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TO arene eam aa as nan thant ee Not Nel tenet to ee Seen anna a we _ . @UDRESSEE ie “Rss ary, i Se ‘t. Joseph iash . _karch: 7, 1943 6 Ph T35 #7, Barracks 403 7 Hew York: City 5 0 Chenute Field, Tl, 20 >. + tote = “Thren 6. mar ‘Herris just called. me” “to say - that he Shag been very. - spurcled by. your Zetter, Youea appercntiv wrote that Jou are al isa ppolinted with | ve ISA and Ussa and with the whole de: woeratic youth sovement “since “the “:x,- “ASU. And thet ‘you ceplore the fact that: youns peorle cet influenced by _tne ce -erture of the glanor element, - I'm, 0 course, not sure that Lou “rerorted the fi.cts correctly, but if he did, you a not justified in 9°92. woes . your eriticisn, While the facts are true’ enoug:,-=the youth ‘movement -is in” £ bee way ad “is at the monent a- neglicible elenent in the line-up of wiitical forces, they ave not the guilty ones, We, you and I are much more to blaine. ‘You mst not forset that we got the "young ‘People in the habit ~_ dacs be loneink'vo tné denocratic youth movement synonye with heving - access to the White Ho s¢. And the liber:1 forces on which the young — , “people have to rely, were just too busy’ Geceying or stabbing each other _ain- tne back, “I get more and ciore oavinced thet in the I SS we were the... tes who were cteken in an¢ "used" not taose We were ready ‘to accent» . “because: we hoped to use them, . “The SSA apparently had an orga niza ional meetings | Mink “took the’ minutes, but nature ly cénnot say y anyti: ing about it. I have” heard’ from Her however, the S CHES: / £9ing to raise e rather large amount — of money and thet Mrs. Leach ana Nrs,. fevy were at the weeting, Clitie © > with whom I talkea about” joining the acvisory Comnitttee . .of -the Ussa “ balxed of having been betrayed by the -IsS and of trying to ‘get the © “SSA to continue with: at lee st rert of the* “program, | If there ‘seeas: to be “any chance, - ~ne will, I.think, not hely the USSA. Of course, it-is. unier= — “standabtlie. “Tne Hes vyweizht ts in education are after all still with the SSA. The Ussa had greut svecess in Washinzton, where the Treasury Gepe - artment ana tne office of tne Stab‘lizer became very enthusiastic about — “the fortheoning conference, Dr, Colm helned a great deal, ané I will “see nim next Nonday when I will .be in Washington’ for the auditions, © one thing is sure, if the Ussa is to succeed, Irs. R. and TI will have to ws raise -nos EMS ESS, as Irene, who is ‘the only one ex spable’ of it there ae is mach to3 overburdened, ; &s I tolc you on the shone yesterday I talked to | Ha-en . “about the work: he thinks should be done es far as Eurone . is concerned,” He w2s quite sure thst the Dinner in Wash! nston had been a very wrong nove I had “the feeiiag ne considered it as esvecielly bad that he kmer nothing ; about it. Mrs. PR, had told him when he was there last weex,- He trust ‘Tillich | “and Pollock to 4 certain degree, but he insists that Loewe is bed. ‘An ge excellent scrofessor, he agrees, but a man wio tekes the color of his i ‘eavironment and who never gets beyond "salo politik,", Staudinger he Says mikes so many mistakes that it is dangerous to have him around... : “Wirile he agrees that Staudinger may have a modest following, he sys he “knows ‘that Loewe has always worked more or less ‘in “inte? Lectual- ‘Agol- . -Bttons And “it is necessary now to work with » People: who a can “‘conmand “the . = ONE 13