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Harry Truman: “Your contribution in devising means and furnishing provisions for the relief of hunger and want in countries devastated…”

On the recordMay 9, 1948
Your contribution in devising means and furnishing provisions for the relief of hunger and want in countries devastated by the war has been of highest importance.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Letter Accepting Resignation of Clinton P. Anderson as Secretary of Agriculture.

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