Auction Date:2013 Dec 11 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
TLS as president, one page, 8 x 10.5, White House letterhead, October 30, 1947. Letter to the director of the Bureau of the Budget, James E. Webb. In full: “The Acting Secretary of State, in reporting to me on the progress made in examining the report submitted by the Paris Conference on European Economic Recovery and in the formulation of an Administration position with regard to this report has expressed great appreciation of the assistance received from you and the members of your Bureau working on this matter. While I naturally expect the fullest measure of co-operation from members of the Executive Departments, I am very gratified at the fine teamwork being displayed both by the individuals and the agencies involved. I have noted it with pleasure, and I commend you and your associates for the great efforts being made in this undertaking. I hope you will pass on to the personnel of your Bureau who have been so helpful, an assurance of my gratitude and appreciation for their work.” A previously affixed ANS on a 5 x 3 slip, signed “HST,” reads: “This proposition looks as if we should comply. Please talk to Cong. Bates about it.” In fine condition, with toned adhesive remnants where note was once affixed.
Following Secretary of State George C. Marshall’s call for American assistance in restoring the economic infrastructure of war-torn Europe, sixteen European nations met in Paris to develop a plan in the summer of 1947. Signing their report on September 22, it was presented to the US while Congress was on recess, giving Truman and his advisors time to work with it. Expressing gratitude to the Bureau of the Budget for their early contributions, the optimistic president shows support of a plan in the works. Republican Congressman George J. Bates of Massachusetts had recently returned from a six-week tour assessing the conditions Europe, and, with the eight other delegates who joined him, recommended immediate action to prevent a complete collapse; the president heeded that advice, forwarding a proposition that “looks as if we should comply.” The Economic Cooperation Act was passed on April 2, 1948, establishing the Economic Cooperation Administration to administer the Marshall Plan; President Truman signed it the next day. An excellent pairing of items from President Truman regarding the quick progress of one of the largest rescue programs in history.
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