The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library

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• In addition, there may be references to Russia/ USSR in the following oral history transcripts: Milton M. Brown, member, Finnish Relief Fund, 1939–43, 37 pp.; Robert B. Considine, newspaperman and author, 17 pp.; Charles S. Dewey, financial advisor, Republic of Poland, 1927–31; James H. Douglas, Jr., secretary of the air force, 1957–59, 35 pp.; Edward T. Folliard, reporter, 25 pp.; Adaline Fuller (Mrs. William Parmer, Jr.), member, American Relief Administration, European Children's Fund (Poland), 1919–20; Barry M. Goldwater, U.S. senator from Arizona, 1953–64, 1968-present, 11 pp.; Joseph C. Green, member, American Relief Administration (Rumania and Caucasus), 1918–19; career diplomat, Department of State, 1930–53, 49 pp.; Leslie R, Groves, chief of the Manhattan Development Project, 1942–47, 47 pp., restricted: portions closed until 1985; Henry Hazlitt, editor and author, 29 pp.; Marguerite Rickard Hoyt (Mrs. Graham), director, American Relief Administration, 1919–29, 45 pp.; Lyndon Baines Johnson, senator from Texas, 1949–61, U.S. vice-president, 1961–63, president, 1963–68, 22 pp.; George Killion, ambassador to the United Nations, 1966, 17 pp.; Arthur Krock, editor and correspondent, 22 pp.; Mary Pillsbury Lord (Mrs. Oswald), U.S. representative on Human Rights Commission, United Nations, 1953–61, 24 pp.; Eugene Lyons, United Press correspondent to Russia, 1928–34, 23 pp.; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Earl Mason, journalist, member, Hoover Economic Mission to Germany and Austria, 1947, 62 pp.; Thomas D. Morris, assistant secretary of defense, 1961–64, 14 pp.; William D. Pawley, special assistant to the secretary of state, 1948, 1951, special assistant to the secretary of defense, 1951–52; Thomas P. Pike, special assistant to the secretary of defense, 1957–58, 21 pp.; Gardner Richardson, chief, American Relief Administration, Hungary, 1919–20, Austria, 1920–23, 16 pp.; John L. Simpson, member, American Relief Administration, Central Europe and Yugoslavia, 51 pp.; Nadia de Kanel Slack, a Russian who worked with the American Relief Administration in Russia, 1922, 2 pp.; Truman Smith, military attache and attache for air in Germany, 1935–39, 17 pp.; Lewis L. Strauss, chairman, Atomic Energy Commission, 1953–58, 42 pp.; William Lindsay White, newspaperman and author, 50 pp., restricted: closed until 1985; Richard L. Wilson, newspaper editor, 13 pp.

• The following microfilms have references to Russia/USSR: American Commission to Negotiate Peace, general records, 1918–31, 563 reels, originals in record group 256, National Archives; Board of Trade (London), selected mining companies' materials, 1895–1921, 2 reels, originals at the Public Records Office in London; Calvin Coolidge, papers, selected portions, 1923–29, 160 reels, originals at the Library of Congress; Warren Gamaliel Harding, papers, selected portions, 1914–63, 202 reels, originals at the Ohio Historical Society; Herbert Hoover, selected documents from 11 collections, 1920–64, 1 reel, originals at the New York Public Library; Herbert Hoover, selected documents from 21 collections, 1914–64, 1 reel, originals at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin; Franklin D. Roosevelt Winston Churchill, messages and related materials, 1939–41, 6 reels, originals at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library; Henry L. Stimson, papers and diaries, selected reels, 1909–45, 135 reels, originals at Yale University Library; U.S. Department of State, records relating to the internal affairs of Russia, "Calamities and Disasters," 1910–29, 9 reels, originals in record group 59, National Archives; U.S. Department of State, records of the German Foreign Office received by the Department of State, "Captured German Documents on Microfilm," 1923–30, 4 reels, originals in record group 243, National Archives.

