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Envelope addressed to the Federal Criminal Police, Washington, U. S. A.,
postmarked Marburg (Lahn), 2-7-52, from
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To the Federal Criminal Police
Washington
U. S. A.
Re: President TRUMAN.
Please excuse me for turning to your esteemed office in a special matters
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The. first time (May 28, 1951) 1 had written to the "Voice of America."
For your information I am enclosing a copy of the letter.
Now I hasten to communicate to you at once my observation of yesterday
with respect to the above so that the case reaches the proper hands withoutt-I
delay . Apparently again such a plan or similar plan is being prepared as Q,
at that time ; in any case these powers ( or similar ones ) do not seem to be- cat rest. The Voice told me that during yesterday's newscast at one o'clock.
me.:
And a few minutes later a report arrived from Puerto Rico wherefrom.. the
first'action of this kind was started against the President. Perhaps I
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should receive thereby a certain confirmation of my observation.
Therefore it is probably also advisable to take all precautionary steps in this
direction in order to prevent a bad event; for the respected President of
the States must not lose his life by the action of such elements, in
particular today when the entire free world looks toward the U. S. A.,
expecting aid from there in order to escape the worst government control
of all times.
Respectfully yours,
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To the Voice of America.
19 New York 19
Re:
The Daughter of the President of the U. S. A., MARGARET TRUMAN . \,
Please excuse that today m
lyears old,
Milt,
does not write to you, but that I do 1 t my5el
I am doing
it after all in a somewhat unusual matter. Therefore I hasten very much
to inform you of the following concerning Miss TRUMAN and her highly
respected father:
1. - In the afternoon of May 26 1 saw Miss TRUMAN
in a great
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danger, that a disaster was threatening her. Hereby possibly a . little
necklace with a valuable locket played a certain and important role,
again in connection with a small bui.Lding on the round, wide, carrying
columns, in a blooming rock garden . A fterwards I told my wife about it.
At first I was still undecided what to do . But I resolved to write
after I had heard over the radio at the one o'clock newscast among other
things : Miss TRUMAN sailed yesterday from America to Europe .
That took
my breath away for I had no idea whatsoever.
2. - Unfortunately I am ashamed to admit it today. I knew it
several weeks before the attempt on your respected President's life was
made, without that anyone had told me anything about it beforehand. In
spite of it I thought that the President of the United States is under
such a heavy guard in his "White House" that simply nothing can happen
at all. And when then the attempt on his life was made, I was almost
frightened to death and blamed myself bitterly that I had not caused
anything.
Therefore my
I vowed to do a better job in the future.
preceding communication. Naturally one must, proceed very cleverly hereby
so that in particular the esteemed parents of Miss TRUMAN do not have to
worry unnecessarily. Also Miss TRUMAN herself should not be frightened
in any respect unnecessarily. Well, the United States of America and
Great Britain have very good detectives., but you know that definitely
best, what must be done here and how it is to be done. May the good
Lord protect Miss TRUMAN and bring her back to her parents at the
proper time safe and sound. However let us not forget that a person
on a long trip is also in greater danger than when he remains at home
and, to be sure, I saw that before I heard officially about it.
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In this connection it might be also of interest to you
that I also knew about the attempt on HITLER's life several weeks
before it happened when I saw in a Norwegian harbor an individual,
large, apparently forgotten box with the label; "HITLER must diet"
&nd 'HITLER dead!". Naturally thereby it was evident to me that this
came from the strong resistance group in Norway. But I did not cause
anything. When I infoxmed,my military superior incidentally of my
observation a short time after the attempt on HITLER's life, he
replied; "In reality you should have been punished." However the
future showed that I had acted correctly according to my perception.
