Telegram from President Harry S. Truman to Clark Eichelberger with Related Material

TELEGRAM DAY LETTER The White House 85-Q Mashington May 15, 1946 *PP72248. file Chark M. Eichelberger, Director, x421 American Association for the United Nations, 45 East 65th Street, New York, N. Y. I take great pleasure in thus joining you in greeting John G. Winant in his new role as representative of the United States on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. # The Economic and Social Council is an agency to which I attach much importance. Many of the mechanisms of the United Nations are necessarily designed to deal with international crises after they have arisen. The Economic and Social Council and its related agencies are designed, among other things, to prevent critical situations from developing. To the extent that these agencies are successful, the Security Council will be relieved of the burden of dealing with dangerously exacerbated issues. Yet I should like also to point out that the Economic and Social Council is not intended to be merely a preventive device. With its related agencies, it is designed to promote better and stabler conditions of life for all the peoples of the United Nations. As such, it embodies a positive ideal that should command wide respect for its operations. The United States is fortunate that it can avail itself of the leadership of John G. Winant in this work. As the first chairman of the Social xpp72298 Security Board and later, through five long, dark years as Ambassador to x486. Great Britain, he has represented the valiant and constructive aspects of democratic power. The Economic and Social Council gains strength and promise from his acceptance of this post. As I greet him, I congratulate all those in whose behalf the Economic and Social Council labors. HARRY S. ARCHIVES NATIONAL TRUMAN AND LIBRARY RECORDS SERVICE U.S. GOVERNMENT HARRY S. TRUMAN m.v.C. &