Correspondence Files, 1960-1967.

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Correspondence Files, 1960-1967.

Lutheran Immigration Service correspondence files (1960-1967) contain correspondence, memoranda, and reports regarding LIS refugee activities in China and Europe, LIS area committee activities, cooperation and coordination with the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), participation in and cooperation with international and national committees and agencies, and cooperation with the U.S. government refugee offices. Correspondents of note include Donald E. Anderson, LIS director; and Eugene Ries and Bruno Muetzelfeldt, LWF -Department of World Service Secretaries for Resettlement and Material Relief.

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Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod.

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Lutheran World Federation

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Ries, Eugene.

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Muetzelfeldt, Bruno.

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National Lutheran Council. Division of Welfare. Lutheran Immigration Service.

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The National Lutheran Council (NLC) was established on September 6, 1918 as a common agency of participating Lutheran church bodies to administer domestic programs, publicize Lutheran activities and beliefs, and provide overseas emergency relief to areas devastated by World War I. By the 1940s the NLC expanded and reorganzied its program through the creation of divisions, departments, commissions, and bureaus. Its Division of Welfare was first established as a Department in 1940 and...

Anderson, Donald Ellsworth, 1942-

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