TRUMAN, Harry S. (1884-1972), President . Three typed letters signed ("Harry S. Truman"), as President, to Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, 13 May 1948, 21 December 1948 and 7 July 1949. Together 3 pages, 4to, White House stationery . "THE GREAT AMERICAN PUBLIC WILL BE STRENGTHENED BY THE ASSURANCE THAT COMMUNISM HAS NOT INFILTRATED THE CHURCHES OF THIS NATION" THREE PRESIDENTIAL LETTERS TO A LEADING LIBERAL CLERGYMAN. Religion and politics are intermingled in these three letters from President Truman to G. Bromley Oxnam, the Bishop of the Methodist Church in New York. On 13 May 1948 Truman thanks Oxnam for "the copy of the Episcopal Address which you wrote in behalf of all of the Bishops for delivery at the Conference in Boston. I was greatly interested in the section dealing with international relations. There is a real need in these troublous days for the leadership of the church which you suggest. We must not only proclaim the Christian ideal. We must live it." Oxnam was an active leader of the Federal Council of Churches and Americans for Democratic Action. He hoped his church would be in the vanguard of a movement to bring lasting world peace. On 7 July 1949 Truman refers to his envoy to the Vatican and notes that "...no change is contemplated in the mission of Mr. Myron C. Taylor," alluding to an episode of intense friction between Truman and the Protestant Bishops, when the President tried to replace his informal envoy with a permanent ambassador to the Vatican, General Mark Clark The move outraged Protestant leaders like Oxnam who objected to the U.S. government having official relations with the Holy See; and it chafed many Congressman who resented Clark's handling of the Italian campaign in World War II. Clark's nomination was derailed by this protest. Truman mentions Cold War domestic politics in his 21 December 1948 letter: "I had already seen...the answer of the Council of Bishops of the Methodist Church to the charges of the Un-American Activities Committee but am glad to have for ready reference the complete text of the release....The great American public will be strengthened by the assurance that Communism has not infiltrated the churches of this Nation." (3)
TRUMAN, Harry S. (1884-1972), President . Three typed letters signed ("Harry S. Truman"), as President, to Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, 13 May 1948, 21 December 1948 and 7 July 1949. Together 3 pages, 4to, White House stationery . "THE GREAT AMERICAN PUBLIC WILL BE STRENGTHENED BY THE ASSURANCE THAT COMMUNISM HAS NOT INFILTRATED THE CHURCHES OF THIS NATION" THREE PRESIDENTIAL LETTERS TO A LEADING LIBERAL CLERGYMAN. Religion and politics are intermingled in these three letters from President Truman to G. Bromley Oxnam, the Bishop of the Methodist Church in New York. On 13 May 1948 Truman thanks Oxnam for "the copy of the Episcopal Address which you wrote in behalf of all of the Bishops for delivery at the Conference in Boston. I was greatly interested in the section dealing with international relations. There is a real need in these troublous days for the leadership of the church which you suggest. We must not only proclaim the Christian ideal. We must live it." Oxnam was an active leader of the Federal Council of Churches and Americans for Democratic Action. He hoped his church would be in the vanguard of a movement to bring lasting world peace. On 7 July 1949 Truman refers to his envoy to the Vatican and notes that "...no change is contemplated in the mission of Mr. Myron C. Taylor," alluding to an episode of intense friction between Truman and the Protestant Bishops, when the President tried to replace his informal envoy with a permanent ambassador to the Vatican, General Mark Clark The move outraged Protestant leaders like Oxnam who objected to the U.S. government having official relations with the Holy See; and it chafed many Congressman who resented Clark's handling of the Italian campaign in World War II. Clark's nomination was derailed by this protest. Truman mentions Cold War domestic politics in his 21 December 1948 letter: "I had already seen...the answer of the Council of Bishops of the Methodist Church to the charges of the Un-American Activities Committee but am glad to have for ready reference the complete text of the release....The great American public will be strengthened by the assurance that Communism has not infiltrated the churches of this Nation." (3)
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