I hope to have rendered to you and to your great and strong
people asmall service and sign,
Respectfully,
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sondern wean' ich es selbst einmal ti,
u. au er em zmmer iu in -einer etwas uigewohnlichen Angelegexiheit.
beeile mich also sehr,- Thnen 'betr. Miss T r u m a n u. deren hock
schatzten Vaters, 'folgendes mitzuteilen:
1. ): Am ilachmittag des 26.•••Mai sah 'ich Miss T r u m a n in einer .C,
sun Gefahr, daB ihr eiri UnglUck bevorstehe: Hierbei spielt mUglicl:
weise ein Haiskettchen mit einem wertvollen Anhanger eine gewisse
wichtige Rolle, wiederum •im Zusammeaharig mit einem kleinen Gebaude
auf runden, weiBen, tragenden Saulem,. in einem b•liihenden Steingart
ich babe danach me>ner..Frau davon erzahl't, tvun war ich m.irzuerst
noch im Zweifel, was ich tun salle. Da ich jedoch gestern in Radio
(13-.Uhr--liachrichten) u.a, . horte:. Miss T r u m a n ist gestern -- mi
stockte der Atem, dean ich wuBte doch von-gar hichts - mit einem
Schiff von Amerika abFereist, Richtun.g Europa, entschloB lob mich,
schreiben.
•
2.) • Leider nuuE ich es heutte zu nether Schande gestehen. Einige Woo
bevor das Attentat auf Ihr.en verehrten Prasidenten geschah, wuBte
es, ohne data mir jedach irgend demand etwas•diesbezugliches vorher
sagt'habe. Denno-ch sagte ich mir, der President der Vereinigten St
ten wird wohl derartig stark bewacht sein in seinem • "Weissen Haus"
daB da einfach nichts passieren kann. Und als dawn das .Attentat ge
schehen war,' bin ich fast zu TOde erschrocken u. babe mir bittere
wtirfe gemacht., daB ich nichts veranla.3t hatte. lob gelobte mir, es
kunftig besser zu machen. Daher me:ine vorstehende Mi.tteilurng. idatu
lath wird man dabei sehr geschickt vor'g ehen musseu, daB insbesonde
die werten Elterrn von Miss T r u m- a. n selbst sich k.eine uniibtiMe
Gedauken machen brauchen. Miss T r u m a . n
d'irfte selbst ja 4''
neswegs unnotig ; eanst.igt 'werden. Aber die USA u. C,rot3britar cii:;
ben: ja sehr gute .Detektiv6.' Doch das wissen Sle bestimmt am b
selbst, Iwas bier zu tun ist u.' wie es zu thn ist. Der treue G
Miss T r u m .e ci beschat'zen u. moge sie ibren Elt•era zur Zei. :S}x:`7.
de wieder wohlbehalteri zuriickfuhrera. Vergessexa wolf enrw':.
daB, wean jemand eirX^teise tut, er auch in gr6Berer xe
.;
wean er zu Hause bleibt' V.-4 das sah ich also, be.vor ich • i
voii wuf3te
Es durfte Sae 1-u diesem Lusammenaang noon iuteresser, ;k
such bei hider eiw . -e another vorher ansoferri vom A. ttent
ich an einem norwegischeu Fuafeja eiae ei nzelae ,roae sc
gesserae
ste stehen sah, welche die Aufschri ten trugit e,
sterben! u. Hitler tot!"..iAatdrlich war, mir damit klar, daB soich
von der starken W'iderstarlds ;rupee in rvorwegeii kam. Doch ich verb
Liclits.. Als ich- da-un, iiachdem wen•tg spater• das Attentat erfolg
meihem mila.tarischen Vorge•se,tzten so ganz nebenbei meine :Sea
mit•teilte, entgegnete er: "da hatter sie. eigentli. h noch
word a i issen." Die uktzai t ha
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Le=zenhei\an Ihre werte Dienststelle wende.
T Das er 'te 'Mal (28.5.51) hatte ich an die "Stimme A.merikas" ge=
schrieben. Zu hirer werten Orientierung Mg,
, ich eine Abschrift des
/ Schreibens bei.
