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    "title": "Letter from Dean Alfange to Major General Harry Vaughan, with a Letter from President Harry S. Truman to Dean Alfange",
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    "ocrText": "May 18, 1948\nPersonal and Confidential\nDear Dean:\nHarry Vaughan handed me your letter of the fifth and I read it\nwith a lot of interest. It looks as if things have turned out as\nyou anticipated in your letter.\nThe main difficulty with our friends, the Jews in this country,\nis that they are very emotional - they, the Irish and the Latin-\nAmericans have something in common along that line. The\nPresident of the United States has to be very careful not to be\nemotional or to forget that he is working for one hundred and\nforty-five million people primarily and for peace in the world\nas his next objective.\nI certainly appreciated the chance to read your letter very much.\nMy soul objective in the Palestine procedure has been to prevent\nbloodshed. The way things look today we apparently have not\nbeen very successful. Nobody in the country has given the problem\nmore time and thought than I have. In 1946 when the British-\nAmerican Commission on Palestine was appointed and Mr. Bevin\nhad made an agreement with me that he would accept the findings\nof that Commission I thought we had the problem solved but the\nemotional Jews of the United States and the equally emotional\nArabs in Egypt and Syria prevented that settlement from taking\nplace, principally because of the immigration clause in that\nsettlement, We are faced with an entirely new problem now\nand I sincerely hope that sanity will come to both sides so that\na peaceful approach can be made to a settlement which should\nhave been worked out by the British some twenty odd years ago.\nSincerely yours,\nMARRY S. TRUMAN\nHonorable Dean Alfange\nNine East 40th Street\nNew York, New York"
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