Box 1 - A Statement

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• “A Statement” and Related Documents (memo, R. Frobe, 20 September 1963)
• Chronology of meetings
• List of signers and others involved in discussions
• Previous inventory of the collection (4/23/82)

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• Letter to “Dear Friend and Brother” from “THE COMMITTEE,” 20 September 1945
• “A Statement” (mimeographed, legal-size)
• “A Statement” (typescript)
• “A Statement” (mimeographed, letter-size)
• Printed two-color brochures
• Response card
• Printed brochures with names of subsequent signers
• Lists of subsequent signers (various mimeographed formats)

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Includes first copy off the press

Scope and Contents Albrecht, W. “Study of ‘Statement by the Forty-Four’” (Mimeographed, 22 November 1945, 17 pages) (3) B., J., “What Is True and What Is False in the Statement of the ‘Forty-Four’?” The Confessional Lutheran (August 1946) Bente, Paul F., Letter “To the Signers of the Statement …” 15 November 1945 (3) Dahms, A.C. Mimeographed copy of “To All Who Wrote to the Undersigned regarding the Chicago Statement,” along with copy of...

Scope and Contents “Comments on ‘A Statement’” (mimeographed, anonymous [Geisemann?], 7 pages) “Re: A Statement” (mimeographed, anonymous, 8 pages) Article, The Australasian Theological Review, 31 December 1945, pages 119–20 (typed carbon copy) “Copy of Resolutions,” Lutheran Business and Professional Federation, Executive Committee, 12 January 1946 “A Startling Statement,” tr. Norman A. Madson, editorial in ...

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Brenner, John M. “The Statement of the 44 Revisited,” Wisconsin Lutheran Quarterly 93 (Winter 1996): 34-36

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• Koehler, E. W. A., “An Agreement,” 14 February 1947
• MacLaughlin, Wallace H., “A Former U. L. C. Pastor Looks at the Agreement,” (printed, undated)

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“The Testimony of Luther’s Writings on Union without Unity” by A. V. Kuster

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• Letter, Central Regional Pastoral Conference, Northern Illinois District, “To the Board of Control and Electoral College of Concordia Seminary, The Rev. J. W. Behnken, D.D.,” 20 October 1945 (2)
• Procedure (undated) for dealing with the protest of the Central Regional Pastoral Conference (2)
• Letter, L. J. Sieck, et al. To “Members of the Central Regional Pastoral Conference of the Northern Illinois District of the Missouri Synod,” 1 Nov 1945 (2)

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“Dear Doctor Behnken,” mimeographed, 18 June 1949