Letters to Naomi Wallace, 1945-1955.

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Letters to Naomi Wallace, 1945-1955.

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Anderson wrote from stations in post-war Europe where she was assigned by the U.S. State Department as a political advisor on Austrian affairs. Anderson describes her voyage June 1945, on the Gripsholm; the journey north from Caserta to Vienna; her duties in Vienna; vacation at Lake Como; and impressions of post war Europe. There are also letters from later posts including Hong Kong, and London. Comments of interest in the letter include the voyage over with 900 Italian and Greek deportees on board; tourist sites and glimpses of the Anzio beachead and bombed villages; draining of the Pontine marshes by Mussolini; a glimpse of Genera Mark Clark surfboarding; registration of U.S. citizens; distribution of food parcels and work with refugees; a leave in Paris; drought, starvation and fear of Soviet partition in Austria; and Christmas in Hong Kong, 1955. A photograph of Anderson is included.

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Gripsholm

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Anderson, Ruth I.

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Wallace, Naomi

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Wife of Professor of Geography at the University of Virginia. From the description of Oral history interview of Naomi Wallace by Raymond C. Bice [manuscript], March 26, 1997. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647920659 ...

Clark, Mark Wayne, 1896-1984

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Mark Wayne Clark (1896-1984) was born in Madison Barracks, New York. After he graduated from West Point in 1917, he commissioned in the infantry. During World War I, he became wounded in combat while commanding a battalion in France. He served with the War Department General Staff from 1921 to 1924. He graduated from the Command and General Staff School in 1935 and the Army War College two years later. Between 1940 and 1942, he served at General Headquarters and then Army Ground Forces. He rose ...