LEGION FOR AMERICAN UNITY 103 PARK AVENDE CITY Telephone: MUrray Hill 5 - 2087

Ferdinand Pecora Dean Alfange Charles Poletti Stoyan Pribichevich National Chairman National Vice-Chairman Chairman, Executive Committee Secretary. Executive Committee Hendrik Willem van Loon Henry Morgenthau, Sr. Joseph Pulvermacher National Secretary Honorary National Treasurer National Treasurer

November 24th, 1941

Honorable Herbert H. Lehman Executive Mansion Albany, New York Dear Governor Lehman: Judge Pecora and 1 would like to have you join the National Committee of the Legion for American Unity, the names of whose members are on the reverse side of this letterhead. The Legion was organized to develop a high level of public morale among America's thirty million naturalized and first generation citizens, and to unite them in support of Pres- ident Roosevelt's historic purposes. The purpose and program of the Legion are briefly set forth in the enclosed pamphlet. With kindest personal regards, I am Sincerely yours,

DEAN National Vice Chairman

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HERBERT H. LbHMAN PAPf f S 1

A National Organization of Naturalized and First Generation American Citizens Dedicated to the Cause of Freedom

i NATIONAL COMMITTEE

LOUIS ADAMIC. Author Yugoslavia WILLEM J. LUYTEN, Professor of Astronomy, LEOPOLD ADLER, Merchant and Banker..... Czechoslovakia University of Minnesota, Netherlands East Indies E. F. W. ALEXANDERSON, Chief Engineer, LEONARD LYONS, Columnist Austria General Electric Company, Sweden THOMAS MANN, Author... Germany DEAN ALFANGE, and Author JOSEPH MARTINEK, Exec. Secy. Czechoslovak RUDOLPH ALTROCCHI, Professor of Italian, Natl. Council of America, Czechoslovakia University of California, XAVIER MARTINEZ, Artist Mexico OTHMAR HERMANN AMMANN, Civil Engineer Switzerland THOMAS C. MEEKS, Banker ...... Ireland LUIGI ANTONINI, Vice President, International Ladies LEON S. MOISSEIFF, Consulting Engineer Latvia Garment Workers Union, Italy S. A. MOKARZEL, Editor and Publisher Lebanon CAROL ARONOVICI, City Planner Rumania HENRY MORGENTHAU, SR., Former Ambassador to , Germany BORIS M. ARTZYBASHEFF, Illustrator Russia WILLIAM A. NEILSON, President Emeritus, Smith College, Scotland MAX ASCOLI, Professor of Political Science, VAN A. NOMIKOS, Supreme President of Ahepa Greece New School for Social Research, Italy HENRY W. NORDMEYER, Professor of German, MOST REV. ARCHBISHOP ATHENAGORAS, Clergyman Greece University of Michigan, Germany ZLATKO BALOKOVIC, Violinist Yugoslavia HUGH A. O'DONNELL, Former President, ADRIAAN J. BARNOUW, Professor of Germanic Languages, Eucharistic Congress, Ireland MARTHA OSTENSO, Author... Norway Columbia University, Netherlands CLARENCE Y. PALITZ, Banker Estonia GEORGES BARRERE, Virtuoso France CONSTANTINE PANUNZIO, Sociologist Italy DR. CARL BECK, Surgeon Bohemia JOHN A. PATERACKI, President, Pulaski Memorial Committee, AUGUST BELLANCA, Labor Leader Italy ANGELO PATRI, Educator Italy MRS. DOROTHY J. BELLANCA, National Vice President, FERDINAND PECORA, Justice, New York State Supreme Court, Italy Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Latvia CHARLES POLETTI, Lieutenant State, Italy HENRI BERNSTEIN, Author and Lecturer France LILY PONS, Metropolitan Opera Company ....France JACOB B1LLIKOPF, Director, Labor Standards Assn.. Lithuania DR. DAVID DE SOLA POOL, Clergyman England ERNEST BLOCH, Composer... Switzerland ALMERINDO PORTFOLIO, Treasurer of ...Italy G. A. BORGESE, Chairman, Department of Romance Languages, STOYAN PRIBICHEVICH, Author Yugoslavia