certain that this assistance is not misdirected. Your name as National Sponsor will give such assurance. We therefore venture to ask that you allow your name to join those of Dr. Frank P. Graham; Dr. Mordecai Johnson; Dr. H. A. Overstreet; Mme. Vijaya Pandit; Clarence E. Pickett; and Mrs. Grace Yaukey on our National Sponsor list.

With sincere appreciation for any suggestions you feel able to render, and particularly hoping for permission to use the prestige of your name,

JNN/mh

February 14, 1951

Mrs. Lester Neuman
2815 Brandywine Street
Washington 8, D. C.

Dear Mrs. Neuman:

This is to acknowledge your letter of February 2nd to Mr. Hughes
asking that he lend his name as a sponsor to your Art for World
Friendship project.

At the present time Mr. Hughes is in the south on a Negro History
Week lecture tour and we don't expect him home until sometime early
in March. However, I am holding your letter for his attention when
he returns. I hope that this will not be too late for your purposes.
I know that if he were here, Mr. Hughes would certainly want to lend
his support and name to the project which you outline in your letter
as it appears to have the greatest merit.

Until Mr. Hughes can answer you personally, I send you his wishes
for all success to your undertaking.

ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP COMMITTEE

THE WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM

**NATIONAL CHAIRMAN**
MRS. FREDERICK W. MULLER, JR.
FRIENDLY ACRES MEDIA, PA.

**NATIONAL DIRECTOR**
PUBLIC RELATIONS
MRS. LESTER NEUMAN
2815 BRANDYWINE STREET
WASHINGTON D. C.

**NATIONAL VICE-CHAIRMAN**
MRS. FREDERICK HEINZE
5249 CLENDER ROAD
DREXEL HILL, PA.

**NATIONAL TREASURER**
MRS. LUCIUS COLE
607 EDMONDS AVE.,
DREXEL HILL, PA.

**NATIONAL SPONSORS**

**PARTIAL LIST**

MISS EMILY GREENE BALCH
WINNER NOBEL PEACE AWARD, 1946
DR. FRANK P. GRAHAM
DR. MORDECAI JOHNSON
DR. H. A. OVERSTREET
MME VIJAYA LAKSHMI PANDIT
MRS. DUNCAN PHILLIPS
MR. CLARENCE E. PICKETT
MRS. GRACE YAUKEY

February 21
1951

Dear Friend:

As a National Sponsor, this
story of ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP is
being sent to you for your information,
with our sincere thanks for your
interest.

Dear Mr. Hughes,

If you have no use for the children's pictures you receive - we would be delighted to have them - as part of our exchange. They could be sent to Mrs. Muller, in Media P.O.

"In hearts too young for enmity, there lies the hope to make men free"

NATIONAL CHAIRMAN

NATIONAL VICE-CHAIRMAN

NATIONAL TREASURER

NATIONAL SPONSORS

PARTIAL LIST

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NATIONAL DIRECTOR

PUBLIC RELATIONS
MRS. LESTER NEUMAN
2815 BRANDYWINE STREET
WASHINGTON 8, D. C.

Creative art with a purpose; pictures that tell a story: that is the ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP project sponsored by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. The artists are school children in the United States and many foreign countries. The story is "An Approach to PEACE."

Original pictures, interchanged among school children of many countries is a way for children to speak to each other in a language they understand. It is a way to promote friendship and tolerance between peoples of many different cultural patterns without benefit of adult interpretation. And the children love it! By emphasizing the basic similarities rather than superficial differences, attitudes that make for understanding are established before too many prejudices (so often fostered by the adults) have had a chance to become deep-rooted. Since hope for a peaceful tomorrow rests with the children of today, such international thinking must be developed. It is important that this education be started with the very young people.

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom has been dedicated to "Peace" and "Freedom" since its inception at the Hague in 1915. One of its founders, Jane Addams, received the Nobel Peace Award in 1931. Its present honorary International President, Emily Greene Balch, is the only other American woman to have been similarly honored (1946). The ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP project is one additional effort on the part of this organization toward global Peace.