Ich beeile mich nun, um meine gestrige Beobachtung in dieser Hin=
/
sicht, zugleich Thnen 'mitzuteilen; damit die Sache unverzLiglich in
die richtigen Hande gelangt. Anscheinerid bereitet man erndut einen
solchen oder ahnlichen Plan wie s.Zt. vor; jedenfalls scheinen die
diesbezdgl.ichen MV chte (odor ahnli^che) noch nicht zur Ruhe gekomrnen
zu sein. Die Stimme sagte mir soiches wahrend der'gest.rigen 13-UhrNachrichten. Und wenige Augeublicke spater wurde von Portoriko be=
richtet, von wo aus die erste diesbezdgl.iche Aktion gegen den WHO
denten gestartet wurde. Vielleicht sollte ich dadurch eine gewisse
Bestatigung im Wahrgenommenen erhalten. Vielleic.ht ist es also rat=
sam; 'alle vorbeugenden Schritte in dieser Hinsich-zi.zrnehme:u,urj
' Schlimmes zu verhiiten; denn der verehrte President der Staaten darf
sein Leben durch solche Elemente uicht lessen mussen, zumal heute,
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STANDARD FOAM NO. 64
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Office Memorandwn.
TO
Mr .
FROM
NITED STATES GOVERNMENT
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SUBJECT:
R,s.n
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Alden
For record purposes,
Press called Wick in m ^ off ice a
He referred
of the Associated
ff., August 19, 1952.
the newspaper reporting that FBI Agents guard -
ar' are
a^ in Sweden had "roughed up" Swedish bying
standers.
He said the Associated Press was inquiring as to
whether the FBI is actually guarding Miss Truman.
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him the FBI was not involved, that this was a Secret Service
matter since that aaancy is responsible for guarding the Presiden_-t--'
and his family. I
I said he knew this but had been asked to
check on this particular incident.
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cc - Mr. Rosen
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$7AN DARD FORM NO. 64
Offi
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UNITED STATE S GOVERNMENT
TO
FROM
ALLEGATION OF FBI AGENTS
GARE
SWEDEN GUARDING
(WASHINGTON "TIMES HERALD",
SUBJECT:
N
8-.2O-52)
The attached news article appearing on Page 1 of
he Washington
i_mes
erald" toay , cdrrx 'es the caption,
argaret !s._.Boc yg ar-.ds..An e_rY Swe_d e
, rote.ctor-sCalled
: ,Er
Gori llas "' and 'reflects a quotation
rom vhe`edish Foreign
Office in Stockholm tha^t-'they intended to look into the right of
'BI Agents to carry firearms during the guarding of Margaret
Tru man in that c.ity.
Newspaper complaints in Sweden state that the
of Miss Trumanhaa-abused-Swe`d sh "citizens "a cl a ted.._in
9uas
_ very
o` noxious manner in handling Miss Truman Is visit to Stockholm.
The press also quote a statement made by United States Ambassador
Butterworth that he would inform the bodyguards that "such methods
were neither usual nor called for in Sweden."
As can be noted,
the Swedish Foreign office had made the statement, based upon the
complaints .f'rom the Swedish press, that they are going to check
into the powers of FBI Agents with reference to the carrying, of
guns and whether any permit has been issued to them by the Swedish
ish
Gouernment.
As you know, V. S. Treasury Department: (Secret Service)
agents are accompanying Miss Truman, on her world tour and are
undoubtedly the persons referred to by the Swedish Foreign Office.
In view of this erroneous reference to the FBI, Mr. Roach
contacted
Security Division,^! a nent of--State,
and informe d
ureau Agents were not accompanying Miss
im that
Truman on her European trip; that we had no Agents in Sweden; and
further, that the -Bureau's jursc icti.on did not extend to g uarding
the President and his family.
Mr.r Roach pointed out to
th a t th e re
..__._ n c a t o th e FBI a s rep o, r t e d b y 4-)l e p I e s s wa s c er 14,
r d f ' ere
erroneous and damaging to the FBI, and t-_hat.,t he FBI ,should not be
it had no thing to do or
I ge n t he blame for something with which
had any control over.
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stated that he would send a .cabl'e to the American Ambassa or in
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kho.lm instructing that h-e•- i'nform the Swedish oreign Office
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Memo to Mr. Ladd from
A. H. Belmont, 8-20-52
that the so - called bodyguards of Miss Truman were not FBI Agent .
Forhe Am asador ' s information , he was told that the FBI does
not have Agents in Sweden, nor does oa^ r jurisdiction extend to
the guarding of members of the Preside "nt's family .
The Department
of State's cable will instruct Ambassador B utterworth to make it
quite clear to all concerned that the activities complained of
should in no way be associated with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
You will note from the attached news clipping that
Swedish officials state that, - "Miss Truman is not in danger of her
life in Stockholm - -- -- We understand that she is not going to sing
here."
