Harry Dexter White was a senior U.S. Treasury department official. Working closely with the Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., he helped set American financial policy toward the Allies of World War II. He was later accused of espionage by passing information to the Soviet Union.
Harry Dexter White (left) with John Maynard Keynes at the Bretton Woods Conference
White in 1939 while working for the U.S. Treasury.
The Bretton Woods Conference, formally known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, was the gathering of 730 delegates from all 44 allied nations at the Mount Washington Hotel, in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States, to regulate the international monetary and financial order after the conclusion of World War II.
Mount Washington Hotel
The United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference held at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire on 1–22 July 1944.
Bretton Woods Conference room
Bretton Woods Conference Participating Nations Flag Display Case located within the Gold Room at the Mount Washington Hotel