International News Photos

Ramon Ramos (standing by the blackboard) teaches a Spanish Class at the White House for wives of government officials. Seated, from left to right, are Mamie (Mrs. Dwight D.) Eisenhower, Margaret (Mrs. Robert) Patterson, Maryon (Mrs. Lester B.) Pearson, First Lady Bess W. Truman, and Josephine (Mrs. Hugo L.) Black. Standing, from left to right, are Miss Florence King, Mrs. Williams H. Davis, Miss Reathel Odum, Representative Jessie Sumner of Illinois, Priscilla (Mrs. John L.) Sullivan, and Augusta (Mrs. Clarence N.) Goodwin. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol 2.

General Charles DeGaulle (with his back to the camera) speaks with an unidentified military officer. He appears to be presenting the officer with an award. Unidentified sailors stand in the background. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol 2.

President Harry S. Truman (left) presents Commander Joseph T. O'Callahan (right) with the Congressional Medal of Honor. O'Callahan, a Catholic chaplain, risked his life to administer last rites to the dying on board the USS Franklin. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol 2.

President Harry S. Truman (right) and Winston Churchill (left) leave Washington for Missouri where Winston Churchill will speak on foreign policy at Westminster College. Standing behind Mr. Churchill is Major General Harry Vaughan. The man behind Truman is unidentified. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol. 2.

President Harry S. Truman (left) meets Secretary of State George C. Marshall (right, on stairs) at the airport. Others in the background are unidentified. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol 2.

Air Force Association Heads visit President Harry S. Truman. From left to right, pictured are General James Doolittle, Colonel Willis S. Fitch, Sergeant Forest Vosler, President Harry S. Truman, Colonel Thomas Lanphier, Sergeant Merryl Frost, and Colonel James M. Steward. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol 2.

President Harry S. Truman (second from right) awards Medals of Merit to Colonel John M. Johnson (left), John S. Pelley (second from left), and J. Edgar Hoover (right). From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol 2.

Army and Navy Chiefs are attending memorial services for the late General S. Patton, Jr. Seated in the foreground are General Dwight Eisenhower and Mamie (Mrs. Dwight) Eisenhower. Seated in the row behind them is Admiral Chester Nimitz. All others are unidentified. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol 2.

A delegation of four amputees (all unidentified) representing those at Thomas M. England Hospital in Atlantic City, New Jersey visit with Major General Harry Vaughan (seated, center), President Harry S. Truman's Military Aide. They are visiting with General Vaughan at the White House to protest the closing of the Army's largest amputation center. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol 2.

President Harry S. Truman (left) visits with former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (right) at the White House. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol 2.