Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk and Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Dedier, San Francisco, California, 1945

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Photograph. Czechoslovakian U.N. Delegate Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk (left) talking with Yugoslavian U.N. Delegate Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Dedier. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/6/45--Czechoslovakian chats with Yugoslavian--Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, chats with Lt. Col. Vladimir Dedier, a Deputy Delegate from Yugoslavia, during the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco, California. Masaryk is chairman of the Czechoslovakian delegation. Colonel Dedier, as an aide to Marshal Tito, frequently led the partisans against the Germans while they occupied his homeland. He is now a member of the Serbian Assembly and of the Federal Parliament. He joined with other United Nations representatives to draw up a charter for a world security organization to insure peace. Discussions at the conference are based on the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals, formulated by the U.S., China, and the U. S. S. R., and Great Britain.--OWI Photo--Serviced by Rome OWI (A List out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6543." San Francisco, California.”6 June 1945

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06/06/1945
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Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the city of Naples with an office set up in a residential villa. Utley worked with the Office of War Information and used their photographs in news articles to inform soldiers of the progress of the war. At war's end, Utley returned stateside. A trunk full of over 800 photographs from the O.W.I. arrived on his doorstep from his office in Italy, sender unknown. This collection consists of those photographs.
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San Francisco
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37.767
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-122.417
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Government officials--Czechoslovakian--California
Government officials--Yugoslavian--California
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