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March 1, 1947 PERSONAL Dear Mrs. Harriman: Charlie Ross handed me your note of February twentieth in regard to Romania, I am familiar with the circumstances and I am trying in every way I possibly can to arrange for food for them. They have such a rotten Government, however, that it is almost impossible to do anything for the people. The Government requests a million tons of food stuffs from us and they send twenty-eight thousand tons to Russia at the same time. While we are sending in seven thousand tons of emergency food for the five hundred thousand starving people for temporary relief for fifteen days, all the live stock available and grain in Romania is being taken to Russia - it just doesn't make sense. Sincerely yours, HARRY S. TRUMAN u.s. Mrs. J. Borden Harriman 3130 P Street, N.W. Washington, D.C.