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MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT 202 FIFTY-SIXTH STREET WEST NEW YORK 19. N. Y. July 3, 1959 Dear Mr. President: I have just been sent an extraordinary article by Julius Epstein which was published in the American Legion Magazine of December 1954 and which tells the rather horrible story of Americans forcing Russian prisoners who had surrendered to them because they were fighting with the Germans against the Russians, into trucks to be returned to Russia. I remember the long fight not to return the prisoners or any refugees in camps in Germany to their countries of origin against their will. This took place February 24, 1946 when the arguments were going on in the UN. Therefore, I cannot understand our government's allowing anything of this kind to happen, and I would like very much to know if this article is based on real facts. The article puts us in a very bad light, and I cannot bear that such an article should