AMERICAN MEMORIAL TO SIX MILLION JEWS OF EUROPEme, . 165 WEST 46th STREET Suite 814 NEW YORK 19, N. Y. - Tel. PLaza 7-8430 Circle 6-2880 HONORARY SPONSORS COMMITTEE: BOARD OF DIRECTORS ADVISORY DESIGN COMMITTEE: Honorary Chairman Honorary Chairman CHARLES NAGEL, JR. HON. WILLIAM O'DWYER HON. HUGO E. ROGERS Director, Brooklyn Museum of Art and Sciences Mayor, The City of New York President, Borough of Manhattan Chairman GEOFFREY PARSONS HON. ROBERT MOSES, Member ex-officio I. ROGOSIN Editor, New York Herald Tribune Committee and Board Members: Secretary REV. DR. D. de SOLA POOL Rev. Carlyle Adams PROF. JAMES H. SHELDON FRANCIS HENRY TAYLOR Rabbi Isaac Alcalay Director, Metropolitan Museum of Art Congressman Walter G. Andrews Administrative Chairman Murray Antkies A. R. LERNER Joseph R. Apfel Hon. Thurman Arnold Sholem Asch Rev. Henry A. Atkinson Hon. Joseph C. Baldwin Prof. Salo W. Baron Hon. John J. Bennett B. Bialostotsky February 2, 1950 Justice Hugo L. Black Joseph G. Blum Gay H. Brown Hon. James A. Burke Congressman William T. Byrne Rudolph Callman The Rev. Dr. D. de Sola i^ool Eddie Cantor Hon. John Cashmore 99 Central Park West Congressman Emanuel Celler Prof. Emanuel Chapman New York 23, N. Harry Woodburn Chase Alexander P. Chopin Stuart Constable Hon. Edward Corsi My dear Dr. de Sola Pool: Myer Dorfman Justice William O. Douglas Congressman Edward J. Elsaesser Mrs. Moses P. Epstein In reply to your letter of January 31st, I wi3h Rev. Frederick L. Fagley Hon. James A. Farley to inform you that Mr. Joseph Ho veil was never asked to Abraham Feinberg Rabbi Abraham J. Feldman submit a model. On the contrary, when he called at my Irving Fellerman Hon. Benjamin Fielding office and insisted I should come to his studio, I William M. Floyd Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick warned him not to lose any time or work for the following H. David Frackman Hon. Harold O. N. Frankel reasons: Manfred George Bishop Charles K. Gilbert Rabbi Israel Goldstein Percival Goodman The Jev/ish Museum had already arranged an exhibition Max Gordon Louis J. Gribez and Dr. Kayser told me that he did not have space to put Morris W. Haft Paul M. Hahn more models than he had already in his possession. Hon. Cornelius A. Hall Hon. Robert E. Hannegan Dean Earl G. Harrison Sam Hausman Secondly, I explained to Mr. Hove11 that only Congressman James J. Heffernan Ira A. Hirschmann the Board of Directors could authorize expenditures, and Herman Hoffman Hon. Vincent R. Impellitteri that the Board would not meet for many weeks and would not Senator Irving M. Ives Meyer Jaffe authorize additional expenses. Congressman Jacob K. Javits Jacob Jolles Hon. Lazarus Joseph Ely J. Kahn In short I said heshould abstain from any work Congressman Eugene J. Keogh Congressman Arthur G. Klein for the Memorial. Should he however, against my advice go General Julius Klein Mrs. Alexander Kohut ahead with execution of his idsa in form of a drawing or Hon. Julius A. Krug Leopold Landenberger model he will be in the same position as Chaim Gross, Prof. Arthur Lejwa Isidore Lip.-schutz Alfred Vaaboen and many others who have voluntarily sub- Rubin Levine Maurice Linder mitted models and did not receive any compensation. Bishop S. Harrington Littell Henry R. Luce Joseph F. Mannion Hon. James M. Mead Mr. Hovell assured me that he has a conception of D. L. Meckler Col. Morris Mendelsohn a Memorial and v/ishes to contribute the work to the Memorial Hon. Archibald McLeish Rabbi Uri Miller if only I could help him interest the Jewish Museum in Nathan Musher Samuel Nirenstein exhibiting his model together with the others. I promised Michael M. Nisselson Joseph Opatoshu that I would intervene in his behalf although I knew Dr. Congressman Donald L. O'Toole Ber Padawer Kayser was very reluctant to aceept an3r work by Hovell. On Myer Paltrowitz Justice Ferdinand Pecora my repeated request however Dr. Kayser finally accepted Mr. Senator Claude Pepper ! Mrs. Helen Phillips Hovells model for the exhibit. John Platoff Jacob S. Potofsky Congressman David M. Potts Mrs. William Prince I had two discussions with Mr. Hovell and always Judge Leo F. Rayfiel Harold Riegelman Edward G. Robinson Congressman John J. Rooney Sam Shain Prof. Nathan Stein Channing H. Tobias Cong. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. Justice Benjamin Shalleck Max Steinberg Sidney T. Ungar Adolph Rosen Vincent Sheean Leon Strauss Louis Untermeyer Rabbi William F. Rosenblum Bishop Henry K. Sherrill Herbert B. Sussman Pierre Van Paassen Mrs. Dvorah Rothbard Herman Shumlin Herbert Bavard Swope Senator Robert F. Wagner Congressman A. J. Sabath Edward S. Silver Arthur Szyk Thomas J. Watson Paul P. Salzman Judge Maurice D. Simmons Prof. Arieh Tartakower Mrs. Gene Weltfish Professor Meyer Schapiro Spyros P. Skouras Congressman Dean P. Taylor Samuel L. Wohl Fred Schleger, M.D. Congressman Andrew L. Somers Joseph Thon Harry Yager Max Schonfeld Hon. Harold E. Stasaen Paul Tishman The Rev. Dr. D. de Sola Pool - 2 - February 2, 1950 in the presence of witnesses, I hope that this will answer your questions satisfactory. Of course I am very sorry to hear of Mr. Hovells1 difficulties, but I sincerely trust that this will clear your mind of any misapprehensions regarding the part of the Memorial Committee or myself in contributing, even negatively, to his disstres3. Very sincerely yours, .• R. Lerner ARL:hjp.