LEGION for AMERICAN UNITY 103 PARK AVENDE NEW YORK CITY Telephone: Murray Hill 5 - 2087
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LEGION FOR AMERICAN UNITY 103 PARK AVENDE NEW YORK 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 DA/sbb End. (3) 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, Lawyer and Author Greece JOSEPH MARTINEK, Exec. Secy. Czechoslovak RUDOLPH ALTROCCHI, Professor of Italian, Natl. Council of America, Czechoslovakia University of California, Italy 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 Turkey, 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, Poland 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 Governor of New York 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 New York City ...Italy G. A. BORGESE, Chairman, Department of Romance Languages, STOYAN PRIBICHEVICH, Author Yugoslavia University of Chicago, 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 Israel Hospital, Russia FRITZ REINER, Musical Director, SAMUEL CHOTZINOFF, Music Critic Russia Pittsburgh 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, American Labor Party Poland ERNEST L. CUNEO, Lawyer Italy GAETANO SALVEMINI, 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 Canada 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, Luxembourg 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,