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    "ocrText": "recovery. The realization by the Russian people that the strong American\nsysten was able and contained the spirit to save these millions of\nstrangers from the death that had engulfed them mast have furnished food\nfor thought.\nI should be indeed ungrateful and properly censured by my 300\nAmerican and 125,000 Russian assistants as well as by millions of Russian\nbeneficiaries if I failed to express to you their deep affection and grat-\nitule. To you alone who dared to conceive and execute one of the greatest\nadministrative operations to relieve famine in the history of the world is\ndue whatever crodit the wozld sees fit to bestow but among us who felt\nyour constant encouragement, moral support and intimate contact guiding\nour efforts there will always resain a mygtery as to how you could spare\nthe time to mintain such detailed touch with every phase of our work.\nThe will to succeed which imbued all of the Americans in Ruesia and which\nwas a grent factor in the successful accomplishment of the task was a\ndirect translation of your huranitarion spirit to Russia.\nTo America this is a passing incident of national duty, undertaken,\nfinished and to be quickly forgotten. The story of it will be told loving-\nly in Runsian households for generations. Through this service Amorica\nhas not only saved milliens of lives, but has given impulse to the spirit-\nual and economic recovery of a grent nation, and on our own behalf we have\n-\ncreated, in the assurance of good will from the Slav races, a great in-\nheritance for our children.\nFaithfully yours,\nwilliam N. Haskell.\n651"
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