• The Library also has still photographs, motion pictures, and sound recordings pertaining to Hoover and his administration. There are photographs of mining operations throughout the world, Food Administration activities during World War I, and famine relief after World Wars I and II.

• There may be references to Russia/USSR in the following additional manuscript collections: Karl Baarslag, papers, 1927–65, 3 ft.; Edward Dana Durand (1871–1960), member, U.S. Food Administration, 1917–19, advisor to food minister of Poland, 1919–21, chief, Eastern European Division, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce, 1921, papers, 1906–59 (NUCMC 72–1438); Hugh Gibson (1883–1954), Department of State, February 1917, duty with Herbert Hoover, November 1918-April 1919, first Envoy Extraordinaire and Minister Plenipotentiary to Poland, April 1919, papers, 1910–30, 1946–47, 2 ft.

• Arthur A. Curtice

  33 pp. Mining and petroleum engineer; business associate and friend of Herbert Hoover, Jr. Discussion of Soviet economic policy, p. 30.

• Byron Price

  29 pp. News editor. Discussion of foreign policy regarding the Soviet Union, 1932, p. 20.

• Cosmo Stravalli

  24 pp. Barber to Herbert Hoover. Discussion of Soviet foreign policy after World War II, p. 2.

• David Packard

  27 pp. President, board of trustees, Stanford University, 1958–60. Discussion of the Bolshevik Revolution, p. 11.

• Dwight David Eisenhower

  36 pp. U.S. president, 1953–61. Discussion of Soviet propaganda, 1950s, p. 26. Portion closed until 2017.

• Edward A. Keller

  77 pp. Clergyman and economist; director, Bureau of Economic Research, 1935–52. Discussion of foreign policy regarding the USSR, pp. 51–52.

• Eleanor L. Dulles

  23 pp. Diplomat; served in the Office of German Affairs, Department of State. Discussion of Soviet foreign policy regarding Austria after World War II, pp. 2–7.

• Elmer G. Burland

  36 pp. Deputy executive director, CARE, 1946. Mention of conditions in the USSR after World War II, p. 23.

• Felix M. Morley

  28 pp. Editorial writer, correspondent, college president. Discussion of Soviet foreign policy after World War II, pp. 6–8.

• Frederick E. Terman

  53 pp, Educator and electronics engineer. Discussion of the Bolshevik Revolution, pp. 27–29.

• George G. Montgomery

  10 pp. Corporation executive. Mention of conditions in the USSR, 1960s, p. 4.

• George P. Harrington

  23 pp. Member, American Relief Administration (Poland and Latvia), 1919 and (Russia), 1922–23. Discussion of conditions in the USSR, 1921–23, pp. 9–17.

• H. Dudley Swim

  26 pp. Member, Northern Californians for the Hoover Report, 1949–58. Discussion of U.S. foreign policy regarding the Soviet Union, 1951, pp. 9–10.

• Harold M. Fleming

  21 pp. Member, American Relief Administration in Europe and Russia, 1922–23. Mention of conditions in the USSR in 1921–23, pp. 2–3, 5–12, 18–19.

• Henry C. Wolfe

  27 pp. Member, American Relief Administration, 1922. Discussion of conditions in the Soviet Union after World War I, pp. 1–10.

• Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)

  U.S. president, 1929–33, and secretary of commerce, 1921–29; visited Russia while employed as a mining engineer, 1909, 1911, 1913, and after World War I was active in relief aid to Russia and Armenia. His papers, which span his entire life, can be divided into several groups:

