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Conference on International Organization,
1945-1948
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| On February 28, 1945, while serving as Admiral William F.
Halsey's Assistant Chief of Staff for the U.S. Pacific Third Fleet, President
Franklin Roosevelt invited Stassen to be one of eight members of the U.S.
Delegation to the United Nations Conference on International Organization held
April 25 through June 26 in San Francisco. Stassen was assigned to the
commissions drafting charter sections for a trusteeship system (Committee 4 of
Commission 2, the General Assembly), the Security Council (Commission 3), and
the International Court of Justice (Commission 4). As part of his work on the
section pertaining to the General Assembly, Stassen chaired a consultative
group of the five powers and prepared a working paper which aimed to reconcile
the positions of Britain, Australia, and the United States on the trusteeship
system for consideration by Commission 2. |
| The first item in this section is a file containing
correspondence between Harold Stassen and Lloyd W. Larson in 1986 which
includes a copy of a paper by Larson entitled "Drafting the United Nations
Charter: Harold Stassen at the San Francisco Conference." Researchers are
referred to this article for an overview of Stassen's role in the charter
conference. |
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| 142.A.18.1B | 116 |
Larson, Lloyd W., "Drafting the United Nations
Charter: Harold Stassen at the San Francisco Conference," 1986.
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Correspondence:
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Letterhead sample.
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Form letter replies.
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| | | | Includes a sample of six standard replies used by Stassen's
staff in response to unsolicited letter writers. The letters include a general
response and more specific replies for those who wrote supporting Stassen's
participation in the charter conference, those writing in favor of U.S. support
of independence for colonial and mandated peoples, those writing from churches
and religious groups, those writing about Palestine and the Jewish question,
and those writing about the World Court. |
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| 142.A.18.1B | 116 | |
Answered by/Addressed to Esther Stassen, March-April
1945.
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Miscellaneous (unsorted), undated and January-June
1945. 4 folders
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Telegrams with outgoing reply, March-June 1945.
2 folders
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Telegrams, General, April-July 1945.
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General (chronological):
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Undated and February-April 1945. 4 folders
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| 142.A.18.2F | 117 | | |
April-July 1945. 10 folders
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General:
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A-R, March-June 1945.
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| 142.A.18.3B | 118 | | |
S-Z, March-June 1945.
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Responses to form letter replies, May-June
1945.
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Subject:
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Argentina, April-May, 1945.
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Bretton Woods (economic and monetary), April-May
1945.
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California Republicans, May 14, 1945.
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Churches, April-May 1945.
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Dumbarton Oaks Proposals, March-May
1945.
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Education, May 1945.
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Immigration, May 1945.
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Independence for colonial and mandated peoples,
April-June 1945.
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Jewish agency and Palestine, March-June 1945.
2 folders
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Labor, April-May 1945.
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Military conscription, April-May 1945.
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National and civic organizations, April-May
1945.
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Permanent opium control board, April
1945.
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Polish question, undated and March-June 1945.
12 folders
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Spain, May-June 1945
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Treatment of smaller powers, January-May
1945.
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United Nations Conference on International
Organization (general), April 1945.
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War veterans and recommendations for aides,
March-May 1945.
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Winona Senior High School students, April
1945.
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World Court, May 1945.
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World organization (federal union), May
1945.
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| 142.A.18.4F | 119 |
Procedural:
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Commission assignments, May-June 1945.
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Conference arrangements and procedures, May-June
1945.
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Conference personnel and directories, April
1945.
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Conference structure, April-May 1945.
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Consultants' meetings, May 1945.
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Coordination Committee, May 1945.
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Executive Committee, May-June 1945.
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Executive officers of commissions and committees
meetings, April-May 1945.
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Journal, Nos. 1-51, April 25-June 22,
1945.
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| | | | Missing numbers 16, 20, 25, and 37. |
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List of documents issued, May 11-June 14, 1945.
2 folders
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Memoranda from Secretariat, March 30-June 15,
1945.
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Memoranda of conversations, May 10-June 13,
1945.
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Minutes of Plenary Sessions, 1st-8th, April 25-May
3, 1945.
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Order of the day, April 25-June 24,
1945.
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Précis of committee proceedings, Nos. 1-43, May
5-June 22, 1945.
