EDWARD R. STETTINIUS, JR. - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 06/23/1945 - HFSID 291610

EDWARD R. STETTINIUS, JR.
The Secretary of State writes to Major T. Lloyd Tyson in San Francisco praising him for his assistance with the United Nations Conference on International Organization.
Typed Letter signed: "E.R. Stettinius, Jr." as The Secretary of State, 1 page, 7x9. Washington, 1945 June 23. Typed on The Secretary of State letterhead to Major T. Lloyd Tyson, Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, California. In full: "I appreciate very much the fine assistance you have given to all of us during these strenuous days of the Conference. I have been greatly pleased with the group you organized to care for the health of the personnel attending the Conference and I feel that it has been of untold assistance in enabling them to meet the heavy loads which have been placed upon them. I am most grateful for your untiring efforts. With Best wishes," Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. was FDR's last Secretary of State (1944-1945). He was present at the United Nations Conference on International Organization which resulted in the United Nations' founding in San Francisco on June 26, 1945. The following day he resigned his office. President Truman had made clear to Stettinius that he wanted his own candidate, James F. Byrnes, to head the State Department, and offered him the position of U.S. representative to the United Nations which he accepted. In London in September, Byrnes and Stettinius met with the ministers of Great Britain and the USSR to conclude peace treaties with those countries that had aided Germany's aggression. There was a great deal of conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States over the latter's role in the occupation of Japan and little was accomplished. Frustrated with Truman's failure to use the U.N. as a means of resolving tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, Stettinius resigned his position in June 1946. He was only 49 when he died in 1949. Pencil note (unknown hand) on verso (light show through).Horizontal mailing folds. Lightly toned at edges. Otherwise, fine condition.