Atlantic Union Committee Records
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Atlantic Union Committee Records 1940-1968 (bulk 1949-1952)
Atlantic Union Committee
Scope and Content Note The records of the Atlantic Union Committee span the years 1940-1968, with the bulk of the material from 1949 to 1952. The Atlantic Union Committee was organized in 1949 by Justice Owen J. Roberts as an independent committee of Federal Union, Inc., formed in 1939 by Clarence K. Streit, author of Union Now, published in the same year. The goal of the committee was to persuade the United States Congress to pass a resolution calling for a federal convention, like the one in Philadelphia in 1787, to explore the possibility of union among the Atlantic democracies of North America and Europe. The Atlantic Union Committee was dissolved in 1961 without having achieved its goal. The collection is arranged in four parts as described below. Part I Part I of the Atlantic Union Committee Records spans the years 1940-1968, with the bulk of the material concentrated from 1949 to 1952. Files in Part I include correspondence, reports, memoranda, financial records, general office administrative files, and miscellany. The material relates primarily to the organization, structure, and general activities of the Atlantic Union Committee, its chapter activities, and the resolutions it submitted to Congress between 1949 and 1952. The principal correspondents include Herbert Agar, Robert J. Bishop, Justin Blackwelder, Will Clayton, Donald P. Dennis, C. A. Edson, Henry C. Flower, Ellen (Mrs. St. John) Garwood, Guy M. Gillette, Livingston Hartley, Gerald B. Henry, Estes Kefauver, Edward J. Meeman, Hugh Moore, Walden Moore, Edmund Orgill, Stellanova (Mrs. Chase S.) Osborn, Lithgow Osborne, Robert Porter Patterson, Owen J. Roberts, Elmo Roper, and Clarence K. Streit. Within the correspondence related to the congressional comment on the Atlantic Union resolution are letters to and from Senators Hubert H. Humphrey, Irving McNeil Ives, and Lyndon B. Johnson. Part II Part II of the records spans the years 1940-1955, with the bulk from 1950 to 1953, consisting of the personal papers of Henry William Nugent Head (1898-1964), British subject and friend of the Atlantic Union Committee. It reflects Head's role as secretary of the Atlantic Affiliates and the Atlantic Union Committee's desire to build an overseas base. Subject files in this portion include correspondence with Atlantic affiliates and committee agents in European countries and Canada such as Lionel Curtis. Head's papers also contain personal correspondence, minutes of meetings, articles and reprints, and books and clippings. Part III Part III of the collection consists chiefly of correspondence and transcripts, but also includes reports, memoranda, minutes, financial records, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and related items. This material deals primarily with the efficacy of convincing Congress to pass a resolution inviting representatives from Western democracies to meet and explore the possibilities of forming a free federal union that would strive to prevent the spread of communism without resorting to war. Dating from 1946 to 1968, the bulk of the addition covers the years 1950-1958. Most of the correspondence is with members of the committee and from members of Congress, some of whom were cited previously. Part IV The records of Part IV span the years 1946-1960, with the bulk from 1949 to 1956. The majority of this part consists of committee correspondence and memoranda pertaining chiefly to the organization's efforts to get an Atlantic union resolution passed in Congress. Also included is information about the establishment of the Atlantic Union Committee and minutes of its annual congresses and work conferences.
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Part I: General Office File, 1949-1960
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and related material.