The value of ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP has been recognized by the U. S. Department of State, whose Voice of America carried accounts of a recent showing in Washington, D. C. by radio and the printed word. Briefly, this is how it works: the pictures - thousands of them - are sent to headquarters in Media, Pa., where they are redistributed to all participating groups for exhibition. At the present time the United States and 24 other countries are

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represented - Australia; Austria; Belgium (on the way); Ceylon; China; Czechoslovakia; Denmark; England; Finland; France; Greece; West Germany; Holland; Honduras; Italy; India; Israel (on the way); Japan; Norway; Poland; Switzerland; Portugal; and the United States. Many more are expected as news of this activity spreads. All cooperating schools receive pictures for exhibit. Following the exhibition, individual children take a picture home, with the understanding he write to the young artist. Thus a youngster in India is enabled to see life through the eyes of his little friends in America, Austria, Sweden or other far-away lands. The Japanese and Chinese learn about life in Italy, England, France and other countries, in addition to the United States. Children everywhere discover that we are no different from their own friends, as our American children learn about life in other parts of the world in a new light. In addition to school exhibitions, shows are held in galleries and other public places - always with the one idea of promoting Peace by this simple educational approach.

What started in a small way in 1947 has snowballed to mammouth proportions. New groups here and abroad are sending pictures. Requests to participate are coming from an ever-expanding circle, the most recent being from far-away Pretoria, So. Africa. Several overseas Embassies have asked for loan exhibits. Where necessary, art materials...paper, paint and crayons... are furnished so that no group will be excluded because of the vacancies that still prevail in many areas.

The enthusiasm with which the children greet this sending and receiving of pictures cannot be described; and the friendships that develop are priceless in value. At a time when every Peace effort is of vital importance, this activity MUST CONTINUE. It must continue, and it must grow. For this, *help is needed!* The original volunteer group can no longer carry the burden, either financially or physically. We therefore appeal to everyone to send a contribution....AN INVESTMENT IN PEACE. Be it $100. or $1., it is welcome. Large amounts are important. We need them. But the single dollars add up. They too, are important.

For additional information and copies of the simple rules write to:
Mrs. Frederick W. Muller, Jr., "Friendly Acres", Media, Pa.

Contributions are received with deep appreciation by:
Mrs. Lucius Cole, 607 Edmonds Ave., Drexel Hill, Pa.

ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP COMMITTEE
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
FRIENDLY ACRES, MEDIA, PENNSYLVANIA

ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP was inspired 7 years ago by a speaker at a UNESCO conference who spoke of the value of art in developing understanding and friendship between peoples. Art it is which gives a lift to the spirit, which sustains and nurtures that within man which is more than physical.

Because it seemed impossible for a small group of housewives to get artists of the world to exchange their art, the idea evolved, why not exchange the art of children if a world of peace and good will is to be achieved. Believing sincerely in the opening preamble of the Constitution of UNESCO, "As wars begin in the minds of men. It is in the minds of men the defenses of peace must be constructed". But we change it a bit to say "in the hearts and minds of men the defenses of peace must be constructed".

The chairman of the group, having been a teacher, was convinced that all children, of whatever race or country, have a latent creative force which expresses itself spontaneously if given an opportunity. The conclusion drawn by many teachers, artists, etc., is that the means and modes of expression in both graphic and plastic forms are inherent in the human race. Given an opportunity to express themselves creatively, children solve their own problems and there are no problem children.

The child is no longer considered a small adult but is a complete entity. As Prof. Cizek of Vienna writes, "Ideas and methods of expression of adults should never be imposed upon children!"

The attitude of the Art for World Friendship Committee towards child art has changed and matured in the more than six years it has been in existence. We now realize it is more than becoming acquainted with each other, it is developing a climate in which world peace may grow and develop. Its members believe that art in the widest sense of the word is a vital part of education, and that it is of the greatest importance in helping to mould the adult of the future, and he, in turn, the great new world.

From sixty schools in fourteen different countries participating at the end of the first year, now, nearly seven years later, school children in 36 different nations are exchanging pictures, plus schools in all but a few of the United States, and all the schools in Alaska.

Six nations think so highly of the project that they have placed it under their ministries of education - Holland, Denmark, Italy, Israel and India. Holland, inspired by ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP, held their first international children's art show in October and November, 1952, which was attended by nearly 8,000 persons, and highlighted by the visit of Queen Juliana. It was given newspaper, radio and television coverage. Again inspired by A.W.F., on November 8, 1952, an international exhibition of children's drawings opened at Madras, India. The opening ceremony of this exhibition was performed by the Governor of Madras.

