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Phyllis Ockene,
Brokaw Hall #434,
7
Lawrence College,
Appleton, Wisconsin.
con.
October 30, 1947.
My dear Mr. President,
I am a college student, enough interested
in international and world affairs to take time off
from my studies to try in the only way I can to a-
meliorate the conditions of my country. I am writ-
ing to you, rather than to my Congressman, because I
believe that if you agree with me and with hundreds
of thousands of other Americans, action will be taken
sooner than if we waited for Congress to convene, de-
bate more immediately important issues such as your
aid to Europe plan, and then, if they got around to
it, see to their own housecleaning.
The purpose of this letter is to protest the un-
American activities of Representative Thomas of my
home state, New Jersey. I have been following his
investigations of the so-called Hollywood communists,
and would first like to ask a question. The news-
papers have been giving practically word for word
accounts of the trials; they have stated that cer-
tain persons, such as John Howard Lawson, have been
connected with communist publications such as The
Daily Worker and The New Masses, and I know that Mr.
Lawson has defended persons already convicted of
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