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6011 - July 14, 1949 Dear Mr. Ambassador: I certainly did appreciate your telegram and your good letter of the eighth in regard to the visit of Chile's Administrator of Economy. I think he was happy at the reception he received here and I tried to make it perfectly plain to him that we had difficulties on the home front with regard to copper but that I was very sympathetic to Chile's position in that regard. I am glad he felt that he had received a cordial hearing and fair treatment. It was certainly too bad that Bob Wagner had to quit but he hasn't been in the Senate for three years and I was glad he did quit rather than to hang on,as Carter Glass did, and ruin the good reputation he has as one of the greatest Senators of the New Deal period. I hope everything is going well with you. Sincerely yours, ARCHIVES "NATIONAL KECORDS SERVICE** AND HARRY S. TRUMAN Honorable Claude G. Bowers American Ambassador Santiago, Chile Via State Dept. pouch