Lot 161
Roosevelt Franklin 1882 - 1945 Five months after Pearl Harbor, FDR responds to an article criticizing his war objectives, telling a U.S. Senator that the writer "is either deliberately writing stuff which rejoices the heart of Hitler or he is a theoretical dreamer who ought not to write at all..."
Typed Letter Signed "F.D.R." as President, 1p, 7" x 9". Green-tinted White House stationery, Washington, D.C., May 6, 1942. To U.S. Senator Lister Hill. With original White House envelope with label "U.S. Official Mail and Messenger Service," from the White House to the United States Senate, attached at back flap. Opened at top edge. Fine condition.
In full, "Personal Dear Lister: Ever so many thanks for sending me John Temple Graves' column in answer to Felix Morley's article in the Saturday Evening Post'. Morley is either deliberately writing stuff which rejoices the heart of Hitler or he is a theoretical dreamer who ought not to write at all. With every best wish, Always sincerely."
Alabama Democrat Lister Hill (1894-1984) served in the House of Representatives from 1923-1938 and in the U.S. Senate from 1938-1969. At the time of this letter, Hill was the Democratic Whip (1941-1947).
Included are photocopies from the FDR Library of Sen. Hill's April 27, 1942, letter and "The Birmingham Age-Herald" front page editorial by Graves beginning: "For insidious defeatism, we nominate Dr. Felix Morley in the current Saturday Evening Post..." "For What Are We Fighting" by Dr. Felix Morley appeared in the April 18, 1942, edition of "Saturday Evening Post." A complete copy of this issue, label addressed, is present.
Niels Bjerre-Poulsen wrote in "Right Face: Organizing the American Conservative Movement 1945-65" (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2002), in part, "In a particularly provocative article in Saturday Evening Post' entitled...For What Are We Fighting?,' Felix Morley called for a statement of purpose. He contended that a very influential group of Anglo-American Nazis'... a clear reference to such advocates of an American Century' as Walter Lippmann and Henry Luce _Ü_ had plans for a global Anglo-Saxon dictatorship with limited privileges for small nations which know their place and agree to keep it, with great condominiums over the rich lands inhabited by lesser breeds without the law, and with a sort of permanent earthly purgatory enlarged ghettos strikingly like those which the Nazis design for the Jews for the nations which have dared to strike ruthlessly at Anglo-Saxon supremacy.'"
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