Correspondence Between Senator Harry S. Truman and Judge Lewis Schwellenbach

COPY Washington, D. c. July 15, 1943 Honorable Lewis B. Schwellenbach a United States District Judge Spokane, Washington Dear Lew: You don't know how very much I appreciated your letter of the First. I have been covered up with work just as you have been and have put off from day to day writing to you. I know something about that tremendous real estate deal, and I have been informed that it is for the construction of a plant to make a terrific explosion for a secret weapon that will be a wonder. I hope it works. I am sending you a copy of the report which the Committee made on the Jeffries-Fatterson quarrel. You could change the names around and it would fit exactly for the Wallace-Jones fuss. I didn t see any reason for making two reports on the same subject, and M didn't think it would be exactly ethical for a special Committee authorized by the Senate and appointed by the Vice President to make an investigation of the appointing authority. These scraps between key men in the Administration should be fought out in the back room of the White House and not in the news- papers. I sure hope you have a pleasant visit in Wisconsin, and that I will have an opportunity to make an investigation of this real estate deal some time in thennear future. Sincerely yours, HST:MLD Harry s. Truman,U.S.S. encl.