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American Assembly, 1951
American Association for United Nations, 1951-1953
American Award, 1951
American Committee on United Europe, 1949-1951
American Jewish Committee, 1951
American Legion, 1951
Atlantic Affiliates Committee, 1950-1952
Atlantic Award, 1952
Atlantic Commission bill, 1951-1952
Atlantic Congress, Kenneth Lindsay Plan, 1951
Atlantic Institute, 1960
Council, 1951
Executive Committee, 1953
Field work, 1951-1952
General, 1949-1958
Organization, 1949
Stamp, 1950
Symbol, 1949
Atlantic Union News, 1949-1952
Board of governors
Biographies, 1949-1951
Correspondence, 1949-1953
General, 1949-1960
Nominations, 1950-1951
Canada, 1950-1952
Chapter keymen, 1951-1952
Chapter releases, 1950-1951
Committee materials, 1949-1951
Committee on the Present Danger, 1950-1952
Congressional action and election, 1949-1950
Congressional Record, 1950-1952
Contacts, 1949
Crackpot letters, 1949-1952
Dangers in European union, 1951-1952
Department changes in procedure, 1951-1952
Dinners, Washington, D.C., 1951-1958
Directors, Executive Committee, 1949-1951
Eisenhower, Dwight D., letter, 1951
European union, 1949-1951
Federal Union, Inc., 1949-1953
Hartley, Livingston, article, 1950-1951
“Here's Now,” 1951-1952
Labor, 1950-1951
Legal Committee, 1949-1950
Lettershop instructions, 1952
Library list, 1950
Literature Committee, 1951-1952
Literature and publication, 1949-1952
Lobbying, 1949-1952
London Sunday Times and Louisville Courier Journal, 1951-1952
Mailing list, 1960
“March of Time,” 1950-1952
Memphis, Tenn., manifesto, 1951
Movie, fund and project, 1950-1953
National Information Bureau, 1951
New England Council & Atlantic Union Committee, proposed field organization, 1952
Office memoranda, 1950-1952
Political committee, 1949-1952
Press releases and reports, 1950-1952
Progress report pamphlet, 1952
Public relations
Projects, 1952
Reports, 1949-1950
Publicity chairman
Correspondence, 1951-1952
Projects, 1950-1951
Radio reports, 1949-1952
Resolutions, 1949-1951
Speaker's bureau, 1949-1951
Speeches, 1951
State Department, 1950-1951
United Nations Economic and Social Council, Atlantic Union Committee application for consultative status, 1950
Part I: Correspondence and Related Material, 1943-1960
Letters, telegrams, memoranda, reports, and related material. Arranged chronologically within four categories: congressional, foreign, press, radio, and general.
Congressional, 1951-1952
Foreign, 1949-1952
Press, 1951-1952
Radio, 1949-1952
General, 1943-1954
A-C
D-G
H-M
O-R
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General, 1960
A-H
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Part I: Chapter File, 1949-1954
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and routine administrative and financial records relating to the organization and administrative activities of the chapters.
General
Alabama-California
California-Colorado
Connecticut-District of Columbia
Florida-Illinois
Illinois-Iowa
Kansas-Maryland
Massachusetts-Michigan
Michigan-Nevada
New Hampshire-New York
New York
New-York-Oklahoma
Oregon-Pennsylvania
Rhode Island-Texas
Texas-Utah
Vermont-Wyoming
Part I: Atlantic Union Resolution: Congressional Comment, 1949-1952
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and related material pertaining to the joint resolution before the United States Congress favoring the creation of the Atlantic Union with the United States as a member.
Alabama-Florida
Georgia-Maryland
Massachusetts-New Hampshire
New Jersey-New York
North Carolina-South Dakota
Texas-Wyoming
Part I: Miscellany, 1948-1960
Financial records, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and other miscellaneous material.
Clippings, 1949-1960
Financial papers
Advertisements, 1949-1950
Budget, 1949-1952
Chapter reports and refunds, 1951-1953
Finance Committee, 1949-1951
Financial campaign, 1952-1953
Financial statements, 1949-1960
Payroll records, 1953-1961
Salaries, 1951-1952
Special projects, 1951
General, 1950-1954
Printed matter, 1948-1955
Part II: Henry William Nugent Head Papers, 1940-1955
Subject files containing correspondence, transcripts, minutes of meetings, articles and reprints, clippings, and other printed matter.
Agar, Herbert Sebastian, 1950-1953
Atlantic Affiliates Committee
Correspondence
Minutes and activities, 1950-1952
Belgium, 1950-1953
Board of governors, 1952
Bulletins, 1949-1952
Canada
Conference, 1952
Correspondence, 1950-1952
Miscellany, 1949-1952
Cavell, R. G., 1950-1951
Clippings
Churchill, Sir Winston, 1948-1951, undated
General, 1950-1952
“Today and Tomorrow,” 1951
United Europe, 1946-1948
Committee on the Atlantic Commission, 1951
Council of Europe, 1951
Curtis, Lionel
Circular letters, 1948
Death of, 1955
Miscellany, 1944-1952, undated
Scrapbook, 1943-1951, undated
Speeches and writings
Federation ou Guerre, 1945
General, 1940-1952
The Open Road to Freedom, 1950
The Political Repercussions of Atomic Power, 1949
Windows of Freedom, 1952
Denmark, 1951
Dieterlen, Pierre, 1950-1952
England, 1949-1952
Euler, William D., 1950-1951
Executive Committee minutes
Federal Union, International, 1950-1951
Film, “One and One Makes Three,” 1951
Foreign, 1950-1953
France, 1949-1952
Freedom and Union, 1952-1953
Friends of Atlantic Union, 1952-1953
1951-1953, undated
Gillette, Guy Mark, 1951
Gouin, Leon-Mercier, 1951-1952
Griessemer, Tom O., 1951
Head, Henry William Nugent
Miscellany, 1955
Trip to England, 1951
Italy, 1951
La Grange, Amaury de, 1951-1953
Leather, Edwin H. C., 1950-1952
Lindsay, Kenneth, 1950-1953
London, England, meeting, 1953
Macadam, Ivison S., 1950-1952
McCormick, Anne O'Hare, 1952-1953
Memphis, Tenn., convention, 1951
Moodie, Helen, 1951-1952
Netherlands, 1949-1953
Norway, 1950-1951
Printed matter, 1951-1955
Roberts, Owen J.