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Programs (opening and closing), April 25, June 26,
1945.
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| | | | Includes the text of closing addresses made by delegation
chairmen and the U.S. President. |
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Steering Committee, April 28-June 23,
1945.
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| | | | Includes Credentials Committee. |
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Reports:
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First Report to the
Governments of the United Nations by the Interim Commission on Food and
Agriculture, August 1, 1944.
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Draft of Report on the Conference by Edward R.
Stettinius, Jr., May 25, 1945.
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Progress report of work in commissions and
committees, May 10-June 23, 1945. 2 folders
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Report to the President on the
Results of the San Francisco Conference, June 26, 1945:
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| 142.E.7.4 | 215 | | |
Galley proof.
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| 142.A.18.4F | 119 | | |
Final report.
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Report by the Executive
Commission to the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations, November
12, 1945.
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Report on the Second Part of
the First Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations Held in New
York, October 23-December 15, 1946, 1947.
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| 142.A.18.4F | 119 |
Radio and press:
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| | | Consists of numbered documents distributed by both the
Conference and the U.S. Delegation during the charter conference. Scattered
issues may be missing from each file. Also includes radio scripts, Stassen's
speech material, and news clippings. |
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Daily news digests, Nos. 1-55, April 25-June 25,
1945. 2 folders
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| | | | Missing numbers 6, 8, 10, 19, 39, and 52. |
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Daily summaries of opinion developments, Nos. 1-52,
April 24-June 22, 1945.
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| | | | Missing numbers 2, 7-9, 14, 29, 32, 37, 40, and 44-45. |
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A Pictorial Record of the
Delegates to the United Nations Conference on International
Organization, June 1945.
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| 142.A.18.5B | 120 | |
Radio and press comments, Nos. 4-45, April 30-June
16, 1945. 2 folders
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| | | | Prepared by the U.S. Office of War Information. Missing
numbers 1-3, 6-7, 10, 17, 40-42. |
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Roundup of radio reaction to the San Francisco
conference, Nos. 1-43, May 7-June 25, 1945. 2 folders
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| | | | Prepared by the U.S. Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service.
Missing numbers 4, 7, 13, 18-19, 28, 35, 38, and 40. |
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Special memoranda on foreign press and radio,
April-June 1945.
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Press conference news stories, April 10-11,
1945.
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Radio scripts, undated and April-July 1945.
2 folders
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| | | | Includes U.S. Delegation press releases. |
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Radio scripts: America's Town Meeting, April 26,
1945.
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Speeches, undated and March-July 1945.
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Writings and publications, 1943-1945.
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Magazine articles, 1945.
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News clippings, April-July 1945. 2 folders
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U.S. Delegation:
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Delegates background:
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Book 1. Dumbarton Oaks Proposals and related
material. 1 folder and 1 notebook binder.
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Book 2. Proposals and suggestions for
consideration.
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Book 3. Comments and suggestions on the Dumbarton
Oaks Proposals. 2 folders
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| 142.A.18.6F | 121 | | |
Book 4. Conference manual. 2 folders
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General Reference: Dumbarton Oaks Proposals and
United Nations' comment.
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| | | | Reference material kept by aide John Thomson. |
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Instructions to Stassen's staff, April 23-May 3,
1945.
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Department of State memoranda, March 23-April 16,
1945.
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Memoranda (general), undated and March-June
1945.
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Personal memoranda, February 13-August 23, 1945.
2 folders
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| | | | Includes President Roosevelt's appointment of Stassen as a
U.S. delegate, Stassen's naval orders, incoming Secretary of State memoranda,
memoranda from Stassen's aides, Stassen's outgoing memoranda, and miscellaneous
speech drafts, fragments, and notes. |
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Pre-conference meetings of U.S. Delegation, March
13-April 3, 1945.
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Meeting agendas, May 19-June 18, 1945. 2 folders
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| | | | Meeting minutes, April 3- May 14, 1945. |
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Miscellaneous information, May 1945.
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Dumbarton Oaks Proposals and United Nations
Charter:
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Proposals and amendments, [April]-May
1945.
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Comments and proposed amendments concerning the
Dumbarton Oaks Proposals (by national delegations), May 7, 1945. 4 folders
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Joint proposals, May 1945.
