Room 47, Foreign Office [:Bletchley Park]. 11.10.39.

Dear Lady O'Connor,

Many thanks for your kind letter. I should welcome Romain Rolland; though what with doing clerk [?] all day and taxi-driver morning and evening I have no more ideas than a guinea-pig and shall soon be as cultivated as an S.S. man.

Tell May I agree that a constructive statement of some future goal, like N. W. European federation, should be put forward. Actual details of war-aims must wait. As for negotiation with Hitler, I am afraid he would only use the respite to refit. I have no objection to offering a conference on terms which he could not accept, such as the immediate evacuation of Bohemia-Moravia, and Memel, compensation to all Jewish & other refugees, etc. But I own frankly that I think he and his chief fellow-criminals should be tried and hanged, pour encourager les autres in future. You see I am a horrid war-monger.

Yours ever,

Peter.

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