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M. KNOEDLER & CO., Inc.
14 EAST 57th STREET
NEW YORK 22, N.Y.
PARIS, 22 RUE DES CAPUCINES
LONDON. 14 OLD BOND STREET
CABLE ADDRESSES
"KNOEDLER"
NEW YORK PARIS LONDON

February 14, 1947.
Mr. Germain Seligmann,
c/o Jacque Seligmann & Company,
5 East 57th Street,
New York 22, New York.

Dear German:
I have been asked by American Aid to France to write to you on its behalf. I am glad to do this, in the belief that you share my feeling that France is a nation which should and must receive our help. She certainly deserves this of us, not only because of what she has suffered during recent years, but because of our common love of freedom and democracy. She is making a valiant struggle to regain her political and economic health, and it is important for us, as well as for herself, that she should be re-established as a stronghold of free people on the European continent.

American Aid to France, in addition to the food, clothing and medical supplies which it has been sending, plans to build community health and rehabilitation centers in eighteen of the most devastated regions of France. These centers, as General Eisenhower has said, "will serve as practical and living memorials. They will also serve as tokens of lasting friendship to our great sister democracy, in whose future we have such confidence."

The enclosed editorials from the "Times" and "Tribune", and the pamphlet which I also enclose, will describe this timely effort briefly, though in greater detail.

We are trying to raise $2,150,000. nationally for 1947 needs. There is certainly no business or profession which is more indebted to France than ours, and I hope you will let us have your support in the form of a generous cheque. 

Sincerely yours, 
Charles R. Henschel
Charles R. Henschel.