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Letter from Irving Brant to President Harry S. Truman
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New York, September 23, 1945.
Dear Mr . President:
Isn't this fine stationery? Everything else is
locked up in a desk in an office which I have borrowed for the
day
I concluded that I might as well be paid for part of what
I intended to write (more briefly) to you about China, therefore
have written an editorial for PM on it. But as to FDR:
Some weeks before he went to Teheran, T.V. Soong was
told the conditions under which he could get supplies and credits--
governmental reform in his part of China and co-operation with the
miscalled "Communists." Chiang didn't like it and flew to Cairo
to see Roosevelt, who agreed to Chiang's requests but forgot to
say anything about the conditions. Chiang thought Soong had
doublecrossed him and put him in the doghouse. Ever since then,
Chiang has resisted the original conditions approved by FDR.
Soong is in so delicate a situation now that he cannot
consent to the things he originally agreed to, but the hostility
between him and Chiang is very deep, and I recently heard a mos t
remarkable statement which, judging from its source, could only
(his own sister)
have or >iginated with Soong. It was that Mme. Chiang, was more to be
feared than Chiang, as an obstacle to the democratic trend in
China.
Did you know that Minister Richard Patterson, t6 Yugoslavia,
went to the Vatican to discuss Yugoslav foreign policy
and agreed with the Pope that Tito should go, that he had only
10 per cent of the peo p e behind him (a tatement which ignores
his large non-Communist following), and that we must protect
Mihailovich, whose collaboration with Hitler and Mussolini is now
demonstrated to everybody excent the top to bottom chain--Dunn,
Huston and Hohenthal-- who tell Patterson what he should think?
My steamer sails in an hour, so'you are spared more.
MATIONAL
IRCHIVES AND
The President,
Yours respectfully,
RECORDA
The White House.
Javing Bran!
of
SERVICE'