Guide to the Committee to Frame

University of Chicago Library

Guide to theCommittee to Framea World Constitution

Records 1945-1951

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Table of Contents

3Descriptive Summary3Information on Use3Access3Citation3Historical Note4Scope Note4Related Resources4Subject Headings5INVENTORY5Series I: Administrative and Financial Papers6Series II: Correspondence17Series III: Common Cause and the Preliminary Draft Files20Series IV: Manuscript Material22Series V: Documents24Series VI: Meeting Minutes

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Descriptive Summary

Identifier ICU.SPCL.CFWC

Title International Affairs and World Federation. Records

Date 1945-1951

Size 19 linear feet (38 boxes)

Repository Special Collections Research CenterUniversity of Chicago Library1100 East 57th StreetChicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.

Abstract The Committee to Frame a World Constitution was first convened in the fallof 1945 as part of the post-World War II World Federalist movement. TheRecords contain correspondence and miscellaneous material reflecting theclose relations between the Committee and other organizations advocatingsome form of world government. The papers are comprised of the files ofthe Committee secretariat, which was also the editorial staff for the journalCommon Cause.

Information on Use

Access

The collection is open for research.

Citation

When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: International Affairs andWorld Federation. Records, [Box #, Folder #], Special Collections Research Center, Universityof Chicago Library

Historical Note

After a Round Table Discussion on 12 August 1945, in the course of which University ofChicago Chancellor Hutchins emphasized the need for world government, Richard P. McKeonand G. A. Borgese wrote to the Chancellor asking him for financial and moral support for aninstitute to formulate a world constitution. On 16 September 1945. Hutchins gave his supportand by November 1945 the first document was presented for consideration by the Committee.In 1947 The Preliminary Draft of a World Constitution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1948) was published. From June 1947 through June 1951 the Committee published a journal,Common Cause, devoted to articles concerned with problems relevant to the issue of worldgovernment and how to affect it.

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The members of the Committee at the time of the publication of the Draft were: Robert M.Hutchins, G. A. Borgese, Mortimer J. Adler, Stringfellow Barr, Albert Guérard, Harold A. Innis,Erich Kahler, Wilber G. Katz, Charles H. McIlwain, Robert Redfield, and Rexford G. Tugwell.Additionally, Elisabeth Mann Borgese worked as a research assistant for the Committee and latereditor of the journal Common Cause.

Scope Note

The Committee to Frame a World Constitution Records contains correspondence andmiscellaneous material. This collection reflects the close relations between the Committeeand other organizations advocating some form of world government. Specifically, the papersare comprised of the files of the Committee secretariat, which was also the editorial staff forCommon Cause. They include the 150 documents used as the basis for the discussions inthe thirteen meetings of the Committee; the stenographic transcriptions of the meetings; acomplete set of Common Cause and a single copy of The Draft. The Records also includecorrespondence concerning Committee administrative matters, publication, and businessarrangements, comments on Common Cause and the preliminary draft of the Constitution, andmiscellaneous manuscript materials.

The Committee to Frame a World Constitution Records are divided into six series.

Related Resources

The following related resources are located in the Department of Special Collections:

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/worgov.html

Subject Headings

• Adler, Mortimer Jerome, 1902-• Barr, Stringfellow, 1897-• Borgese, Elisabeth Mann• Borgese, Giuseppe Antonio, 1882-1952• Cousins, Norman• Cranston, Alan MacGregor• Guérard, Albert J. (Albert Joseph), 1914-• Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-• McKeon, Richard Peter, 1900-• Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955• Mayer, Milton Sanford, 1908-• Mumford, Lewis, 1895-• Nef, John Ulric, 1899-• Redfield, Robert, 1897-• Tugwell, Rexford G. (Rexford Guy), 1891-• Wright, Quincy, 1890-1970• Committee to Frame a World Constitution• World Association of World Federalists

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• International organization• World politics

INVENTORY

Series I: Administrative and Financial Papers

This series includes inter-office memoranda to the Committee staff; inter-Universitymemoranda concerning housekeeping matters; some subscription matters; correspondence withauthors concerning copies of articles; intra-Committee correspondence; magazine exchangearrangements; and correspondence relating to lay-out and publication of Common Cause. (Thismaterial is often supplemented in Series II, Correspondence.)

