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GOOD NEIGHBOR COMMISSION
R. E. SMITH. CHAIRMAN. HOUSTON
LLOYO M. BENTSEN, MISSION
OF TEXAS
BISHOP c. E. BYRNE, GALVESTON
H. H. COFFIELD, ROCKDALE
AUSTIN
HUGH A. L. HALFF, SAN ANTONIO
STATE CAPITOL
KARL HOBLITZELLE. DALLAS
AUSTIN 11, TEXAS
DORRANCE b. RODERICK. EL PASO
GUY 1. WARREN, Conpus CHRISTI
2109 Second National Bank Building
GENERAL J. M. WAINWRIGHT. SAN ANTONIO
Houston 2, Texas
17 January 1949
Dr. Hector P. Garcia
3024 Morgan Avenue
Corpus Christi, Texas
Dear Doctor:
After talking to you by 'phone and conforming
to the ideas that were expressed at that time, I have
these suggestions to make to you.
We all agree that the happening at Three
Rivers is to be regretted, and we must bear in mind that
the reputation of Texas will be at stake in history's
recording of our handling of this very delicate matter.
If you will talk to the widow of Felix Longoria
and ask her 1f she would be agreeable to a change of plans
whereby this American soldier's body would be brought back
to Texas for reburial at Three Rivers, or at least in Texas,
that I will assure her, and the Governor will do everything
possible to show her that he approves of this action, that
if she and other members of the family care to go to
Washington, we will arrange for all military honors along
National levels to be carried out in Washington and in
her presence, but bring the Hero's body back to Texas
where it should be, and would have been had it not been
for whatever action that caused all of this trouble.
I am not condoning anybody and I regret it as
much as anyone could regret anything of this sort; but
bear the thought in mind that Texas and al Texans and
the children of Texans now living will feel the effect
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