Justice of United States Supreme Court [1], whom I know well and
who is great friend of Hopkins and close to the President [2], saw
me today. He regards it as urgent and most important that
following should be got to Mr. Churchill before he sees Hopkins.

[3]

Hopkins is passionately anti-totalitarian. He has such high regard
and affection amounting almost to reverence for the President that
he is liable to react against anyone who does not show clear
evidence of similar regard. He has feeling that Mr. Churchill is
not as forthright in his regard for the President as he might be.

My informant believes that there is nothing currently more
important than that Hopkins' mission should succeed and that
Churchill and Roosevelt be brought close together through the
medium of Hopkins.

My friend therefore urges with great sincerity and conviction that
Mr. Churchill goes out of his way at early stage to express to
Hopkins his great and cordial admiration for the President as a
man and as the leader of this American nation and ask that he
convey these heartfelt sentiments to the President. There is no
surer way of reaching Hopkins' heart and there is no one who can
do this more convincingly than Mr. Churchill.

My friend who is a very highly placed person in this country lays
great stress on the above. He thinks that in the stress of great
affairs Mr. Churchill may take for granted such expressions of
regard and that if he does H. may interpret it as indifference.

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