Harry Truman

The Director General of UNRRA advises me that the Administration has made every effort to meet the requests of Poland from the tonnages available to it within the allocations made to it.

The prevailing global scarcity of grain is such that no grain-importing country, however acute its needs, can hope to receive in the immediate future more than a portion of its needs.

I deeply sympathize, however, with the Government of Poland in the particularly difficult situation in which it now finds itself with respect to its future grain supply.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statues, including Title I of the First War Powers Act, 1941, and as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the Army and the Navy, it is hereby ordered that…

I heartily concur in your proposal as Chairman of Collier's Congressional Awards Committee that the dinner scheduled for April sixth be cancelled.

In taking this step you are setting an excellent example to Washington and to the country as a whole.

It is our duty, particularly here in Washington, to practice what we preach.

I could not take the action which you request without reiterating these convictions with all of the emphasis at my command.

My faith in your integrity and ability has been strengthened.

I appreciate the motives which prompt your request for the withdrawal of my nomination of you as Under Secretary of the Navy.

With this pledge of full confidence in you I shall reluctantly withdraw your nomination.

The disclosure of all the evidence has vindicated my confidence in you.

So, you stand before your countrymen after vicious and unwarranted attacks with integrity unscathed, with ability unquestioned, with honor unsullied.

And I urge Federal, State, and local officials and patriotic, civic, and educational organizations to plan and hold, on or about May 19, exercise designated to help our new citizens, both native-born and naturalized, to understand more…

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, pursuant to the aforesaid public resolution do hereby designate Sunday, May 19, 1946, as 'I Am An American Day'

In closing I wish to express my agreement with you that cooperation between the Executive and the Congress is essential to the establishment of an effective wool program.

Please wire me promptly of your acceptance.

All other provisions contained in the said Proclamation of March 17, 1932, shall remain in full force and effect.

I trust that the Congress will find that this proposed wool program constitutes a sound and adequate basis for constructive legislation.

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the act of June 8, 1906, c. 3060, 34 Stat. 225 (U.S.C. title 16, sec. 431), do revise the land…

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Public Health Service Act, approved July 1, 1944 (58 Stat. 682), and as President of the United States, I hereby prescribe the following regulations relating to the medical care of certain…

JOHN MONROE JOHNSON, for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the United States as Director of the Office of Defense Transportation.

In the truest sense, he personifies the close cooperation, the untiring energy, and the efficient methods which enabled the Nation's railroads to achieve their outstanding and widely acclaimed success.

Mr. Pelley has been an unfailing source of wise counsel and advice to the military establishment on all phases of railroad transportation.

Mr. Hoover's devotion to duty and outstanding administrative ability have contributed greatly to the welfare and defense of the Nation.