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Microform: Official Conversations and Meetings of Dean Acheson, 1949- 1953


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA MF 333-337

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: Microform: Official Conversations and Meetings of Dean Acheson, 1949- 1953

Date(s): 1949-1953, 1980

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 5 reels

Name of creator(s): Dean Gooderham Acheson, US Secretary of State, 1949-1953.

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Dean Gooderham Acheson, 11 Apr 1893- 12 Oct 1971, was a lawyer, author, diplomat and member of the Yale Corporation. He served for twelve years at the US Department of State as Assistant Secretary of State, 1941-1945, Under Secretary of State, 1945-1947, and Secretary of State, 1949-1953. During these years Acheson helped to forge the Truman Doctrine, 1947, the Economic Recovery Program (Marshall Plan), 1947, and North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1949, and assisted in the development of a post-war US foreign policy towards Germany, the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. Official Conversations and Meetings of Dean Acheson, 1949-1953 are microfilmed copies of official transcripts and minutes of meetings and conversations of Acheson as Secretary of State during the Truman administration.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Official Conversations and Meetings of Dean Acheson, 1949-1953 are microfilmed copies of the minutes of conversations and meetings of Dean Acheson during his tenure as Secretary of State during the Truman administration, 1949-1953. Material includes minutes for meetings and conversations with Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg concerning the Rhodes negotiations on the future of Palestine, 1949; Foreign Service employee George Frost Kennan relating to US-Soviet relations, 1949-1950; Rt Hon Sir Oliver Franks, British Ambassador to the US, concerning the former Italian colonies, the western mark for Berlin and the North Atlantic Pact, 1949; the US National Security Council relating to the re-training of the Austrian Army, Palestine, and the appointment of a military commander in Germany, 1949; President Harry S Truman concerning the Military Assistance Program, atomic energy, Palestine, British finances and the revolutionary situation in the Caribbean, 1949; Muhammad Riza Pahlevi, Shah-an-Shah of Iran, relating to financial assistance to Iran, 1949; Professor Hans Joachim Morgenthau concerning Cold War international relations; President Truman concerning the Korean crisis, 1950; US Department of Defense representatives concerning the Treaty of Peace with Japan, 1950, and the war in Korea, 1951-1953; US Gen George Catlett Marshall relating to the Economic Recovery Program (Marshall Plan).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Arranged into chronological sections by year and then month therein.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided for research use only. Enquiries concerning the copyright of the original material should be addressed to University Publications of America, Inc., 4520 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD, 20814-3389, USA.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room, Paul Kesaris (ed.), Official Conversations and Meetings of Dean Acheson, 1949-1953 (University Publications of America, Inc, Bethesda, MD, 1980).

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Immediate source of acquisition:

University Publications of America, Inc., Bethesda, MD, with fully indexed guide edited by Paul Kesaris.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Date of compilation:Jul 1999


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Alliances | Foreign relations | International relations
Central government | Public administration | Government
Decolonization | Colonial countries | Political systems
Diplomacy | Foreign relations | International relations
East West relations | International relations
Financial aid | Economic aid | Development aid
Foreign policy | Foreign relations | International relations
International instruments | International law
International organizations | International politics
Korean War (1950-1953) | Wars (events)
War | International conflicts
Organizations

Personal names
Acheson | Dean Gooderham | 1893-1971 | US Secretary of State
Franks | Oliver Shewell | 1905-1992 | Baron Franks of Headington | Professor | economist x Franks of Headington | Baron
Kennan | George Frost | b 1904 | US public official
Marshall | George Catlett | 1880-1959 | US General and Secretary of State
Morgenthau | Hans Joachim | 1904-1980 | US political scientist
Pahlavi | Mohammed Reza | 1919-1980 | Shah of Iran
Truman | Harry S | 1884-1972 | US President
Vandenberg | Arthur Hendrick | 1884-1951 | US public official

Corporate names
NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization x North Atlantic Treaty Organization
US Government

Places
Berlin | Germany | Western Europe | Europe
China | East Asia
Korea | East Asia
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
USA | North America
USSR | Eastern Europe
Americas
Caribbean