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        "Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971",
        "Williams, Aubrey W. (Aubrey Willis), 1890-1965",
        "Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965",
        "Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986",
        "Leahy, William D. (William Daniel), 1875-1959",
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    "ocrText": "Between the Pepper Bill and the\nVandenberg Amendment to the Admin-\nistration Bill, I hope that you\nmight find some middle course. For\nthat reason I am enclosing a copy\nof a wire which has come to me that\nexpresses anxiety and mekes some gug-\nbeen gestions sending made it similar by because other to people. it those came which from I am have Aubrey not\nWilliams, but because it is comprehen-\nsive enough to be a good sample of\na considerable amount of thinking\nwhich seens to bei going on throughout\nthe country.\nI do not believe that the Democratic\nparty can yin by going the Republican\nparty one better in conservatism.on\nthe home front. Nor.: - believe that\ntaking over Chur chill's policies in\nthe Near East, in the name of democracy,\nis the way to really createva barrier\nto communism or promote rdemocracy.\nI do not think your advisers have looked\nfar enough shead. Admiral Leahy as always,\nwill think of this country as moving on\nits own power.\nBoth in Commerce and in Agriculture, we\nhave not been far sighted enough to see"
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