  Pre-commerce period, 1895–1921, 75 ft. The general correspondence series, 1895–1921, 13 ft., includes correspondence with Woodrow Wilson, Edgar Rickard, Perrin C. Galpin, and Edward M. House. Some of these letters pertain to Russia and contain some of Hoover's observations on the Russian Revolution. The Subject File, 1913–21, 56 ft., includes materials on the American Relief Administration, 1 container, Russian relief, 1919–22, the Russian Mining Corporation, Ltd., 1914, and Russia, 1919–21. Also included in the Subject File is a "Mining" file that contains printed reports concerning the Atbasar Copper Fields, Ltd., 1911, the Irtysh Corporation, Ltd., 1916, the Kyshtim Corporation, Ltd., 1908–15, and the Russo-Asiatic Corporation, Ltd., 1914; maps of Russia and Siberia, 1888, 1889; and cables, reports, maps, and charts concerning the Antonoff Gold Mines, 1912. The precommerce period materials also include the American Relief Administration Documents, 26 vols., selected printed and typescript copies of documents concerning the European and Russian operations of the American Relief Administration. The original documents are in the Hoover Institution. 10 vols, devoted to Russian Operations.

  Commerce period, 1921–28, 353 ft. Includes official and personal papers on: the American Relief Administration; the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Commerce Department; Corn for Russia; the Foreign Policy Association; Germany and Russia; the National Information Bureau; the National Civic Federation; "Reds"; the State Department. There are also materials (under the heading "Russia") on Russia, general, 1921–28 and undated, approximately 1 container; the Far East Republic, 1921; Siberia, 1922–23; the Russian problem, 1921–28; Russian trade, 1921–28; Soviet propaganda in China; the Financial Attache S. Ughet, 1922; the Ukraine, 1922; and on the book The Famine in Soviet Russia (extracts). Individuals mentioned in these papers include Allen W. Dulles, Mrs. Frank Fay, Harold Henry Fisher, James P. Goodrich, Paxton Hibben, Charles Evans Hughes, Lincoln Hutchinson, Litvinov, Edward Frank Wise, S. Slonim, and Leslie Urquhart.

  Presidential period, 1929–33, 656 ft. The cabinet offices series, 30 ft., contains materials on the Eastern European Affairs Division of the State Department. The foreign affairs series, 22 ft., has materials on Russia, the Baltic States, and the Conference of Wheat Exporting Countries, 1931. The president's personal file series, 107 ft., includes documents on the Russia Student Fund, Inc.

  Post-presidential period, 1933–64, 465 ft. The subject file series, 157 ft., includes correspondence and printed matter on Russia and materials on the Riga Agreement.

  Special collections, 1853–1965, 625 ft. The "Articles, Addresses, and Public Statements" file, 1892–1964, 247 ft., includes some of Hoover's statements regarding Russia. The, "Clippings" file, 1920–64, 241 ft., chron logically arranged, has some materials on Russia/USSR.

• Horace M. Albright

  99 pp. Director, National Park Service, 1929–33. Mention of U.S. foreign policy regarding the USSR, 1933–45, pp. 95–96.

• Hugh Robert Wilson (1885-1946)

  Papers, 1923–46, 2 ft. Chief, Division of Current Information, Department of State, 1924–47; chief, Executive Committee, Foreign Service Personnel Board, Department of State, 1924–27; assistant secretary of state, 1937; ambassador to Germany, 1938–39; member, Advisory Committee on Problems of Foreign Relations, Department of State, 1940. Correspondence with Joseph C. Green, John MacMurray, and Pierrepont Moffat is cross-referenced under "Russia." Register and index. (NUCMC 69–749)

• Irene Corgally Kuhn

  40 pp. Writer and commentator. Discussion of conditions in the USSR, 1920–21, p. 35.

• James Westbrook Pegler (1894-1969)

  Papers, 1908–69, 80 ft. Columnist, Scripps-Howard Syndicate, 1933–34; columnist, King Features Syndicate, 1944–62; freelance writer and journalist, 1962–69. The heading "Russia" in the subject file series contains materials on Russia, 1941–64 and undated; the atomic bomb; 1949–50; the Constitution, 1936 and undated; investments in the U.S., 1956–57, 2 folders; the Katyn Massacre, 1953–54 and undated; recognition of the Soviet Union, 1939–41 and undated; Russian bonds, 1950. The subject file series also has materials on "Russian heirs," 1950–57, communism, and Philip R. Faymonville, 1942–54 and undated. The writings and speeches series has numerous references to Russia and Soviet-American relations. Register. 2 ft. restricted, but reviewed in 1980.

