Letter from National Institute of Arts and Letters to President of the United States

National Institute of Arts and Letters (U.S.) · June 23, 1953

Signed Archibald MacLeish and Marc Connelly; protesting the federal government's removal of "books from its libraries abroad not on the basis of their merit or lack of merit as books but on the basis of the political orientation of their authors" and rejecting the adoption of a policy "appropriate only to a Communist police state."