Box 1Folder 1

"A" Administration, 1946-1951Box 1Folder 2

"B" Administration, 1944-1951Box 1Folder 3

Budget, July 1948--June 1949, 1948-1949Box 1Folder 4

Business, 1947-1951Box 1Folder 5

Buildings and Grounds, 1946-1951Box 1Folder 6

"C" Administration, 1950-1951Box 1Folder 7

Central Administration (Inter-office memoranda), 1946-1951Box 1Folder 8

Copyright, 1947-1948Box 1Folder 9

"F" Administration, 1951Box 1Folder 10

"H" Administration, 1950-1951Box 1Folder 11

"K" Administration, 1950Box 1

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Folder 12"L" Administration, 1949

Box 1Folder 13

Office-Expenditures, 1946-1948Box 1Folder 14

Office-Expenditures, 1947-1949Box 1Folder 15

Office-Requisitions and Receipts, 1946-1947Box 1Folder 16

Office-Personnel (Letters requesting positions; personnel records of employees),1946-1951

Box 1Folder 17

Office-Personnel (Letters requesting positions; personnel records of employees),1946-1951

Box 2Folder 1

Office-Personnel (Correspondence relating to personnel), 1946-1951Box 2Folder 2

Office-Personnel (Memoranda to employees of Committee; Phoenix Correspondence,November-December 1947), 1946-1951

Box 2Folder 3

"P" Administration, 1948-1951Box 2Folder 4

"S" Administration, 1946-1947Box 2Folder 5

General Accounts, 1947-1951

Series II: Correspondence

This series consists of the correspondence to Common Cause requesting copies, information,and subscriptions; correspondence with authors; concerning dissemination of the journal;personal-official letters with various leaders and organizations in the World FederationMovement; business arrangements of the Committee and its Journal with other organizations;publishing and printing matters; letters of transmittal of Preliminary Draft and copies ofJournal; a few letters including individual plans for world government. This material is arrangedalphabetically and in the order in which it was received from the Committee.

Box 2

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Folder 6"A" General Correspondence (old), 1947-1949

Box 2Folder 7

Aa-Ak General Correspondence, 1946-1950Box 2Folder 8

A-Az General Correspondence, 1949-1951Box 2Folder 9

Advertising and Sales, 1947-1950Box 2Folder 10

Advertisements (From c. June 1950), 1950-1951Box 3Folder 1

Advertisements, Common Cause (To c. June 1950), 1948-1950Box 3Folder 2

Altrocchi, Rudolph, 1946Box 3Folder 3

All Members (Correspondence to), 1946-1947Box 3Folder 4

"B" General Correspondence (old), 1946-1950Box 3Folder 5

"B" General Correspondence (old), 1946-1950Box 3Folder 6

Ba-Bh General Correspondence, 1946-1951Box 3Folder 7

Bi-Bz General Correspondence, 1949-1950Box 3Folder 8

Baldanzi, George, 1949-1950Box 3Folder 9

Barr, Stringfellow, 1946-1950Box 4Folder 1

Bellanca, August, 1947-1950Box 4Folder 2

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Benitez, Jaime, 1946-1948Box 4Folder 3

