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- GLC#
- GLC00162.14-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- October 29, 1932
- Author/Creator
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
- Title
- to Lewis L. Strauss
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 23 cm, Width: 18 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
- Sub-Era
- The Great Depression
On the fifteenth anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Herbert Hoover writes to "express the hope that the ideal of the establishment of the National Jewish Home in Palestine, as embodied in that Declaration, will continue to prosper." Also notes his admiration for the revival of Palestine through the "hard work and self-sacrifice of the Jewish pioneers." Written on White House stationery.
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