Referral Memoranda

June 9, 1945 mzl Respectfully referred to the Department of State by memorandum. M. C. LATTA Executive Clerk Letters to President Truman - Kahan, Roland T., S1/c, 357 No. New Jersey Avenue, Atlantic City, New Jersey. Writer deplores the secrecy that surrounds the United States peace policy in Germany. Favors a hard peace for Germany. Urges the Presiden' to reshuffle the State Department and recall Sumner Welles to the HOWE, J. A., 221 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz, California. 5/31/45. Writer position he rightly deserved. asks for the President to do all in hiw power to try for an early BROADMAN, George H., 284 State Street, Perth Amboy, New Jersey. 6/2/45. peace with Japan. Writer urges the President to use his powers against the power politics that seem to be the order of the day at the San Francisco Conference. GERMERSHAUSEN, Mrs. John, 1239 Battery Avenue, Baltimore, 30, Maryland. 6/3/45, Writer asks that the President eo something about the absence of prayer at the San Francisco Conference. Feels that the conference cannot be successful unless the aid and wisdom of God. is invoked. QUINN, Mary Ford, 128 Chester Street, Mount Vernon, New York. 6/4/45. Writer protests the freedom of the 984 Refugees at Oswego. Feels that they should be returned to their native countries. JENSEN, Jens, The Clearing, Ellison Bay, Wisconsin. 5/25/45. Writer feels that Slesvig should be turned over to Denmark as it has been an old Danish land for more than a thousand years and it was never German. VUTNER, Celia, 26, Highstone Mansions, 84, Camden Road, London, N.W.I., England. 5/29/45. Jewish refugee, who fled Germany to Erance, Italy and is now living in England, asks if there is any way she can realize her great draam, and be allowed to enter the Uni ted States of America. LeROY, J. H. S., 355 Carr Avenue, Keansburg, New Jersey. 6/2/45. Writer feels that President Truman should not meet with Stalin and Churchill until he is fully conversant with the foreign plans of Franklin D. Roosevelt. FORT, Claire E., 233 E. 66th Street, New York, 18, N. Y. 5/15/45. Writer expresses his views on what should be done with the German race and the German prisoners of war here in the U. S. OLSON, Emil, 834 Raymond Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota. 5/15/45. Letter is not clear, apparently is protesting the easy treatment we are giving the Nazi war criminals. MARCH, Mrs. David, 3030 W. 23rd Street, Brooklyn, 24, New York. 5/15/45. Writer asks why we need the aid of murderers and arch-criminals in the administration of our part of Germany. Feels that the Prussian Generals are just as guilty as the bettiest Nazi party man and that both should be gotten rid of. KAPUSTKA, Stan Lee, Co-editor, The Kapustkan Magazine, 5013 So. Throop St., Chicago, 9, Illinois. 4/17/45. Encloses thibutes to President Roosev- elt. States that their message to mankind is the carrying on of FDR's fight for rreedom and battle for brotherhood. Asks questions concerninf punishment for War criminals. OSTRAW, Esther R., 2728 Church Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. 5/22/45. Urges speedy action on the punishment of Wer Criminals.