Typed Note Signed and Typed Letter Signed from the American journalist Robert Warshow to the English parliamentarian Lord Chorley, the letter apologising for the rudeness of the note and discussing General Clark's Operation Moolah in the Korean War.

In a House of Lords debate on 28 April 1953 Chorley described as 'dastardly' the recent 'Operation Moolah', conceived by the American General Mark W. Clarke, in which more than a million leaflets were dropped on North Korea, offering $100,000 to the first pilot to defect with a MiG-15 fighter plane. The note is 1p., 12mo. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Addressed to 'Hon. Lord Chorley | House of Lords | London', it simply reads: 'Dear Sir: | Have you ever heard of Benedict Arnold? | Respectfully, | [signed] Robert Warshow'. The letter is 1p., 4to. 18 lines, with a further four-line autograph postscript in brown ink. Fair, on aged and lightly-creased paper, with a couple of rust stains to one margin. Warshow begins: 'I am afraid my note to you was written in a fit of annoyance, and it was very courteous of you to have replied at all.' For Warshow the 'point seems [...] to revolve around the question of whether a Chinese air man fighting in Korea can be considered to be fighting for his country.' He feels that Chorley's position on the question 'would lead one to share the sentiments of those Germans who believe that German anti-Nazis, or more particularly the participants in the plot of July 20, were betraying their country.' He considers North Korea 'a peculiarly accidental creation', and thinks that 'the issue that is being fought out there is not one of patriotism at all'. A final paragraph discusses whether 'betrayers' of communism are worth welcoming at $100,000 each. The postscript reads: 'However I think the point of Clark's offer was, not that we want an enemy airman, but that we want an MIG.' From the Chorley papers.