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Folder: Correspondence Between President Harry S. Truman and Henry A. Wallace With Attached Letter From Sumner Welles to Henry Wallace. Collection: The United Nations, 1945-53: The Development of a World Organization. Series: Official File.
13 de nov. de 2009 · March | 30. Choose another date. 1948. Henry Wallace criticizes Truman’s Cold War policies. Henry Wallace, former vice president and Progressive Party presidential candidate, lashes out...
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Wallace envisioned a “century of the common man” marked by global peace and prosperity. In the following excerpt from a letter dated July 23, 1946, Wallace urged Truman to build “mutual trust and confidence” in order to achieve “an enduring international order.”. Truman asked Wallace to resign.
- For Further Reading
- Document 2. Truman’s Memorandum to Byrnes, January 5, 1946
- Document 3. Excerpts from George Kennan’s “Long” Telegram, February 22, 1946
- Document 4. Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Address, March 5, 1946
- Notes
There is an abundance of Truman biographies. Among the best is Alonzo L. Hamby’s Man of the People: The Life of Harry S. Truman (1995), which demythologizes Truman, noting his achievements but also portraying his shortcomings as well. The most popular of the biographies is David McCullough’s Truman (1992), which while very readable, is short on ana...
This is an excerpt of the longhand memorandum that Truman wrote and said he read—but in all probability did not read—to Byrnes: My dear Jim: I have been considering some of our difficulties. … I do not intend to turn over the complete authority of the President nor to forgo the President’s prerogative to make the final decision. Therefore, it is ab...
In summary, we have here [the Soviet Union] a political force committed fanatically to the belief that with us there can be no permanent modus vivendi, that it is desirable and necessary that the internal harmony of our society be disrupted, our traditional way of life be destroyed, the international authority of our state be broken, if Soviet powe...
It is my duty … to place before you certain facts about the present position in Europe. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest an...
1. Harry S. Truman, Memoirs. Vol. 1: Year of Decisions(1955), 4–5. Mrs. Roosevelt’s emphasis.2. Robert J. Donovan, Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman 1945–1948(1977), 15.3. John G. Stoessinger, Crusaders and Pragmatists: Movers of Modern American Foreign Policy, 2nd ed., (1985), 56.4. James David Barber, The Presidential Character: Predicting Performance in the White House, 3rd ed. (1985), 223.- Ronald E. Powaski
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Document Set 2: Truman’s Conflicts with Wallace. Cover Page to Speech from Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace to Truman, July 23, 1946; Memo to Mr. Clifford, September 18, 1946; Longhand Notes of President Harry S. Truman, September 16 & 19, 1946; Charlie Ross' Recollection of Meeting Between Henry Wallace & Harry Truman, September 20, 1946
22 de feb. de 2019 · Concerned that President Truman’s policy vis-à-vis the U.S.S.R. endangered the prospects for a durable peace, Wallace sent him a 12-page letter on July 23, 1946 (see Blum, 1973, pp. 589-601). He argued that the “predominance of force,” which the United States enjoyed since it alone had atomic weapons, would encourage the U.S.S ...
30 de ene. de 2024 · Henry Wallace, “ Text of Wallace Letter to Stalin Calling for Peace Program ,” New York Times. Benn Steil, a senior fellow and director of international economics at CFR, sits down...
