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QO soc Mans a ) BY100094062. 0 7 _ . os 7 7 ADMINISTRATIVE PAGE (Cont'd) . "Februaty 18, 1947 "Your letter of January 29th is very flattering to me, but 1% places yuu in @ somewhat peculiar light--if I eccept your statement of ycur attitudes, "You know that I have never sought ony important volitical position, In fact, I have refused to consider positions of this kind even «hen they have been suggested, for, although I as a citizen have telen _g@ keen iaterest in the commonweal, I do not feel myself fitted for poli- ticel leadershin, You, on the contrary, heve held political positions of great responsibility~-positions in which your judgment end advice attected vital fectures of this country's foreign policy, Neverthelesa you atate that ay politicel opinions are ‘much stronger' than yours, Du you reslly think that I, the eimple citizen, take political opinions more seriously, than you, the man who occunied importent political posts? De you reslly mrsn to assy that you voiced tmnortent political oninions without noldine them etrongly? “When you, in coversation with isther and me aiter your return from the USSR suggested that Korea might advantezeously be taken over by the 'conservative! forces of Soviet Pussia, you certainly expressed € startlingly gieificent political idea, Did you or did you not mean what you caid? ‘When, during the wer, you urged the removal of the Mikado, you certrinly expressed a politically sienificant ides, and one which, had it bern accepted, would probably heve cost hundreds of thousands of Ameriean lives, Did you hold thesa views when ycu uttered them? Cid I, when expressios cthers, contradict ywur rcal opinions or onintoas which you really dia ivt hold? (In your letter you remar. thet LT have tried to convert you trom opinions fwhicn I do not held!) "You say thet I express ry political opinions more vehe— mently tara you do, There -1e vrohebly dirferencas in temrernment which menifest toeasclves ag differences in exvrescion, ut 1% seems to se that for a nunber of yeere we evchenged many idea, political and otherwise, without ,.etting into any heated argument, After your trip with Wallace, your, tone changed, If I hurt yw by my venemence, I am sorry, “Oven strongly felt convicticn should not be s0 exnressed, There may have been a good reason wny I reacted violently to yuur eattitude—and I] think there was; but whatever the reason, I certainly do not defenkthe peasion of my expressioa, . Lee — Bere . ne Lad AR ane sev nnn ae PUREE ap eRLail mte eatnwerbc leee nae OT teem