World War II Era
Correspondence from the Second World War, capturing military operations, home front struggles, and the Holocaust.
I found this data of such import that I have convened a Board consisting of the head of the Bureau of Standards and a chosen representative of the Army and Navy to thoroughly investigate the possibilities of your suggestion regarding the element of uranium.
October 19, 1939 • Washington, D.C.
I was greatly disturbed over the unwarranted attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor and their murder of our prisoners of war. The only language they seem to understand is the one we have been using to bombard them.
August 11, 1945 • Washington, D.C.
It is quite clear that you are today the one person in the world who can prevent a war which may reduce humanity to the savage state.
July 23, 1939 • India
I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times.
March 28, 1941 • Sussex
We seem to be very near the bleak choice between War and Shame. My feeling is that we shall choose Shame, and then have War thrown in a little later.
March 16, 1938 • London