Gifts

Her Royal Highness Queen Juliana of the Netherlands presents a carillon in gratitude to the people of the United States from the people of the Netherlands. President Harry S. Truman's remarks upon accepting the carillon. The President spoke at 3:45 p.m. in Meridian Hill Park in Washington. His opening words referred to Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, her husband Prince Bernhard, and Secretary of the Interior Oscar L. Chapman. He also referred early in his remarks to his daughter Margaret who was on a concert tour in the western States.

President Harry S. Truman's remarks in response to the presentation by Princess Elizabeth of an Overmantel for the White House. The President spoke at 12:30 p.m. in the Rose Garden at the White House, Washington, DC. The overmantel was sent as a gift of from the Princess's father, King George VI, and consisted of a rare pair of English candelabra and a three-part mirror with an oil painting of flowers set above it in a carved gilt frame.