Records, 1955-1956.

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Records, 1955-1956.

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Records consist primarily of correspondence and also cables, telegrams, memoranda, itineraries, maps of Togoland, petitions, clippings, regulations, 1955-1956, relating to a plebiscite held to determine the popular will concerning unification with the Gold Coast. The United Nations Plebiscite Commissioner was Eduardo Espinosa y Prieto. Included are complaints from citizens about problems concerning registration; lists of citizens whose registrations were objected to; instructions for Revising Officers Courts, polling assistants, registration assistants, and Observers from the United Nations Plebiscite Commission; reports of United Nations Plebiscite Observers; a report on polling day by R. de Roussy de Sales (Information Officer); registration figures; results; and correspondence, reports, bills, and administrative circulars concerning personnel, finance, public information, legal matters, and other aspects of the administration of the Commission. Principal correspondents include Eduardo Espinosa y Prieto, Sir John Dring (United Kingdom Plebiscite Administrator), members of the Togoland Congress, the Convention People's Party, Sir Charles Arden-Clark (Governor of the Gold Coast), and Victor Mills (Administrative Officer, United Nations Plebiscite Commission). Included are copies of Prieto's correspondence with Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld.

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Roussy de Sales, R. de.

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Hammarskjöld, Dag, 1905-1961

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Dag Hammarskjöld served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in Africa in September 1961. From the description of Hammarskjöld, Dag, 1905-1961 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10580969 Dag Hammarskjöld was born on 29 July 1905, in Jönköping, Sweden, and died 18 Sept. 1961, near Ndola, in Northern Rhodesia. He was a Swedish economist and statesman who served as second secretary-general of the ...

Dring, John, Sir.

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Mills, Victoria A.

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United Nations

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In 1945, four individuals who had worked on the Manhattan project-John L. Balderston, Jr., Dieter M. Gruen, W.J. McLean, and David B. Wehmeyer-formed a committee and wrote a letter to 154 public figures asking for their opinions about the possibility of the creation of a world government. Over the next year, as the various public figures responded to the letter, the responses were correlated into a report that was released in 1947. From the guide to the Balderston, John L., Jr. Colle...

United Nations and non-member nations.

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Arden-Clark, Charles, Sir.

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United Nations. Secretary-General

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Convention People's Party (Gold Coast)

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United Nations Plebiscite Observers.

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Espinosa y Prieto, Eduardo.

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