Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman

April 27, 1946 Dear Mr. President: Iam sending you this repprt and I shall appreciate it if you will return it to me after you have read it. The author was one of the economic advisers in Europe and has had a long experience in Europe in the past. Mr. Baruch tells me that what he has to say 18 undoubted- ly true. I have Inown that a certain group in Great Britain would try to bolster Germany's economy as they are really here afraid of n strong Germany, in spite of the wars which ve have had, than of . strong Sucmia because that group in Great Britmin is more afraid of an economic change than anything else. I an also afraid that Surphy, our representative in Gersany, has alvays played with this group and this line of thought. From ay point of view it threntens not only the peace of Europe but of the world. There- Tove I have the termerity to send this report and to ask you to read it through. I an also enol sing a newspaper clipping about your telegram to Abrem Flaxer, of the New York SCIVVA. Whint you any in your telegram, if of course, absolutely right but I wiah you had been able to say it in some other way. I doubt whether Mr. Schrellenbach 1e familiar enough with labor leaders to know who among them are the communists and who are not or surely he would have told you. In the Department of Labor there are people who klow and there should be some one among your executive assistante who are close enough to labor to know. There are wany of the labor leaders who are accused of being communists and then deny it, and then of course, there is always a question, but Abram Flaxer never denied it, so it would seen to me to have been to have sent a telegram to him when the sane end could have been achieved in some other wy. Aasyou know, I want friendly relationships with Ruasia but I certainly do not vant red baiting accusing people of being communiste, or accusing them for other reasons, using the communist claim, but this whole business in the labor movement is one that should be carefully watched and handled and there should be sowebody to watch it for you. Very cordinlly yours,