Auction Date:2011 Jul 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, National Committee on Food for the Small Democracies letterhead, April 12, 1941. The former president and current committee chairman contacts Mrs. William Appleton Lawrence, Jr. in Springfield, Massachusetts. In part: “I feel that we have a national duty and interest to befriend these people in this great crisis, and I hope the purpose here set forth will appeal to you. There are now more than 800 members on the National Committee and over 2000 local committees distributed among the 48 states. If you agree with us, we would greatly like to add you to this Committee, in order that a wider spread of understanding can be given to a difficult and complex subject. Your membership would add to our effectiveness in creation of American support for a solution.” Several somewhat heavy intersecting horizontal and vertical folds with a vertical fold crossing the end of Hoover’s name, and light wrinkling, otherwise fine condition.
As honorary chairman of the National Committee on Food for the Small Democracies, the former president tried to rally support to aid the women, children, and destitute in those European nations affected by World War II and save them from the inevitable famine and pestilence that confronted them. As a neutral nation...at least for another seven months...Hoover’s equally neutral organization tried to guarantee that food supplies for the needy would not only be imported through the German and British blockades, but also protected from an occupying army. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, brought the United States into the war and forced Hoover’s relief organization to suspend its activities, not resuming until after the war was nearly over.
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