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                <opener><dateline><date when="1948-01-09">January 9,
                        1948</date></dateline><salute>Dear <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__288" type="person">Dr. Brightman</rs>:</salute>
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                <p>The reasons for my not being a member of the American Association for a
                    Democratic <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__122" type="place">Germany</rs> are:</p>
                <p>1) I was during the war the Chairman of the American Committee for a Democratic
                        <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__122" type="place">Germany</rs>, consisting of
                    all groups of refugees and sponsored by the American Association. After <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__356" type="place">Potsdam</rs> the Committee was
                    split for the same reasons for which the Great Alliance has broken.<note type="ea">Im Herbst nach der Potsdamer Konferenz, die vom <date from="1945-07-17" to="1945-08-02">17. Juli bis zum 2. August 1945</date>
                        stattfand, führten unüberwindbare Differenzen über das Potsdamer Abkommen zu
                        Austritten und dem faktischen Ende des Council for a Democratic
                        Germany.</note> So I decided to resign from the whole action.</p>
                <p>2) There is no more <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__122" type="place">Germany</rs>,
                    but an American and a Russian colony, and this can be changed only by another
                    war which to avoid was the purpose of my Committee.</p>
                <p>3) I have resigned from all politics in order to be able to write my <rs ref="#tillich__IUGJQLWM #tillich__BXKAXZQ2 #tillich__SHC2E52P" type="work">Systematic Theology</rs>.</p>
                <p>Many thanks!</p>
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                    <salute>Cordially yours,</salute>
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                            Paul Tillich</rs></signed>
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