Letter, Jack Warner to Franklin Roosevelt
Original Exhibition Caption: During the summer of 1941, movie mogul Jack Warner and his brothers, who operated Warner Brothers Studio, donated money to the British government to build two Spitfire warplanes to help turn back Nazi Germany's air offensive against Great Britain....
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JACK L. WARNER
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September 30, 1941
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California
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Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt
The White House
Washington, D.C.
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Dear Mr. President:
I am taking the
liberty of sending you some still
photographs of two x Spitfire
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planes which my brothers and I,
through charitable donations,
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have given to the Royal Air Force x48-a
of England.
The reason for your
name and Cordell Hull's being
x 20 - mucil
painted on the side of these ships xpr7i-e
is as follows:
Lord Beaverbrook, in
acknowledging receipt of our dona-
tions, asked us to name these two
Spitfires and I cabled back to
use the name of our great President
on one and the name of Cordell Hull
on the other. I did this for I
felt that you and your Secretary of
State have done so much for the
cause of humanity and civilization,
and these two Spitfires could help
carry on your work, for you and
Mr. Hull really made it possible for
us to give these two airplanes. I
trust this meets with your approval.
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