ACTION :
It is, not believed that any further action is necessary
in this regard.
This memorandum is submitted for your information.
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MARGARET 'S
BODYGUARDS
ANGER SWEDES
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[In Washington, the State de.'
artment issued a statement say,l.ng it had been in communication
with the A m erican) em b assy in
4,
Stockholm "which reports there
was no incident such as was re-
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ported by the S w e d i s h news-It
papers."
["The Swedish foreign office
has denied there was an incident,"
the statement said, "The State de- i
partment expects a further report 1
tomorrow morning from the em. 11
bassy concerning what gave rise t
to the excitement."]
• Police in Dark
-Tage Persson, chairman of the
said the
Policemen's society,
police know nothing of any spe.
cial arrangement whereby Miss
Truman would be guarded by
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 19 (AP)_
Americans.
The Swedish foreign office began
"The Swedish police are fuli^
an investigation today of Margaret
capable of doing that," he said.
Truman's. right -to have three ,- "If the Swedish king and prime
armed American bodyguards in
minister can move freely around
Sweden.
in this country without bodyThe three have been accused
guards, one may safely assume
in the press here of roughing up
that Miss • Truman can do the
Swedish citizens, and their pres.
same."
ence has caused considerable indig.
Another newspaper, the Expresnation among the Swedes.
sen, listed three specific inciThe President's daughter has
dents and deplored the fact that
been in Sweden since Sunday on
Swedish police "stood - passively
by" while they occurred. The
a European tour. '
three, according to Expressen,
Sweden's . largest newspaper,
Aftonblagdet, commented sarcastiwere:
1. The bodyguards seized and
caliy1tonight: "Miss Truman is not
In danger of her life In Stockholm
flung aside a photographer who
tried to take Miss Truman's pie.
... We understand that she is not
going to sing here"
ture on her -arrival at Centra
Called Uncouth
station.
The paper referred to the
$. Bodyguards blocked the entrance . to the Drottningholm
bodyguards as three American
gorillas and charged "they interTheater Sunday, keeping the
cept in an uncouth m a n n e r
public out while -Miss Truman
arrived, " although It is" known
Swedes who want to pass any
to everybody that the theater
place where It pleases Miss Truwas not reserved for Miss ' Truman to be at a given moment."
man."
Newspapers waxed Indignant
3. The .bodyguards kept reover alleged mistreatment of
porters and photografers out of
Swedish reporters aid photogo f St oc kholm town hall while
raters. Then the foreign office
Miss Truman visited.
got into the act today on the
question of\the bodyguards' right
Expressen said United States'
Ambassador W. Walton Butter'
to carry arms in this country.
This has caused considerable reworth had told Swedish newssentment in this city where even
men he would inform the bodythe police are traditionally unguards that "such methods were
armed.
neither usual nor called for
" We have received no applica'
Sweden."
tion from the United States ems
^•tssy. for such a ( gun) permit,
haspokesman declared. "We are
now looking into the matter to
`ind out what powers the FBI
The Washington
Agents have."
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Times Herald
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STANDARD ROHM W. 64
Offi
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TO
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
DATE:
Mr. Tolso
Aug-u's"^ 22,
1952
g^
L . B. Nichol0
F R OM
SUBJECT:
T/
#A;7-GARET TRUMAN
>^ YEDISH POLICE
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of the United Press called at 12 :05
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P. M. today an d fn my a Bence talked with Wick.
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said the State Department has released statements by Swedz
f
police in the above -captioned matter which continue to refer
to the FBI as being the agency involved in an alleged fracas
recently wherein Swedish citizens were allegedly "pushed around"
by Secret Service Agents guarding Margaret Truman .
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the FBI is no
th e agency involved , had no men there , did not
participate in any way , and- i s not guarding Margaret Truman.
Wick told him,this is correct,
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cc - Mr. Rosen
cc - Mr. Belmont
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Guard Marga><;et
L'•1 N A1
conditions m a k e
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YY M rrgaret Truman's tri p abroa
0 ]1tlp_Q1n- e, r. !i t^li^n
h_
y.,_a__waman . More attenti n
MQI B&I i eam
CU_ked_ non it.
