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Camille Chautemps papers, 1885-2005

Title: Camille Chautemps papers 1885-2005

Chautemps was a French politician and radical socialist leader. He was premier in 1930 and in 1933-34. A member of the first Popular Front cabinet of Socialists and Communists (1936-37) under Leon Blum, he headed the second, less radical, Popular Front cabinet (1937-38). Vice premier of the Vichy government, Chautemps came to the United States in 1940 on a mission and did not return to France. In 1947 he was tried and convicted in absentia for collaborating with the Vichy regime; in 1954 his sentence was voided by the statute of limitations.

ArchivalResource: 27.0 Linear feet

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Weygand, Maxime, 1867-1965. Maxime Weygand memorandum, ca. 1940.

Title: Maxime Weygand memorandum, ca. 1940.

Relates to the capitulation of France in 1940.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754868071 View

Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [OCT. 10]

Title: Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [OCT. 10]

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/100166 View

Sound recordings collection, [ca. 1927-1985]

Title: Sound recordings collection, [ca. 1927-1985]

Included are a recording of a speech given by Józef Piłsudski in 1927; recordings of speeches of Foreign Minister Józef Beck, 1939; interviews with General Maxime Weygand and Jadwiga Beck; a press conference given by Edward Gierek; recordings of General Kazimierz Sosnkowski, 1961-1967; and recordings concerning the history of "Enigma", a code breaking machine used during World War II. Interviews, lectures, and reminiscences of other individuals important in recent Polish history, and recordings of Polish army songs are also included.

ArchivalResource: ca. 15 recordings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155489744 View

Oral history collection, 1919-1986.

Title: Oral history collection, 1919-1986.

Historical reportages, lectures, speeches, and statements of Polish politicians and statesmen including Władysław Anders, Jozef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Stanisław Mikołajczyk, Jan Kwapinski, Zygmunt Nagorski, and Adam Pragier; Polish generals including Władysław Sikorski, Kazimierz Sosnkowski, Michał Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz, and French General Maxime Weygand of the French Military Mission sent to aid Poland in the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1920; and American Presidents and statesmen including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Robert Kennedy. Biographical interviews with Polish artists, scholars, writers, and others, most of whom emigrated to the United States after 1939 including Michał Budny, Ewa Czarnecka, Karin Falencka, Feliks Gadomski, Feliks Gross, Zygmunt Gross, Wacław Jedrzejewicz, Jan Karski, Stefan Korbonski, the Koss family, Ludwik Krzyzanowski, Ignacy Morawski, Leon Pommers, Adam Panufnik, Franciszek Proch, Jerzy Ptakowski, Halina Rodzinska, Teofil Roll, Ludwik Seidenman, Leopold Stokowski, Peter Skalnik, Marek Swiecicki, Halina Wierzynska, and Halina Wittlin; Polish folklore with Reverend Kedziołek (Kaszuby, Canada) and with the clergy at Panna Maria, Texas; and major events in Poland, 1981-1982, with Mirosław Chojecki and Kazimierz Brandys.

ArchivalResource: 518 cassette tapes; 240 reel-to-reel tapes; 20 record discs; 850 miscellaneous recordings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155527645 View

Maxime Weygand memorandum, 1940

Title: Maxime Weygand memorandum 1940

Relates to the capitulation of France in 1940.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 volume); (0.2 linear feet)

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JULY 28]

Title: Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JULY 28]

Part 1 shows horse racing at Arlington Park, Illinois; a yacht regatta in Larchmont, New York Part 2, United States Lend-lease equipment is unloaded by Britain troops in Egypt. Part 3, Dutch pilots pose and speak in New York City. Part 4, merchant seamen board the training ship American Sailor. Part 5 shows French General Petain in Vichy on Bastille Day. A flashback shows Paris on Bastille Day in 1939; German troops march through the city. Gov. Gen. Boisson inspects Vichy troops in Dakar, W. Africa. Gen. Weygand salutes a crowd in Casablanca. Part 6 shows Japanese in Los Angeles; Pres. Roosevelt at his home in Hyde Park; temporary White House offices in Poughkeepsie, New York; Japanese Amb. Nomura; Philippine troops marching in review; and Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Part 7, British women paint stockings on their legs.

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/100244 View

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Historical Films. 1914 - 1936. SCENES OF GENERAL PERSHING, GENERAL BLISS AND FAMOUS VISITORS TO THE AMERICAN G.H.Q. [1918-1919]

Title: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Historical Films. 1914 - 1936. SCENES OF GENERAL PERSHING, GENERAL BLISS AND FAMOUS VISITORS TO THE AMERICAN G.H.Q. [1918-1919]

Reel 1, Pershing, Bliss, and Foch confer at the Hotel Crillon in Paris. Foch, Fr. Gen. Weygand, and Gen. McAndrew visit Pershing's chateau at Chaumont. Pershing and McAndrew greet Premier Clemenceau at Chaumont. Weygand, War Sec. Baker, and Gen. Gorgas join the conference. Pershing and Gen. Dawes board a train. Reel 2, King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium greet crowds in Chaumont, visit Pershing's chateau, and review the G. H. Q. band and honor guard.

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/24904 View

GRANT, Gen Sir Charles John Cecil (1877-1950), 1805-1946

Title: GRANT, Gen Sir Charles John Cecil (1877-1950) 1805-1946

ArchivalResource: 1 box or 0.01 cubic metre

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