Artifacts
Clare Booth Luce of Connecticut visits with a soldier in a South African hospital in Italy in March of 1945. Luce’s interests as a legislator had an internationalist bent, and she described her guiding philosophy as “America first but not only.” Luce supported much of the Roosevelt administration’s foreign policy, including a strong alliance with Britain and the U.S.’s involvement in the United Nations Refugee Relief Agency.
Clare Booth Luce Visits Injured Soldiers, photograph, 1945, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives