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May 27th., 1943.

Dear Miss Sardi:

Having read that [[underlined]] Mr. W.A. Harriman [[/underlined]] is at present in this country, I am wondering if you could be good enough to ask him whether he is interested in the matter of paintings and works of art which have been looted or sold under duress, as a result of the present war.

Should he be, I am appending a copy of a letter which I wrote to one of the leading museum directors - whose name I have omitted for obvious reasons of discretion - and which letter covers certain views I have on this topic.  This museum director told me that he had forwarded my letter to a committee formed in Washington for studying such questions.

However, due to the great opposition I have found just while developing my ideas in the course of conversations, I am very much afraid that these suggestions, entirely based on altruistic motives and which you will realize would be very harmful to our business - and perhaps even to the building up of museum collections - will be discarded unless they are adopted and sponsored by someone belonging to the "inner circle" of the government.

Yours very sincerely,

(Germain Seligmann)

Miss Sardi
c/o 4 East 66th. St.,
New York, New York.