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Miscellaneous amendments and consultations, April
23-May 5, 1945.
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Proposed amendments by commissions, May 9-12, 1945.
2 folders
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Proposed amendments by Commission III, May 13-15,
1945.
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| 142.A.18.7B | 122 | |
Skeleton charter, May 29, 1945.
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Composite texts of charter, undated and June 16-20,
1945. 2 folders
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Tentative drafts of the Coordination Committee and
the Advisory Committee of Jurists, June 21-22, 1945.
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Texts of the proposed charter of the United Nations
and of the proposed agreement establishing the Preparatory Commission, June 25,
1945.
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Commission files:
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| | | Includes numbered UN documents consisting of meeting agendas
and summaries, draft charter proposals and amendments, reports of commission
rapporteurs and drafting committees. Some of the documents are in French or
Russian. |
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| 142.A.18.7B | 122 | |
Working papers, undated and February-June 1945.
2 folders
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| | | | Contains papers documenting Stassen's commission work on the
proposed amendments to the Dumbarton Oaks proposals. In particular, this file
contains information about his discussions with members of the U.S. and other
delegations regarding the Security Council, particularly its veto powers and
the voting arrangement agreed upon at Yalta, the World Court, trusteeship,
economic and social cooperation, and Pan-American regionalism. |
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Commission I. General Provisions, May 4-June 23,
1945.
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Committee 1. Preamble, Purposes, and Principles,
May 8-June 2, 1945. 2 folders
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Subcommittee A, May 24-June 21,
1945.
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Committee 2. Membership, Amendment, and
Secretariat, May 6-June 22, 1945. 2 folders
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Subcommittees A-B, D-E, May 17-June 15,
1945.
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Commission II. General Assembly, May 4-June 22,
1945.
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Committee 1: Structure and Powers, May 5-22, 1945.
2 folders
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Subcommittee A, May 19-26, 1945.
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Committee 2: Political and Security Functions, May
4-June 21, 1945. 2 folders
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Subcommittee A, May 11-21, 1945.
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Subcommittee B, May 21-June 12,
1945.
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Subcommittee B and Commission III: Committee 1:
Subcommittee C, June 11, 1945.
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Committee 3. Economic and Social Cooperation, May
9-June 9, 1945. 2 folders
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Narcotic control, June 1945.
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Subcommittee A, May 16-June 5, 1945.
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Committee 4. Trusteeship System:
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Agendas and meeting summaries, May 5-June 21,
1945. 2 folders
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| 142.A.18.8F | 123 | | | |
Dependent Territories: Basic documents, October
27, 1944-April 13, 1945. 1 notebook.
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Minutes of preliminary consultations on
trusteeship by representatives of the five powers, April 30-June 18,
1945.
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Recommendations to the American Delegation,
March 19-June 18, 1945.
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Proposals, April 25-May 5, 1945.
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| | | | | | Includes U.S. and British trusteeship proposals, U.S.
commentary, and memoranda regarding concerns by the Syrian and Lebanese
delegations. |
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Trusteeship arrangements, April-June 1945.
2 folders
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Working papers and amendments, April-June 1945.
3 folders
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| | | | | | Includes draft amendments, memoranda of conversations,
other memoranda, and Stassen's notes and annotations. |
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Miscellaneous, March 19-June 19,
1945.
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Subcommittee A, May 25-June 19,
1945.
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Commission III. Security Council:
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Remarks made by Commander Stassen, June 12-13,
1945.
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Committee 2. Pacific Settlement of Disputes, May
3-July 30, 1945.
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| | | | | Consists of minutes which Clyde Eagleton (Technical
Expert, Division of International Organizational Affairs, Department of State)
copied for Stassen. |
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Commission IV. Judicial Organization:
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Committee of Jurists:
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united nations, met in Washington April 9-20, 1945 to draft a recommended
statute for the Permanent Court of International Justice prior to the San
Francisco charter conference. Stassen's files of the Committee of Jurists are
included within his files of Commission IV as that commission worked on those
recommendations set forth by the Committee of Jurists. |
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Comparative text of the statute of the Permanent
Court of International Justice, April 20, 1945.
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Draft of proposed statute and report of
rapporteur, April 2, 20-27, 1945.
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List of documents issued, April 9-28,
1945.
