Correspondence Between Senator Harry S. Truman and Judge Lewis Schwellenbach

COPD Washington, D. c. April 8, 1943 Mr. Lewis B. Schwellenbach United States District Judge Spokane, "ashington Dear Lew: I don't know when I have enjoyed a personal letter any more than I did yours of the First. You don't know how much we miss you and Shay Minton. He was in here just & day or two ago and I had a grand visit with him, and of course your eare should have been burning because you were one of our topics of conversation. I think my situation has been brought about by my war experience and some administrative experience before I came here than for any other reason. I have also been extrenely lucky in having associates who are sound thinkers and honest men. 2or ACLA jour sulg Aom nogper, pobe Mon Wallgren has been urging me to make another trip to the West Coast and almost has me persuaded. wory coute bea que I have requested the far Pepartment to arrange for a suc-committee to make a trip to North Africa and aftor getting all arranged the Military Affairs has interferred through Kentucky's Chandler in an effort to pre- vent the trip, Mead, Hatch, Brewster, and Burton had already received their shots for the trip. I don't know what the outcome will be but I imagine we will still be allowed to send, the Committee. peap per ço Eep The political situation is bad everywhere. If an effort had been made to do things in the way that would make people against the Administration a better job along that line couldn't have been done. In Missouri nearly every man in charge of the Office of Price Administration have been people who throoughly hated the Administration and everything it stands for, and naturally they do the harsh things that are necessary for the enforcement of price control and production management in such a way as to put all the blame on the White House, and I have been informed that that same policy in appointments has been followed in most of the States. The President's mistaken notion he was getting cooperation by taking the enemy into the camp is something I never did believe in and I don't believe in that policy now. yours 8' 7813 D°C*