Correspondence Between President Harry S. Truman and Congressman James Noland

FILED BY 471-B MISS CONWAY SEP 1 1950 August 29, 1950 Dear Congressman Noland: I read your letter of the twenty-fifth with a great deal of interest and I appreciate most highly your suggestions. I am hoping to be able to inform the country of our plans 136-A and ambitions for peace at regular intervals from now 136-B met. on and I think both /x394 of your suggestions will be adequately I am very anxious, of course, to help the Congressmen x419 who are up for election this fall but it is difficult to decide what is most helpful from the President. Experi- xpp789 ence has shown that people do not like to be told by the x 465 Chief Executive how they should vote. They not only demonstrated that to Woodrow Wilson in 1918 - I just had an example of it in Missouri, so these things will x300 Missouri x300 have to be approached with great caution if we expect a successful result this fall. as TRUMAN LIBRARY HARRY NATIONAL ARCHIVES A x9 xpp716 Sincerely yours, U.S. GOVERNMENT SERVICE MARRY S. TRUMAN Honorable James E. Noland x House of Representatives Washington, D. C. x 300 Indiana"N" 1101 XPP71