Excerpt from The Enormous Room Enormous
He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps.
He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation.
He was entombed by the French Government.
It took the better part of three months to find him and bring him back to life - with the help of powerful and willing friends on both sides of the Atlantic.
Mr. President:
It seems criminal to ask for a single moment of your time. But I am strongly advised that it would be more criminal to delay any longer calling to your attention a crime against American citizenship in which the French Government has persisted for many weeks - in spite of constant appeals made to the American Minister at Paris; and in spite of subsequent action taken by the State Department at Washington, on the initiative of my friend, Hon. -.
The victims are two American ambulance drivers, Edward Estlin Cummings of Cambridge, Mass., and W - S - B -....
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