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ELIZABETH McCAUSLAND  50 COMMERCE STREET  NEW YORK, NEW YORK

January 8, 1943

Dearest Mother:

I am enclosing the baby pictures, which I have had copied and so preserved for posterity. Do you have any use for extra prints from the negatives? If so, Berenice will make them for you.

About the Soviet guerrilla book, I think that we are slow to realize is that if it is horrible to read about such atrocities, if is infinitely more horrible to have them happen to one. So far the only real fighting of the war has taken place on Soviet soil, so that now the Nazi armies hold a territory as vast as from the Atlantic seaboard to the Mississippi. Over 5,000,000 Russian soldiers have been killed and wounded. The building and social savings of a quarter of a century has been destroyed in great areas of the Soviet Union. Meanwhile we do nothing, or very little. It is quite smart to permit other people to fight to save freedom for us, but somehow it doesn't seem very pretty to me.

I get particularly fed up with the general attitude that the USA and Great Britain are battling, oh, so bravely, to save Anglo-Saxon civilization. The people of China have been fighting for over ten years, and we have done little enough to help them. Only last week the Chinese military mission to this country, having sat in Washington for six months cooling its heels, was recalled by Chiang Kai-chek.

We ought to remember a few things. That the war is not being fought - or won -- on our scorched earth. That it is not our women and children who are being subjected to intolerable brutality. That while the brave British, "single-handed" (as I heard in a newsreel recently) are fighting off Rommel in Africa

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