Records, 1953-1955.

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Records, 1953-1955.

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Included are correspondence, including that of Chairman Hernan Santa-Cruz, cables, reports, background material on South Africa, working papers, and press releases concerning apartheid in South Africa, and the work of United Nations Commission on the Racial Situation in the Union of South Africa (UNCORS), including its policies and responsibilities. Also included are verbatim reports of testimonies of Mrs. Michael Crosfield, Tom Wardle, Rev. Michael Scott, Jim Hatch, H.L. Polak, and E.S. Sachs. These concern their experiences of racial discrimination in South Africa from both the pro and anti-apartheid viewpoints.

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United Nations. Commission on the Racial Situation in the Union of South Africa

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Polak, H. L.

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Scott, Michael, fl.1986

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Hatch, Jim

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Sachs, Emil Solomon.

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Santa-Cruz, Hernán.

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Crosfield, Michael, Mrs.

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Wardle, Tom D.

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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...