The ship John H. Quick arrives in Bordeaux, France, carrying the first Marshall Plan aid to arrive in Europe. US Ambassador to France, Jefferson Caffery, speaks at the microphone in a ceremony upon its arrival. The John H. Quick had departed from Galveston, TX, on April 17.
In a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House, President Harry S. Truman hands a check for $1500 to Lt. General William N. Haskell to pay for 100 CARE packages of food to be sent to 10 heads of state in Europe for distribution among the hungry. Haskell is Executive Director of Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe, Inc. (CARE) a non-profit organization whose purpose is to supplement the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and act as a means for the whole country to provide a hungry person in Europe with food enough for three or four weeks.
Series of short Friendship Food Train public service announcements from various celebrities, encouraging Americans to donate food to the hungry people of Europe. Voices include: Ava Gardner; Fred MacMurray; Charles Boyer; Danny Kaye; Nelson Eddy; Edward G. Robinson; Boris Karloff; Errol Flynn; Jack Carson; Ann Sothern; and Joseph Cotten.
President Harry S. Truman's radio and television address concluding a program by the Citizens Food Committee, delivered from the White House at 10:50 p.m. The President's address, part of a special broadcast on the food conservation program, was the first of its kind ever televised from the White House.
President Harry S. Truman's remarks at the signing of the Pakistan wheat loan documents. The President spoke at 3:27 p.m. in his office at the White House. On the same day the White House announced that the $15 million loan to Pakistan for the purchase of wheat was being made by the Export-Import Bank, using funds made available under the authority of the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended. The release also stated that the shortage was a result of a severe drought in the winter of 1951-52 in western Pakistan, the country's wheat producing area.
President Harry S. Truman's statement upon signing the India Emergency Food Aid Act, White House, 12:45 p.m. The India Emergency Food Aid Act of 1951 is Public Law 48, 82d Congress (65 Stat. 69).