Papers, 1899-1972.

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Papers, 1899-1972.

Correspondence, mss., personal, professional, and financial papers of Grenville Clark, lawyer, of Dublin, N.H. and New York, N.Y. Collection includes material related to his association with the "Plattsburgh movement" and officer training before World War I, the National Economy League and the drafting of the Economy Act of 1933, the institution of the selective service system in 1940, the Dublin conferences of 1945 and 1965 on world government, and Harvard Corporation and the revitalization of Harvard Divinity School. Also includes material related to his participation in other matters of public service and his concern about civil rights. Includes research material for his book with Louis B. Sohn, World peace through world law (published as: World peace through world law. -- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c1958). Many organizations with which Clark was associated are represented in the collection, including the American Bar Association Committee on the Bill of Rights, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Citizens' Committee for Universal Military Training, the Ford Foundation, and the National Economy League. Correspondents include Fanny Dwight Clark, Dean Acheson, Clement Atlee, Sir Winston Churchill, John Foster Dulles, Felix Frankfurter, Robert Frost, and John F. Kennedy.

369 boxes (556.5 ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6749335

New Hampshire Newspaper Project

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