The ship John H. Quick arrives in Bordeaux, France, carrying the first Marshall Plan aid to arrive in Europe. US Ambassador to France, Jefferson Caffery, speaks at the microphone in a ceremony upon its arrival. The John H. Quick had departed from Galveston, TX, on April 17.
In a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House, President Harry S. Truman hands a check for $1500 to Lt. General William N. Haskell to pay for 100 CARE packages of food to be sent to 10 heads of state in Europe for distribution among the hungry. Haskell is Executive Director of Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe, Inc. (CARE) a non-profit organization whose purpose is to supplement the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and act as a means for the whole country to provide a hungry person in Europe with food enough for three or four weeks.