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Papers, 1912-1974.

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Correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes, minutes, speech and article drafts, book drafts, clippings, and other items from his political and professional career. Series include State Department correspondence and subject files concerning coordination of financial questions with those of policy, foreign nationalities in the United States, affairs relating to Canada and Greenland, wartime intelligence matters, the St. Lawrence Seaway, the Export-Import Bank, postwar programs, Lend-Lease funds, and other matters. Subject and committee files on atomic power, Latin America, NATO, un-American activities, the United Nations, banking legislation, education, international relations, postwar Europe, and refugees; and files from his work with the Free Europe Committee, 1949-1972, the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, 1931-1933, President Roosevelt's 1932 campaign, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1933-1937, the New York Stock Exchange, 1934-1938, as Ambassador to Brazil, 1945-1946, Columbia University, 1946-1971, on law and education in Puerto Rico, 1939-1968, and the Twentieth Century Fund, 1937-1971. Also, diary for 1937-1971, consisting of memoranda on daily activities, comments on personalities, politics, foreign affairs, letters, memoranda of conversations, and clippings. A substantial portion relates to Berle's tenure with the Department of State and as Ambassador to Brazil.

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