Bibliography: World Government, 1949-1950Box 4Folder 4

Biography: Common Cause, 1948Box 4Folder 5

Brown, Harrison, 1948-1949Box 4Folder 6

Brünning, Heinrich, 1946Box 4Folder 7

"C" General Correspondence (old), 1946-1949Box 4Folder 8

"C" General Correspondence (old), 1946-1949Box 4Folder 9

Ca-Ci General Correspondence, 1950-1951Box 4Folder 10

Ck-Cz General Correspondence, 1950-1951Box 4Folder 11

Common Cause, Vol. 1, No. 9 (March 1948), 1948Box 4Folder 12

Common Cause, 1950-1951Box 5Folder 1

Exchange Publication, 1947-1951Box 5Folder 2

Common Cause (Magazine Exchanges), 1947-1949Box 5Folder 3

Common Cause (Letters on expiration), 1951Box 5Folder 4

Constitution, Preliminary Draft (Amendments to), 1950Box 5Folder 5

Constitutional Conventions, 1947

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Box 5Folder 6

Cousins, Norman, 1947-1950Box 5Folder 7

Cranston, Alan, 1949-1951Box 5Folder 8

"D" General Correspondence (old), 1946-1949Box 5Folder 9

"D" General Correspondence, 1949-1951Box 5Folder 10

Davis, Garry, 1948-1949Box 5Folder 11

Distributors of Common Cause, 1949-1950Box 5Folder 12

Distributors of Common Cause (Foreign Agencies), 1947Box 5Folder 13

Documents, 1948Box 5Folder 14

Dunham, Vera Sandomirsky, 1946-1951Box 6Folder 1

Duke University Cooperative Project, 1949-1950Box 6Folder 2

"E" General Correspondence (old), 1946-1949Box 6Folder 3

"E General Correspondence, 1950-1951Box 6Folder 4

"F" General Correspondence (old), 1947-1949Box 6Folder 5

"F" General Correspondence, 1950-1951Box 6Folder 6

Faculty News Bulletin, 1949Box 6

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Folder 7Farmer Fyke, 1948-1951

Box 6Folder 8

Federalist Press, 1948-1949Box 6Folder 9

Foundation Book, undatedBox 6Folder 10

Fund Raising, 1951Box 6Folder 11

"G" General Correspondence (old), 1947-1949Box 7Folder 1

"G" General Correspondence, 1949-1951Box 7Folder 2

Goethe Bicentennial, 1949Box 7Folder 3

Guérard, Albert (old), 1945-1947Box 7Folder 4

Guérard, Albert (new), 1948-1951Box 7Folder 5

"H" General Correspondence (old), 1946-1949Box 7Folder 6

Ha-Hm General Correspondence, 1949-1951Box 8Folder 1

Hn-Hz General Correspondence, 1950-1951Box 8Folder 2

Hansson, Johan, 1949-1950Box 8Folder 3

Hart, Hornell, 1949-1951Box 8Folder 4

Hotels, 1946-1947Box 8Folder 5

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"I" General Correspondence (old), 1946-1949Box 8Folder 6

"I" General Correspondence, 1949-1951Box 8Folder 7

Inagaki, Morikatsu, 1949-1950Box 8Folder 8

Ingalls, Jeremy, 1947-1951Box 8Folder 9

Information Letters (concerning Common Cause or the Committee), 1950Box 8Folder 10

Inquiries and Contributions, 1946-1947Box 9Folder 1

"J" General Correspondence (old), 1947-1949Box 9Folder 2

"J" General Correspondence, 1949-1951Box 9Folder 3

Japan, World Federal Government, 1948-1949Box 9Folder 4

Ka General Correspondence (old), 1946-1949Box 9Folder 5

Ke-Ku General Correspondence (old), 1946-1949Box 9Folder 6

Ka-Kl General Correspondence, 1949-1951Box 9Folder 7

Km-Kz General Correspondence, 1949-1951Box 9Folder 8

"L" General Correspondence (old), 1946-1949Box 10Folder 1

"L" General Correspondence (old), 1946-1949Box 10Folder 2

La-Lh General Correspondence, 1950-1951

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Box 10Folder 3

Li-Lz General Correspondence, 1949-1951Box 10Folder 4

Lang, Reginald D., 1949-1951Box 10Folder 5

Library, the Committee, 1948-1949Box 10Folder 6

Letters to the Editor, 1947-1948Box 10Folder 7

Library of International Relations, 1946Box 10Folder 8

"Mc" General Correspondence (old), 1945-1949Box 10Folder 9

"Mc" General Correspondence, 1950-1951Box 10Folder 10

McIlwain, Charles, 1948-1949Box 10Folder 11

McCormick, Ada P. "Letter" Magazine, 1947-1951Box 10Folder 12

McKeon, Richard P., 1945-1950Box 11Folder 1

"M" General Correspondence (old), 1946-1949Box 11Folder 2

"M" General Correspondence (old), 1946-1949Box 11Folder 3

Ma-Me General Correspondence, 1950-1951Box 11Folder 4

Mf-Mz General Correspondence, 1950-1951Box 11Folder 5

Mann, Thomas, 1947-1950Box 11

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Folder 6Marzullo, Sal Gene, 1949-1951

