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goo P.P.F. Wilbur New 10/26/45 16-29
M. Bantz,
Box.26,
Windsor, Md.
can B
Hon. Harry S. Truman,
President of U.S.A.
Washington, D.C.
My Dear Mr. Prseident.
I have had a lot of faith in your
practical approach to the problems of our nation. You seemed in
the beginning of your presidency to fill a need for confidence in
America. I had hopedyou would continue in that direction.
However your proposal for military training
has caused me to lose some of that confidence. How can we practice
what we will not allow others to practice? Can it be possible now
that we are going to have on our own necks what we sent our boys
to Europe and Japan to take off of theirs?
What will such a plan do to Religious
Freedom in America? We have many thousand S of good people who
do not believe in learning the arts of war. Will they have to go
to some other country where they can worship God after the
dictates of their own conscience?
There must be another way out, and I
am going to believe in you to find a better way. Why not lead
all nations to cease miliatry training, and set up an inter-
national army to keep any nation from preparing for war. It
would be for less expensive, and morepractical.
Hoping that you will yet give us
something better, I remain,
Sincerely yours
Welbur m Banth
Wilbur M. Bantz
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