"I will admit frankly that I regret having given my endorsement to the book by Freda Utley* that you mention. I had known her at a time when her views were more reasonable than they became later, and I did not quite realize how much she had changed, and, consequently, certain passages in the book failed to impress me as they should have done. Speaking generally, I think that vengeance is always to be deplored. I do not think it right to continue to hate Germany because of Hitler. It was this general point of view which made me think that there was more agreement between Freda Utley and me than was, in fact, the case. I am entirely with you in what you say about gas-chamber victims."

*[The High Cost of Vengeance (Chicago: Regnery, 1949). The source of BR's "endorsement" of the volume, as claimed by Bloch, cannot be found. It may be on the cover of the German translation, on an American reprint, or in a publisher's ad.]