KEY PITTMAN, NEV., CHAIRMAN

JOSEPH T. ROBINSON, ARK.

PAT HARRISON, MISS.

WALTER F. GEORGE, GA.

HUGO L. BLACK, ALA.

ROBERT F. WAGNER, N. Y.

TOM CONNALLY, TEX.

J. HAMILTON LEWIS, ILL.

NATHAN L. BACHMAN, TENN.

ELBERT D. THOMAS, UTAH

FREDERICK VAN NUYS, IND.

F. RYAN DUFFY, WIS.

JAMES P. POPE, IDAHO

ROBERT J. BULKLEY, OHIO

JAMES E. MURRAY, MONT.

DENNIS CHAVEZ, N. MEX.

HENRIK SHIPSTEAD, MINN.

WILLIAM E. BORAH, IDAHO

HIRAM W. JOHNSON, CALIF.

ARTHUR CAPPER, KANS.

ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE, JR., WIS.

ARTHUR H. VANDENBERG, MICH.

WALLACE H. WHITE, JR., MAINE

United States Senate

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

February 10th, 1937.

Mr. Sinclair Lewis,
Bronxville, New York.

My dear "Red":

Thanks for your wire. Dorothy's article is splendid (as usual). She puts her finger squarely on the reality of the thing. We Republicans in the Senate have been deliberately withholding our fire for the time being so as not to burden the situation with any partisan taint. As a result, it will shortly be possible for us to break loose *after* a sufficient Democratic opposition has clearly disclosed the non-partisan character of the battle. This may be "bad politics" from the standpoint purely of Republican ballyhoo. But it is "good citizenship" from the viewpoint of beating this atrocity. I really think we *have* a chance to beat it in the Senate, although it probably would *go* through the House with a comfortable margin. I am making my *first* speech to the country on the evening of February 21st (linking it up with Washington's Birthday) over N.B.C. at 6:30 P.M.

I think you will be interested in one favorite sentence which I am using in much of my correspondence regarding the court issue. "If the President can get a sufficient grip on Congress so as to wring from it an equivalent grip on the Supreme Court, then the President can run up his personal banner to the top of every flag pole in the land - and Sinclair Lewis has earned his place as a major prophet."

Good luck! Remember me to Dorothy. (Tell her she might occasionally answer her mail). I wish you were both in Washington.

With warm personal regards and best wishes,

AHV-D

Wardman Park Hotel

CONNECTICUT AVENUE AND WOODLEY ROAD
WASHINGTON, D.C.

Dear "Red":

I am desperately sorry not
to have seen you today. It has
been on my mind since morning-
but it was one of "those days." I
was in debate all the afternoon-
and tonight, as you know, I got
myself "stuck" with an official drive
invitation which had to stay
"stuck". It was adamn shame
that I "missed the boat" after
your generous suggestion that I