University of , Italy JOSEPH PULVERMACHER, Pres., Sterling National Bank, Germany DR. A. A. BRILL, Psychiatrist and Author... Austria MAX RADIN, Professor of Jurisprudence, JOHN L. BUCKLEY, Acting Minority Leader, University of California, Poland N. Y. State Senate, Ireland CHARILAUS G. RAPHAEL, Lawyer Greece DR. HAROLD G. CAMPBELL, Superintendent DR. NATHAN RATNOFF, Medical Director, of Schools, N. Y. C, Scotland Beth Hospital, Russia FRITZ REINER, Musical Director, SAMUEL CHOTZINOFF, Music Critic Russia Symphony Orchestra, Hungary PAUL PHILLIPPE CRET, Architect France SIMON H. RIFKIND, U. S. District Judge... Russia MORRIS CUKOR, Former Civil Service Commissioner Hungary ALEX ROSE, Secretary, Poland ERNEST L. CUNEO, Lawyer Italy , Professor of History, WALTER DAMROSCH, Composer and Conductor Germany Harvard University, Italy TARAKNATH DAS, Historian India r MICHAEL SCHAAP, President, Bloomingdale's Netherlands ANTON J. DE HAAS, Professor of International Relationships, DR. BELA SCHICK, Discoverer, Schick Test Hungary Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration Netherlands MAX SCHLING, Horticulturist Austria RAPHAEL DEMOS, Professor of Philosophy, M. LINCOLN SCHUSTER, President, Simon and Schuster. Austria Harvard University, Greece PAUL SCHWARZ, Former German Consul General Germany MAJ. ALEXANDER P. DE SEVERSKY, Aeronautical Engineer, Russia SAMUEL SHORE, Vice- President, International LOUIS I. DUBLIN, Vice President, Ladies Garment Workers Union, Russia Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Lithuania HANS SIMONS, Dean, New School for Social Research ...Germany DR. ALBERT EINSTEIN, Physicist Germany SPYROS P. SKOURAS, President, National Theatres Greece CARL ENGEL, President, G. Schirmer, Inc...... France NICOLAI SOKOLOFF, Conductor, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Russia MORRIS L. ERNST, Lawyer Austria K. WILHELM SOLLMANN, Former Secretary of Interior, CARL J. FRIEDRICH, Professor of Government, German Republic, Germany Harvard University, Germany PITRIM A. SOROKIN, Chairman, Department of Sociology, STEPHEN GALATTI, Director General, American Field Service, Greece Harvard University, Russia HARRY D. GIDEONSE, President, Brooklyn College Netherlands T. A. STARZYNSKI, President, Polish Falcons of America .....Poland ARTHUR J. GOLD SMITH, Investment* Germany VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON, Explorer SAMUEL GOLDWYN, Motion Picture Producer Poland MAURICE STERNE, Artist Russia WILLIAM G. HELIS, Industrialist ...... Greece OTTO STRUVE, Director Yerkes Observatory Russia PHILIP K. HITTI, Professor of Semitic Literature, HONORABLE GEORGE SUTHERLAND, Princeton University, Lebanon Justice, of the U. S. Supreme Court, Retired, England NIKIFOR HRYKORJIV, President, MARTEN TEN HOOR, Dean, Tulane University Netherlands Ukrainian Working-men's Society, Ukrainia DANIEL J. TOBIN, President, Int'l. Brotherhood of ERNEST HUTCHESON, President, Juilliard School of Music, Australia Teamsters and Chauffeurs, Ireland HERMANN IRION, Steinway and Sons Germany MARIA TOLSTOY, Social Worker Russia JOSEPH JASTROW, Psychologist „ Poland A. P. H. TRIVELLI, Eastman Kodak Co. Italy OSCAR JASZI, Professor of Political Science, Oberlin College, Hungary RADOSLAV TSANOFF, Professor of Philosophy, JENS JENSEN, Landscape Architect Denmark Rice Institute, Bulgaria DR. VARAZTAD H. KAZANJIAN, Surgeon Armenia HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON, Historian Netherlands SING KEE, Selective Service Administration, N. Y. C China PIERRE VAN PAASSEN, Author : Netherlands COL. HUGH A. KELLY, Architect and Engineer... Ireland JOHN VASSOS, Designer and Illustrator Greece TIBOR KEREKES, Professor of Government, THEODORE VON KARMAN, Aeronautical Engineer Germany Georgetown University, Hungary HANS KINDLER, Conductor, GEORGE C. VOURNAS, Lawyer Greece National Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands BRUNO WALTER, Conductor, Y. H. KRIKORIAN, Professor of Philosophy, C. C. N. Y Armenia N. Y. Philharmonic Symphony Society, Germany MRS. O. F. LAMSON, Social Worker Armenia MURRAY L. WATT, Lawyer Austria EDWARD LASKER, Inventor Germany MAXIMILIAN F. WEGRZYNEK, Publisher Poland LOTTE LEHMANN, Metropolitan Opera Company ..Germany D. FEDOTOFF WHITE, Historian , Russia SAMUEL S. LEIBOWITZ, County Court Judge, DR. FRITZ WITTELS, Psychiatrist Austria Brooklyn, N. Y., Rumania MATTHEW WOLL, Vice President, EMIL LENGYEL, Author and Lecturer Hungary American Federation of Labor, MAX LERNER, Professor of Political Science, Williams College, Russia JAROSLAV J. ZMRHAL, President, LUDWIG LEWISOHN, Author Germany Czechoslovak National Council of America, Czechoslovakia K. C. LI, Industrialist China RAPHAEL ZON, Forester Russia HARRY W. LIELNORS, Director, Baltic Chamber of Commerce, Latvia. WILLIAM ZORACH, Sculptor Lithuania CLARENCE H. LOW, President, Rockland State Hospital Austria DR. GEORGE ZUELZER, Discoverer of Heart Hormone Germany ADOLPH ZUKOR, Motion Picture Producer Germany ERNST LUBITSCH, Motion Picture Director Germany JOHN A. ZVETINA, Professor of Constitutional Law, ANTHONY LUCAS, Lawyer Yugoslavia Loyola University, Yugoslavia LUIGI LUCIONI, Artist Italy oo c- WILLIAM G. HELIS, Industrialist Greece MICHAEL SCHAAP, President, Bloomingdale's Netherlands PHILIP K. HITTI, Professor of Semitic Literature, DR. BELA SCHICK, Discoverer, Schick Test Hungary Princeton University, Lebanon MAX SCHLING, Horticulturist Austria NIKIFOR HRYKORJIV, President, M. LINCOLN SCHUSTER, President, Simon and Schuster Austria Ukrainian Workingmen's Society, Ukrainia PAUL SCHWARZ, Former German Consul General Germany ERNEST HUTCHESON, President, Juilliard School of Music, Australia SAMUEL SHORE, Vice President, International HERMANN IRION, Steinway and Sons Germany Ladies Garment Workers Union, Russia JOSEPH JASTROW, Psychologist Poland HANS SIMONS, Dean, New School for Social Research Germany CL OSCAR JASZI, Professor of Political Science, Oberlin College, Hungary SPYROS P. SKOURAS, President, National Theatres Greece JENS JENSEN, Landscape Architect Denmark NICOLAI SOKOLOFF, Conductor, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Russia DR. VARAZTAD H. KAZANJIAN, Surgeon Armenia K. WILHELM SOLLMANN, Former Secretary of Interior, SING KEE, Selective Service Administration, N. Y. C. China German Republic, Germany COL. HUGH A. KELLY, Architect and Engineer Ireland PITRIM A. SOROKIN, Chairman, Department of Sociology, TIBOR KEREKES, Professor of Government, Georgetown University, Hungary Harvard University, Russia HANS KINDLER, Conductor, T. A. STARZYNSKI, President, Polish Falcons of America Poland National Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON, Explorer Canada Y. H. KRIKORIAN, Professor of Philosophy, C. C. N. Y Armenia MAURICE STERNE, Artist Russia MRS. O. F. LAMSON, Social Worker Armenia OTTO STRUVE, Director Yerkes Observatory Russia EDWARD LASKER, Inventor Germany HONORABLE GEORGE SUTHERLAND, LOTTE LEHMANN, Metropolitan Opera Company Germany Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, Retired, England SAMUEL S. LEIBOWITZ, County Court Judge, MARTEN