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November 28, 1945.

Dear General Marshall:

I was hoping for your sake, and also to some extent selfishly, that after relinquishing your duties as Chief of Staff you were going to take a well earned rest.  I might thus have had an opportunity of calling on you.  Hardly, however, had this thought gone through my mind than the papers announced your taking up new duties of great responsibility in China, which, I am afraid, are going to keep you away for quite a while.

Though I purposely refrained from communicating with you during the last few years, you can readily imagine how often I thought of the great burden you had, and of the superb work you were achieving.  You have recently been the recipient of so many laudatory comments and recognitions that it would seem puerile for me to add anything further, but I would like you to know that I am just one in the multitude of those who from far have applauded you.

It was cruel to me that the Army had not accepted my services, when we landed in Europe - but the war was won nevertheless!!

With all good wishes and warm personal regards,

Sincerely yours,

(Germain Seligman)


General George C. Marshall,
2118 Wyoming Ave., N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 

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