our Theodore Koerner School, which arrived
this summer (via the German Consulate General in Chicago), also
came from the V.D.A. If you need more first readers or study
books, please write directly to me. Your request then goes
immediately--without the official way via the Consulate and
Foreign Office--to our Central Book distributing place. Please
say how many you need and what else beside the first readers and
primers[22] you need. I will take care that it will be promptly
attended to. Fritz Kuhn, of course, has to be informed of your
request and has to give his okay....

With German greetings,
CARL G. ORGELL.

Five days earlier Orgell had written to Gissibl: "You may perhaps
remember that I am in charge of the work for the _Volkbund fuer das
Deutschtum im Ausland_[23] for the U.S.A."

[Illustration: A letter the Dies Committee shelved--Carl G.
Orgell identifying himself to Peter Gissibl as a representative
of the People's Bund for Germans Living Abroad.]

On March 18, 1938, Gissibl, who had been taking instructions from
Orgell, received the following letter from Stuttgart:

Dear Peter:

From your office manager. Comrade Moeller, I received a letter
dated February 15. He informed me among other things that an
exchange of youth is out of the question for this year. I regret
this very much. I would like to see, in the interests of our
common efforts, if we would have had youth all ready this year,
especially also from your district. Perhaps it is still
possible with your support. The time, of course, which is still
at our disposal, is very limited. This I can see clearly.

I will write to you again in greater detail soon. In the
meantime you can perhaps send me more detailed information about
the development of your school during the past weeks; I
recommend again the fulfillment of your justified wishes
wholeheartedly. Let us hope that the result might be achieved
very soon towards which we in common strive.

Hearty greetings from house to house.

In loyal comradeship,
Yours,
G. MOSHACK.

On May 20, 1938, E.A. Vennekohl, of the People's Bund for Germans
Living Abroad, wrote to Gissibl as follows: