Letter from Mary Fine Twinem to President Harry S. Truman, with Attachment

235 East 49th Street New York 17, N. Y. October 17, , 1949 President Harry S. Truman Washington, D. C. Dear President Truman: Knowing so well China's President and Madame Chiang Kai-shek through my many years in China, being on the Committee of Three in charge of the Presiden- tial Church in Nanking, and having so recently returned to America from Nanking and Formosa, - I felt I must send the enclosed statement to some of the newspapers here. My friends, including Dr. John R. Mott, thinking that this may not have come to your notice have urged me to send a copy of this directly to you, also. So I am asking my good friend, Dr. Harris, Senate Chaplain, please to get this to you. With high personal regards and strong belief that as a fellow Christian you will be interested in the statement attached,- sending my best wishes to you and to Mrs. Truman, well re- membering the pleasure of meeting you both when D was last in the United States, I am Very respectfully, may fination (Mrs.) Mary Fine Twinem (I have been teaching at Nanking University, Nanking, China since 1919, thirty years ago - and left there just the day prior to President's withdrawal. - M.F.T.)