Letter from Charles F. Boss, Jr., Commission on World Peace of the Methodist Church, to President Harry S. Truman

FILED BY in MR. HOPKINS JUL 9 1952 Cable Address: Worldpax COMMISSION ON WORLD PEACE Co-operating with the REV. RALPH W. SOCKMAN World Council of Churches OF CHAIRMAN and MRS. FRANK L. WRIGHT THE METHODIST CHURCH National Council of the Churches of Christ in United States of America VICE CHAIRMAN 740 RUSH STREET. CHICAGO 11. ILLINOIS REV. WILLARD E. STANTON RECORDING SECRETARY REV. CHARLES F. Boss. JR REV. JOHN W. HAYWOOD REV. IRVIN S. MOTZ EXECUTIVE SECRETARY FIELD SECRETARY TREASURER REV. CARL D. SOULE SECRETARY FOR DISTRICT AND Members of the Commission SUB-DISTRICT CONFERENCES REV. EARLE A. BAKER MR. HERMAN WILL, JR. Cedar Falls, Iowa REV. ALBERT E. BARNETT Atlanta, Georgia HR.,30n 133 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT REV. HAROLD A. BOSLEY Evanston, Illinois May 23, 1952 MR. PHILIP BOSSERMAN Junction City, Kansas BISHOP CHARLES W. BRASHARES Des Moines, Iowa REV. C. MAXWELL BROWN Fargo, North Dakota REV. GEORGE W. CARTER The President of the United States Camden, South Carolina The White House MRS. GEORGE GLENN Hutchinson, Kansas Washington, D. C. MISS GEORGIA HARKNESS Berkeley, California REV. EDMUND HEINSOHN Dear Mr. President: Austin, Texas MR. E. P. HOCKING Janesville, Wisconsin MR. V. W. HODGES The press this morning reports the passage by the Senate of a Atlanta, Georgia MR. HARRY N. HOLMES revision of the immigration laws sponsored chiefly by Senator Mc- Ridgefield, Connecticut Carran. BISHOP GERALD H. KENNEDY Portland, Oregon BISHOP PAUL E. MARTIN Little Rock, Arkansas While believing in certain principles included in the bill, we MR. JAMES MCGIFFIN Honolulu, Hawaii believe on the whole that such proposals as would be made by Senators BISHOP ALEXANDER P. SHAW Humphrey and Lehman would be in the interest of the United States. Baltimore, Maryland BISHOP Roy H. SHORT Jacksonville, Florida MR. FRANK D. SLUTZ The General Conference of The Methodist Church, the highest +76-4 Dayton, Ohio authoritative body of the church, took action during its recent meet- REV. RALPH W. SOCKMAN New York, New York ing, April 23 to May 7, in San Francisco urging the elimination of MR. FRANCIS A. STANGER, JR. Cedarville, New Jersey all racial barriers to immigration. A copy of this action is en- REV. WILLARD E. STANTON Chehalis, Washington closed although the secretary of the General Conference may have REV. Guy C. TETIRICK sent it to you earlier. Tulsa, Oklahoma not file 7/12/52 MR. KENNETH THOMPSON, JR. Evanston, Illinois MR. V. L. WHARTON We believe that the present bill as reported should be vetoed # Jackson, Mississippi and both House and Senate requested to provide a bill eliminating BISHOP LLOYD C. WICKE Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania certain technical requirements for immigrants which are embodied in MRS. FRANK L. WRIGHT St. Louis, Missouri the present bill and also increasing the number of immigrants per- Advisory Members mitted to enter this country far beyond the 380 person addition REV. EUGENE L. SMITH which appears to be the restriction embodied in the present proposed New York, New York legislation. REV. EARL R. BROWN New York, New York MISS THELMA STEVENS New York, New York I am sending copies of this letter to Senators Humphrey and REV. JOHN O. GROSS Nashville, Tennessee Lehman, particularly hoping that you may veto the bill and they may REV. J. Q. SCHISLER confer concerning the kind of measure which ought to be passed by Nashville, Tennessee REV. C. A. BOWEN the United States Congress. Nashville, Tennessee REV. HARRY F. DENMAN Nashville, Tennessee With kind regards, I am MR. ROBERT G. MAYFIELD Chicago, Illinois Correspondents and Consultants TROMAN Very sincerely yours, in Europe, Asia, Central MARK NATIONAL America, South America ARCHIVES AND RECORDS and Africa SERVICE CFB:FL GOVERNMENT Charles F. Boss, `Jr. Enc. Executive Secretary A WORLD SERVICE AGENCY OF THE METHODIST CHURCH