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    "ocrText": "FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS\nMINISTER\nFOUNDRY CHURCH\nWASHINGTON, D.C.\nCHAPLAIN\nFebruary 21, 1946.\nUNITED STATES SENATE\nTo the President,\nThe White House.\nMy dear Mr. President:\nIt was good to see you yesterday at the White House and to\nfind you looking so well in spite of the terrific burdens\nthat are upon you. Even though I do not come in to see\nyou often, I think of you each day and pray for you that\nyour strength and faith fail not. This time last year we\nwere together almost every day at the Capitol, in a rela-\ntionship which we had no idea would end so suddenly. I\nhope the daily prayer in the RECORD still means something\nto you. I often have you in my thought when fashioning\nthe petitions.\nYou were good enough at the beginning of your administra-\ntion to ask me to submit brief memoranda of any important\nmatters which from my point of view might involve moral\nand spiritual considerations. Of course, as chaplain of\nthe Senate I pass no judgment ever upon matters which are\npurely partisan or political.\nI want to submit one or two observations with regard to\nthe future in Italy and our relationship to any regime\nthat may be established in that unhappy country. In my\njudgment our attitudes to developments in Italy will be\nindicative of whether or not we are really to stand by\nthe principles for which the war was fought at so great\na cost. Since 1 visited Rome and, especially, our Method-\nist School there, at Monte Mario, a score of years ago, I\nhave been in rather close personal touch with Italian con-\nditions. I think I know something of the present tragic\nsituation; at least, I have spent hours conferring with\nthose who know it intimately through long association.\nMany are alarmed at certain ominous propositions which are\nbeing made. I hope I will not be violating any proprieties\nif I make three observations."
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