International relations

President Harry S. Truman addresses the closing session of the United Nations Conference in San Francisco, California. Others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (behind the podium) is applauded after his address to the closing session of the United Nations as San Francisco, California. Standing next to President Truman is Secretary of State Edward Stettinius and conference Secretary-General Alger Hiss. Standing behind President Truman is Major General Harry Vaughan (second from left) and Captain James Vardaman (third from left). All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (behind the podium) addresses the closing session of the United Nations Conference at San Francisco, California. Seated on the right is Secretary of State Edward Stettinius (closest to podium) and Alger Hiss. Seated behind President Truman is Military Aide Major General Harry Vaughan (left) and Naval Aide Captain James Vardaman (right). All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (left) watches as Secretary of State Edward Stettinius signs the United Nations Charter at the San Francisco conference. Others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (left) watches as Secretary of State Edward Stettinius signs the United Nations Charter at the San Francisco Conference. Standing on the far right is Senator Theodore Green. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (left) and Secretary of State Edward Stettinius (second from left) watch as Senator Tom Connally signs the United Nations Charter at the San Francisco conference. Others are unidentified.

Former President Harry S. Truman chats with C. Douglas Dillon, left, nominated yesterday by President Dwight D. Eisenhower as Under Secretary of State. The two were guests at last night's banquet honoring Harry S. Truman for launching the government's Point Four program. The banquet was sponsored by the Sixth National Conference on International Economic and Social Development now in session here in Washington, D. C. From: Houston Post.

Washington, D. C. Former President Harry S. Truman receives a leather bound book containing letters of thanks from 55 nations for his initiation of the Point Four program at a banquet of the Sixth National Conference on Economic and Social Development here tonight at which Truman was speaker. Eric Johnston, left, chairman of the Committee for International Economic Growth, made the presentation. In center, rear, is Minnesota Governor Orville Freeman, chairman of the banquet. From: Houston Post.

Left to right: President Harry S. Truman; Secretary of State George C. Marshall; Paul G. Hoffman, Economic Cooperation Administrator; and W. Averell Harriman, Economic Cooperation Administration Roving Ambassador, discuss western European affairs and the Marshall Plan at a conference in the President's office today. From: Houston Post.

Secretary of the U.S. Navy Francis P. Matthews is shown on the right while in attendance at a farewell dinner for Sean Nunan, on the left, minister to the United States from Ireland. The event took place at the Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C.