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NY 252R Dec. 16, 1947 New york PRESIDENT IRUMAN TRUALAR SALES s NATIONAL HEALTH ARCHIVES AND WHITE House, WASH D.C. RECORDS SERVICE I DEAR MR. PRES. D ENT. war, fought to determine whether the world It is after a great and destructive shall be slave or the free During this war, many of us under temporary discipline of arms came to know what freedom really is. We saw that it bridges great differences when it has a great Great and universal purpose. of color, race, religion and economic means, It overstepped pettiness, factionalism convention, party affiliation and a host of the other attributes that plagued us before and, have come back, quite strong to haunt us after this war, Yet they are only ghosts;- like the loyalty order and The Attorney General's black list of certain organizations. I am an they or dinary will man with a little foresight, yet I see that there are Hitler-like elements in our midst. I shall of fight them with alimy knowledge and will power, the ones who try to dictate