Letter from Martin Coffey to Matthew Connelly with a Reply from Brigadier General Harry Vaughan with Related Material

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357-7 March 1, 1946 Dear Martin: The enclosed letter from the Assistant Secretary, General Staff is self-explanatory. I'm sorry not to be more helpful in this x25 instance but the Assistant Secretary of Har whom I talked to after I received this communication from the Assistant Secretary, General Staff ad- vised me that it could very easily get them into considerable difficulties if they made an exception in this case because there are one hundred others waiting for an excuse to be reopened. Sincerely, HARRY H. VAUGHAN Brigadier General, U. S. Army Military Aide to the President Mr. Martin V. Coffey, x Middletown, Ohio.