Memorandum from Major General Harry Vaughan to Harry S. Truman, with Attachment

Pansivelt Better fistukes THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON 31 March 1948 MEMORANDUM FOR: The President This morning Kermit Roosevelt, son of the late Colonel Kermit Roosevelt and grandson of the late X 359 Theodore Roosevelt, called me in regard to the Committee for Justice and Peace in Palestine. Mr. Roosevelt is one of the directors of this organi- zation along with Dean Gildersleeve, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Coffin, and numerous other prominent Americans. Roosevelt advised me that the majority of the people on his committee were inclined to go along with the present policy on Palestine and would like to make a statement to that effect. He would like also, at some time convenient to the President, possibly the middle of April, to bring several members of the committee, such as Dean Gildersleeve and Harry Emerson Fosdick, in to see the President with a view to making a S tatement endorsing the President's present stand. I told Mr. Roosevelt that, though I had nothing to do with matters of this nature, I would present the matter to the President, and that word would be given to Dr. Garland - Hopkins, who is the local secretary of the organization at Metropolitan 5967 here in Washington, as to the possibility of such an appointment. the U.S. Just Maj or General, Respectfully HARRY H. U. VAUGHAN S. Army to wor no (Resl) State 8