• John J. McCloy

  12 pp. Assistant secretary of war, 1941–45. Discussion of Soviet military strategy during World War II, p. 3.

• Loren R. Chandler

  27 pp. Professor of surgery at Stanford, 1938-present. Discussion of the German invasion of the USSR, pp. 9–10.

• Mark Wayne Clark

  27 pp. General, U.S. Army; chairman, Task Force on Intelligence Activities, Second Hoover Commission, 1954–55. References to Soviet foreign policy in the post-World War II era, pp. 3–4, 6–13, 24–25; to Soviet military strategy in World War II, pp. 6, 10–11, 14–16; to Soviet economic policy, p. 30; and to Soviet intelligence and counterintelligence, 1950s, pp. 24–26.

• Martha Ellen Brumback

  38 pp. Research assistant to Herbert Hoover. Discussion of U.S. policy towards the USSR, 1919–67, pp. 17–19.

• Mr. and Mrs. David C. Lawrence

  73 pp. David Lawrence was president, U.S. News & World Report, 1948–73. Discussion of Soviet foreign policy in the 1960s and World War II, p. 16; mention of the treaty of recognition of Soviet Russia, 1933, pp. 45–46.

• Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Kendall Requa

  38 pp. Requa and his father were mining associates and friends of the Hoover family. Discussion of the Bolshevik Revolution, p. 4.

• Mrs. Helen d'Oyle Sioussat

  77 pp. Television commentator for Columbia Broadcasting System. Discussion of U.S. foreign policy regarding the Soviet Union after World War II, p. 9.

• Neil MacNeil

  117 pp. Editor, author; worked for the New York Times. Discussion of the treaty of recognition of the USSR, 1933, pp. 45–46.

• Olga von Nordenflycht Kaltenborn (Mrs. Hans)

  27 pp. Husband was a news analyst. Discussion of Soviet military strategy after World War II, p. 14.

• Payson Jackson Treat

  26 pp. Professor of history, Stanford University, 1909–45. Discussion of the military capacity of the Soviet Union, 1948, p. 24, and of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 1940s, p. 25.

• Ralph Evans

  20 pp. Secretary to Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane, 1919–20; secretary to U.S. Congressman Hull from Iowa, 1921–24. Discussion of U.S. foreign policy regarding the Soviet Union after World War I, pp. 5–6.

• Raymond Moley

  43 pp. Assistant secretary of state, 1933; editor and author. Discussion of Soviet military strategy in World War II, pp. 37–39.

• Robert G. Storey

  52 pp. Lawyer and college dean. Discussion of U.S. foreign policy toward the Soviet Union after World War II, pp. 34–36.

• Rudolph N. Schullinger

  19 pp. Physician to Herbert Hoover, 1958–63. Discussion of conditions in the USSR, 1921–23, p. 9, and Soviet foreign policy after World War II, p. 9.

• Samuel S. Arentz

  18 pp. Mining engineer who had mining contacts with Hoover. Mention of the USSR, pp. 11–12.

• Scott Turner

  82 pp. Mining engineer. Discussion of mining in the Soviet Union, pp. 9–11.

• Walter Trohan

  48 pp. Newspaper correspondent; worked for the Chicago Tribune. Discussion of the Bolshevik Revolution, pp. 4–5.

• William Richards Castle, Jr.

  Papers, 1917–68, 12 ft. Chief, Division of Western European Affairs, Department of State, 1921–27; assistant secretary of state, 1927–30; ambassador to Japan, 1930; under secretary of state, 1931–33. Materials on Russia, 1931–33, and correspondence with Herbert Hoover and Charles Evans Hughes. Register. (NUCMC 72–1437)