Secretary Stimson was struck with horror - an emotion which Secretary
Hull shared. They learned with consternation two weeks afterward that the
"Morgenthau Plan" had been initiated by President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill at the Quebec Conference of Sept. 11,1 944. To Mr.
Roosevelt's face, Secretary Hull charged that Churchill's signature was
procured by Morgenthau with an offer of $6,500,000,000 of postwar Lend-
Lease for Britain. [24]
From Assistant to the Secretary, Mr. White moved up to Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury in 1945. During February 1946, he was appointed
by President Truman, and confirmed by the Senate as U.S. Director of the
International Monetary Fund, with a tax exemption salary of $17,500.
The name of Harry White became so important in the record of the Senate
committee that finally Senator Bridges suggested calling him as a witness. But
White was absent from the capital on vacation. It was announced that
Morgenthau and White would be placed on the stand at a future section, but
this was never called.
Mr. White submitted his resignation from the International Monetary Fund
on June 19, 1947, the day after the committee recessed. When the economist
was put on oath the following year, he denounced the Chambers accusations
as "unqualifiedly false." He was not and never had been a Communist, White
affirmed, and had committed no disloyal act. But two weeks later his funeral
was held at Temple Israel in Boston: he had died of a heart attack.
In November of that year Whittaker Chambers produced five rolls of
microfilmed documents. Among them were eight pages of script divulging U.S.
military secrets. Found in possession of an acknowledged Communist courier,
the handwriting was identified as that of Harry Dexter White.
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