Louis G. Cowan diaries [manuscript], 1944 May -1945 June.

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Louis G. Cowan diaries [manuscript], 1944 May -1945 June.

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Cowan's diaries log his work in the Overseas Operations Branch of the Office of War Information, noting meetings, phone calls, and reviews of scripts. The majority of entries concern the European theater with a few mentions of events in the Pacific. He comments on current events including Dumbarton Oaks ("one cannont be sure that one of the major powers now involved will not in the future become an aggressor"). He also mentions D-Day broadcasts, withholding of war information, censorship, need for more propaganda, the presidential election of 1944, arguments over a Hemingway story, translation problems in global transmissions, Yalta Conference, V-E day broadcasts, death of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman as president, Hitler's death and German surrender. The collection also contains a 1945 photograph of a Parisian news stand displaying copies of "Voir."

3 volumes.

University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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