Weiner, Sylvia (1912-2008) to Morris "Moe" Weiner
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #:
GLC09414.0040
Author/Creator:
Weiner, Sylvia (1912-2008)
Place Written:
[Brooklyn, New York]
Type:
Autograph letter signed
Date:
21 May 1943
Pagination:
12 p. ; 22 x 14 cm.
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Sylvia went to a USO meeting, and to see "Counter Attack" [stage play about a Russian soldier-made into a movie in 1945] and read his letters during intermission. Tells him that FDR gave an audience to our delegates from the C/O Community Council.
USO- (United Service Organizations) Private, nonprofit, non-partisan organization whose mission is to support the troops by providing morale, welfare and recreation-type services.
Vichy France- French State during the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain, during World War II,1940-1944.
"Citizen Tom Paine" by Howard Fast 1943.
"Counter Attack" -Stage play about a Russian soldier-made into a movie in 1945.
Spanish Loyalists-also known as the Republicans who fought in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 against Francisco Franco leader of the Nationalists.
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