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Letter from Freda Kirchwey to President Harry S. Truman

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20 VESEY STREET NEW YORK 7, N. Y. THE Nation ASSOCIATES President FREDA KIRCHWEY May 10th, 1947 ADVISORY COUNCIL Chairman DR. FRANK P. GRAHAM Vice Chairmen DR. HENRY A. ATKINSON MARC CONNELLY WILLIAM ROSENBLATT Chairman, Finance Committee DAVID L. PODELL JAY ALLEN President Harry S. Truman THURMAN W. ARNOLD White House ROGER N. BALDWIN G. A. BORGESE Washington, D.C. ERSKINE CALDWELL STUART CHASE EVANS CLARK My dear President Truman: HENRY COHEN ALBERT SPRAGUE COOLIDGE W. T. COUCH I send you enclosed a Memorandum submitted today to the United HELEN GAHAGAN DOUGLAS Nations. If, as we hope, you can find an opportunity to read THOMAS H. ELIOT IRVING M. ENGEL this document, I am certain that you will share our sense of MRS. IRVING S. FLORSHEIM shock that the United Nations should be used as a forum for LEWIS GANNETT the avowed allies of the Axis. J. W. GITT JOSEPH F. GUFFEY LILLIAN HELLMAN Most distressing is your own silence on this question. This is SIDNEY HOLLANDER FREDERICK ERNEST JOHNSON reflected in the attitude of the American delegation throughout SYLVAN L. JOSEPH J. M. KAPLAN the present deliberations, which is giving the impression of JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS, JR. seeking to appease these survivors of the Axis. JOHN P. LEWIS WALTER C. LOWDERMILK THOMAS MANN I am sorry to have to say to you that the special status now FRANCIS J, McCONNELL accorded to the Arab Higher Committee is due in large part to JAMES H. McGILL PHILIP MURRAY the efforts of the American and the British delegations. REINHOLD NIEBUHR EUGENE O'NEILL BORIS PREGEL There is still time, but not much, to retrieve the situation. T. EDWIN QUISENBERRY We urge again that you reaffirm the traditional policy of this REVERDY C. RANSOM WAVERLEY ROOT country, which becomes a matter of the highest importance. JAMES N. ROSENBERG GAETANO SALVEMINI FREDERICK L. SCHUMAN Sincerely yours, PAUL H. TODD W. W. WAYMACK WALTER WHITE STEPHEN S. WISE SAMUEL ZEMURRAY Frada Products LILLIE SHULTZ Freda Kirchwey Director

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