Reminiscences of Kenneth Claiborne Royall : oral history, 1963.

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Reminiscences of Kenneth Claiborne Royall : oral history, 1963.

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Education; Harvard Law School and LAW REVIEW; German saboteurs case, 1942; head legal department, Fiscal Division of Army Service Forces, 1942-43; Special Assistant to Secretary of War, 1944-45; postwar congressional relations and investigating committees; Under Secretary of War, Secretaary of War, Secretary of Army, 1945-49; unification of armed forces; 1948 Democratic presidential nomination; postwar crises: Turkey, Greece, Berlin blockade, Korea, Japan and Douglas MacArthur; integration efforts in Army; rejection of suggested appointment, Nuremberg trials. Impressions of Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, Generals. George Marshall and James Van Fleet, Secretaries James Forrestal and Stuart Symington, others.

Transcript: 347 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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