TRUMAN HARRY S Typed Letter Signed as President to Judge Bro

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"INTERNATIONALISM . . . ORIGINATED . . . WITH YOUR U.S. SENATOR FROM MISSOURI" 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 internationalism 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.
'. . . 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 resolution which Fulbright afterward introduced into the House and which became fundamental policy of the Senate . . . .
'I had discussed this program with President Roosevelt in the early part of 1943 when the Bretton Woods program was first discussed . . . , which finally ended in the San Francisco conference.
'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. . . .'