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[[Left Margin]] CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE JAMES G. BLAINE Chairman EUGENE E. BARNETT Vice Chairman PEARL S. BUCK WILLIAM C. BULLITT COLBY M. CHESTER PAUL G. HOFFMAN RUFUS M. JONES THOMAS W. LAMONT HENRY R. LUCE JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, 3D RAYMOND RUBICAM DAVID O. SELZNICK ROBERT GORDON SPROUL CHARLES F. WILLIAMS WENDALL L. WILLKIE [[/Left Margin]] [[Right Margin]] OFFICERS OF NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Honorary Chairman PEARL S. BUCK Chairman MRS. JAMES E. HUGHES Vice Chairman ------------------------ OFFICERS OF CORPORATION JAMES G. BLAINE Chairman EUGENE E. BARNETT Vice Chairman JOHN E. BIERWIRTH, Treasurer RAYMOND F. ADAMS Assistant Treasurer JOHN POST, Secretary B, A. GARSIDE Executive Director [[/Right Margin]] UNITED CHINA RELIEF INC. [[symbol]] 1790 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, N. Y. CIRCLE 5-4100 CABLE UNICHINAID January 29, 1942 My dear Yaching: We are all glad that you are having a good time in New Orleans, and we do realize that it is worthwhile for you to remain there if it is doing good for United China Relief. I imagine you are thoroughly enjoying yourself as well. Of course, you were scheduled to go with Mrs. Chu to the cocktail party in Plainfield, New Jersey, on Sunday, February first. This is a young people's group and they have sold some of the tickets on the basis that you would be there as guest of honor. However, if you do not get in before Sunday we shall arrange for someone else to go, and say you were unavoidably detained (is that right?). Now about the interesting express package which arrived Tuesday. I hasten to make my explanation. The package arrived before your letter did. As it was addressed to me, I supposed that it was up to me to make the distribution and I tried to do so thinking of the various ones to whom you would want a tin to be given. Therefore, I had distributed them thus--Mr. Mueller and Mr. Moore together for their department; Mr. Zachary for himself and Publicity; Miss Connor, as she is always looking for new things in the way of merchandise; one to Mrs. Chu and one to Mr. Cheng (as I had noted that on your other trips, when you brought something back, you usually gave to both of them, I thought); one to Mr. Ballin, the "nice young man" in our department; and one to Miss Talbot in our Department. I had reserved the other four for Mr. Garside, Mr. Hedrick, Mrs. Brinckerhoff, and Mr. Bailey's Department (Mr. Rogerson is no longer here), but these last four had not yet been given out. Then your letter arrived, later in the day, and I noted your distribution plans. Naturally, I felt very badly about having gone ahead as I did. But as I said at the beginning, I thought it was up to me to give them around. As you asked me to save four tins for you, I am keeping them instead of giving them to the last four people mentioned above. We have had a very urgent request for you to be the speaker at the Assembly of the New Jersey College for Women at New Brunswick, New Jersey. This is a part of Rutgers University, and is the most important place at which to speak, we feel. I went ahead and accepted the data of March sixth for you, at twelve twenty noon. They asked for you to speak for twenty-five minutes and to stay with them for luncheon immediately following the Assembly. I think that the Dean of the College, Miss Margaret T. Corwin, has been to China, from the statements she has made in her letters. I felt so sure that you would really enjoy this engagement, because it is a lovely college and close to New York, that I thought I should go ahead without waiting for you to return to talk it over. I think the same talk that you will give to PARTICIPATING AGENCIES: - American Bureau for Medical Aid to China . American Committee for Chinese War Orphans . American Friends Service Committee . Associated Boards for Christian Colleges in China . China Aid Council . China Emergency Relief Committee Church Committee for China Relief . Indusco (American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives.
