Letter from Reverend Almon Pepper to President Harry S. Truman with a Reply from William D. Hassett

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111 May 7, 1948 Dear Dr. Pepper: Please accept the President's thanks for your letter of May fourth, with which you forwarded resolution of the General Convention which was reaffirmed on April twenty-seventh by the Department of Christian Social Relations of the National Council Protestant Episcopal Church. I am glad to assure you that this expression of conviction concerning general amnesty for conscientious objectors to war will receive very careful consideration by the President. Very sincerely yours, WILLIAM D. HASSETT Secretary to the President Reverend Almon R. Pepper, D.D., Director Department of Christian Social Relations, National Council Protestant Episcopal Church, 281 Fourth Avenue, New York 10, N. Y. X76-A wdh-mw