Box 11Folder 7

Mayer, Milton, 1946-1950Box 11Folder 8

Meyer, Cord, 1946-1951Box 11Folder 9

Miscellaneous, Common Cause, 1947-1948Box 12Folder 1

Miscellaneous, General Correspondence (1Dec. 1948-14 Sept. 1949) I, 1948-1949Box 12Folder 2

Miscellaneous, General Correspondence (1 Dec. 1948-14 Sept. 1949) II, 1948-1949Box 12Folder 3

Momdadori, 1949-1950Box 12Folder 4

Mumford, Lewis, 1947-1951Box 12Folder 5

"N" General Correspondence (old), 1945-1949Box 12Folder 6

"N" General Correspondence, 1950-1951Box 12Folder 7

Nagel, Louis-Editions, 1948-1951Box 12Folder 8

Nation, The, 1946-1951Box 12Folder 9

Nef, John U, 1946-1951Box 12Folder 10

"O" General Correspondence (old), 1946-1949Box 13Folder 1

"O" General Correspondence, 1949-1951Box 13Folder 2

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Office, 1950Box 13Folder 3

Office Memoranda, 1946-1950Box 13Folder 4

Ogilvy, Stewart, 1951Box 13Folder 5

Oliver, Stauffer, 1947-1951Box 13Folder 6

Orders, for Pamphlets, etc., 1946-1949Box 13Folder 7

Orders for Documents, 1948-1949Box 13Folder 8

"P" General Correspondence (old), 1946-1949Box 13Folder 9

"P" General Correspondence (old), 1946-1949Box 13Folder 10

Pa-Pe General Correspondence, 1950-1951Box 14Folder 1

Pf-Pz General Correspondence, 1950-1951Box 14Folder 2

Parallel Organization, National Peace Council (London), 1946-1947Box 14Folder 3

Parallel Organization, Students for Federal World Government (Student Federalists),1946-1947

Box 14Folder 4

Parallel Organization, The United World Federalists, 1947-1949Box 14Folder 5

Parallel Organization, Wereld Federalisten Beweging Nederland, 1950Box 14Folder 6

Parallel Organization, Miscellaneous-Declarations, etc., 1947-1949Box 14Folder 7

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Peck, George T., 1946-1949Box 14Folder 8

Pocono Conference, 1948Box 14Folder 9

Poole Brothers, 1947-1949Box 14Folder 10

Posin, D. Q., 1948-1949Box 14Folder 11

Press Releases, 1946-1947Box 15Folder 1

Publicity Material, N.B. Press, University of Chicago: SEE University of Chicago Press,1948-1951

Box 15Folder 2

"R" General Correspondence (old), 1945-1949Box 15Folder 3

"R" General Correspondence (old), 1945-1949Box 15Folder 4

"R" General Correspondence, 1948-1951Box 15Folder 5

Railway Express, 1947-1948Box 15Folder 6

Rawnsley, 1947-1950Box 15Folder 7

Redfield, Robert, 1946-1951Box 15Folder 8

Round Table, 1946-1950Box 15Folder 9

Ruopp, Phillip, 1947-1949Box 16Folder 1

"S" General Correspondence (old), 1945-1950Box 16Folder 2

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"S" General Correspondence (old), 1945-1950Box 16Folder 3

Sa-Sk General Correspondence, 1950-1951Box 16Folder 4

Sl-Sz General Correspondence, 1950-1951Box 16Folder 5

Subscriptions: Periodicals (General); General Material and Subscriptions to Magazines,1948-1951

Box 16Folder 6

Sohn, Louis B., 1948-1950Box 16Folder 7

"T" General Correspondence (old), 1946-1949Box 17Folder 1

"T" General Correspondence, 1950-1951Box 17Folder 2

Taylor, Glen H., 1946-1950Box 17Folder 3

Tchou, Thomas, 1948-1951Box 17Folder 4

Tugwell, R. G., 1946-1951Box 17Folder 5

"U" General Correspondence (old), 1947-1949Box 17Folder 6

"U" General Correspondence, 1950-1951Box 17Folder 7

U.N.E.S.C.O., 1947-1950Box 17Folder 8

University, 1950Box 17Folder 9

University of Chicago Press, 1947-1951Box 17Folder 10

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Usborne, Henry, 1947-1951Box 18Folder 1

