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| Keywords: document writing text Letter to Lola Kinel-Shipman This is a very belated answer to your letter of May 19. I appreciated your writing to me very much & I assure you I was very conscious of the silence that greeted my ‘anti-communist’ utterance in the address at ‘Fairfax Hi’. Yes the entire ‘liberal’ movement has been invaded by the ‘outright communist’ element but there is cause for hope. Organized labor has started in to rid itself of this ‘red’ influence - especially here in Southern Calif. And our own Democratic party is in the hands of a man who is well aware of the menace (Jimmy Roosevelt). No matter what he says publicly, I can assure you he resigned from the Hollywood Independent Citizens Committee because the ‘fellow travelers’ are in complete control there. Speaking of that organization, some of us have been staging a fight to bring this issue to a head. We presented a resolution for adoption by the executive council which re-affirmed our desire for friendly relations with Russia but repudiated Communism as a form of government desirable for this country. It only took an hours discussion to reveal every communist on the council, so many of us who have been active on the liberal front are resigning & leaving HICCASP to the ‘Reds’. “I am quite sure your club - the West Hollywood Democratic Club - must number some of these people - Mrs. Bernard Vorhaus, John Howard Lawson, Dalton Trumbo, True Boardman, Henry Blankfort, Lou Harris, etc. If so, rest assured they are ‘fellow travelers’ if not ‘party members’. Please believe me I don’t want to be a ‘Red Baiter’ or go on a ‘witch hunt’ but if the liberal cause is to win in the fight against native Fascism it must first stand up and be counted as opposed to communism. Some of you who feel as you do might raise the issue in your organization & see what is the strength of the communists - they’ll reveal themselves. One thing to watch however is that any resolution must be directed against communism & not communists, otherwise they’ll charge you with favoring restrictions on individual political thinking. Again, thanks for your kind letter & Don’t Give Up. Sincerely, Ronald Reagan. Letter to Lola Kinel-Shipman This is a very belated answer to your letter of May 19. I appreciated your writing to me very much & I assure you I was very conscious of the silence that greeted my ‘anti-communist’ utterance in the address at ‘Fairfax Hi’. Yes the entire ‘liberal’ movement has been invaded by the ‘outright communist’ element but there is cause for hope. Organized labor has started in to rid itself of this ‘red’ influence - especially here in Southern Calif. And our own Democratic party is in the hands of a man who is well aware of the menace (Jimmy Roosevelt). No matter what he says publicly, I can assure you he resigned from the Hollywood Independent Citizens Committee because the ‘fellow travelers’ are in complete control there. Speaking of that organization, some of us have been staging a fight to bring this issue to a head. We presented a resolution for adoption by the executive council which re-affirmed our desire for friendly relations with Russia but repudiated Communism as a form of government desirable for this country. It only took an hours discussion to reveal every communist on the council, so many of us who have been active on the liberal front are resigning & leaving HICCASP to the ‘Reds’. “I am quite sure your club - the West Hollywood Democratic Club - must number some of these people - Mrs. Bernard Vorhaus, John Howard Lawson, Dalton Trumbo, True Boardman, Henry Blankfort, Lou Harris, etc. If so, rest assured they are ‘fellow travelers’ if not ‘party members’. Please believe me I don’t want to be a ‘Red Baiter’ or go on a ‘witch hunt’ but if the liberal cause is to win in the fight against native Fascism it must first stand up and be counted as opposed to communism. Some of you who feel as you do might raise the issue in your organization & see what is the strength of the communists - they’ll reveal themselves. One thing to watch however is that any resolution must be directed against communism & not communists, otherwise they’ll charge you with favoring restrictions on individual political thinking. Again, thanks for your kind letter & Don’t Give Up. Sincerely, Ronald Reagan. | ||||
