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73/16/49 6-6 February 25, 1949 s Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Ever so many thanks for your letter of February eighteenth with which you forwarded tele- graphic protest you had received from THE ASSOCIATION ON AMERICAN INDIAN AFFAIRS and THE AMERICAN FUND re the deficiency appropriation of $550,000 to keep certain Navajo schools open. x119 x I share your concern over this threat to the welfare of the Indian children who will be without educational facilities after March fifteenth unless x107 the sppropriation is authorized. I an glad to advise you that Mr. Warne, x6 Assistant Secretary of the Interior, had been standing by for two days to be heard by the Senate Committee on x419-6 Deficiency. Mr. Warne was heard in part yesterday afternoon and is completing his testimony before the Committee as this is written. There is therefore ground for hope that the appropriation struck out by the House Appropriations Committee will be restored by X 419 the Senate. With every good wish, HART ARCHIVES RECORDS NATIONAL TRUMAN 1 lways sincerely, U.S. SERVICE GOVERNMENT Sgd) HARRY S. TRUMAN Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, X pp7460 Val-Kill Cottage, x 280 Hyde Park, New York. wdh-aw 296