J. E. Wallace Sterling miscellaneous papers, 1937-1985.

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J. E. Wallace Sterling miscellaneous papers, 1937-1985.

Letters, writings, photographs, and printed matter, relating to Herbert Hoover and Stanford University. Includes letters by Herbert Hoover. Also includes collected communiqués of belligerent governments printed in the New York Times, 1942-1945, relating to military operations during World War II; and reports from diverse sources relating to Japanese foreign policy, 1937-1939, postwar Japanese educational reform, postwar Soviet foreign policy, and the Chinese Revolution of 1949.

6 ms. boxes.

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