Papers, 1930–68, 115 ft. and 32 vols. Lawyer, U.S. senator, Supreme Court justice, director of the Office of Economic Stabilization and of the Office of War Mobilization (and Reconversion) in World War II, secretary of state, 1945–47, and United Nations delegate. The collection, comprising some 225 document boxes, plus scrapbooks of news clippings, phonodiscs, tapes, and photographs, includes correspondence, reports, book manuscripts, press conference transcriptions, and State Department memoranda. There are delivery texts of speeches, a log by Byrnes's assistant covering the Potsdam, Moscow, and London conferences; Byrnes's own shorthand (McKee's New Standard) notes on Yalta; copies of minutes of conferences at London, Berlin, Moscow, Paris, and New York, 1945–46; and State Department briefing books on individual countries for 1946, 4 vols. Among subjects covered are U.S. foreign policy, atomic bomb decisions, lendlease, and the peace treaties. There is a Voice of America rebroadcast, 30 December 1945, of Byrnes's report on the Moscow meeting of the Allies' representatives; also a speech of 27 March 1946 (possibly before the UN) in which he discusses a Russian-Iranian dispute over Soviet troops. Gen. Lucius Clay was a correspondent. Joseph Stalin and V. M. Molotov are mentioned. Unpublished finding aids: name and chronological index for pre-1941 material; and a folder-by-folder analysis of contents for ca. 3,000 folders, 1940–54, of which only about 400 contain Russian-related items (interspersed). (NUCMC 77–849)
