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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MAY 12, 1947
The President has sont the following letter to the Honorable
Doan Acheson, accepting his resignation as Under Secretary of State:
"Doar Doan:
It is with great regret that I realizo that I cannot again
ask you to put asido your dosiro to return to private life. For t he
past two years my appeals to your high sense of public duty have kopt
you on the job despito the personal sacrifice it has moant to you.
I can easily appreciato the reasons which impelled your
desiro to rturn to private life as embodied in your letter written
as long ago as April 17, 1946, and in another letter the year before.
In response to my urging in both instances you held in
abeyance your plans to retire. Again, when you renewed last December
your wish to relinquish your post we agreed tentatively that you should
leave office on January 10, 1947. Realizing that all these deferrals
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avericant great financial sacrifice, I appreciate all the more your
magnanimous action in standing at your post for another six months.
In justice to you, tharforg, the time has come when I must
yield to your wishes. With great regret I accept your resignation as
the Under Secretary of State, effective at the close of business on
June 30, 1947.
You have been the type of efficient public servant whose
withdrawal from public life at any time would be a loss to the Nation.
You brought to your duties in the Department of State, legal
training and experience; familiarity with finance, particularly in its
bearing upon international relations; clear-cut judgment and incisive
powers of reasoning. These, with your prodigious industry, have been
assets upon which we could always rely and we shall miss them in time
to come. I shall like to think that I can, as need arises, call upon
you for advice.
With deep regret that the time is now approaching when we
must lose your services and with best wishes for your happiness and
continued success in private pursuits,
Very sincerely yours,
HARRY S. TRUMAN"