Israel, which is getting not only drawings made by United States children, but also by children from other countries, is planning an international exhibition which will travel all over the State of Israel, and then the pictures will be distributed to the children. A shipping company in New York carries supplies sent from ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP COMMITTEE to Israel regularly, gratis.

Because the Committee has always felt that no child anywhere should be excluded by lack of materials, they offer to supply them. Since October, 1951, approximately 20,000 sheets of paper and 100 dozen boxes of crayons have been sent in answer to requests. In addition to this 200 pounds of art supplies have been sent to Israel through a Memorial Fund set up for this purpose. Through a sum specifically allocated for the purpose monies have been sent to schools chosen by the Ministers of the various countries to spend as seems best by the particular school. Five such schools which are selected on basis of need and cooperation will receive checks this year.

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To date checks have been sent to India, Italy and El Salvador, and the other two will probably be sent to Costa Rica and the Philippines.

All of the Embassies in Washington have received information regarding ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP, and many of them have publicized it in their countries. The Embassy of the Netherlands has offered the use of its diplomatic pouch for the transmission of pictures to and from the United States. The Indian Embassy will do the same, as will Norway. The most recent countries heard from are the Philippines, El Salvador and Costa Rica, in which it seems every school wishes to participate. From El Salvador comes this message, "The program of ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP must be received with good will by all the teachers and pupils of the world as it will serve to build peace for the future."

But all the schools in these latter countries have no paper or crayons unless we send them, and not only the materials, but transportation is expensive. The funds we use are contributions from the Committee members; small contributions from others, with the exception of $500 from the Duke Foundation, for which we are very grateful; participating fees from many of the United States' schools and church groups; and many people who have given so generously of their services. Twenty mounted exhibits have been sent out during the past year, with a number booked for the near future. These serve to arouse interest among adults and children, and are often the inspiration for picture exchanging.

When the National Chairman visited Europe this past summer, she was given a warm welcome everywhere because of ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP. A conference with a representative of the premier of Belgium; a reception attended by representatives of the press; of the Ministry of Education; and the head of the UNESCO Center in Holland. In France she was enabled to meet important people in UNESCO and in England the Council for Education in World Citizenship, an associate of the United Nations, were interested and promised to publicize the picture exchange. Everywhere people seem to feel that in their children lies the only hope for a friendlier world.

We encourage letter writing or picture exchanging between the children. We know Madras, India, has received letters from East Aurora, N.Y.; Media, Pa. children from the four corners of the world; a girl in Bristol, England, writes for a better address of an Anchorage, Alaska girl and a boy in Australia writes to a young girl in Pennsylvania.

We hope you will like our report and are as glad to be associated with us as we are proud and happy to have your sympathetic interest and support. We have learned many things during the year(s)- about art, about children, and perhaps about ourselves. Mr. Habib Gorgi, the famous artist of Kubbah Gardens, Cairo, Egypt, writes, "The only way leading to world peace should come from within, through the unconditioned flow of spontaneous works of art, as revealed by the children. Indeed, such pure works of art are genuine pointers towards eternal peace. The pictures should be chosen for their spontaneity, for spontaneity is genuineness and truth and without them there is no peace on earth." We feel the project must go on. The chain of good will, understanding, and friendship is of inestimable worth for the world of tomorrow and must not be broken. This world, if it wishes to survive must unite itself.

Respectfully submitted,

Maude Muller

Contributions to A. W. F. are tax deductible.

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 East 127th St.
New York 35, N.Y.

ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP

HONORARY INTERNATIONAL CHAIRMAN

Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

NATIONAL TREASURER

Mrs. Lucius Cole

U. S. and INTERNATIONAL CHAIRMAN

Mrs. Frederick W. Muller, Jr.

FRIENDLY ACRES
MEDIA, PENNSYLVANIA
U. S. A.

"In hearts too young for enmity, there lies the hope to set men free"

June 13, 1960

Langston Hughes

20 East 127th St.
New York 35, New York

Dear Langston Hughes:

We want you to know how much we appreciate your continuing interest and support of Art for World Friendship as one of its Honorary Sponsors. Because of the press of detail in an exchange such as this, we have not been able to send you regular reports of our activities. We have felt that with very limited personnel, the children who were seeking this kind of international contacts should have priority in our time and attention.

