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-« ALT GOs: NATAPEOPLE, F f » NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE 20 WEST 40th STREET, NEW YORK 18, N. Y. id December 21, 1953 | 7 ma, £5: re ase 2 iad a Dear Mr. Hoover: | il When you told me the other evening in Harvey's Restaurant ~~" that my radio program was no longer heard in Washington I was quite surprised. But as I said bhe other might, the r public seems to prefer Milton Berle to Walter-White. I am glad to say, however, that the program is still heard over WLIB in New York and in Boston, St. Louis, Los Angeles and one or two other cities. {I was particularly pleased at your comments about the pro- gram. JI have triea to do as intelligent and honest a pro- gram as I was capable of doing. It means considerable extra work in a very crowded schedule, but I have been glad to do it because I believe I was bringing guests and infor- mation to the American public which was somewhat, different from that on any other program. But because the program is carried in most places as a sustaining one, there just isn't money to do the kind of promotion which is required in these times. Enclosed is a listing of guests who have appeared during the past year, to which someday I will | be honored to head your name. I do wish you could have heard last week's program ‘when Major Milford W. Stanley, who was a prisoner of war in Korea for 1,014 days, told a tnrilling story of how the Communists . at first attempted to bribe him to turn against democracy ‘ and then tortured him horribly wien he refused to do so. ‘They made the quite erroneous approach believing that he would be ra a pushover because he is a Nezro. Incidentally, I may do ae an article for LOOK Magazine on how Negro American POW's resisted Communist propaganda to a greater extent than otner y vf Americans, according to Army G-2. } ] \ Negro POW's among the twenty-two Americans who thus far re- fused repatriation. I am reliably informed that at least > FF ° two of the three Negroes are eager to come home but are in- timidated 1 by some of the other Americans. I do hope that q . --~-RECORDF.0n $023.28 24/— ops Ajeet INDEXED - 29 31 JAN. ae be, ac ® BUY YOUR'SEALS NOW \ tes here is a copy of a cablegram I sent Thursday to the three