"During the war prominent Kansans continued to be critical of federal policies. The "unconditional surrender" goals of Roosevelt and Morgenthau's plan to reduce Germany to a potato patch after the war drew savage criticism from Landon. At the beginning of the war he had denounced Roosevelt's "guess and be damned" approach to international affairs, and in 1944 before a Sabetha audience he scored the Big Three meetings and the President: "It is a delusion to say he has been holding his own with either Stalin or Churchill, to say nothing of both.""