Your 273.¹ Thanks your comments. You are of course quite right to adapt language to local needs. Is the view you attribute to Americans about identification of interests with Britain universal? As there is a real possibility of a British defeat there must be some Americans who see that and who do not accept such a complete identity of interests? What is the dominating racial element in favour of participation in the war? What is the reaction to the rapprochement between Russia and Axis? Is there not strong Russophile element in America?