Trip to England, 1951-1953
Robertson, Wishart McLain, 1950-52
Stewart, Alistair, 1951-1952
Streit, Clarence K., 1950-1951
Sweden, 1950-1951
Swinton, Kurt R., 1950-1951
United Europe Movement, 1948-1950
Van Lidth de Jeude, Jonkhur, 1950-1952
Van Nierop, Hendrik A., 1950-1953
Waldorf Astoria, New York, N.Y., dinner, 1951
Watson-Armstrong, William H., 1951-1952
Part III: General Correspondence, 1949-1968
Letters, telegrams, reports, memoranda, minutes, and related material.
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Mor-Ox
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A-J
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Part III: Subject File, 1947-1968
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, and related material.
American Association For United Nations Resolution, 1953
American Legion, 1950-1955
American Veterans Committee, 1966
Atlantic Council, 1961
Atlantic Council of the United States, 1963-1967
Atlantic Exploratory Convention, 1949-1957
Atlantic Institute, Paris, France, meeting, 1960-1961
Background report, 1950
Blackwelder, Justin
Field work, 1957
Résumé, 1961-1967
Board of directors, minutes, 1949-1950
Committees, 1956
Congress, 1961
Minutes
Brief for and against the Federal Union plan of Clarence K. Streit, undated
Buffalo, N.Y., branch, 1957-1959
Bylaws, 1949-1958
Central Intelligence Agency, Justin Blackwelder, 1952-1953
Chapter programs, 1954
Checklist of materials relating to the International Trade Organization and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 1950
Circulars, lists, and related notes, 1956-1961
Citizens convention, 1953-1954
Communism, 1953-1954
Conference Group of the United States, National Organization on the United Nations, 1954
Conference Upon Research and Education, 1954-1960
Congress, 1952-1959
Congressional relations
Atlantic Commission, 1951-1952
Atlantic Union Resolution, 1950
Bills, resolutions, and reports, 1947-1958
Congressional Record, 1958-1960
Copies of lobbying report, 1952
General, 1951-1960
Replies, 1952
Drafts, joint resolutions, 1959-1960
Government commission report, 1958-1959
Hearings
House Committee on Foreign Affairs, 1960-1966
House of Representatives, 1967
Resolutions, 1955
Senate Resolution 57, 1950
Testimony, Foreign Relations Committee, 1955
Witnesses, 1955
Letters from senators
General, 1956
Resolution, 1954-1955
I-Z
Letters to senators
Letters from representatives
Letters to representatives
National Political Committee, 1950-1952
Political action, 1952
Replies to Hale Boggs, 1955
Resolutions
Draft, 1955-1956
General, 1955
Hartley, Livingston, material, 1950-1952
Miscellaneous, 1955
Senate Concurrent Resolution 36, 1951-1952
State Department and White House, 1949-1956
Delegates to Atlantic Union Convention, undated
Disarmament, 1957-1958
Dulles, John Foster, 1953-1957
European Free Trade Association, 1967-1968
Executive Committee
Board material, 1954
Federal Union, Inc., 1956-1966
Ford Foundation, 1953
Forms, petitions for chapter charters, undated
Foundations, 1948
Freedom Studies Center, 1966
Future of the Committee, 1960
Inquiries, 1961
Institute of Significant Affairs, 1966
Jackson Committee, President's Committee on International Informational Activities, 1953
Kentuckiana branch, 1947
Keymen and chapter officers, 1953-1955
Lease agreement, 1953-1961
Literature requests, 1952-1954
Match folder, 1950-1957
Membership campaigns, 1949-1950
Memphis, Tenn., branch, 1951
Minnesota branch, 1951
Minutes, bylaws and legal papers, 1949-1955
National Council
Acquaintances in Congress, 1951-1953
Acceptances
Invitations
General, 1949-1950
Unanswered, 1952-1953
Regrets
Resignations, 1949-1953
Suspended
Form letters, undated
Lists, 1951-1953
Members by congressional districts, undated
Nominations, 1952
Procedure for handling files, undated
New York branch
Chapter activity, 1952
Financial papers, 1950-1953
Membership Committee, 1953
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
General, 1953-1956
Parliamentary meetings, 1956-1957
Organization For Economic Cooperation and Development, 1961
