Letter from Rabbi Aharon Kotler Regarding Communal Matters - Message to Rabbi Chaim Ozer Regarding the Agudath ...

Letter from Rabbi Aharon Kotler Regarding Communal Matters - Message to Rabbi Chaim Ozer Regarding the Agudath HaRabbanim Convention in the United States, and Regarding the Shechita Decree in Poland - Kletsk, 1930s
Interesting letter handwritten and signed by R. Aharon Kotler. Klestsk, [1930s].
Addressed to one of the associates of R. Chaim Ozer Grodzinski in Vilna. The letter discusses various actions to be taken regarding communal matters. At the beginning of the letter, R. Aharon proposes that a letter from R. Chaim Ozer be sent to the Agudath HaRabbanim convention in the United States, against the Jewish Federations in the U.S. (who tried to prevent Torah institutions in Europe from receiving funds from the centralized fundraising in the United States): "Please notify R. Chaim Ozer that the Agudath HaRabbanim convention in America will be taking place soon… it is imperative that they receive a protest in his name and in the name of all the yeshivot against the Federations…". Further in the letter, he discusses the Shechita Decree (at that time, R. Chaim Ozer was leading an international battle against antisemitic parties in the Polish parliament, who tried to outlaw shechita): "What is being done now about shechita? The newspapers reported that the law will be proposed in the Senate on the 11th of the month. It is crucial that a delegation of Torah leaders appears immediately before the government, and that is preferable to lobbying. May G-d have mercy on the remnants of His nation speedily. Aharon Kotler".
R. Aharon Kotler (1892-1962), disciple of the Alter of Slabodka, was a prominent, outstanding Torah scholar (while he was still a young student, the Or Same'ach predicted that he would be the "R. Akiva Eger" of the next generation). He was the son-in-law of R. Isser Zalman Meltzer. He served as lecturer and dean of the Slutsk yeshiva, and during WWI, he fled with the yeshiva students to Poland, reestablishing the yeshiva in Kletsk. He was one of the yeshiva deans closely associated with R. Chaim Ozer Grodzinski and the Chafetz Chaim. A founder of Vaad HaYeshivot and member of the Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah in Lithuania, he was very involved in managing communal matters in Poland. During the Holocaust, he escaped to the United States, and established the famous Lakewood yeshiva in New Jersey (a yeshiva which changed the face of the yeshiva world in the United States, by inculcating the passion and absolute devotion to Torah study, in the style of the Lithuanian yeshivot). He was one of the heads of the Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah in the United States, and of the Chinuch HaAtzma'i in Eretz Israel.
Letter on a scrap of paper. Approx. 8X22 cm. 7 autograph lines. Good condition. Filing holes (affecting two letters).