Lutheran World Convention/Lutheran World Federation - U.S.A. Files, 1940-1948.

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Lutheran World Convention/Lutheran World Federation - U.S.A. Files, 1940-1948.

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Files contain correspondence of NLC Executive Director Ralph H. Long, Assistant Director Paul C. Empie, and other NLC, Lutheran World Convention (LWC), and Lutheran World Federation (LWF) officials. Files regard LWC convention arrangements, cooperative relief efforts with the Church Committee on Overseas Relief and Reconstruction and the Council of Relief Agencies Licensed for Operation in Germany (CRALOG); participation in the World Council of Churches' (WCC) and the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.'s Church World Service child feeding programs; work of the Evangelisches Hilfswerk in Stuttgart, Germany; NLC. Relief efforts in Europe; and training theology students in Europe. Notable correspondents include: Martin Dietrich, U.S.A. National Committee of the LWF representative in Germany; Stewart Herman, deputy director of the WCC Department of Reconstruction and Relief; Alfred Th. Jorgensen, LWC executive committee member; S.C. Michelfelder, Commissioner of the American Section of the LWC to the WCC; Theodore Tappert, Commissioner of the LWC and LWF; Hanns Lilje, German Archbishop and LWC Executive Secretary; P.O. Bersell, President of the Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod; and Erling Eidem, Swedish Archbishop and LWC President.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library, ELCA Library

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library, ELCA Library

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