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“INTERNATIONALISM . . . ORIGINATED . . .
WITHYOUR U.S. SENATOR FROM MISSOURI”
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TRUMAN, HARRY S.Typed Letter Signed, as President, to Judge Brown Harris
(“Dear Brown”), explaining how the recent shift in U.S. policy from isolationism to inter-
nationalism was due in part to the efforts of Truman at a meeting he chaired in 1943. 2
pages, 4to,White House stationery, written on the first and terminal pages of a folded sheet;
horizontal fold. (TFC)
Washington, 15 November 1946
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. . . I . . . know how much you think of the late President—I also was a very great admirer of his.
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. . . I called a session of the Special Committee of which I was then the Chairman and created
the 2-B – 2-H organization, that is Ball, Burton, Hill and Hatch.They introduced the resolu-
tion which Fulbright afterward introduced into the House and which became fundamental policy of
the Senate . . . .
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I had discussed this program with President Roosevelt in the early part of 1943 when the
BrettonWoods program was first discussed . . . , which finally ended in the San Francisco con-
ference.
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The conversion of the country to internationalism, therefore, to some extent, . . . originated in
the Senate and in a certain committee meeting which was held in 1943 with your U.S.
Senator from Missouri presiding. . . .”
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TRUMAN, HARRY S. Photograph Signed and Inscribed, “Best wishes to /
Shannon C. Douglass,”
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and reading. Inscribed in the image, lower left. 7
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inches; remnants of prior matting
along upper edge recto (not affecting portrait). (TFC)
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