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Canada is the first country to commit to North Atlantic Treaty

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Canada became the first country to commit itself to the North Atlantic Treaty, when Canadian Ambassador Hume Wrong, right, deposited with Secretary of State Acheson, left, Canada's "instrument of ratification" of the Treaty. The brief ceremony took place at the State Department.

Dean Acheson is speaking at the annual dinner of the Bureau of Advertising

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Secretary of State Dean Acheson is shown speaking at the annual dinner of the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers Association at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City. Mr. Acheson's topic was the United States policy with respect to Germany.

Dean Acheson testifies at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about NATO

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Secretary of State Dean Acheson testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as open hearings began on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Mrs. Dean Acheson paints in the attic-studio

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Mrs. Dean Acheson, wife of the newly appointed Secretary of State, paints in the attic-studio of her Georgetown home. Mrs. Acheson is referred to as a "third generation painter" for her mother and father's father were both artists.

Dean Acheson and others are shown at NBC microphone

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Dean Acheson (third from left)is shown at the microphone of NBC with unidentified men, including a military officer. From: Dean Acheson Papers.

President Harry S. Truman Meets with African American Leaders

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President Harry S. Truman meeting with a group of African-American leaders, who urged President Truman to put qualified African-Americans into administrative and policy-making jobs in the government as part of a broad program for greater participation by African-Americans in the Defense Program. President Truman in seated in center. Those in attendance were: William Y. Bell; Mary McLeod Bethune (seated, left); J. Robert Booker; A. Philip Randolph; Dowdal Davis; Lester Granger; Elmer Henderson; Charles S. Johnson; Benjamin E. Mays; Channing H. Tobias; Willard S.

President Harry S. Truman Receives the Committee on Civil Rights Report

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President Harry S. Truman is receiving a report from the Committee on Civil Rights from Charles Wilson. Standing, from left to right: Most Reverend Francis J. Haas, Roland B. Gittelsohn, Dr. Sadie T. Alexander, James B. Carey, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Dorothy Rogers Tilly, Channing H. Tobias, Charles Wilson, Boris Shishkin, Charles Luckman, and Francis P. Matthews.

President Truman in Spokane, Washington at Stockyards

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President Harry S. Truman speaks at the Old President Harry S. Truman at the Stockyards in Spokane, Washington. He has received a Blue Ribbon naming him "Champion of Everything." The President called for a fight for the "Power Lobby" and to demand passage of his civil rights program. Donor: John E. Boos.

President Truman and Chaim Weizmann with Torah

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Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of Israel, presents a Torah of Holy Scroll to President Harry S. Truman (left) during a visit to the White House. See also 59-848. Donor: New York Herald Tribune.

Margaret Truman and Harry S. Truman

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Good picture of a laughing Margaret Truman and Harry S. Truman together by an airplane. They are at Washington Airport, where President Truman has returned from a visit to Independence, Missouri. Same as 2001-73 (but more cropped) and 68-1699.

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