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NY file No. 25-40294 Executive Vice-President, U.8.0. Comp Shows, Inc. to Colonel NcDERKOTT. : This letter states in substance that KAYE has been requested oT by the U.8.0. to make a tour of certain overseas bases in an entertainnent | wnit requested by the War Department, and that he, PHILLIPS, had made an apvlication to Local Board 229 for DANNY r KATA'S release dat hed received Ain reply the following: a At a fall meeting of the board held this evening, permission is denied.* The letter continued in substance that KAYE after being examined by all doctors' requests, was placed in 4F and because of this 4F classifica- tion is free to pursue any civilian occupation and also Pemneated a reversal of ruling by Local Board 229. The next letter dated December 31, 1943 to Major GENERAL LEVIS . 3B. HERSHEY, and signed Colonel ARTHUR V. McDERMOT? is quoted as follows? "Dear General Hershey: " I have your letter of December 29 enclosing a letter of appeal from the Determination of Local Board #229 not to issue a permit to depart from the United States to the above named registrant. I have forwarded a sete copy of your letter together with the notice of appeal to the Local Board with instructions to submit the case proxmptly to the Board of Appeals. : Zé " Yor your information I may state that since I last discussed this case with Colonel Davidson, I have received from the Lecal Board a ~ memorandum of the action taken as follows? . ‘Local Board by unanimous vote of 4 to O denied permission to . Danny Kaye, Order No. 1768, to leave the country fer 0.8.0. at request of U.8.0,. Cam Shows Inc. Basis ofdenial~-best interest of country would not be served by registrant being permitted to entertain members of the _ Armed Forces in foreign sones. Weither hie physical or mental condition x 7 or attitude tend to show that the morale of the armed forces yould be 7 4 - Denefitted by his performances before then, as a civilian, ° « ~ The next letter of pertinence in DANNY KAYE'S file is HES dated January 5, 1944, and is addressed to ARTHUR V. NcDERMOT?, attention a of Major General LEWIS B. HERSHEY, and is quoted as follows? " ZT have your letter of December 21, 1943 with regerd to the Notice of Appeal from the Determination of Local Boar #229 4n the case of the above named registrant. ? ~16=