Letter from Michael Straight to President Harry S. Truman with Attachments

93-B American Veterans Committee (AVC) INCORPORATED TO ACHIEVE A MORE DEMOCRATIC AND PROSPEROUS AMERICA AND A MORE STABLE WORLD National Offices 1751 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W. Washington 9, D. C. NOrth 0581 Michael Straight Louis C. Pakiser, Jr. Chairman Executive Director Curtis Campaigne, Jr. November 9, 1951 Vice Chairman NATIONAL PLANNING COMMITTEE REGIONAL CHAIRMEN The Honorable Harry S. Truman Endicott Peabody President of the United States New England The White House Robert Lau Washington 25, D. C. Eastern Andrew E. Rice Atlantic My dear Mr. President Lester H. Persells Southern I am enclosing a copy of a letter I received W. Robert Ming East Central authony.C. C. from General McAuliffe, Assistant Chief of Staff, Department Halvor Oace West Central Art Buck of the Army, and a copy of my reply. This correspondence Western Harold Tucker relates to the elimination of segregation in the Army. x1285-B this Pacific Coast All the members of # the American Veterans Committee MEMBERS AT LARGE Joseph A. Clorety, Jr. were delighted when you issued your Executive Order to Bernard J. Cogan Phil Dreyer eliminate segregation in the armed forces, and we are very John Ellis Ann E. Ewing much concerned with the failure of the Army, after three Arnold L. Fein George Fiedler years, to carry out this order. Robert Gordon Howard H. Horton Yours very truly, Martin L. Larner Mickey Levine Robert P. McDevitt Joseph E. McLean Michael Michael Straight Straight x1142 Robert R. Nathan National Chairman Leo Parskey HONORARY MEMBERS Charles G. Bolte Gilbert A. Harrison Chat Paterson Lincoln Lauterstein National Counsel file Joseph A. Clorety, Jr. National Secretary Philip T. Allen National Treasurer National Corporate Offices, R-2000, 15 William Street, N. Y. 5, N. Y. 11/13