rrenoh Atr1oa and KartillQ .. are the ende or two polee or a magnate to dierupt the integrfty or the weetern hemiephere,

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IOU c.t.IIN0'1' BUY SPADI orr 'tHE UIS ANY IIORE 'liWI MUSSOLlNl COULD Bi BOUOH'l' , IJ' SIR 1W1tJEL HOARE 'l'BIJIU 80 fBAf Ia A VERY GOOD !'tuna J'OR DlontiG '1'H.t.T 1'1' II 1f!IORG, BE BAS REVER BEEN RI GB'1' YET,

Spain 1a whoJdy doll1nated by the German Cleetapo, It 1a politically powerleee and any amount or money we lend or give will not aake her any more pol1t11ally powertul via-a-vii «Jerm~lt w111 ollly make her more d~eablt to Geraa~~T, and more e to Co into the war. lxaotogr with Ital:r, Where allie and American d1plomao:r perai tted her to etore liP

1uppl1u and bide her t1M, The only thine that w1ll keep 8pa1n out ot t~ war 11 a aold glare r~ the ... tern heahpbere and dilintegration and 1tanat1on, 1fe ban COt to atop being aelte4eatruat1ve 11ntl.mentali1ta,

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policy unless abe ia to~ed to do eo b7 1nabilit7 to carT7 it .. out, fo carry out a e~onized move with the Axil lhe ~· re-or~n1zed her entire• gover11111ent t ee,1t aeide ' the ant1-Run1an

~t~w~~~~i;:~or~: ~ngth~t~h!-:;:;'~a:a~n~;:_;l:,:·· oo laboration with the Axle, Bar program ie to seek peace in Ch.in~ and with Rueaia and turn againet the we at, fhlnga in the way are 1) Cnineee reaietance to &nJth1ng except complete Japaneee capitulationt 2) Rueeian queaeineee about the value or aliT agreemen1; with Japan or Oel'IIIAJI1, 3) Shortage or ma)eriala with which to wage a war againet Dutch last In41ee British posaeea1ons, and U,B,A, '

~~~IDN.t\T:[OJI8: 8upP9rt Oh1na; that mean• stopping the kind or barga1n1ng about money that Chamberlain carried on with reference to the alliea' ot Britain, P~ovide tor the -r '''' tt etabil1Zation ot Oh1n.eae ourrencieai• send over an econoll11c and military mission~ Kake availab e such m1lttary materials as Britain cannot use, .t\ little goes a long way in China. Negotiate with Latin America tor materials that they may be . willing' to exchange against better materials trom us to be delivered later. Bead ~ral Yarnell ae head or a mieaion,

Ieep alive the beat possible relations with Russia, Send & technical miaaion there, I suggest David Barnorr1 Who would be willing to Co who 18 thoroughly hard-boiled, naa had technological relations with Russia (without dittic~ltiea) and understands meoban1cal and material questions, He would jump at the chance, Give this m1as1cn no publicity whatsoever.

Totally embargo Japan, Save taoe by putting a total embargo on all materials essential to national detenae, to all countries, Litt them, then, in o~y apeaoial oases. \!ritain, China, Ruesia, it and to the extent that some workin8 agreement oan be reaohedt

SUlOWiY: NOTHING 'IHATSOEVER O.t\N BE SOUGHT WITH KON&Y J'ROII POTEN'l'I.t\L !i:Nll3liES OR TH!i:IR C.AP!IVES, 00 NOT riN.t\NOE THDI, DO NOT i'Eii:D THEil, 00 NOT Arlll THEil, 1)0 NOT BUCI UP Tl!li:IR MORALE, DO NOT STULTIFY YOUR OWN POLICIES, BE VERY !WU), YERY CLEaR, AND DOll'r LISTEN TO PROi'ESSIONAL DIPIICDUTB, THEY LE.t\RNED A GAllE 'tHAT IS ARCHAIC,

WHEN YOU W.t\NY.. TO PREP ARE PUBLIC OPINION FOR .A. CO Ill D 'ET.A.T DO IT THROUGH INNUKER.t\BLE CHANNELS 'lli.t\T CAN START .t\ Dli:K.t\ND TO WHICH YOU APPARENTLY JI.ERELY RESPOND, THIS IS THE ONLY SUCC!i:SSFUL TECHNIQUE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS, 1)'1' CAN BIC Pli:RF!i:CTLY ORG.t\NIZII:l) WITHOUT .elY .A.PPE.t\RANCI: Or ORG.A.NI~~ION WHATSOEVER, TIIIC M.OST INJ'J..UEN'l'I.t\L PAM' OF THE PRESS UND.ERST.A.NDS TIIICSI PROEIUKS BICT'l'IR 'rHAli 1108'1' OF 'l'HE BT.t\TE YDICP.A.RTJI.Ii:NT AND IS KORJ: alOIP.t\TI!Ii:TIO TO YOU --"n~ JIORli: PREPARED FOR Il'l'l'ILl.IGII:NT AND LONG RANGE ACTION THAN IB THE STATIC DEP.A.RTJI.ICNT,