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Interview with Governor William H. Hastie of the Virgin Islands by Mary Margaret McBride

NBC Radio host Mary Margaret McBride visits the Virgin Islands and gives her impressions of the territory. The interview with Governor William H. Hastie starts on part four of this recording. A discussion of race relations in the Virgin Islands is found on part five. A discussion of President Harry S. Truman's recent visit to the Virgin Islands is found on part seven. Parts nine and ten contain mostly commercials for food products. 

City of Sikinos, Cyclades, Greece

City of Sikinos, Cyclades, Greece. Printed below the picture, in both English and Greek is the following inscription: "This gift which comes from the people of the island of Sikinos, Cyclades is presented to his excellency President Truman as a small token of gratitude to him and to the great American people for their precious and humanitarian contribution to the free world and particularly to Greece's reconstruction. June 1951"