I am enclosing our International Report and hope that this will bring you up-to-date on many aspects of the work. You will note that during the year 1958-1959 50,000 pictures have been received and distributed. What this means in terms of human understanding only the children themselves could say.

We hear of the light in the dark eyes of a little Indian girl who receives a letter from an American child to whom one of her pictures was sent. She examines the enclosed photograph hungrily and is eager to hear from a translation of the letter, how many brothers and sisters this new foreign friend has. America can never again be only an unknown political state far away. It has become the home of her "friend".

Our expenses continue to be met by a small fee from all U.S. participants and contributions from interested groups and friends. We hope that you will speak of the work which we are doing to anyone whom you feel might be able to help further this effort for peace-making among the world's future citizens. We would very much like to have any comments or suggestions that would help us contact interested individuals or groups, especially abroad.

Thank you again for your support and cooperation.

Maude Muller (Mrs. Frederick W.)
U.S. and International Chairman

HONORARY SPONSORS

MISS EMILY GREENE BALCH
(Winner of Nobel Peace Award 1946)

DR. RALPH J. BUNCHE

DR. HENRY SEIDEL CANBY

DR. FRANK P. GRAHAM

MR. LANGSTON HUGHES

DR. MORDECAI JOHNSON

H. E. ERIK BOHEMAN, Ambassador of Sweden

H. E. ABBA EBAN, Ambassador of Israel

H. E. SADAO IGUCHI, Ambassador of Japan

H. E. HENRICK DE KAUFFMANN, Ambassador of Denmark

H. E. GEORGE V. MELAS, Ambassador of Greece

H. E. WILMHELM MUNTHE DE MORGENSTIERNE, Ambassador of Norway
and MRS. MUNTHE DE MORGENSTIERNE

H. E. CARLOS P. ROMULO, Ambassador of the Philippines

H. E. DR. J. H. VAN ROIJEN, Ambassador of the Netherlands

MR. HENRI BONNET, Former Ambassador of France

DR. K. T. JUTILA, Former Ambassador of Finland, and MME. JUTILA

SENOR DON RAFAEL DE LA COLINA, Former Ambassador of Mexico

MR. VLADIMIR POPOVIC, Former Ambassador of the Federal Peoples
Republic of Yugoslavia

DR. ALBERTO TARCHIANI, Former Ambassador of Italy

MME. VIJAYA LAKSHMI PANDIT, Former Ambassador of India

MR. ANGELO DI BENEDETTO, Colorado, U. S. A.

MISS FREDA KIRCHWEY

MR. OTTO T. MALLERY

DR. H. A. OVERSTREET

MRS. DUNCAN PHILLIPS

MR. CLARENCE E. PICKETT

DR. RAYMOND STITES

MRS. GRACE YAUKEY

ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP

Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

NATIONAL TREASURER

Mrs. Lucius Cole

Mrs. Frederick W. Muller, Jr.

FRIENDLY ACRES

MEDIA, PENNSYLVANIA

U. S. A.

May 15, 1962

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 East 127th Street
New York 35, N. Y.

Dear Mr. Hughes:

We want you to know how much we appreciate your continuing interest and support of Art for World Friendship as one of its Honorary Sponsors. Because of the press of detail in an exchange such as this, we have not been able to send you regular reports of our activities. We have felt that with very limited volunteer personnel, the children who were seeking this kind of international contacts should have priority in our time and attention.

I am enclosing our International Report and hope that this will bring you up-to-date on many aspects of the work. You will note that during the year 1961-62 all five continents were represented and we have had pictures from sixty-three different sections of the world. What this means in terms of human understanding only the children themselves can say.

We hope that you will be pleased to make some comments on our program which we may quote in our new brochure.

HONORARY SPONSORS

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DR. RALPH J. BUNCHE, UN

MR. JOHN CANADAY, Art Critic

MR. ANGELO DE BENEDETTO, Artist

MISS GERTRUDE ELY, Humanitarian

MR. CYRIL GARDNER, Artist

DR. FRANK P. GRAHAM, UN

MR. FRANK PALMER GRAHAM, Philadelphia Art Museum

MRS. DICKERMAN HOLLISTER, Temple of Understanding

MR. LANGSTON HUGHES, Poet

DR. MORDECAI JOHNSON, Educator

MISS FREDA KIRCHWEY, Editor

MR. ANTONIO MARTINO, Artist

DR. H. A. OVERSTREET, Author

MRS. DUNCAN PHILLIPS, Art Patron

MR. CLARENCE E. PICKETT, Peace Leader

MR. HOBSON PITTMAN, Artist and Teacher

MRS. DANIEL SILVERMAN, Art Patron

DR. RAYMOND STITES, National Gallery, Washington, D.C.

