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President Truman's address at the opening of the Conference on the Japanese Peace Treaty, 1952, San Francisco, California

Opening of the Conference on the Japanese Peace Treaty, San Francisco, CA. President Harry S. Truman speech on side 2. Ed Pauley, Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper of Iowa; Admiral Chester Nimitz; and Congressman Abe Ribicoff of Connecticut are interviewed. Donor: E. A. Ritchie.

President Truman, Address in San Francisco at the War Memorial Opera House, October 17, 1950

Address in San Francisco at the War Memorial Opera House, October 17, 1950. The speech was given subsequent to the President's Wake Island Conference with General MacArthur. The President spoke at 8:30 p.m. In his opening remarks he referred to Mayor Elmer E. Robinson of San Francisco. The address was carried on a nationwide radio broadcast. Transcript available in Public Papers of the Presidents, Harry S. Truman, 1950, p673-679. SR62-82 is another recording of same event by ABC (American Broadcasting Co.).