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ee a a + . ’.5, A few years ago I met 3 aumber of "beral" best-Selling ¥titers in New York, aid they; laughed at me for paying taxes! They said! didn't belong to the “right party.". (Communis or Democratic?) - a oa tye A Buffalo psychiatrist, one Samuel Yochelson, now in Washington, poasted-to. me that he paid Httle or no taxes because he had three local [RS agents “in the palma of my : hand.” One was a Paul Hassett, and another a Wechsler, and I forget the name of the: other. He also said that the IRS was: “full of paranoid types" who hate peopie, and went to persecute anyone who makes more money than they do. I quite believe it! * Only two-best-belling writers now remain in the United States. I am one cf them..: The rest - all "Hberals" of oourse - live In Europe or in tax~free territories or in St.Thomas. Some have written me that I ama “fool” to stay in America “and be robbed blind." For, /% you see, though it takes many years to write a book - without receiving a cent frora it - | writers are taxed as of making a dally wage! os , re a “pee ty ay if this persecution keeps up I will be compelled to flee the country, 4s othe on writers have done, and keep my royalties. T ought to have done it before, as the "liberals" did, They were wiser in their generation than I, oot ae As we have always been in the High brackets the major part of our income has- We have few reserves now, and my husband is 80 and I will to look for a free country, where we can live in peace. doubtful, thanks to the “gov'mint," who effectively, gone to Fed and State taxes. soon be 70. I think it is time for us That is, if my husband lives, which fs te destroyed his mind and body. THIS time the American people are going to know all about it JMR | N.B. When I wrote to Mr. Eisenhowerax in 1953 about our case he turned my letter over to kis new Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Mr. T. Coleman Andrews, who later wrote me a: very confidential and revealing letter. - When IRS agent Bickford was in our house he ; gloatingly told us that he hac letters from Commissioner for Commissar) George Schoensman, in ¥éashington, ordering the local "office" to "gat rid of them once and for all." Meaning us “ie showed us taree of the letters. We also received threatening letters from Washington, tt Yet, when Mr. Andrews’ assistant, Mr. Paul Webster, had our Washington files examined = fromm which came the "“gov'mint's" nationally broadcast accusations against us, né called us up and said the files had been destroyed, apparently, and there was not é word about us lett over from the previous Administration! All action against the IRS, at our instigation, had.:. been taken by the FBI, the Treasury Intelligence Unit, the Criminal Division of the Treasuty and others. They all had a copy o f the recordings taken in our house, ; and other information wtTs te