Office of the Historian

893.01/938

The General Secretary of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. (Browder) to the Under Secretary of State (Welles)49

New York City, October 13, 1942.

My Dear Mr. Welles: It is my plan to make a press statement next Thursday,50 in the course of which it seems desirable to quote your exact formulations of the State Department’s position as these formulations appear in the prepared, typewritten portion of your remarks of yesterday. As I understand it there would be no objection to this on your part.

I very highly appreciate the frank and helpful character of the cooperation you have shown us, which we feel will add to the effectiveness of our work for the victory.51

Most sincerely yours,

Earl Browder
  1. Transmitted on October 14 by Mr. Welles to Mr. Hornbeck and Mr. Hamilton, “For your information.”↩
  2. October 15.↩

  3. There was further correspondence in regard to the memorandum handed by Mr. Welles to Mr. Browder on October 12. In response to letters of inquiry, Mr. Welles asked the Division of Far Eastern Affairs to make reply; the Assistant Chief (Atcheson) did so on October 29 and November 13, respectively. Mr. Atcheson stated that the memorandum “has not been published by the Department. However, a verbatim text of the memorandum, as given by Mr. Browder to the press, appeared in the October 18 [16], 1942 issue of The Worker” (711.93/500); and that the same memorandum “was referred to in the press, including the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune of October 16” (711.93/504½).

    For correspondence as printed, see Institute of Pacific Relations: Hearings before the subcommittee to investigate the administration of the Internal Security Act and other internal security laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 82d Cong., 2d sess., on the Institute of Pacific Relations, pt. 14, May 2 and June 20, 1952, Exhibits Nos. 1315 A–H, pp. 4924–4929.

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