TEN HOOR, Dean, Tulane University Netherlands Brooklyn, N. Y., Rumania DANIEL J. TOBIN, President, Int'l. Brotherhood of EMIL LENGYEL, Author and Lecturer Hungary Teamsters and Chauffeurs, Ireland MAX LERNER, Professor of Political Science, Williams College, Russia MARIA TOLSTOY, Social Worker Russia LUDWIG LEWISOHN, Author Germany A. P. H. TRIVELLI, Eastman Kodak Co Italy K. C. LI, Industrialist China RADOSLAV TSANOFF, Professor of Philosophy, HARRY W. LIELNORS, Director, Baltic Chamber of Commerce, Latvia Rice Institute, Bulgaria CLARENCE H. LOW, President, Rockland State Hospital Austria HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON, Historian Netherlands ERNST LUBITSCH, Motion Picture Director Germany PIERRE VAN PAASSEN, Author Netherlands ANTHONY LUCAS, Lawyer Yugoslavia JOHN VASSOS, Designer and Illustrator Greece LUIGI LUCIONI, Artist Italy THEODORE VON KARMAN, Aeronautical Engineer Germany WILLEM J. LUYTEN, Professor of Astronomy, GEORGE C. VOURNAS, Lawyer Greece University of Minnesota, Netherlands East Indies BRUNO WALTER, Conductor, LEONARD LYONS, Columnist Austria N. Y. Philharmonic Symphony Society, Germany THOMAS MANN, Author Germany MURRAY L. WATT, Lawyer Austria JOSEPH MARTINEK, Exec. Secy. Czechoslovak MAXIMILIAN F. WEGRZYNEK, Publisher Poland Natl. Council of America, Czechoslovakia D. FEDOTOFF WHITE, Historian Russia XAVIER MARTINEZ, Artist Mexico DR. FRITZ WITTELS, Psychiatrist Austria THOMAS C. MEEKS, Banker Ireland MATTHEW WOLL, Vice President, LEON S. MOISSEIFF, Consulting Engineer Latvia American Federation of Labor, Luxembourg S. A. MOKARZEL, Editor and Publisher Lebanon JAROSLAV J. ZMRHAL. President, HENRY MORGENTHAU, SR., Former Ambassador to Turkey, Germany Czechoslovak National Council of America, Czechoslovakia WILLIAM A. NEILSON, President Emeritus, Smith College, Scotland RAPHAEL ZON, Forester Russia VAN A. NOMIKOS, Supreme President of Ahepa Greece WILLIAM ZORACH, Sculptor Lithuania HENRY W. NORDMEYER, Professor of German, DR. GEORGE ZUELZER, Discoverer of Heart Hormone Germany University of Michigan, Germany ADOLPH ZUKOR, Motion Picture Producer Germany HUGH A. O'DONNELL, Former President, JOHN A. ZVETINA, Professor of Constitutional Law, Eucharistic Congress, Ireland Loyola University, Yugoslavia MARTHA OSTENSO, Author Norway CLARENCE Y. PAL1TZ, Banker Estonia CONSTANTINE PANUNZIO, Sociologist Italy JOHN A. PATERACKI, President, Pulaski Memorial Committee, Poland ANGELO PATRI, Educator Italy FERDINAND PECORA, Justice, New York State Supreme Court, Italy CHARLES POLETTI, Lieutenant Governor of New York State, Italy LILY PONS, Metropolitan Opera Company France DR. DAVID DE SOLA POOL, Clergyman England ALMERINDO PORTFOLIO, Treasurer of New York City Italy STOYAN PRIBICHEVICH, Author Yugoslavia JOSEPH PULVERMACHER, Pres., Sterling National Bank, Germany Legion For American Unity MAX RADIN, Professor of Jurisprudence, 103 PARK AVENUE University of California, Poland CHARILAUS G. RAPHAEL, Lawyer Greece NEW YORK, N. Y. DR. NATHAN RATNOFF, Medical Director, LEGION FOR AMERICAN UNITY Beth Israel Hospital, Russia Telephone: MUrray Hill 5-2087 FRITZ REINER, Musical Director, A national organization of naturalized and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Hungary SIMON H. RIFKIND, U. S. District Judge Russia first generation American citizens dedicated to ALEX ROSE, Secretary, American Labor Party Poland the cause of freedom. GAETANO SALVEMINI, Professor of History, HERBERT H. LEHMAN PAPERS Harvard University, Italy N. V. PUBLIC LIBRARY COLLECTION to provide these