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Mrs. Bess Truman (center, hatless), on the White House portico with members of the National Board of the women's overseas service league in Washingto...

President Harry Truman, left, meets with F.I. Thompson, right, INP WX photographer and President of the White House news photographers association in...

This year's leaders in the future farmers of America organization visit President Harry Truman (center) at the White House in Washington on Jan. 18,...

inston Churchill, Great Britain's war-time Prime Minister, left, takes a puff on his cigar as he starts his victory vacation at Miami Beach, Florida o...

Winston Churchill and Mrs. Churchill step from a train in Miami on Jan. 16, 1946 for a six week "victory" vacation. (AP Photo)

President Harry S. Truman, center, chats with John Oeser and his wife, of Westside, Iowa, on their visit to the White House, Washington, D.C., on Jan....

Byron Price, right, wartime chief of censorship, is congratulated by President Harry Truman at the White House, Washington, D.C., on Jan. 15, 1946 aft...

Polly Thompson; Helen Keller and Adelae Kerr, Associated Press feature writer on Jan. 15, 1946. (AP Photo)

British Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, wearing uniform of the Royal Yacht Squadron, answers reporters' questions at news conference on New Y...

Winston Churchill before microphone and his wife sitting at his right during press conference on Jan. 14, 1946. (AP Photo)

Winston Churchill before microphone and his wife sitting at his right during press conference on Jan. 14, 1946. (AP Photo)

Operatic bass singer Emanuel List is photographed in New York on Jan. 14, 1946. He was born in Vienna, Austria, March 22, 1892. He was educated first...

Helen Keller, deaf and blind student, lecturer and fund-raiser, poses in New York on Jan. 8, 1946. Miss Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Ala., on June 2...

General Chu Teh (back to camera) and Chou En Lai, No. 2 to chairman Mao Tze Tung in Chinese Communist Party interviewed by four correspondents in Yena...

Pete Dobinsky, PA staffer, talks with Gov. Thomas Dewey at a reception given at the Statler Hotel on Dec. 14, 1945, for the Castle Rock Survivors Ass...

Jack Bell, Gov. Thomas Dewey and Gardner Bridge at a reception on Dec. 14, 1945 given by Dewey for the Castle Rock survivors assn. Castle Rock, Was.,...

William Smith, center, AP-WX photographer, chats with two Washington Redskin stars, Steve Bagarus, left, and Sammy Baugh, right, as he makes pictures...

Kathleen Winsor, author, poses in New York on Nov. 30, 1945. She was born in Olivia, Minn. Oct. 16, 1919, and earned a degree at the University of C...

At the session of the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations Organization, held on Nov. 26, 1945, at Church House, Westminster, London, Dr. Edu...

In background the tomb of Rachel, which is housed in a building on the road to Bethlehem, on Nov. 27, 1945. The Jewish attendant is seen lighting a ta...

A scene on the Jericho road looking towards the multiple-domed Church of All Nations. Rising above it can be seen the Russian church of St. Mary Magda...

The Valley of the Shepherd. It starts near Bethlehem,part of which is seen on right, on Nov. 27, 1945. (AP Photo)

With the approach of Christmas the thoughts of all Christian people turn to Bethlehem, birthplace of Christ and to Jerusalem, scene of his crucifixion...

The manger in the Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem, Palestine, on Nov. 27, 1945. (AP Photo)

An Indian soldier keeps his rifle at the ready during a brief encounter with Indonesians, in Batavia, Indonesia, on Nov. 27, 1945. In the background c...

The building which houses the tomb of Rachel on the road to Bethlehem, on Nov. 27, 1945. (AP Photo)

The Grotto of the Nativity, in the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, on Nov. 27, 1945, where Christ was born. The Grotto is a crypt occupying the cen...

British Indian troops carrying on a stretcher one of the Indonesians wounded in a flare-up in Batavia, Java, on Nov. 27, 1945, during the disturbances...

The trial of the twenty Nazi War Criminals was continued at the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg, Germany on Nov. 26, 1945. Joachim von Ribbentrof, standi...

Attorney General Francis Biddle, U.S. Tribunal Judge for the Nuremberg trials seen in his office at Nuremberg, Germany, on Nov. 26, 1945. (AP Photo)

The trial of the twenty Nazi War Criminals was continued at the Palace of Justice, Nuernberg, Germany on November 26. Hermann Goering laughingly expla...

The trial of the twenty Nazi War Criminals was continued at the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg, Germany, on Nov. 26, 1945. Hermann Goering, left, dramat...

Emir Feisal, second son of King Ibn Saud of Arabia, is seen in his apartment at the Dorchester Hotel, on his arrival in London, to participate in the...

General De Gaulle assembled the members of his government for the first time on Nov. 22, 1945, when a short cabinet meeting was held at the Hotel Mati...

Admiral Ernest J. King, U.S. Navy commander in chief, greets Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, right, former Pacific Fleet commander, at the U.S. Navy headqu...

A general view of the court-room at the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg, Germany, where the trial of Nazi War Criminals is being held, with Associated Ju...

Dr. R. I. Sukarno and most of his cabinet left Batavia on November 10 to attend the Youth Rally at Jakarta, where he roused fifty thousand Indonesian...

Dr. R. I. Sukarno and most of his cabinet left Batavia on November 10 to attend the Youth Rally at Jjakarta, where he roused fifty thousand Indonesian...

View of the British cruiser H.M.S Spartan, at anchor somewhere in England, on Nov. 9, 1945. (AP Photo)

The New Zealand 's new flower class Corvette, HMNZ Arabis, anchored somewhere in England, on Nov. 5, 1945. (AP Photo)

The new British escort carrier HMS Premier, anchored somewhere in England, on Nov. 5, 1945. (AP Photo)

H.M. Hospital ship Oxfordshire alongside the jetty at Hong Kong harbour, on Oct. 25, 1945. Prisoners of War and internees were being taken home in her...

Survivors of the British destroyer HMS Jupiter after they had been released from a Japanese prisoner of war camp, in Java, Indonesia, on Oct. 22, 1945...

Sorrow grips these people who attended the all-faith memorial services at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York on Oct. 21, 1945, in tribute to...

These sailors on shore leave are taking in the sights of this tropical city in Panama City on Oct. 16, 1945. For many of them, it has been many months...

American servicemen are the most diligent souvenir hunters and buyers in modern times, according to some authorities on the subject. These sailors on...

States side bound sailors, having arrived through the Canal from the Pacific, enjoy shore leave in this tropical city and renew acquaintance with the...

Arrivals from the Pacific, sailors on shore leave are partaking of some refreshments at the "Missouri" bar in Panama City on Oct. 16, 1945. (AP Photo)

Some members of the shore leave party are enjoying Jade Rhodora dancing in an act called, "The Beauty and the Beast," at the Club Lido in Panama City...

It's a smash hit for Humberto Zavala, right, Mexico as he lands for right on the face of Albert (Chalky) Wright of Los Angeles, Calif., and receives W...