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Weiner, Morris "Moe", 1909-1988 to Sylvia Weiner

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09414.0899 Author/Creator: Weiner, Morris "Moe", 1909-1988 Place Written: England Type: V-Mail Date: 1 January 1944 Pagination: 1 p. : V-Mail Height: 11.5 cm, Width: 14 cm Order a Copy

Moe asks Sylvia to think back to New Year's Day 1937 when Chiang Kai-Shek was kidnapped. No one knew that later that year the war with Japan would start. It was "one of the unexpected milestones" to war and to his being there.

Weiner, Morris "Moe," 1909-1988
Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008

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