millions of channels for ex- NATIONAL OFFICERS pression of their loyalty and service to Amer- ica; to bring hope and confidence to the un- FERDINAND PECORA, National Chairman Austrian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dane, happy peoples of the Nazi-enslaved nations of DEAN ALFANGE, National Vice Chairman Finn, Frenchman, German, Greek, Hungarian, so that they may be encouraged to HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON, National Secretary Irishman, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, continue their struggle against tyranny. HENRY MORGENTHAU, SR., Honorary National Treasurer Norwegian, Russian, Slav, Spaniard, Syrian, JOSEPH PULVERMACHER, National Treasurer These objectives will be obtained by: CHARLES POLETTI, Chairman, Executive Committee Swede, Turk-AMERICANS ALL. STOYAN PRIBICHEVICH, Secretary, Executive Committee From every land, out of cultures as old as . . . Holding public meetings throughout the to teach and affirm loyalty to our humankind, into the crucible of a new civiliza- NATIONAL COMMITTEE tion whose clear, strong flame of freedom makes country and its democratic ideals. LOUIS ADAMIC, Author Yugoslavia all peoples one. ... Radio broadcasts by noted Americans of LEOPOLD ADLER, Merchant and Banker Czechoslovakia foreign birth or descent. E. F. W. ALEXANDERSON, Chief Engineer, Thirty million Americans, immigrants, sons and General Electric Company, Sweden daughters of immigrants, united for democracy, ... Intensive educational activity, exposing the DEAN ALFANGE, Lawyer and Author Greece for the future of free mankind in THE LEGION insidious machinations of Axis powers in the RUDOLPH ALTROCCHI, Professor of Italian, FOR AMERICAN UNITY. University of California, Italy United States and strengthening the resistance OTHMAR HERMANN AMMANN, Civil Engineer Switzerland of our foreign born to such propaganda. LUIGI ANTONINI, Vice President, International Ladies AIMS AND PURPOSES Garment Workers Union, Italy . . . Providing through public forums, meetings CAROL ARONOVICI, City Planner Rumania The Legion For American Unity has been and publications, an opportunity for the foreign BORIS M. ARTZYBASHEFF, Illustrator Russia organized born and first generation American to voice his MAX ASCOLI, Professor of Political Science, undivided loyalty to his country. New School for Social Research, Italy ... to arouse awareness of the imminent threat MOST REV. ARCHBISHOP ATHENAGORAS, Clergyman Greece . . . Continuous publicity through press, radio ZLATKO BALOKOVIC, Violinist Yugoslavia to freedom and to develop patriotic unity among ADRIAAN J. BARNOUW, Professor of Germanic Languages, the thirty million naturalized and first genera- and other channels to assure our government Columbia University, Netherlands tion American citizens. and the people of the United States that the 30,- GEORGES BARRERE, Virtuoso France 000,000 new Americans support the foreign pol- DR. CARL BECK. Surgeon Bohemia ... to demonstrate and express the loyalty of icy of this nation. AUGUST BELLANCA, Labor Leader Italy these citizens to the principles of freedom and MRS. DOROTHY J. BELLANCA, National Vice President, democracy. . . . Broadcasting messages of hope and con- Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Latvia HENRI BERNSTEIN, Author and Lecturer France fidence in the eventual victory of the armies JACOB B1LLIKOPF, Director, Labor Standards Assn Lithuania ... to unite them behind the foreign policy of of freedom by short-wave facilities to the ERNEST BLOCH, Composer Switzerland