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Lists of representatives and advisers, April
10-14, 1945.
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Meeting summaries, delegation memoranda,
proposals, and subcommittee reports, April 1945. 2 folders
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| 142.A.18.8F | 123 | | | |
Minutes of Drafting Committee, April 14,
1945.
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see Commission IV: Committee I. |
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Miscellaneous documents, April 1945.
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| | | | | | Includes drafting committee revisions and U.S.
commentary. |
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Official comment of the various nations, April
1945.
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Report on draft of statute, April 20-25,
1945.
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Committee 1. International Court of
Justice:
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Documents from the Committee of Jurists, April
1945. 3 folders
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Draft report of the rapporteur, June 9,
1945.
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Draft statute, June 21, 1945.
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Proposed amendments and revisions, April 12-June
17, 1945.
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Proposed drafts of articles, May
1945.
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Miscellaneous:
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Address by John Foster Dulles ("The Beginning of
World Order"), April 22, 1945.
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Elmer Ryan's File, 1938, 1945.
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| | | | Although a captain in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General
department at the time of the conference, Ryan did not attend the conference in
any official capacity but appears to have served as a personal aide advising
Stassen on policy issues and public opinion. He also assisted in Stassen's
speech preparation. The file includes very candid correspondence between Ryan
and his wife Marjorie wherein Ryan relates conference activities and Stassen's
thoughts regarding the progress of the commissions and discussions between the
delegations. Also included are copies of memoranda Ryan addressed to Stassen,
preliminary notes for Stassen's speeches and commission work, and
correspondence between Ryan and key Minnesotans such as Sydney Anderson, Julian
Baird, and Fred Hughes regarding public perceptions of Stassen's conference
role and his position for the 1948 presidential campaign. The file also
includes a few letters from Myrtle Cain and Esther Stassen to Marjorie
Ryan. |
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Far Eastern Survey,
April 11-25, 1945.
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Harold H. Fisher briefings:
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1945. 3 folders
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| 142.A.19.1B | 124 | | |
Criticism of the San Francisco conference,
April-June 1945. 3 folders
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News clippings regarding Harold Stassen,
1943-1945.
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Research briefings, May-June 1945.
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| | | | | Includes briefs regarding the ratification of amendments
to the U.S. constitution, criticism of the 1919 Paris peace conference,
Hitler's lebensraum ideology, and the
constitutions of Australia and New Zealand. |
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| 142.G.8.4F-1 | 2 |
House Concurrent Resolution 10 (State of Minnesota),
February 23, 1945.
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| 142.A.19.1B | 124 | |
House Concurrent Resolution 21, January 17,
1945.
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Invitations, April-June 1945.
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Letters of introduction, April 1945.
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Photographs, 1945.
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| | | | An original photograph of Stassen with Anthony Eden has been
placed in the Minnesota Historical Society reserve collection (Res. 62, Box
214). A photocopy of this photograph remains in the collection. |
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| 142.G.8.4F-1 | 2 | |
Photographs, 1945.
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| 142.A.19.1B | 124 | |
Public letters to the U.S. Delegation, April 16-June
22, 1945.
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Statements by Secretary Stettinius, April-May
1945.
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Miscellaneous documents from individuals and groups,
1942-1945. 4 folders
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Post Conference:
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Correspondence and related papers, November
1945-March 1948.
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| | | | Includes copies of addresses made by the secretary-general
of the United Nations. |
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Conference on Problems of War and Peace in the
Atomic Age: Part 2, The Political Problem, January 4-5, 1946.
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| | | | Includes no material by Stassen but includes a presentation
made by Clyde Eagleton regarding international law and justice. |
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Dublin Conference Committee: Proposals for amendment
of the U.N. charter, October 1945-February 1946.
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| | | | Contains a petition formulated during a conference held in
Princeton, January 11-12, 1946 and sent to the U.N.'s General Assembly asking
for revision of the U.N. charter in such a manner as to form a World Federal
Government. Also included are materials regarding the preceding Conference on
World Peace held in Dublin, New Hampshire, October 11-16, 1945. |
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Articles and white papers, July 1945-August
1946.
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International
Conciliation, Nos. 413, 418, 420, 424, September 1945 and February,
April, and October 1946.
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