Memorandum for the President. This top secret memorandum has been prepared after long study and is the result of intensive research. We feel that the broad situation in the memorandum is one which should be watched with great care and we believe that you will wish to read this paper before the coming meeting of heads of government.
This stand was approved by the Central Committee of the French Communist Party as announced in May, , issue of its official publication, France Nouvelle.
With the approaching end of the war in Europe the American Communist Political Association began to make attacks on the public administration and began to accuse officials of an anti-Russian complex and consequently unfit to hold public officeβthe principal offense of these officials actually having been the attempt to lay down a policy of benefit to the United States. The transition to a more radical policy had already begun, however, as presaged by the attacks on the administration.
These changes may well precede the reconstitution of the Communist International, perhaps with headquarters in Paris. To meet the situation firmly and resolutely and thereby improve relations with the Soviet Union requires this government to treat the American Communist movement as a potential fifth column.
Such action would have a beneficial effect in other foreign countries by showing that a given country can maintain correct and cordial relations with the Soviet Union and simultaneously hold its own citizens to strict accountability for their actions as agents of an organization of the Soviet Union. Since the summer of , or after the attack on the Soviet Union by Germany, all communist parties have stressed the virtues of patriotism, prompted efforts to insure maximum production and win the war, deprecated strikes, and criticized anything which tended to weaken the unity of the allied nations which opposed Germany.
