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Glenn E. Smiley asks Merton to write a letter in support of extending humanitarian relief to civilian casualties of the Vietnam War.
Rev. Glenn Smiley was Associate Executive Secretary for the Fellowship of Reconciliation in Nyack, New York, at the time of writing. He was a pacifist, prominent in the Civil Rights Movement, and a friend of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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1964/11/12? |
TLS[x] to Katzenbach, Nicholas |
We, the national staff of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, must call into question the wisdom, |
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[letter from Smiley to Nicholas de Belleville Katzenbach, United States Undersecretary of State under President Lyndon B. Johnson - correspondence retrieved from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made by journalist Robert G. Grip of WALA-TV in Mobile, Alabama during the mid-1980's]
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1967/03/02 |
TALS to Merton |
As you know, when the Fellowship launched its current effort to extend humanitarian relief |
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1967/03/07 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I am enclosing a copy of my letter to Katzenbach. I am afraid that I am so out of touch with things |
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1967/03/07 (#01) |
TL[x] from Merton to Nicholas Katzenbach |
I address this letter to you with diffidence and yet with some hope you will accept it as |
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[copied from Katzenbach file]
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1967/03/07 (#02) |
TL[x] from Merton to Nicholas Katzenbach |
I address this letter to you with diffidence and yet with some hope you will accept it as |
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[letter from Merton to Nicholas de Belleville Katzenbach, United States Undersecretary of State under President Lyndon B. Johnson - correspondence retrieved from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made by journalist Robert G. Grip of WALA-TV in Mobile, Alabama during the mid-1980's]
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