Records, 1944-1945.

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Records, 1944-1945.

Records consist of general files, 1944-1945; general public interest correspondence, 1945; publications, telegrams, and correspondence expressing public interest and opinion, 1945; administrative papers, 1945; memos, correspondence, and San Francisco Documents-National Memoranda on Dumbarton Oaks of Alger Hiss, Secretary-General of the Conference, 1945; progress reports, 1945; presentation materials, 1945; and photographs, 1944-1945. Types of documents represented include correspondence, press releases and radio bulletins, clippings, publications, memos, reports, and others.

10.4 linear ft. (12.5 cubic ft.)

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Hiss, Alger

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Alger Hiss (1904-1996) was born in Baltimore, Maryland and educated at Baltimore City College, Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Law School. During the new Deal period he worked as an attorney at the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, in the Solicitor General's Office at the Justice Department, as Assistant Secretary of State and in other positions in the State Department, and as a member of the U.S. delegation to the Yalta conference in 1945. He served as Secretary General of the United...

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...