Letter from Robert Brennan to Frederick H. Boland (Dublin)
(Pol./47) (Secret)

Mr. George Allen, who lives in the same section of the Wardman Park Hotel as I do, shared a ride with me one day recently. You will remember him as the man who went to Ireland in 1940 in connection with Red Cross business. Although he has resigned from his position as Chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, he is still one of President Truman's most valued advisors and is his constant companion in his leisure hours. Mr. Allen talked very freely about Mr. Gray and his mischievous influence. He told me that the President had told him what I had said nearly a year ago about D.G. He added that Hannegan,¹ Postmaster General and the Secretary General of the Democratic Party, had gone to James Byrnes some time ago to urge the removal of D.G. and that they were unsuccessful. Mr. Allen said that it was Mrs. Roosevelt's influence that still kept the old gentleman in office. He added 'I don't think it can go on much longer.'