Photo of the day
From the Stripes archives
June 26, 2003
E. Roosevelt and Dulles
Gerald Waller
©Stars and Stripes
Paris, September 24, 1948: U.S. delegates to the United Nations General Assembly arrived at the Palais de Chaillot from both ends of the political spectrum. Here, New Deal first lady and liberal icon Eleanor Roosevelt confers with John Foster Dulles, later the hard-line Cold War secretary of state in the Eisenhower administration.

RELATED MATERIAL
Click here for a story and more photos from the conference.
Click here for some context on the times, a Stripes news review from September 25, 1948.


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