Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman

APARTMENT 15-A 29 WASHINGTON SQUARK. WENT NEW YORK CITY " June 7, 1947 Dear Mr. President: I was deeply distressed when I got out to Los Angeles to speak at the dinner for the Southern California State Committee group to find that Mr. Pauley, and my son, James, 347 proposed had -entirely policy different plan policy which points had committee of been view for on a 383 drawn up by James and the submission to the State Committee. I found that owing to Mr. Pauley's suggestion, this document which was to have been given to the people at the Jackson Day dinner, was x593 not to be distributed but that James told them he would have to have it mailed to members of the State Committee for future action and when that was done, of course it would be in the papers. Mr. Pauley took the position that he dis- agreed with certain things in the statement and felt that what was said on foreign x386 policy ERS an insult to you. I read it through very carefully and it did not seem to me in any way insulting. It voiced simply the questions which are in many people's minds and it seemed to me that it gave questions, if he to wanted Mr. and Gail to, if Sullivan to he clear disapproved, up an opportunity, some of to ask these the State Committee to change the things he thought unwise. He could even have expressed censure of James as state chairman and I think it would have left the feeling better among the people who attended the dinner. I, of course, had no sense that his presence me, or tion absence but of I the think Democratic he did Party do harm any in to the the eyes at the dinner was insult to posi- of one of the largest dinners that they x 299 have ever had in Los Angeles.