Letter from Maurice Thatcher and Welburn Mayock to President Harry S. Truman with Attachments

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quil FILED BY MR. HOPKINS 834 INVESTMENT BUILDING, JUL 9 1952 Washington 5, D.C. June 12, 1952 HON HARRY S. TRUMAN, The White House, Washington, D.C. HARRE ARCHIVES NATIONAL TRUMAN AND LIBRARY HR 133 5698 Pro RECORDS SERVICE Dear Mr. President: 0.5. GOVERNMENT Mg The Omnibus Immigration and Nationality bill (H.R.5678) now comes to your desk for presidential action. As usual in such cases you will have supporting and opposing recommendations before you. In the American way any individual or organization has the privi- lege of making representations. Accordingly, the undersigned, speaking for the committee named below, would respectfully, but most earnestly, urge that the measure be approved. On March 19, 1952, a meeting in behalf of the bill, and in opposition to the Humphrey-Lehman substitute, was held in the office of the American Legion in Washington, D.C. Representatives x 64 of the following organizations were present: Patriotic Women of America Junior Order United American Mechanics National Society for Constitutional Security National Sojourners Wheel of Progress Disabled American Veterans Military Order of World Wars Military Order of the Loyal Legion American Legion Auxiliary Regular Veterans Association National Society of New England Women