Correspondence, 1916-1922, 1967.

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Correspondence, 1916-1922, 1967.

Correspondence, minutes, reports, and membership lists of Commission officials and members, chaplains, camp pastors, Lutheran lay persons, government officials, associated or cooperative organization officials, Lutheran Bureau officials, and presidents of Lutheran church bodies. Topics regard Canadian Lutheran Commission for Soldiers' and Sailors' Welfare, War Department, Federal Council of Churches, Commission for France, Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, Young Men's Christian Association, Lutheran Brotherhood of America, Commission committees, Lutheran Bureau, interned aliens, industrial centers, and finances.

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