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Letter from R. C. W. Davis to President Harry S. Truman
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PCA
Progressive Citizens of America
New York Chapter
-
Greenwich Village
P.O. Box 281, Station D - New York 3, N.Y.
Chairman
July 4, 1947
DR. RANDOLPH B. SMITH
P.P.F.
Executive Secretary
MRS. ISABEL VAN FRANK
5 St. Lukes Place
200
WA. - 5-5049
Treasurer
ALICE GLICK
Hon. Harry Truman
White House
Pro
Washington, D.C.
D
Dear Mr. President:
I speak for 600 citizens of Greenwich Village who were
pleased with your speech before the NAACP--studded as it
was with high-sounding sentiments about freedom and liberty.
We regret only that it was rendered sour and empty a day or
so later by the news that your Secretary of State had ap-
proved the discharge of 10 of his workers on "suspicion"--
sufficient grounds for "suspicion" being the manner in
which they choose their friends.
I shan't be so forthright as to call this a Nazi pro-
cedure; I shall merely point out that this sort of abuse
of personal liberty and freedom was so extensively used
by the Nazis as to be characteristic if not an inherent
property of Nazi methodology.
We urge you most strongly to call off the big Washington
witch-hunt before the last efficient civil servant has been
scared out of the government service.
Sincerely yours,
R.C.W.Daris
R.C.W. Davis
Legislative Committee Member