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vests ation men who guard her_
v
en ho ' o y bri efed„ Tb&X
now about hazards which we
er.
.qge__citizens never dreame To say
not ^n
gcau
happen to Margaret
in Sweden is silly-even provincial.
13 ,9d the men who guard Margaret
been present at the times of the
assassinations of Lincoln, Garfield
and McKinley, those assassinations
Ew
would not have occurred . Thr
rncn knew fhat a_ tra ged wou3dnighl. v explosive i nternatio nal
v
,cQmpljaa. Ans_ at. nc%Irl_"^"f;a_ rq^s
disas
^rgre^.te^tb,^r^,twFxe __ oriRi^
sial L.? a day. FRANZ E. ROGEtS.
NOT RECORDED
146 SEP 15 1952
Times-Herald
Wash, Post
Wash. News
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Wash. Star
N.Y. Herald Tribune
N.Y. Mirror
N.Y. Compass
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SUBJECT :
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
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Tolson
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AF u ust 22
Nichols
LLEGATION THAT.NB&AGENTS IN SWEDEN
GUARDING MARGARET _TRUMAN,
Despite repedted statements from us that
I Agents
are not accompanying Miss Truman on her European tr'
and t
wve _h.a .t^en_oJge^ i.n-S.wed:en, newspaper reports still persist
to the effect that FBI Agents escorting Margaret Truman acted
in a high-handed and offensive manner in dealing with the
Swedish public recently.
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-thought- .you .migh.t. be .irate-r..e_nn,a-wi.. g-.-what geke-ep_tzee: rec.o rds_..S_t 0,_igh.t_ rk h __ma
attt er.
The initial Associated Press story carrying accounts
of the incident, which, of course, involved Secret Service Agents,
appeared in Washington papers late on the day of August 19 and on
August 20.
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On Tuesday , August 19, 1952, „in.answ.e_r_to. an _inquir.y from
-the -Assoc_i a ed Pre_s_s,.,.. we. ..gav.e th.emr the true _.f acts-;; on . riday,
swereaai
August 22, United Pre ss called and th e
Ia. ed
r. R. R. Roach of the Civilian Liaison
On August 20 ,
informedb6
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concern over
At r. Roach ' s request ,
agreed
t o cable the^4mer. rcan . Ambassador_. at. Stockholm ,, instructiJ that
he inform the .Swedish Foreign Office that the men involved were
not FBI Agents .
It was-agreed A mbassador _ Butterworth would make
cl ecx.
he actiivtties c.omplained..of. were . in no. way- assoc . iat.ed
wi.ttt_the- edera.^ Bureau of Investigation.
Pr_e_s_id^.r^
nsiuer^. d-^q•u.e . s:t_ians,
;unmis_tQ_k _b1y..c,lear
la^
^T.r_.uma,n --a.: his < press canfer.ence yesterday.
concerni.
ng the . incident in. which it was
.
that Secret Service Agents and not FBI
The .Un t.ed .Pr.e.ss today carried a story con-ring the.
,yhe_^ Stae . Depar .tmen^,^ ^D ro^rd.r.eo
to
Stockhol •.• Mice b^
officer,
, e.^5'u^e is.h, -polxc^e_.. o ,. zees invol ved .
stn
entrefsea^ .e_aect -
AC'IN TO BE TAKEN:
IN, thi s regar d .
K, \^ T.
Ladd
None.
the,
£aZ ma r -and the American FBI man" in connection with the fracas
This Unit.e.d_._P
involving a gun .
s.tory d es . _LQ we. ue.r, state
,trait -"Throughout his report of the incident
referred to.
'^he_FBI man ,
presumably meaning one. of the t ree Secret S.erui.ce
enta accomp a nying Miss Truman .. No FBI . .offic r are with her.`'
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Tolson
Boardman
Belmont
As Peglei' Sees It:
e tows of a
Loyal Dw tghter
V
By W STBROOK PEGLER
MISS MARGARET~TRUMAN'S memoirs are running in
Good Housekeeping. The young lady has set forth a
beautiful contrast between the domestic morals, character
and integrity of the Truman family and those of another
family which preceded them in the White House.
