Adolf Augustus Berle papers, 1937-1971 (inclusive), [microform].

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Adolf Augustus Berle papers, 1937-1971 (inclusive), [microform].

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A diary record, 1937-1971, of Adolf Berle. Interspersed among the diary entries, are letters, memoranda of conversations, observations, speech drafts, opinions, and clippings related to American foreign policy, economic policy in the 1930s, World War II, and Latin American affairs. Also included is material on personal and family affairs, New York and national politics, the Communist threat to the United States, and his work as head of President Kennedy's Latin American task force. More than half the diary covers the years when Berle was Assistent Secretary of State, 1938-1944, and Ambassador to Brazil, 1945-1946.

8 reels.

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United States. Department of State

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