Planned Parenthood, 1965
Policy Committee, 1953
Political Committee
Acceptances, 1952
Memoranda, 1950-1952
Minutes and agenda, 1951-1952
Political convention strategy, 1952
Population Association of America, 1965-1967
Population Reference Bureau, 1959-1968
Primaries, selecting delegates to national political conventions, 1952
Psychological Strategy Board, 1952
Public relations, 1949-1950
Publicity, 1949-1953
Radio Free Europe, 1952-1953
Reports, 1952
Roper Public Opinion Research Center, 1967-1968
Sierra Club, 1966-1967
Stationery, undated
Statistics and charts, 1947-1956
Stocks, 1960-1961
Students convention, 1952-1957
Tennessee, 1950-1952
Topeka State Journal, 1949
Trends of communist propaganda, 1954
United Nations, 1950-1954
United World Federalists, 1949-1951
Veterans of Foreign Wars
General, 1951
Magazine, 1955
Victory dinner, Washington, D.C., 1960-1961
Voice of America, 1952
Waldorf Astoria dinner, New York, N.Y., 1951
Washington, D.C., branch, 1951-1953
Washington Journalism Center, 1967
White House Task Force on the Education of Gifted Persons, 1968
Wilton Park, England
General, 1964-1967
Institute of International Relations, 1967
Women for Union of the Free, 1949-1950
World government materials, 1949-1950
World Population Control Council, 1967
Part III: Speeches and Statements, 1948-1967
Handwritten and typewritten drafts, notes, and correspondence relating to speeches, statements, and miscellaneous writings.
Correspondence, 1950-1955
General, 1948-1967, undated
Radio scripts, undated
Part III: Miscellany, 1949-1967
Financial records, photographs, press releases, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and other miscellany.
Financial records
Audit report and financial statement, 1954-1957
Budget, 1955-1957
Financial statements, 1952-53
Income taxes, 1949-1959
Insurance, 1949-1963
New York branch, chapter finance report, 1952-1954
New York State unemployment tax, 1949-1955
Payroll records, 1949-1953
Philadelphia, Pa., chapter finance report, 1956
Statements of revenues and expenditures, 1953
Miscellaneous items, 1950-1961
Press releases, 1949-1967
Printed matter, 1949-1959
Photographs
Part IV: Subject File, 1946-1960
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, circulars, pamphlets, photographs, congressional resolutions, notes, press releases and statements, newspaper clippings, and printed matter.
General correspondence, 1951-1960
Atlantic Union, convention
Agenda, 1957
Delegates, 1957
European support, 1949-1955
Board of governors and Executive Committee, minutes, 1956-1958
Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., study, 1953
Bylaws and constitution, 1949-1956
Campaign handbook, undated
Catechism, 1954
Chapters
General, 1949-1953
Memphis, Tenn., 1946-1950
Circulars, 1949-1952
Citizens' Conference delegates, 1954
Commission to Study Atlantic Relations, 1951-1952
Committee for Board of Governors, 1957
Committee for Liaison with National Organizations, 1951
Committees, general, 1949-1956
Conferences
General, 1950-1953
Ottawa, Canada, 1952
Projected, 1957
Washington, D.C., 1951-1952
Congress
Contributions, 1949-1950
Council
General, 1949-1959
Invitations, 1949-1952
Executive Committee, 1958-1959
Executive director, prospects, 1953
Field organization, 1951-1952
Finance
Committee, 1950-1952
Lists, 1949-1950, undated
Financial, 1949-1959
Fund-raising, 1949-1951
Incorporation, 1949
Membership Committee, 1949-1952
Memoranda, 1955-1959
New England Atlantic Union Council, 1952
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, strengthening of, 1953
Origins, 1948-1949
Osborn, Stellanova Brunt (Mrs. Chase), German contacts, 1955-1956
Photographs, undated
Political Committee, 1951-1952
Press
Clippings, 1949-1955
Releases and statements, 1949-1958
Promotion, 1949-1956, undated
Public Relations Committee, 1949-1952
Trips, Paris, France, 1953
United States
Anti-Atlantic union, 1950-1952
General, 1949-1956
Neutral Atlantic union, 1949-1951
Pro-Atlantic union, 1949-1955
Senate, hearings, 1950
United World Federalists, cooperation, 1949-1952
Miscellany, 1949-1956, undated