MRS. SARA BARD FIELD WOOD, Author

MRS. GRACE YAUKEY, Writer

AMBASSADORS TO THE UNITED STATES

H. E. K. KNUTH-WINTERFELDT, Denmark

H. E. AVRAHAM HARMAN, Israel

H. E. KOICHIRO ASAKAI, Japan

H. E. DR. J. H. VAN ROIJEN, The Netherlands

H. E. G. R. LAKING, New Zealand

H. E. PAUL KOHT, Norway

H. E. CARLOS P. ROMULO, The Philippines

H. E. EDWARD DROZNIAK, Polish People's Republic

H. E. GUNNAR JARRING, Sweden

H. E. VISUTR ARTHAYUKTI, Thailand

OTHERS

H. E. HENRI BONNET, former Ambassador of France

H. E. GEORGE V. MELAS, former Ambassador of Greece

H. E. WILLIAM GOPALLAWA, Governor-General of Ceylon

MRS. FUAD NAJJAR, Lebanese Federation of Women, Lebanon

MRS. WADEA K. KHARTABIL, Arab Women's League, Lebanon

DAME KATHLEEN LONSDALE, Scientist, England

DR. MANA BOONKHANPHOL, Physician, Ceylon

MRS. CLASCA OZINGA, Art Educator, The Netherlands

GOVERNOR AND MRS. NEY BRAGA, State of Parana, Brazil

MR. JOSEPH MEYOUHAS, Ministry of Education, Israel

DR. TANO JODAI, Women's University, Tokyo, Japan

NORA ROBERTS, Director, Clarinda Art Studio, Ireland

D. KENNETH WINEBRENNER, Editor, "Education through Art"

ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP

June 1963

Ralph J. Bunche, the Under-Secretary of the United Nations, is one of the Honorary Sponsors of ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP, and in his letter to us he says, "The promotion of friendship amongst the children of the world is, in my view an indispensable effort." As the United Nations' great mission is World Peace, we feel Dr. Bunche knows that Peace is the product of many efforts. This is why for the past 17 years ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP, thru the universal language of art, has tried to plant the idea of World Friendship in the young and growing minds. Many of our earliest participants are now adults who we hope are more peace-minded because of the friendships formed thru the international exchange of their art work.

More and more children are participating in the project, and since the exchange takes place thru group leaders of all kinds, such as clubs, schools, churches, etc., we find that many adults come to have a first hand experience with this building of peace-minded individuals. A typical letter from a school teacher in England says, "The atomic weapons research establishment is just two miles away from our school so we need to think peacefully." Then from Dr. Edwin Ziegfield, Director of Art at Columbia University, we learn "The great and essential task of making the world ONE cannot be achieved without art." Thus you can see why in carrying out the program of ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP we can never put World Peace out of our minds.

The work of the project has increased each year as more children and groups participate and it is a joy to report that the quality of work received from our own children and those from abroad has improved during the past years. We have asked the group leaders to help the children feel that each one is a little diplomat as he represents his country with his art and therefore it should be his best. As we all know, talent is not the primary element we look for; rather we look for the message of love and communication and this we find in great abundance.

We have received inquiries from the Republic of the Congo saying they wish to participate in this program and we are looking forward to receiving pictures from them in the future. The same is true of Yugoslavia. One never knows what the day's mail of letters and packages will bring. It is a bit like Christmas or a birthday.

More groups in Brazil are participating so we are having the brochure and rules translated into Portuguese. This will be added to the French, German, Spanish and Italian translations which are now available.

The exchange of pictures is carried out with the help of group leaders who send to the International headquarters at Friendly Acres, Media, Pennsylvania, a certain number of pictures, each identified with the child's name, age and address. (This encourages the child in another country who receives this picture to start a corresponding friendship if he is able.)

In the United States the participating group pays a fee of $2.00 to $5.00 to cover the cost of sending their pictures abroad and the cost and postage of returning to them a like number by age groups from other countries. We ask all groups to exclude war pictures; this has been faithfully respected.

ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP

June 1963

The program does not participate in, or promote any art competition since we believe all children who care to participate should do so without any reflection on their comparative talents. In this way all children are represented, not just a selective group.

Quite naturally people of all ages love child art. This can be seen at Exhibits of ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP. Here adults have an opportunity to share these delightful pictures and the reaction can be anywhere from a sigh to a laugh. Those of us who work with the pictures get quite a lift from the fun and optimism they convey. We have the Philadelphia Museum of Art and its director of education to thank for the selection and mounting of four exhibition collections. In addition, there are a number of exhibition collections, selected and mounted by ourselves on poster board, which with the others have been sent all over the country and on occasion have been sent abroad. For several years Gimbels of Philadelphia has exhibited the pictures of ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP during the Christmas Season and we truly appreciate their kind support.

We are also grateful to the Children's Theater of Philadelphia who, in addition to their contribution to the cultural life of the children of Philadelphia, have contributed to the financial needs of this program so to help the cultural needs of the children of the world. The Jane Addams Peace Association is another such friend. Over 50,000 pictures were processed in 1962 and 1963, and 30 exhibits of the international collection were held. The correspondence has greatly increased and at times is more than the Chairman and part-time help can handle. During the past year 500 to 750 brochures per week have been sent out, in addition to the 50 which are included with every exhibition collection. Twenty to twenty-five letters and postcards are written per week. All in all the growth of the program indicates a great need for financial support that will allow the project to hire clerical help. During the year we have received two very fine gifts of drawing and construction paper which we distribute to foreign schools. At the present we have a large supply that is waiting until we can afford shipping charges. Perhaps you know that in many cases we have to pay the postage for some foreign schools and groups who would otherwise be unable to send us their art work. To meet all these increased financial needs we have been seeking out additional ways of approaching foundations and individuals or groups who would like to see this program continue and grow. All suggestions are welcomed.

Our list of Honorary Sponsors continues to grow and we are now pleased to have 42 including 10 ambassadors to the United States. These are all listed in our new brochure which we would be happy to send on request. Also to anyone who would like to know how to participate in the exchange of children's art we would be happy to send the rules and necessary information. Our address once again: ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP, Friendly Acres, Media, Pennsylvania, USA.

Maude Muller
International Chairman
ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP

ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP

Friendly Acres

51 West 8th Street

Media, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Mr. Langston Hughes
c/o Simon & Schuster, Publishers
Rockefeller Center
630 Fifth Avenue
New York 20, New York

ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP

Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

NATIONAL TREASURER

Mrs. Lucius Cole

Mrs. Frederick W. Muller, Jr.

U. S. A.

May 17, 1965

My dear Mr. Hughes:

If anyone had told me eighteen years ago what was in store for ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP, I would have thought him hopelessly mad. Since the first piece of art arrived in the mail in 1947 we have put nearly one million children of some seventy countries in touch with each other.

Indeed the incredible has happened and with it more wonderful things than I would have dared dream. The art, the letters, the friendships formed among children, the expressions of warm appreciation from teachers, parents, ministers, and high government officials have made every minute of these past eighteen years seem like an unrepeatable miracle.

What I have seen happen makes me believe more than ever in the words which have inspired our efforts, "In hearts too young for enmity there lies the hope to make men free." ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP has a lasting role to play in fostering world peace.

The world-wide interest in our efforts has now reached such magnitude that I recognize the future of ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP is far beyond the ability of a single individual and a tiny handful of volunteers. To respond to the opportunities that are all around us we now need help. A full time secretary, more funds for shipping and postage, some means of interpreting our work to many, many more people are our immediate needs. In eighteen years we have never asked for funds but our future now depends upon immediate and substantial financial support.

It is with this in mind that I am writing first to a few friends who have already expressed a keen interest in the future of our adventure in world peace. To broaden the number of those who feel responsible for our work and at the same time provide funds with which to extend our influence, we are offering opportunities for friends to become members of ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP. $1000 will make you a Life Member; $500 an International Member; $100 a National Member; $50 a Sustaining Member; $25 a Contributing Member and $10 a Supporting Member.

The cry for world peace is urgent. I know that your interest and support of ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP is a contribution to that peace. I am counting on you.

P.S. Of course, ART FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP is fully accredited for tax deduction by the Department of Internal Revenue.