Letter from David Royce to President Harry S. Truman

R.D. 2, Lake Road Williamson, New York October 30, 1947 President Harry S. Truman The White House 320.B Folder Washington, D.C. at Dear sir; Con At present there is going on in these United States a well-publicized campaign which Andrei Gromyko aptly, but politely, has labeled war-mongering. Andrei Gromyko is absolutely right, in a fact that the American press admits more readily and openly than the advocates of such totally blind and unjust moves as the in- vestigation of "un-American" activities in the Hollywood film industry, and the so-called"loyalty tests" of all civil service employes. I will let off steam on these subjects la- ter, but I here defy you to deprive such lousy pro-Communists as myself of the supposed right of free expression, which you claim to have the power of taking away from these two groups. When you speak in press conferences or over the radio, you have a pet word (or phrase) for the Kremlin. You call it "totalitarian forces. If The still-starving Europeans have a truer, although unkind, translation for the Marshall Plan with the Truman mouthpiece: Turn to your dusty schoolbooks and translate this sentence into French -- then say it over that way: "The Americans are going to send us a few bags of wheat to bribe us not to turn to Communism before they can use us in their economic setup. = Although the Marshall Plan may be interpreted as war-mongering, it is fair under