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    "ocrText": "APARTMENT 15-A\n29 WASHINGTON @QUARE. WEST\nNEW YORK \". NEW YORK\nthe average man most at present are inflation and the fear\nof another war. Congress is doing all it can to help us,\nI think, because certainly they are showing a complete dis-\nregard for the high cost of living as it affects the average\nhuman being, but you never know how many people realize this.\nI know that in order to obtain what we need in the way of\nMilitary strength for defense, it would seem almost essential\nto whip up fear of communism and to do certain things which\nhurt us with the very element which we need in the election.\nHow wencan be firm and strong and yet friendly in our atti-\ntude toward Russia, and obtain from Congress what we need to\nkeep us strong, is one of our most difficult problems. I\nhave of ten thought 1f you could explain the whole situation\nover the radio in a series of talks to the people of our\ncountry, it might clear up some of our difficulties, because\nI find great confusion in the minds of the average citizens.\nsincerely yours,\n<\nFlassion Product\nP.S. James told me or Mr. Forrestal's feeling that no\nAmerican should be allowed to volunteer in an International\nPolice Force. I think Mr. Forrestal is entirely wrong.\nI was shocked at the suggestion that any American volunteer-\ning to fight in Palestine would lose his citizenship, and\n1 could not understand why that was not invoked when\nAmericans went to Canada and enlisted in the Canadian\nforces berore we were in the war. It seems to me that\nif the UN calls for an International Police Force, it\nmight very well say that the quotas should be equal from\nall nations, big and little, and then we should call for\nvolunteers within our nation. To say that just because\nRussia might have some soldiers in Palestine on an equal\nbasis with us and all the other nations involved, we would\nhave to mobilize firty percent for war, seems to me\ncomplete nonsense and I think it would seem so to most of\nthe people or the United States.\nM.\nsome 3,"
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