Letter from Harry S. Truman to Eleanor Roosevelt

THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGION 00 16,61947 Aly of Job 2008 Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: I deeply regret the combination of circunstances which prompted your letter of June seventh which was placed in my hands upon ny return from Canada. I an grateful for the assurance that you had no sense of personal insult because of the incident in Los Angeles. That generous expression is characteristic of you. It would be impossible for me to believe that there was any intent to accord you anything less than the highest measure of courtesy and respect. Any other course is unthinkable. I want you to know that I have read your thoughtful letter very carefully. I, too, wish some people in the industrial world could be brought to a realization of the consequences which their course will inevitably bring down upon their own heads as well as the Nation. You have placed the proper emphasis on the paramount issue in our international relations. With what you say on so momentous a problem I am in entire accord. If we are to stem the tide of communism, we must, as you say, prove to the peoples of the world that democracy meets their needs better. As to the controversy which Mr. Gael Sullivan's action aroused, I can only hope that peace may be made at the meeting which Mr. Sullivan has called for June twenty-sixth, announcement of which has been made in the press. Very sincerely yours, Mrs. Pranklin D. Roosevelt, Apartment 15-A, 29 Washington Square, West, New York 11, N. Y.