Foster Parents' Plan for Children In Spain
AMERICAN HEADQUARTERS
HOTEL BEDFORD
118 EAST 40th STREET
NEW YORK, N.Y.
CALEDONIA 5-1000
ERIC G. MUGGERIDGE, Secretary
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS
135 HARLEY STREET LONDON W.1.
JOHN LANGDON-DAVIES, Chairman
Partial list of British sponsors
The Duchess of Atholl
The Earl of Listowel
Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
D. R. Grenfell, M.P.
Lawrence Housman
[ ] R J Macnamara
Eleanor Rathbone. M.P.
Wilfrid Roberts, M.P.
Stephen Spender
PARTIAL LIST OF AMERICAN SPONSORS
CARLETON BEALS
STEPHEN V. BENET
WILLIAM R. BENET
ALGERNON D. BLACK
ELEANOR CARROLL CHILTON
FLOYD DELL
PROF. and MRS. PAUL DOUGLAS
EDDIE DOWLING
FRANCES FARMER
HELEN HALL
HELEN HAYES
LILLIAN HELLMAN
DR. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES
JOSEPHINE JOHNSON
MRS. H.V. KALTERNBORN
HELEN KELLER
MANUEL KOMROFF
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH
THOMAS MANN
[ ] L. MAYER
ROBERT NATHAN
KATHLEEN NORRIS
DOROTHY PARKER
CHANNING POLLOCK
LUIS QUINTANILLA
WILL ROGERS JR.
MRS JAMES ROOSEVELT
VIDA D. SCUDDER
GEORGE AND HELEN SELDES
BOOTH TARKINGTON
LOUIS UNTERMEYER
PROF. and MRS HAROLD C. UREY
MISS LILLIAN D. WALD
JOHN HALL WHEELOCK
PERCIVAL WILDE
THORNTON WILDER
MRS. STEPHEN S. WISE
DR. MARY E. WOOLLEY
AMERICAN TREASURER
DAVID J. ALGASE, C.P.A.
November 6th, 1938
Sir Walter Citrine
Trade Union Congress, Transport House Westminster S.W.1 London, England
Dear Sir Walter:
It is just possible you may have heard of the various tasks I was able to carry through during the time I was in Spain for the National Joint Committee. I certainly found everything in that country to encourage me morally and politically.
When John Langdon-Davies left for America, I preceeded him by a short time in order to carry through the preliminary negotiations for creating an organization in this country for his Foster Parents Plan. We successfully carried through this task. On his departure I was appointed executive secretary of the organization to continue the work and aid in the general collection of relief funds. The adoption plan went over very well indeed, as it was something new in this country. With the cooperation of the North American Committee I was able to spend each and every evening speaking before meetings. In all, I attended some two hundred and fifty to three hundred meetings. Some times speaking about the need for help and other times giving an educational outline of what the Spanish fight really means.
I am returning to England on the "Aurania" Cunard White Star Line, which leaves New York on December 8th and arrives at London Dock on December 19th. I am writing to you in the hope that you may have some work for me to do for Spain in any capacity whatsoever. Spain and America's reaction to the Czechoslavakian crisis, are certainly grouped together in such a way as to be especially significant towards our present day problems. I hope I shall be able to see you upon my return. I have also written to Mr.Harris about my return. Trusting, you are completely well, and with many happy memories,
Sincerely yours,
Eric
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