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Mrs. Lasker, when you broke off last time, you were talking about Major Seversky and your interest in promoting his ideas. I wonder if you want to continue that story?

Yes. Our visits with the Navy Secretary, Knox, convinced me that a great deal more needed to be done to bring pressure on people planning for production for the war to understand the importance of air power.

What did you do about it?

We did several things: One was to distribute about 2,000 copies of Seversky's book, Victory Through Air Power, to members of Congress, with a letter, and in my cases, autographed by him; and to members of the Cabinet, and to major opinion-makers in the United States.

What sort of response did you get?

We had a series of interesting letters. I showed you some. In addition, Walt Disney became interested in the cause of air power as a means of shortening the war and he asked to make a movie in his inimitable style based on the facts in the book.