Reminiscences of Eleanor Lansing Dulles : oral history, 1967.

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Reminiscences of Eleanor Lansing Dulles : oral history, 1967.

Family background; childhood in New York State; Bryn Mawr; refugee work, Paris, 1917-19; graduate training, industrial management; factory employment manager; London School of Economics, 1921-22; Radcliffe and Harvard; European study and travel; teaching, Bryn Mawr, 1932-36; University of Pennsylvania; Social Security Board; Board of Economic Warfare, 1942; State Department, 1942-62: UNRRA, Morgenthau Plan, displaced persons, Bretton Woods Conference, security investigations, occupation of Austria and treaty negotiations, currency reform and monetary conversion. Impressions of Robert Lansing, John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and many others.

Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history.

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