Understands that Whipple wrote the better parts of the Youngstown Resolution and that the IEB edited: "I had not doubt in my mind: the Guild would suffer if it wasn't passed, and that's what should be paramount in our minds." Gannett will opposed the use of troops. Believes the Guild is "stuck in the mid unless we can get an at least partial opposition victory... Can you honestly say that the record of the Guild Administration, in the last year, hasn't been a big obstacle to organizing?... Maybe I was too free from Red-baiting. I like to maintain the theory that a Communist is an individual, making individual decisions, and judge him on his record. But between you and me and the Statue of Liberty, that's a bit of an assumption. I've supported men for office whom I believed to be Communists. I think they've carried things too far. And sometimes I wonder if I'm quite honest in not speaking more frankly in a way that might be called Red-baiting. Sometimes I think there should be a bit more freedom of speech for those who don't like being driven, even with a loose rein, along all too clearly party lines.... I'm writing this letter to you, who say you're sore. So am I, a bit bruised, too, and I think the whole Guild has been bruised... I don't like Gitlows and Lyonsses; I like ex-Communists who keep their perspective; I don't like people who act as members of a gang. I thought I liked you."
