A Descriptive Catalogue of the Papers in the Area of Twentieth Century American Statecraft and Public Policy, rev. ed. (1974). All collections listed above have unpublished guides and/or descriptions.
Resources (15)
American Civil Liberties Union
Archives, 1912-present, 1,861 albums, ca. 950 cartons (additions expected). Records include only a few relevant items, such as: an immigration case in 1950 involving a "Russian war bride"; correspondence in 1951 about American correspondents with Russian wives; 1959 cases involving the prohibition of demonstrations during the visit of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Ames, Iowa, and Washington, D.C. Annual guides averaging ca. 50 pp. (NUCMC 60–1525, in part). Finding aid available: https://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC001
Arthur Bullard (1879-1929)
Papers, 1905–29, ca. 5 ft. Journalist and public servant. As a member of the Committee on Public Information (Creel Committee), he worked in Russia in 1917–18. From 1919–21 he was in the State Department's Russian Division, then joined the Secretariat of the League of Nations, 1926–27. Among his travel diaries, writings, reports, correspondence, and clippings are many items pertaining to Russian affairs, the League of Nations in the 1920s, foreign affairs, disarmament, and related topics. (NUCMC 71–379., superceding 62–321). Finding aid available: https://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC008
Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965)
Papers, 1905–65, 169 boxes, 121 cartons, and 521 vols. U.S. government adviser on economics and U.S. representative to the U.N. Atomic Energy Commission in 1946. The section of his papers pertaining to his U.N. post includes a few items concerning the attitude and position of the Soviet Union toward international control of atomic energy. (NUCMC 71–378). Finding aid available: https://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC006
Dulles Oral History Collection
12.40 cu. ft. (4 file cabinet drawers), 1964–67. Interviews with such figures as Allen Dulles, Herbert Brownell, Elliott V. Bell, John C. Bennett, Charles Bohlen, Loy Henderson, Foy Kohler, and James Reston. Covers subjects similar to those noted in the preceding collection. Restrictions. The Dulles Oral History Collection: A Descriptive Catalogue (1967). (NUCMC 71–384). Finding aid available: https://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC017
Fight for Freedom Inc.
Records, 1922-1942 (mostly 1939-1942). 38 linear feet, 78 boxes. Includes a few appeals by the organization to support President Franklin D. Roosevelt's policy of extending war aid to the Soviet Union after June 1941; also, a limited number of items encouraging Finland to make peace with the USSR during November 1941. (NUCMC 60–1521). Finding aid available: https://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC025
George Frost Kennan (b. 1904)
Papers, 1861-2014, 142.7 linear feet, 333 boxes. Digital folders: 3, Digital files: 224 Diplomat and scholar. Official and semi-official materials relating to the U.S. Foreign Service, 1934–49 (but not, at present, to Kennan's abortive ambassadorship to the USSR in 1952). Correspondence, reports, diaries, notes, lectures, writings, and clippings. Restriction: Inquire at the library. (NUCMC 71–392). Finding aid available: https://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC076
Howard Alexander Smith (1880-1966)
Papers, 1897-1966, 4.38 cubic feet, 1 box, 7 oversize scrapbooks. U.S. senator from New Jersey. Traveled to Europe in 1947. Memoranda and daily reports concern his visits to Eastern European nations. (NUCMC 71–400) 13 Harry Dexter White (1892–1948). Papers, 1930–48, 13 boxes. Government official under President Harry S. Truman. Includes memoranda on the Russian loan question and the fate of post-war Germany. Relevant for the origins of the Cold War. Some items written by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (NUCMC 61–2058). Finding aid available: https://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC119
Hugh Lenox Scott (1853-1934)
Papers on Russia, 1898-1923, 4.38 cubic feet, 1 box, 7 oversize scrapbooks. U.S. Army chief of staff. Member of the Elihu Root Special Diplomatic Commission to Russia in 1917, which encouraged the Russian people to continue fighting World War I. Correspondence, reports, speeches, and news releases relate primarily to this mission. (NUCMC 71–399). Finding aid available: https://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC119
Ivy Ledbetter Lee Papers (1881-2003)
79 linear feet, 118 archival boxes, 30 oversize boxes, 2 films. All clippings pertain to the USSR. 1 box also contains handwritten memos to or from Lee. Some of the material is arranged chronologically, some by subject. Finding aid available: https://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC085
James V. Forrestal (1892-1949)
Papers, 1940–49, 85.1 linear feet, 206 boxes. Secretary of the navy (1944–47) and the first secretary of defense, 1947–49. His diaries are rich with information on U.S. diplomatic and foreign policies in this period. Telephone conversation memoranda, letters, and other papers also pertinent. Some items concern his reactions to the ideas of George F. Kennan. A large part of the diaries has been published: Walter Millis, The Forrestal Diaries (1951). (NUCMC 60–2502). Finding aid available: https://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC051
John Foster Dulles (1888–1959)
Papers, 1888–1959, 262.4 linear feet, 643 boxes. U.S. secretary of state, 1953–59. Earlier diplomatic career included involvement in the Versailles Peace Conference, League of Nations, United Nations, and NATO. In many phases of his career he had close contact with the Soviet Union, particularly during the Cold War. Correspondence, conversation memoranda, notes, drafts of writings and speeches, and clippings. Inquire concerning restrictions. Unpublished guide (NUCMC 71–385). Finding aid available: https://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC016
John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1881-1960)
Papers, 1715–1988, 67.0 Linear feet, 201 boxes, including photo boxes and 45 film reels. U.S. minister to China, 1925–29, to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, 1933–36, and to Turkey, 1936–42. Extensive correspondence, writings, photos, and printed matter cover his public and private life (and that of his father, Junius, an American Civil War participant). (NUCMC 71–396). Finding aid available: https://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC094
Louis Fischer (1896-1970)
Papers, 1890–1977, 29.4 linear feet. Journalist, author, and lecturer. Spent some 14 years in the USSR during the 1920s and 1930s, specializing in Soviet affairs. Articles, drafts of books, and a limited amount of correspondence. 6 boxes of family papers restricted until 2000. Finding aid available: https://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC024
Ray Stannard Baker (1870–1946)
Papers, ca. 1905–39, 18 boxes. Journalist, author, and biographer of Woodrow Wilson. Correspondence, reports, writings, and notes. Includes material pertaining to Wilson, Russia, and the Tyrol region (box 18). Unpublished guide (NUCMC 72–594). Finding aid available: https://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC004
Robert Lansing (1864-1928)
Selected papers, 1915–21, 5.5 linear feet, 13 archival boxes. Lawyer, public servant, and U.S. secretary of state, 1915–20. An authority on international law, he was U.S. counsel in the Bering Sea arbitration, 1892, in the Alaska Boundary Tribunal, 1903, and in negotiations on North Atlantic Fisheries, 1909–10. Correspondence, manuscript memoirs, and reports refer to the Soviet Union, World War I, Woodrow Wilson and his foreign policies, and the Paris Peace Conference. Inquire at the library. (NUCMC 71–394). Finding aid available: https://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC083
