VRH This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone. (C) z Dated October 7, 1939 Rec'd. 6:35 p.m. Secretary of State, Washington. 152, October 7, 5 p.m. FOR THE PRESIDENT AND THE SECRETARY OF STATE There is great fear that there is possibly imminent some action of either one or the other of the belligerents which will harden the present situation into an irrevocable, bitter, real, long and horrible war. It is directed not only to the possibility of an immediate German assault on the western front but to the fact that the other side might precipitately do something that would destroy the trembling "bridge of peace" which delay might yet afford. They still cling desparately to the hope that time and development of some possibly unforeseen events might avert the catastrophe before it is hardened into finality. In this, their darkest hour, I have been requested by a high source to say that the only person in the world who can possibly avert the holocaust is the President of the united States and to express their hope that he might find some |