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As a matter of record, who was this?

Well, this letter has never been published. I was informed about it by the publisher later. It was actually Syd Gruson, and this is a thing that I thought Syd should have written me about, rather than the publisher, but he wrote a very strong letter to the publisher about this. As I recall, it was from out there.

Of course, people had very strong views on this matter. But in any case, the publisher at least went along with and obviously was in favor of our position. And as I said a moment ago, if he had not been, we simply wouldn't have been able to take this position, or I would have been in terrible trouble.

You don't feel that he was merely tolerant of the position but that he actually favored it?

I think in fairness I should say that he favored it. Yes. Yes, I really believe that is true. Yes. I think he favored it, despite his Marine background, and basically I think Punch would tend to be more aggressive, as far as American foreign policy goes, than I would have thought would be desirable in all areas. But I think he came around, at least, to favoring it. I do not think - this is just a matter of judgment now, because I've never really discussed this with him - I was going to say, I do not think he would have ever initiated this policy. But on that kind of question, we never had any real disagreements. And that was, of course, one of the basic issues that went on for several years.