1941

(Diary 4. Black leather with gold lettering and silver lock.) Burks writes from Minnesota and reflects on Roosevelt's four freedoms and the growing crisis in Europe. He busies himself attending lectures at the University. His friends and colleagues include pacifists, communists, and socialists and he ponders the question of what it means to be an American. He graduates in June and bids farewell to Minnesota. He returns briefly to Cincinnati and sees Jane to renew the relationship. In June, he arrives in Washington and reports to the munitions building at the war department. The couple discuss marriage plans.