Letter from William Rosenthal, Owner of Pacific Coast Shipwrecking & Salvage Co., Regarding Former President Hoover’s Condemnation of Kristallnacht

SHIPWRECKING YARD MAIN OFFICE, PORT CHICAGO, CALIF. OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA PHONE PORT CHICAGO 66 PHONE HIGATE 423424 WM. ROSENTHAL 6482 Pacific Coast Shipwrecking & Salvage Co. 1505 Financial Center "Dealers in Ships and All Marine Supplies" Bldg. 201181 DIWAY OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA November 16, 1938 Honorable Herbert Hoover, Palo Alto, Calif. My dear Mr. Hoover: I have read the article appearing in the Examiner of Monday, November 14, 1938, and I am taking the liberty of writing you to express to you my heartfelt gratitude and deep and sincere appreciation of the thoughts and sentiments as expressed by your good self with respects to the treatment of our Jewish people in Germany. It is indeed with a sad heart that we read how they are imposing such great suffering and torture upon the Jews in Germany who are innocent of the propaganda and untruths which the powers in Germany are spreading through- out the world. I know that the many thousands of persons of Jewish faith throughout our great nation who have read this article feel as I do with regard to the statement coming from an honorable and revered man as you. I have been in business in Oakland for twenty-five years. I also have three brothers who are in business in Oakland, and three of us have been over-seas and have seen actual service in the World War and we well know and appreciate the wonderful work you have done and the wonderful things you have given to the world. I am sending this article which appeared in the Examiner to Rabbi Wm. M. Stern of Temple Sinai, Oakland, and I am also asking him that at his Temple services on this coming Friday evening, November 18th, that a prayer be said for you and yours. My dear Mr. Hoover, if I can be of any service to you or yours at any time I trust that God will give me strength to do SO. May God bless you, my dear Mr. Hoover, and may he grant to you and your dear ones a long life with continued good health, peace and happiness. Respectfully and gratefully, WMRaentha WR:K WM. ROSENTHAL Owner & Manager ALL OFFERS SUBJECT TO CONFIRMATION UNLESS OTHERWISE AGREED. SALES SUBJECT TO STRIKES, ACCIDENTS OR OTHER CAUSES BEYOND CONTROL Wm Roenthse November 17, 1938 Mr. Wm. Rosenthal 1505 Financial Center Bldg. Oakland, California Dear Mr. Rosenthal: Mr. Hoover wishes to thank you for your most kind expressions. Yours sincerely, Bernice Miller Secretary to Mr. Hoover