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As I promised in my letter of August 18, I am nowwriting you a further letter in regard to S. 702. It isa long letter, for I have commented not only on the billitself, but also more broadly on the general subject, inthe attempt to give you my thoughts in a constructivemanner. These comments apply not only to S. 702 butalso to its companion bill, H.R. 2100, which was in-troduced by Mr. Patman on March 5, 1943, and wasreferred to the House of Representatives Committeeon Patents.

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of the war. The second is the corresponding problemin times of peace.

In my opinion, these two phases can not be treatedas a unit. In times of war this great democracy doesmany things that are aimed at a relatively brief in-tense effort. We centralize authority, subject our-selves to rationing and restraints and send our sonsto fight under the necessary rigors of military organi-zation. Events have already shown that a democracywhich thus girds itself for war can contend success-fully with the most rigid of totalitarian states. Infact, it can overcome them, for the resourcefulness,initiative and self-reliance which are engendered in apeople by the privileges of democracy, when mar-shalled under a temporary authoritative war organiza-tion, can surpass by far the performance of any per-manently regimented people in the complexities andtechnicalities of modern war. We have already proved.this in Africa, in the Far East and over Europe, andwe will prove it again and again as the war progresses.