"All the Truman clan hold strong views on the subject of
rnarrikge," she tells us. "There has never been a divorce in the
family as far back as its lineage can be traced."
Again; "My mother is a very private person. She has
maintained a' decent reticence, as becomes a lady," on the
love-story of the 25 years, beginning in their childhood when
Truman, at the age of 6 or 7, saw at Sunday School, "the
prettiest, sweetest little girl I had ever seen."
"My mother," Miss Truman continues, "whose public
facade has been unvaryingly courteous but cryptic, is perhaps the least understood member of our family."
Doesn't Like Nicknames
The public could never conjure Mrs. Truman flying off to
the South Pacific at public expense in a great bomber with a
military crew, to pay a.personal call on a male personal friend
and political cohort. Nor disrupting a military formation at
an army camp in Miami Beach and ordering the commanding
officer to excuse the same individual from the ranks for a
personal occasion.
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L./MNason
iliohrParsons
Rosen
Tamm _
Nease
Wincerrowd
Tele. Room
Holloman )>t..
Gandy S-w,,,,,
Won Screeching Contest
Naively, Margaret tells us that one day at school, being , no
athlete, she joyously won a screeching contest.
"Screech I could!" she says, and that is approximately
what at least three reviewers said when she set forth as a concert artist, "I shut my eyes, inhaled deeply, hit F above high
C on the button and held it until I was blue in the face and
everybody else had dropped out."
The critic of the Washington Post offered a much less strident comment and got a letter from her father threatening
to unman him, A Canadian reviewer's noisier impudence went
unrebuked only for lack of jurisdiction.
It seems that Miss Truman's loyalty blinds her when she
says the family code ran, "never complain and never take
advantage."
Surely she forgets that her professional career and her
income from these memoirs, which I understand to be large,
are founded on the advantage of the election returns,
So one looks to later chapters in Good Housekeeping for
guidance on the Truman code,
Copirlght, 1998 , 1CIn3r Features Srndlcale, Inc.
Her mother "doesn't like nicknames of any sort" and
"has no' patience with the nonsense of calling your parents
by their given names."
Her father, too, was sensible in his address toward other
men by contrast with the fatuous code of nicknames which
passed for wit in the first New Deal-Henry the Morgue and
Harry the Hop, for examples.
Wash, Post and
Times Herald
Wash. News
Wash. Star
N. Y. Herald
Tribune
N. Y. Mirror
N. Y. Daily News
Daily Worker
The Worker
Miss Margaret does try to clear up the mystery of her
father's meaningless, initial "S."
"My father was named Harry S. Truman after his uncle
Harrison Shippe," she tells us. "The initial 'S' doesn't stand
for anything, however, and I think my father, got tired of
explaining that he didn't have a middle name."
';he Trumans determined early that their little girl
wasn't going to be spoiled' and "child psychology didn't bother
them," as many grateful Americans will eagerly agree. .
L+pt did a girl remain unspoiled who permitted herself to
be convoyed on tours as a professional singer by agents of
and State and city police? And
the Secret Service, the
x office by her father's political cohorts?
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Daniels , the daughter of
Truman
Island interviewed Margaret
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the former President .' She was interviewed at her new home at
as a referSands Point, Long Island, as her name had been give/
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conclusion
of
case.
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the
Inquiry
ence in a Special
had
seen
Agent
that
her
maifd
our
told
Daniels
interview, Mrs.
an automobile in the vicinity of the Daniels home.( This autom
bile aroused her suspicions and the maid took the license number.
lack of
Our Agent explained to Mrs. Daniels ou
jurisdiction in matters of this..type and explain d they are
Mrs. D niels said
handled by the local police authorities:
that she was not concerned and did not want to advise the police
She said
since this might result in newspaper publicity.
that there was a good deal of building going on in the neighborhood and the car could well belong to one of th
workmen.
Since the Resident Agent had the license number, he
checked it out after leaving the Daniels hom and determined
Ithat the car'is registered to a general contactor who is well
known in the area.
RECOMMENDATION
Since we have been able to determine the owner of the
automobile, who-is a reputable contractor, it is recommended
that the New York Office advise Mrs. Daniels of this on a
confidential basis.
If this is.approved, the New York Office
will be so instructed telephonically.
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