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10-13-48 DULUTH, MINNESOTA 15. ARCHIVES AND SERVICE AND $ THEREST GOVERNMENT I am very grateful to you for your wonderful reception. able a veteran John Blatnik, your great Congressman and one of witha distinguished was second, America's great war heroes, has always told me that you folks up here were warm, friendly people. Now I see what he meant. Anyway, I knew you must be pretty fine folks to send such a representative as John Blatnik to Congress. I know you are going to send him back this year. And I know that going right along with him, as Senator from this great State, will be Mayor Humphrey of Minneapolis. I want to congratulate you on the nearly unbelievable job you did here during World War Two.