ABSTRACT
Sir: A week ago Thursday night you spoke to members of your party, but you appealed to the whole nation. You stood in the shadow of what the public believed was a break with Germany. You used words then which no man in your position would have used unless they were meant to indicate what was in your mind about the crisis which is upon us. You asked us whether we were ready to go in only when the interests of America are coincident with the interests of mankind. Those are brave words, and if we judge the American people correctly they are ready to go in on these terms. But they will want to know what those words mean. They will want you to enunciate not only a great aspiration but a great policy. It is to help what little we can towards formulating such a policy that we venture to address you.
