ABSTRACT
Evidence that American college students showed little interest in "Europe's war," led Harold Laski to dash off The Strategy Of Freedom: An Open Letter To American Youth in the summer of 1941. Laski had by now become simultaneously an asset and a liability to the British war effort. Laski's oft-expressed radical view of the war and its consequences for him was expressed in a letter to Frankfurter in August. In that same month, Laski wrote to an Indiana friend that he was "thrilled" by "the superb resistance of the Russians" and by "the visible growth of American aid". An "Open Letter to President Roosevelt" criticized the Roosevelt administration for being as unresponsive as Churchill to the revolutionary necessities of the war. In Laski's view, the British defeat in Libya was "the natural and logical outcome of the effort to wage a revolutionary war without revolutionary means.
