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[RON CURTAIN REFUGEE CAMPAIGN of the INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE, INC. Honorary Chairmen: 62 WEST 45th STREET Hon. Sumner Welles Admiral Richard E. Byrd NEW YORK 36, N. Y. Board of Directors REINHOLD NIEBUHR MU 2-4672 Chairman DAVID F. SEIFERHELD Treasurer A. A. BERLE, JR. PAUL F. BRISSENDEN JOSEPH BUTTINGER HENRY SEIDEL CANBY April 25, 1952 WILLIAM J. CASEY LEO M. CHERNE CHRISTOPHER EMMET H. WILLIAM FITELSON ALVIN JOHNSON A. E. JOLIS NELSON P. MEAD LESSING J. ROSENWALD Honorable and Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman I. M. SCOTT DAVID SHER 820 Park Avenue GEORGE P. SKOURAS GENERAL CARL SPAATZ STERLING D. SPERO New York, New York SHEBA STRUNSKY TELFORD TAYLOR MSGR. BELA VARGA L. HOLLINGSWORTH WOOD Dear Senator and Mrs. Lehman: CHARLES S. ZIMMERMAN Thousands of men and women who have escaped from Sponsors behind the Iron Curtain seeking freedom in human dignity will GOV. SHERMAN ADAMS, N. H. GORDON W. ALLPORT be deprived of our help by May 20th unless additional funds GOV. SIGURD ANDERSON. S. D. GOV. EDWARD R. ARN, Kan. becoias available. Iron Curtain refugee leaders have appealed GOV. FRANK A. BARRETT, Wyo. ANDREW BERNHARD desperately for help to avert this great human tragedy which is GOV. JOHN W. BONNER, Mont. GOV. GORDON BROWNING, Tenn. outlined in the enclosed advertisement from the New York Times GOV. C. NORMAN BRUNSDALE, N. D. JAMES BURNHAM of April 22nd. EMANUEL CELLER WILLIAM M. CHADBOURNE GOV. ELBERT N. CARVEL, Del. MARQUIS W. CHILDS We Americans must determine within the next few weeks HENRY SLOANE COFFIN GARY COOPER whether our brothers who take great risks to come to our side GARDNER COWLES HOWARD S. CULLMAN will be abandoned. I am writing to you today because of the C. SUYDAM CUTTING MRS. DWIGHT DAVIS warm interest you have shown toward our work in the past. GOV. PAUL A. DEVER, Mass. GOV. THOMAS E. DEWEY, N. Y. GOV. ALFRED E. DRISCOLL, N. J. SHERWOOD EDDY Please sustain this great humanitarian work by send- MARK ETHRIDGE GOV. |OHN S. FINE. Pa. ing your tax-deductible contribution today toward a $250,000 RUSSELL FORGAN EARL G. HARRISON Emergency Fund to help those who stand with us against the ARTHUR GARFIELD HAYS SIDNEY HOOK Communist attempt to dominate the world. Let us together GOV. LEN JORDAN. Idaho H. V. KALTENBORN assure that no man or woman who chooses our side in this world- GOV. WALTER J. KOHLER, JR., Wis. GOV. ARTHUR B. LANGLIE Wash. wide battle between freedom and slavery will ever be turned GOV. J. BRACKEN LEE, Utah GOV. 'JOHN LODGE, Conn. back to Communism. ARCHIBALD MacLEISH GOV. DOUGLAS McKAY, Ore. GOV. THEODORE R. McKELDIN Md. GOV. SIDNEY S. McMATH. Ark. Sincerely yours, BRIEN McMAHON JAMES MARSHALL ROBERT MONTGOMERY ALLAN NEVINS GOV. FREDERICK G. PAYNE. Maine GOV. VAL PETERSON, Neb. GOV. HOWARD PYLE, Ariz. PAUL A. PORTER GOV. DENNIS J. ROBERTS. R. I. MRS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Admiral Richard E. B; OREN ROOT GOV. CHARLES H. RUSSELL, Nev. Honorary Chairman GOV. HENRY F. SCHRICKER, Ind. GOV. ALLAN SHIVERS, Texas GOV. FORREST SMITH. Mo. PAUL C. SMITH GOV. ADLAI E. STEVENSON 111. CHARLES P. TAFT HAROLD E. TALBOTT NORMAN THOMAS GOV. DAN THORNTON, Colo. GOV. WILLIAM M. TUCK, Va. GOV. EARL WARREN, Cahf GOV. FULLER WARREN Fla W. L. WHITE GEORGE D. WIDENER THORNTON WILDER MATTHEW WOLL GOV. LUTHER W. YOUNGDAHL, Minn. Contributions deductible from taxable income. 168 Programs and financial statements filed with the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid of the Department of State.