Letter from Edwin Pauley to President Harry S. Truman

March 74, 1947 The Precident The White House Weshington, D. C. My dear Mr. President: Seldom does the chief of any state have en occasion to meke a statement pore momentous than was yours to Congress on March 12th. It is already a living document of historic simif- icence. Unlike the Monroe Doctrine, which barred European Impires from South America, and the Roosevelt Quarentine Doetrine, which barred economic aid to the Fascists, your dostrine in sugport of peoples who are deaperately defending thoir freedon calls not for negative bare but for immediate positive action. In fact your new policy cannot aneceed without energetic end effective admin- istration. You havs already enlied the attention of the Congress and of the American eople to your intention of sending teams of administrators, economists, technicians and military exports along with Amorican financial sid. I can say from my observations that this policy is indispenseble. Four other administrative aspects strike ne as of parallel importance. I take the liberty of mentioning then briefly, They ere: First: the importance of mobilizing in Wachington all our recources sa they focus upon Grence, on Turkey or on any other geographic arez. Our government normally nets through the State Department, the Tar Department, the Depar tment of Commerce, the Department of Agriculture, the Treasury, etc., etc., and also throus) the Bank, the Fund and other a enciea. Such separate unite enn mork together in planning and clearing policies throu/h the process of inter-aginey discussion. But, Hr. President, your nov progren for Greece is adninistrutive in character, and connot be bandled by a debating society of voluntary cooperators. (I em in no way looking for e job). It must heve en administrator with authority to nekse it vork. TRUMAN ARCHIVES ***ATIONAL RECORDS AND 1 SERVICE"