1951 NJ SENATOR H. ALEXANDER SMITH SIGNED LETTERAnother nice collectible for your consideration. You are looking on one (1) 1951 New Jersey Senator H. Alexander Smith Signed Letter, General MacArthur Content. Offered in this product is the historic letter and Congressional Record shown below. The letter is from New Jersey Senator H. Alexander Smith, who was part of the Committee of Foreign Relations, to a "Friend" over President Harry Truman's dismissing of General MacArthur. Letter reads "This will acknowledge your communication to me with regard to what I feel to be the tragic action taken by President Truman in dismissing General MacArthur from his Far Eastern Commands. You will be interested to know that I have received approximately five thousand communications on this matter and it is the greatest regret to me that I do not have the sufficent personallel in my office to answer each one of these letters individually. I do hope, however, that you will consider this letter as a personal reply from me. In order to give you a better overall picture of my own thinking in this connect I am enclosing herewith a reproint of the address which I made in the Senate on Friday, April 13th. Always conrdially yours, SIGNED' Included with the letter is "Congressional Record PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 82d CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION." The Congressional Record shows Alexander calling out President Truman, and among a lot of other things says, "All I want to know, Mr. President, and I am sure that all the people of America want to know, is the complete justification for the drastic action which you have taken against a man who again and again have proven himself to be not only a great soldier, but also a great citizen of our beloved countr. In the releases which accompanied your order relieving General MacArthur, you have admitted this fact. Thus it seems to me that there now falls upon your shoulders a double duty:(1) to justify your course of action and (2) to make it perfectly clear to the people of America that General MacArthur never failed in any of his duties to his country.' The Congressional Record is quite long and that is only a very small part of it. The letter was sent on April 20, 1951 to a Mr. Bond. It is stamped with a the Senators signature (copy) and the envolpe itself notes the enclosure; "WELCOME TO GENERAL MacARTHUR" "REMARKS OF HON. ROBERT C> HENDRICKSON of New Jersey IN THE SENATOR OF THE UNITED STATES Friday, April 13, 1951." The "personal" letter enclosed is dated April 24, 1951 and is on United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations letterhead, hand signed by Senator H. Alexander Smith in bold black pen. Letter and envolpe show a little age but look great overall. A wonderful historic lot.United States Senator from New Jersey Howard Alexander Smith was born January 30, 1880 in New York City, and was the uncle of Peter H. Dominick, also a United States Senator from Colorado. Smith attended the Cutler School in New York City; graduated from Princeton University in 1901 and from the law department of Columbia University in 1904; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in New York City; moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1905 and continued the practice of law until 1917; during World War I, served in the United States Food Administration in Colorado and Washington, D.C.; member of postwar relief organizations in 1918; moved to Princeton, New Jersey in 1919 and served as executive secretary of Princeton University until 1927; lecturer in the department of politics at Princeton University 1927-1930; resumed the practice of law in New York City 1932-1941; Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee 1941-1943; member of the Republican National Committee 1942-1943; elected on November 7, 1944, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term ending January 3, 1947, caused by the death of W. Warren Barbour; reelected in 1946 and 1952 and served from December 7, 1944, to January 3, 1959; was not a candidate for renomination in 1958; chairman of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare (Eighty-third United States Congress); special consultant on foreign affairs to the US Secretary of State 1959-1960. Senator from New Jersey Howard Alexander Smith died October 27, 1966 in Princeton, N.J.Be sure to add me to your favorites list!FREE US shipping. Canada and Mexico $3.00, Elsewhere $5.00. I only accept Pay Pal as payment. To view more sport card products click the store link, which will show you my store categories. There you will find the catagory "Autographs."
