Up for auction a RARE! "Royal Air Force" Willard Thor Hand Signed TLS Dated 1949. 

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Willard

Long Thorp (1899–1992) was

an economist and academic who served three US Presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower as

an advisor in both domestic and foreign affairs. He helped draft the Marshall Plan and was also prominent in business and

education. He

was born on 24 May 1899 in Oswego, New York. He was raised in Chelsea, Massachusetts and Duluth, Minnesota. In 1939 he was elected as a Fellow of

the American Statistical Association. He

was Assistant

Secretary of State under Truman for Economic Affairs 1946–1952; A Member of the U.S. delegation serving as

special adviser on economic matters at the Paris Peace Conference of

1946; special adviser on economic matters at the New York meeting of

the Council of Foreign Ministers in 1946; and American representative to the United Nations General

Assembly, 1947–48. He came under great strain during

the McCarthy 'witch-hunt'

investigations into alleged Communists 1950–1954 and eventually resigned, becoming a professor

at Amherst College again

instead. He

died on 10 May 1992 in Pelham, Massachusetts.