By the Grace of G‑d
January 26, 1948

Mr. Samuel Kramer,
New York, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Kramer

I wish to take this opportunity to thank you for your good offices in connection with our request for Military permits for the two delegates to the Occupation Zones in Europe.

We are in receipt of the letters from Congressman Bloom and from the Army Department to Sen. Wagner, which you were good enough to forward to us. We shall be equally obliged to you for forwarding to us any other correspondence you may further receive on the subject.

I want you to know that we sincerely appreciate your kind cooperation in the matter, which is of far-reaching importance to many of our sorely pressed brethren in the displaced camps in Europe. They are certainly suffering considerably physically, but their spiritual plight is no less serious. The proper education facilities which the ML.Ch. is doing its best to make available to them and to others is more than a first-aid injection. In the words of last week's Sidrah: 'All the disease ...I will not afflict upon thee, for I the Lord am thy healer.' The best cure, the Torah teaches us, is prevention. A good Jewish education, that is one in the spirit of the Torah and Mitzvah, achieves this objective. This is also the purpose of the M.L.Ch.

With kind regards,
Sincerely yours,
Rabbi Mendel Schneerson
Chairman, Executive Committee