In an open letter to Rep. Thomas C. Hennings Jr. of Missouri, the American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom through its national chairman, Prof. Franz Boas, today urged the Congressman to amend his bill permitting evacuation of British children on American ships to include also evacuation of anti-Nazi and anti-Fascist refugees trapped in France.
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