Records, [ca. 1940-1984]

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Records, [ca. 1940-1984]

Included are files of the Executive Directors of UNICEF Maurice Pate, Henry Labouisse, Charles A. Egger, and James P. Grant. Also included is a small quantity of files belonging to E.J.R. Heyward, Senior Deputy Director of UNICEF, 1947-1978. Files concern UNICEF's projects and programs throughout the world, and contain correspondence, cables, memos, reports, minutes and agendas, speeches, press releases, maps, charts, tables, photographs, information pamphlets and other printed material, notes, clippings, working papers, itineraries, and United Nations documents. Major topics treated, ca. 1975-1982, include the International Year of the Child; UNICEF conferences, seminars, forums, round tables, and other meetings; emergencies in Kampuchea, Nigeria, Biafra, Vietnam, India, Pakistan, and other countries; and other matters relating to health, peace, nutrition, agriculture, population, and particularly children and adolescents throughout the world.

ca. 325 cubic ft.

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Pate, Maurice, 1894-

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Maurice Pate (1894-1965) was an international civil servant who devoted his career to improving the welfare of children, serving as the first Executive Director of UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) from 1947 to 1965. He also coordinated food relief operations for civilians, children, and prisoners of war during both world wars through his work with the Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB), the American Relief Administration (ARA), as president of the Commission for Polish Relief (CPR), a...

Heyward, E. J. R.

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UNICEF. Office of the Executive Director.

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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...

Egger, Charles Albert

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Labouisse, Henry R., 1904-1987

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Henry R. Labouisse (1904-1987) was a distinguished American diplomat and international public servant. He served as a U.S. government official working on the formation and implementation of foreign economic policies during World War II, as director of the International Cooperation Administration (ICA) in 1961, and as U.S. Ambassador to Greece from 1962 to 1965. He also served as director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from 1954 to 19...

Grant, James P.

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