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C 0 P Y - 2 - I certainly would like to take the Immigration Committeemen of the Senate and the House on a tour of these camps and let them listen to the stories of the situation as it actually is. I think possibly their viewpoint would change. I am not interested in the politics of the situa- tion, or what effect it will have on votes in the United States - I am interested in relieving a half million people of the most distressful situation that has happened in the world since Attila made his invasion of Europe. Your ancestors and mine, if I remember correctly, came to this country to escape just such conditions. There is no place for people to go now unless we can arrange it. I appreciate very much your letter and your interest in these things and I am glad to write you very frankly on the subject. Sincerely yours, /s/ Harry S. Truman Honorable Walter F. George Vienna Georgia

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