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...much this kind of work can mean to the distressed of Europe is illustrated by another letter we have received as a result of the Zielezinski story -this one from a Polish D.P. now living in England. He writes...
...from a TIME reader in Los Angeles was one of those that came to us shortly after we had printed a story you may remember. It told how Farmer Paul Rhinehart of Peacock Station, Va., had offered a house and $100 a month to a Polish D.P. named Marian Zielezinski, who had arrived in the U.S. a fortnight before with his wife Irma, their two baby boys, two suitcases and nothing else...
Said Farmer Rhinehart of D.P. Zielezinski: "Right away he puts his hands like he was giving them to me for a present-like to ask me where he should start working. We can't speak a word to each other but we sure piled up a heap of understanding...
...plight of Europe's displaced persons has of course been getting a great deal of attention-from Congress, from the press as a whole, from organizations, from individuals anxious to help. A pleasing indication of this interest is the response from TIME readers to the Zielezinski story. During the past few weeks a good many of you have written to TIME to ask how you can help displaced persons admitted to this country. For example...
...look at the picture of the Zielezinski family and oh, how I envy them! but wish them the best also. I was once a farmer like Mr. Rhinehart but in 1939 the Germans took my property away and in 1945 the Soviet-Polish regime took it again for themselves. How gladly would I accept the place of a laborer on a farm like the one of Mr. Rhinehart, and feed the chickens for him, because I cannot do much hard work - being feeble and middleaged. Please do not forget about us D.P.s from many European countries...