Excerpt from President Harry S. Truman's May 2, 1946 radio conference touching on a reparations plan for Japan and its relationship to formation of a long-range plan for the transition to a peaceful economy in East Asia. Attached are 1) a May 2, 1945 letter from Edwin Pauley, U.S. representative to the United Nations Allied Reparations Commission, to Truman suggesting a possible response to a question he anticipates will be asked Truman at an upcoming press conference 2) a June 17, 1946 letter from presidential secretary Matthew Connelly to Richard S. Childs asking if Dr. Luther Gulick might be available to serve as an advisor to Pauley on the Reparations Commission, 3) Connelly's thank you note to Childs for making Dr. Gulick available, and 4) a June 25, 1946 memo from Connelly to Justin Wolfe. From the Papers of Harry S. Truman, Official File.
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