An Open Letter to Martha Dodd

Dear Martha Dodd:

You haven’t made the headlines for some time now. But I have not forgotten you. In fact I followed you along your way to the Communist Holy Land from the very start. I was amazed to find you so gullible. I had thought of you as cool and shrewd. But when I learned that you and your husband had acquired—and for a handsome sum at that—Uruguayan passports, I knew that you were not. That mistake comes from not having read anti-Communist literature. You could have profited a lot from my book, This Deception. Oh, I know you’ve never heard of it. Which is too bad, because you could have learned from it that never, never must you commit the fundamental mistake of giving up your American citizenship! For now the comrades have you!

HM

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Dear Martha Dodd:

You haven’t made the headlines for some time now. But I have not forgotten you. In fact I followed you along your way to the Communist Holy Land from the very start. I was amazed to find you so gullible. I had thought of you as cool and shrewd. But when I learned that you and your husband had acquired—and for a handsome sum at that—Uruguayan passports, I knew that you were not. That mistake comes from not having read anti-Communist literature. You could have profited a lot from my book, This Deception. Oh, I know you’ve never heard of it. Which is too bad, because you could have learned from it that never, never must you commit the fundamental mistake of giving up your American citizenship! For now the comrades have you!