U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. receiving a check from Finland's Minister of Foreign Affairs Hjalmar J. Procopé, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 1939

Inside an office, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. accepts a check from Finland's Minister of Foreign Affairs Hjalmar J. Procopé. This check was Finland's payment towards its WWI debt, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 1939. Henry Morgenthau Jr. was the United States Secretary of the Treasury during most of the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He played a major role in designing and financing the New Deal. Hjalmar Johan Fredrik Procopé was a Finnish politician and a diplomat from the Swedish People's Party. Procopé was a minister in several cabinets in the 1920s and 1930s. Hjalmar Procopé was born on 8 August 1889 to Major General Carl Albert Fredrik Procopé and Elin Hedvig Vendla von Törne.