by the Rt. Hon. Sir Oliver Franks G.C.M.G., K.C.B., C.B.E.
The former President of the United States, Mr. Harry S. Truman , is coming here shortly to receive an honorary degree at the University of Oxford. Sir Oliver Franks, who was British Ambassador in Washington from 1948 to 1952, gives his impressions of Mr. Truman in the light of his recently published Memoirs, and assesses the qualities which enabled him to give American foreign policy a new shape in the post-war world.