"V" General Correspondence (old), 1945-1949Box 18Folder 2

"V" General Correspondence, 1949-1950Box 18Folder 3

"W" General Correspondence (old), 1946-1949Box 18Folder 4

"W" General Correspondence (old), 1946-1949Box 18Folder 5

Wa-Wel General Correspondence, 1949-1951Box 18Folder 6

Wer-Wk General Correspondence, 1950-1951Box 18Folder 7

Wl-Wz General Correspondence, 1950-1951Box 18Folder 8

Wofford, Harris and Clare, 1948-1951Box 19Folder 1

World Federation, 1945-1949Box 19Folder 2

World Government News, 1948-1951Box 19Folder 3

Wright, Quincy, 1948-1950Box 19Folder 4

Wynner, Edith, 1947-1951Box 19Folder 5

X,Y,Z, and Unidentified General Correspondence, 1946-1951

Series III: Common Cause and the Preliminary Draft Files

This series includes letters to the Committee and the Journal commenting upon the DraftConstitution and/or the Journal of the Committee, Common Cause, and its articles. Many ofthe letters are from correspondents who have plans of their own and are bringing them to theattention of the Committee and the Journal.

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Box 19Folder 6

Comments on Common Cause, General, 1948-1951Box 19Folder 7

Comments on Preliminary Draft, 1947-1949Box 19Folder 8

Preliminary Draft, Outlines, undatedBox 19Folder 9

Preliminary Draft, Revision, undatedBox 19Folder 10

Preliminary Draft of a World Constitution, 1947Box 19Folder 11

The Committee to Frame a World Constitution, Preliminary Draft of a WorldConstitution, 1948

Box 19Folder 12

Errata to Preliminary Draft of a World Constitution, 1948Box 19Folder 13

Common Cause, Vol. 1, no. 9, "Preliminary Draft of a World Constitution," 1948Box 20Folder 1

Common Cause, Volume 1, 1947-1948Box 20Folder 2




A-F, 1947-1949Box 22Folder 2

G-M, 1947-1949Box 22Folder 3

N-Z, 1946-1949

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Box 22Folder 4

A, 1947-1950Box 22Folder 5

B, 1947-1949Box 22Folder 6

C, 1947-1949Box 23Folder 1

D, 1947-1950Box 23Folder 2

E, 1947-1948Box 23Folder 3

F, 1947-1949Box 23Folder 4

G, 1947-1949Box 23Folder 5

H, 1947-1950Box 23Folder 6

I-J, 1948-1949Box 23Folder 7

K, 1947-1951Box 23Folder 8

L, 1947-1951Box 23Folder 9

M, 1947-1948Box 23Folder 10

N, 1947-1948Box 23Folder 11

O-P, 1947-1951Box 23Folder 12

Q-R, 1947-1948Box 23

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Folder 13S, 1947-1948

Box 24Folder 1

T, 1947-1948Box 24Folder 2

U-V, 1947-1950Box 24Folder 3

W, 1947-1949Box 24Folder 4

X-Z, 1948

Series IV: Manuscript Material

This series consists of manuscript copies of articles appearing in the Journal, lectures, andspeeches by men prominent or connected with the Committee or the Journal relevant to theWorld Federation Movement, e.g., Borgese, Hutchins, Quincy Wright, and others. The seriesalso includes typescript, holograph, and mimeographed copies of the documents issued by theCommittee in the Document Series 1-150.

Box 24Folder 5

Borgese, 1946-1950Box 24Folder 6

Borgese, 1946-1950Box 24Folder 7

Adler-Guerard, 1946-1950Box 24Folder 8

Holt-Jackson, 1946-1951Box 24Folder 9

Joyce-Odne, 1946-1950Box 25Folder 1

Papanek-Teller, 1948-1951Box 25Folder 2

Tugwell, 1950Box 25Folder 3

Usborne-Wood-Unsigned, 1946-1950

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Box 25Folder 4

Galley Proof, undatedBox 25Folder 5

Manuscripts, Reports, Briefs, 1947-1949Box 25Folder 6

Proposals for amendment of the United Nations Charter, 1946Box 25Folder 7

Original and unmimeographed copies of Documents 1-9, 1945-1946Box 25Folder 8

Document 7, 1945Box 25Folder 9



Original copies of Documents 54-74, 1946Box 26Folder 3



Original copies of Document 111, 1946Box 26Folder 6



Draft II-Third Edition (Original), 1946Box 27Folder 3

Draft II, Third Revised Edition, 1946Box 27

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Folder 4Draft V, Revised Edition, 1946

