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COPY Washington, D.C. February 28, 1942 Mr. Sidney Maestre, President Mississippi Valley Trust Company St. Louis, Missouri Dear Mr. Meestre: Appres Late your sending me a copy of your full page ad in the St. Louis newspapers and the New York Times. You are right about people holding back and waiting for some one else to do the job for them. That is the whole difficulty now, as I see it. People want to be deferred from the Draft; want to be deferred from taxes, and every- thing else. However, no one is going to be deferred from sacrifices. You can be very sure of that. Sincerely yours, HST:MLD Harry S. Truman, U.S.S. TRUMAN LIBERTY