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GOOD NEIGHBOR COMMISSION
Of
Texas
Austin
State Capitol
Austin 11, Texas
2109 Second National Bank Building
Houston 2, Texas
17 January 1949
Dr. Hector P. Garcia
3024 Morgan Avenue
Corpus Christi, Texas
Dear Doctor:
After talking to you by 'phone and conforming to the ideas that
were expressed as that time, I have these suggestions to mako to you.
We all agree that the happening at Three Rivers is to be
regretted, and we must bear in mind that the reputation of Texas will
be at stake in history's recording of our handling of this very
delicate matter.
If you will talk to the widow of Felix Longoria and ask her if
she would be agreeable to a change of plans whereby this American
soldier's body would be brought back to Texas for reburial at Three
Rivers, or at least in Texas, that I will assure her, and the Governor
will do everything possible to ahow her that be approves of this action,
that if she and other members of the family care to go to Washington,
we will arrange fro all military honors along National levels to
be carried out in Washington and in her presence, but bring the Hero's
body back to Texas where it should be, and would have been had it not
been for whatever action that caused all of this trouble.
I am not condoning anybody and I regret it as much as anyone
could regret anything of this sort; but bear the thought in mind that
Texas and all Texans and the children of Texans now living will feel
the effect of the criticism, and we all know that none of them had
anything to do with it.
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