the government of the United States. Hitler enslaved peoples of Europe, these G. A. BORGESE, Chairman, Department of Romance Languages, messages to be delivered in their respective University of Chicago, Italy ... to create the bulwark of an enlightened DR. A. A. BRILL, Psychiatrist and Author Austria and unified nation against the propaganda of languages by sons and daughters of their own JOHN L. BUCKLEY, Acting Minority Leader, Axis powers which seek to confuse and divide land here in America. N. Y. State Senate, Ireland our people and to array group against group. DR. HAROLD G. CAMPBELL, Superintendent of Schools, N. Y. C, Scotland ... to support prompt and decisive action on LOCAL CHAPTERS SAMUEL CHOTZINOFF, Music Critic Russia the part of the people and the government of In order that the program of the Legion may PAUL PHILLIPPE CRET, Architect France MORRIS CUKOR, Former Civil Service Commissioner Hungary the United States for the preservation of free- reach into every community and all its people, ERNEST L. CUNEO, Lawyer Italy dom and the triumph of democracy over tyranny local chapters will be organized throughout the WALTER DAMROSCH, Composer and Conductor Germany throughout the world. United States. Each chapter will have its own TARAKNATH DAS, Historian India officers and will work out its own prograoi in ANTON J. DE HAAS, Professor of International Relationships, ... to oppose discrimination against new cooperation with the National Committee. Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration Netherlands Americans of proven loyalty. RAPHAEL DEMOS, Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University, Greece HOW YOU CAN HELP MAJ. ALEXANDER P. DE SEVERSKY, Aeronautical Engineer, Russia PROGRAM LOUIS I. DUBLIN, Vice President, Get together with your friends, neighbors and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Lithuania A dynamic and comprehensive program has community leaders to organize local chapters. DR. ALBERT EINSTEIN, Physicist Germany been mapped out by the Legion For American CARL ENGEL, President, G. Schirmer, Inc France MORRIS L. ERNST, Lawyer Austria Unity. This program has a three-fold objective: Enroll in the Legion and send your contribu- CARL J. FRIEDRICH, Professor of Government, to reach the millions of Americans of foreign tion, of any amount you can spare, to the na- Harvard University, Germany birth and parentage with the inspiring truth tional offices to share the cost of this great and STEPHEN GALATTI, Director General, American Field Service, Greece about this government's defense of freedom; vital work. HARRY D. GIDEONSE, President, Brooklyn College Netherlands ARTHUR J. GOLDSMITH, Investments Germany SAMUEL GOLDWYN, Motion Picture Producer Poland

O G 0*)- LEGION FOR AMERICAN UNITY 103 PARK AVENUE • NEW YORK CITY Telephone: MUrray Hill 5-2087 Ferdinand Pecora Joseph Pulvermacher National Chairman National Treasurer Dean Alfange Charles Poletti National Vice-Chairman Chairman, Executive Committee Hendrik Willem van Loon National Secretary Stoyan Pribichevich Henry Morgenthau, Sr. Secretary, Executive Committee Honorary National Treasurer I was born in the United States Yes No • I was born in (Give Country) My parents were born in_ (Give Country) A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF NATURALIZED AND FIRST GENERATION AMERICAN CITIZENS DEDICATED TO THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM 121 - (over) LEGION FOR AMERICAN UNITY 103 PARK AVENUE • NEW YORK CITY

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