McCloy papers, series 16-20, 1946-1983.

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McCloy papers, series 16-20, 1946-1983.

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Correspondence, reports and other materials related to McCloy's activities in international affairs and private corporations. Series 16 documents McCloy's tenure as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ford Foundation, 1952-1965, including biographical material on its founder Henry T. Heald and material on a 1954 proposal by Grenville Clark for a Foundation-supported study of disarmament. Series 17 documents the work of a three-member United Nations advisory team appointed in 1956 to oversee efforts to clear the Suez Canal of ships sunk during the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956. Series 18 relates to the 1956 book Russia and America by Henry L. Roberts, for which McCloy wrote a controversial foreword referring to pre-WWII German-held territories. Series 19 includes correspondence and reports from the President's Committee to Study the Military Assistance Program (also known as the Draper Committee), to which McCloy was appointed in 1958. Series 20 documents McCloy's tenure as legal counsel to a group of international oil companies, chiefly 1962-1979, which dealt with issues such as OPEC, antitrust laws, and the Canadian national energy program; it includes a series of reports entitled "perspectives on development" issued by a consulting firm headed by James H. Critchfield.

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McCloy, John J. (John Jay), 1895-1989

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Amherst College. Class of 1916. McCloy.

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Critchfield, James H., 1917-....

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Ford foundation

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