John Foster Dulles Papers. 1950 - 1959. Subject Files

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John Foster Dulles Papers. 1950 - 1959. Subject Files

1952-1959

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/580975

This series contains correspondence, memorandums, speech and statement drafts, reports, and printed matter. It is a source of information on John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State and documents Dulles' thinking on many key issues such as U.S. strategic posture, the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict, Korea, Indochina and United States relations with its Western European allies. There is much here too on Department of State personnel and organization and also contains materials on loyalty-security issues, particularly the John Paton Davies and John Stewart Service cases; bookburning; Edward Corsi, Scott McLeod, Richard Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller; the Bricker Amendment; Germany; Guatemala; Israel; U.S. talks with China regarding prisoners of war and other American personnel imprisoned in China; Syria in 1957; U.S.-United Kingdom relations; the Soviet Union; and the Intergovernmental Committee For European Migration. The files entitled "J. N. Greene, Jr." document the last few weeks of Secretary Dulles' life, including his illness. Correspondents include Konrad Adenauer, Douglas MacArthur, Senator Joseph McCarthy and others. John Foster Dulles' "S.S. Helena" notes constitute one of the few extant records of John Foster Dulles' participation in the pre-inauguration strategic planning session on the Helena in 1952.

Approximately 9,600 pages

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Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6484596

Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

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