A.N. Haury Burma collection, 1957-1993.

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A.N. Haury Burma collection, 1957-1993.

Contains indexes of various periodicals, articles, clippings, background letters and field notes of Agnese Haury collected on her trips to Burma, general information on Burma, documents of the United Nations and its specialized agencies concerning their Burma programs, 1984-1989, as well as information on drugs and narcotics in Burma.

4 ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7388797

Arizona State University Libraries

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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...

Haury, A. N. (Agnese Nelms)

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Agnese Nelms (now Haury) was born in Houston, Texas, in 1923. Educated in Fontainbleau, France, Houston and Greenwich, CT, she graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1946 with a degree in history. She soon went to work in the Publications Department of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; there she worked closely with, and grew to admire, Alger Hiss, who became president of the Endowment in 1947. At the Endowment she wrote or edited numerous reports and articles, and she bec...