Letter from Philip Johnston to President Harry S. Truman with Attached Los Angeles Times Newspaper Clipping, "West Can Pull Out of Berlin Proudly"

791-714- supping 2335 Norwalk Avenue Los Angeles 41, Calif. September 12, 1948 198 President Harry S. Truman, Berlin Blockale 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. mind x144-A-8 - Dear Sir: The so-called "Berlin Crisis" is entirely an outgrowth of your own incredible stupidity. Highen you attended the Potsdam Confrence to arrange final details for the occupation of Germany, it was your duty to look out for American interests and insist upon the establishment of a corridor to the American Zone for ingress and egress to the city. This you failed to do. Possibly this was because you believed Joe Stalin to be a "good old chap, as you expressed it some time ago. But I am inclined to think that you were just too dumb to *know: that such a corridor was necessary. In the meantime, you seem to be willing and even eager to force this country into a war with Russia merely for the purpose of "saving face. If you do this, the blame for such a war will rest upon your own shoulders, and the blood of American boys butchered in this war will be on your head. Read the inclosed article from they Los Angeles Times of September 12, and then perhaps even your feeble mind will grasp the fact that the Berlin Crisis can be solved without dragging the United States into war. Yours truly, PHILIP JOHNSTON Jahnson X