Correspondence Between President Harry S. Truman and Ambassador Claude Bowers, with Attachment

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6479 July 25, 1950 Dear Mr. Ambassador: I can't tell you how very much I appreciated your good letter of the eighteenth. I was most happy to hear of the reaction to the Korean matter in Chile, I've been trying my best to get that tanker turned over to the Chilean Government and I think eventually we will get it done. As to the Morgantown nitrate plant it looks as if we are going to have to use that plant in a war effort anyway so i doubt very much whether it will be sold ,but you understand that pressures in this country are just as great to keep these plants operating as they are in Chile to prevent it. I hope everything is going well with you and that we can find some way to maintain our friendly relations with all the South American countries on the same level at which they are now. Sincerely yours, BANRY S. TRUMÁL : ARCHIVESTAND SERVICE" "NATIONAL RECOROS Honorable Claude G. Bowers to The American Ambassador Santiago, Chile