Letter from Freda Kirchwey to President Harry S. Truman, with Attachment

20 VESEY STREET NEW YORK 7, N. Y. THE "Nation ASSOCIATES President FREDA KIRCH WEY F. ADVISORY COUNCIL Chairman May 10, 1948 DR. FRANK P. GRAHAM Vice Chairmen DR. HENRY A. ATKINSON MARC CONNELLY WILLIAM ROSENBLATT JAY ALLEN Honorable Harry S. Truman THURMAN W. ARNOLD White House ROGER N. BALDWIN TRUMAN California Washington, D.C. G. A. BORGESE ERSKINE CALDWELL RECORDS EVANS CLARK SERVICE Dear Mr. President: HENRY COHEN GOVERNMENT ALBERT SPRAGUE COOLIDGE HELEN GAHAGAN DOUGLAS Tomorrow morning the Washington Post will carry, in THOMAS H. ELIOT IRVING M. ENGEL the form of a full-age advertisement, the text of an open MRS. LILLIAN H. FLORSHEIM letter to you requesting the implementation of the November 29 LEWIS GANNETT J. W. GITT resolution on Palestine. JOSEPH F. GUFFEY LILLIAN HELLMAN SIDNEY HOLLANDER I have been requested to send you the enclosed text SYLVAN L. JOSEPH of this open letter by the signators to it who are, apart from J. M. KAPLAN JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS, JR. myself, Henry A. Atkinson, who is Secretary of the Church JOHN P. LEWIS Peace Union; Bartley* C. Crum, publisher of, PM and your appointee FRANCIS THOMAS MANN J. McConNELL 2204-13 WALTER C. LOWDERMILK to the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry; Leon Henderson, who is the National Chairman of, Americans for Democratic Action; JAMES H. McGILL PHILIP MURRAY Philip Murray, President of the C.I.O.; James G. Patton, Presi- REINHOLD NIEBUHR 1170 dent of the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union; and EUGENE O'NEILL BORIS PREGEL T. O Thackrey, editor and publisher of the New york Post and 5555 T. EDWIN QUISENBERRY Home News. REVERDY C. RANSOM WAVERLEY Root JAMES N. ROSENBERG It is our hope that in the week which remains before GAETANO SALVEMINI FREDERICK L. SCHUMAN the end of the British Mandate, action will be taken by you PAUL H. ToDD to insure the recognition of the Jewish state as a means of WALTER WHITE STEPHEN S. WISE maintaining the prestige of this country, the authority of SAMUEL ZEMURRAY the United Nations, and peace in the Middle East. - LILLIE SHULTZ Director Sincerely yours, President