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REEL 3 - 7/22/53 - Page ( (KR) MR. FEIS : surprised and angered; that it would be better understood if the record were presented. That being your inspiring (cruces), you are, I say, you produce a (lot in the government?), but your producing and pre senting is bound to appear as the messenger bringing It is very unpleasant; no matter how fully your explanation of how this story came about, it is still a grievous message to communicate to the American people, and it is almost inevitable that they and the press would not rejoice on it or send themselves, or quickly align a fight on your side to make it all sound cheerful and pleasant I really think you (troubling) with something almost unmanageable, when the presentation starts. MR. ACHESON: I agree. I never had any other ideas than that t his was going to be unpleasant, and that this was going to b e troub lesome: and I wasn it criticizing anybody, the press, ar anyome else, for not TRUMAN, liking it. What we ha ve, I thought, boen talking about is whether ARCHIVES RECORDS ADMIN° & 1 "VATIONAL the press is adequate to its task; and it doesn's seem to me that in E many respects it is. MR. JESSUP (?) I think this was not also just a problem of an abstract question of informing the people about a difficult devel Lopment But ther e were signs that this was going to be a considerable partisan issue.

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