Box 27Folder 5


Original copies of Document 114, 1946-1947Box 27Folder 7

Original Documents 128-134, 1947Box 27Folder 8

Original Documents 135-140, 1947Box 27Folder 9

Original Document 141, 1947Box 27Folder 10

Miscellaneous, undatedBox 28Folder 1

Drafts of the Constitution, 1947Box 28Folder 2

Drafts of the Constitution, 1947Box 28Folder 3

Original Manuscript of Document 127, 1947Box 28Folder 4

Document 147, Constitutional Drafts basis for Document 147, 1947-1948Box 28Folder 5

Document 147, Constitutional Drafts basis for Document 147, 1947-1948Box 28Folder 6

Original copies of Document 148 and 149, includes detailed comment upon varioussegments of the Constitution by individuals whose opinions had been solicited, 1947-1948

Series V: Documents

This series is made up of mimeographed copies of Committee Documents 1--150. Thesedocuments consist of the original proposals and plans for the Committee, and the various paperssubmitted by its members to be used as a basis for discussion and the eventual formation of aPreliminary Draft Constitution.

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Box 29Folder 1

Index of Documents, 1946Box 29Folder 2

Index and Documents 1-15, 1946Box 29Folder 3

Documents 16-36, 1946Box 29Folder 4







Documents 126-140 (Documents 122, 129, 133 missing), 1947Box 30Folder 5

Documents 141-148 (Document 145 missing), 1947-1948Box 30Folder 6


Documents 1-33, 1945-1946Box 31Folder 2


Documents 75-93, 1946Box 31

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Folder 4Documents 94-99, 1946

Box 31Folder 5






Unnumbered Document, undatedBox 32Folder 5

Unidentified Pages, undated

Series VI: Meeting Minutes

This series includes the stenographic transcripts of the Committee Meetings, mimeographed.

Box 32Folder 6

Proceedings, New York, 17-18 Dec., 1945Box 33Folder 1

Proceedings, Chicago, 4-5 Feb., Revised, 1946Box 33Folder 2

Proceedings, Chicago, 4-5 Feb., Typewritten Copy, 1946Box 33Folder 3

Proceedings, New York, 29-30 March, 1946Box 33Folder 4

Proceedings, Chicago, 15-16 April, 1946Box 33Folder 5

Proceedings, New York, 17-18 May, 1946Box 34

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Folder 1Proceedings, Chicago, 18-19 June, 1946

Box 34Folder 2

Proceedings, New York, 19-20 July, 1946Box 34Folder 3

Proceedings, New York, 16-17 August, 1946Box 34Folder 4

Proceedings, Chicago, 24-25 Oct., 1946Box 34Folder 5

Proceedings, Chicago, 6 Feb., 1947Box 34Folder 6


Proceedings, Chicago, 31 March, 1947Box 35Folder 2

Proceedings, Chicago, 1 April, 1947Box 35Folder 3


Proceedings, Chicago, 14 July, 1947Box 35Folder 5


Proceedings, New York, 17 Dec., 1945Box 36Folder 1

Proceedings, New York, 18 Dec., 1945Box 36Folder 2

Proceedings, Chicago, 4-5 Feb., 1946Box 36Folder 3

Proceedings, New York, 29-30 March, 1946Box 36Folder 4

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Proceedings, Chicago, 31 March, 1946Box 36Folder 5


Proceedings, Chicago, 15-16 April, 1946Box 36Folder 7


Proceedings, New York, 17-18 May, 1946Box 37Folder 1

Proceedings, Chicago, 18-19 June, 1946Box 37Folder 2

Proceedings, New York, 19-20 July, 1946Box 37Folder 3

Proceedings, New York, 16-17 August, 1946Box 37Folder 4

Proceedings, Chicago, 24-25 Oct., 1946Box 37Folder 5

Notes on February Meeting., 1947Box 37Folder 6






Proceedings, Chicago, 14 July, 1947

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Box 38Folder 6

Proceedings, Chicago, 15 July, 1947