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Harry Truman: “As an essential forward step in our foreign policy, I recommend that the Congress authorize the United States to accept…”

On the recordApril 27, 1949
As an essential forward step in our foreign policy, I recommend that the Congress authorize the United States to accept membership in the International Trade Organization.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Special Message to the Congress Transmitting the Charter for the International Trade Organization.

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