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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