AMERICAN RED CROSS

1709 WASHINGTON AVENUE
ST. LOUIS 3, MISSOURI

February 15, 1944

TO Chapter Chairmen
War Fund Chairmen

FROM Tne Manager

SUBJECT President Roosevelt's War Fund Proclamation

The proclamation of the President of the United States, facsimile
of which is enclosed, is an important key for use in your chapter's War Fund
campaign, since the president of the nation also is president of the American
Red Cross. :

This year the proclemation effectively emphasizes and summarizes
the domestic and world-wide responsibilities and the inmediate finencial needs
of the Red Cross. Your chapter should make judicious use of it.

The proclamation cannot be released for publication in any form
prior to Februery 20. Chapters wishing to use it in pamphlets or leaflets now
in preparation may do so provided such material is not distributed before
February 20.

 

Your chapter may desire to open its solicitation of larger individual
gifts on February 20, simultaneously with the release of the President's state-
ment.

A newspeper mat of the original proclamation will appear in a future
issue of the Red Cross News Service sheet and can be obtained from the Midwestern
Area office on request.

Yours very truly,

 

H. Fe Ke Sisk
Manager

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