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Memorandum from President Harry S. Truman to Secretary of State James Byrnes
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Memorandum from President Harry S. Truman to Secretary of State James Byrnes
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April 17, 1946
MEMORANDUM FOR: James F. Byrnes
Secretary of State
FROM:
The President
The closing of displaced persons camps is giving
us rather a headache, particularly as 1t affects
the Poles, who are Catholic and anti Soviet,
Lithuanians who are Catholic and anti-Soviet, and
some Rumanians in the same class.
I wonder 11 in closing these camps we couldn't
make a proposition to the Catholic Church and
other protesting organizations to provide suffi-
cient funds to take over this summer under private
auspices and operate them for the remaining dis-
placed persons who cannot go back to their countries
on account of religious and political reasons,
The Poles in this country particularly and the
Catholic Church are simply going to have a spasm
1f we close out these camps without some sort of
an arrangement to take care of the people who
can't go back.
ARCHIVES
AND
I am holding the letter from Cardinal Stritch
RECORDS
SERVICE"
until I hear further from you on the subject.