ContentsContainer List Part I: General Office File, 1949-1960 Part I: Correspondence and Related Material, 1943-1960 Part I: Chapter File, 1949-1954 Part I: Atlantic Union Resolution: Congressional Comment, 1949-1952 Part II: Henry William Nugent Head Papers, 1940-1955 Part III: General Correspondence, 1949-1968 Part III: Subject File, 1947-1968 Part III: Speeches and Statements, 1948-1967 Part III: Miscellany, 1949-1967 |
Atlantic Union Committee RecordsA Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of CongressPrepared by Wilhelmena B. Curry Revised and expanded by Connie L. Cartledge and Patrick Kerwin2009
Scope and Content NoteThe 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. Return to the Table of Contents Selected Search TermsPeople
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Return to the Table of Contents Organization of the PapersThe collection is composed of eleven series arranged in four parts: Part I: Part II: Part III: Part IV:
Return to the Table of Contents Container ListPart I: General Office File, 1949-1960Correspondence, memoranda, reports, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and related material. Arranged alphabetically by subject. American Assembly, 1951American Association for United Nations, 1951-1953American Award, 1951American Committee on United Europe, 1949-1951American Jewish Committee, 1951American Legion, 1951Atlantic Affiliates Committee, 1950-1952Atlantic Award, 1952Atlantic Commission bill, 1951-1952Atlantic Congress, Kenneth Lindsay Plan, 1951Atlantic Institute, 1960Atlantic Union CommitteeCouncil, 1951Executive Committee, 1953Field work, 1951-1952General, 1949-1958 (6 folders)Organization, 1949Stamp, 1950Symbol, 1949Atlantic Union News, 1949-1952Board of governorsBiographies, 1949-1951Correspondence, 1949-1953 (4 folders)General, 1949-1960Nominations, 1950-1951Canada, 1950-1952 (2 folders)Chapter keymen, 1951-1952Chapter releases, 1950-1951Committee materials, 1949-1951Committee on the Present Danger, 1950-1952Congressional action and election, 1949-1950Congressional Record, 1950-1952Contacts, 1949Crackpot letters, 1949-1952Dangers in European union, 1951-1952Department changes in procedure, 1951-1952Dinners, Washington, D.C., 1951-1958Directors, Executive Committee, 1949-1951Eisenhower, Dwight D., letter, 1951European union, 1949-1951Federal Union, Inc., 1949-1953 (2 folders)Hartley, Livingston, article, 1950-1951“Here's Now,” 1951-1952Labor, 1950-1951Legal Committee, 1949-1950Lettershop instructions, 1952 (2 folders)Library list, 1950Literature Committee, 1951-1952 (2 folders)Literature and publication, 1949-1952 (4 folders)Lobbying, 1949-1952 (2 folders)London Sunday Times and Louisville Courier Journal, 1951-1952Mailing list, 1960“March of Time,” 1950-1952Memphis, Tenn., manifesto, 1951Movie, fund and project, 1950-1953 (6 folders)National Information Bureau, 1951New England Council & Atlantic Union Committee, proposed field organization, 1952Office memoranda, 1950-1952Political committee, 1949-1952 (3 folders)Press releases and reports, 1950-1952 (2 folders)Progress report pamphlet, 1952Public relationsProjects, 1952Reports, 1949-1950Publicity chairmanCorrespondence, 1951-1952Projects, 1950-1951Radio reports, 1949-1952 (3 folders)Resolutions, 1949-1951Speaker's bureau, 1949-1951Speeches, 1951State Department, 1950-1951United Nations Economic and Social Council, Atlantic Union Committee application for consultative status, 1950Part I: Correspondence and Related Material, 1943-1960Letters, telegrams, memoranda, reports, and related material. Arranged chronologically within four categories: congressional, foreign, press, radio, and general. The general correspondence file is arranged alphabetically in two chronological subsets, 1943-1954 and 1960. Congressional, 1951-1952 (2 folders)Foreign, 1949-1952 (2 folders)Press, 1951-1952 (4 folders)Radio, 1949-1952 (5 folders)General, 1943-1954A-C (14 folders)D-G (17 folders)H-M (24 folders)O-R (20 folders)R-Y (18 folders)General, 1960A-H (9 folders)I-O (11 folders)P-Y (11 folders)Part I: Chapter File, 1949-1954Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and routine administrative and financial records relating to the organization and administrative activities of the chapters. Arranged alphabetically by state and local chapter, respectively, and chronologically within each chapter. General (5 folders)Alabama-California (16 folders)California-Colorado (12 folders)Connecticut-District of Columbia (11 folders)Florida-Illinois (22 folders)Illinois-Iowa (15 folders)Kansas-Maryland (28 folders)Massachusetts-Michigan (27 folders)Michigan-Nevada (16 folders)New Hampshire-New York (15 folders)New York (13 folders)New-York-Oklahoma (21 folders)Oregon-Pennsylvania (17 folders)Rhode Island-Texas (15 folders)Texas-Utah (11 folders)Vermont-Wyoming (16 folders)Part I: Atlantic Union Resolution: Congressional Comment, 1949-1952Correspondence, 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. The material is arranged alphabetically by state and therein by name of member of Congress. Alabama-Florida (16 folders)Georgia-Maryland (19 folders)Massachusetts-New Hampshire (15 folders)New Jersey-New York (15 folders)North Carolina-South Dakota (14 folders)Texas-Wyoming (12 folders)Part I: Miscellany, 1948-1960Financial records, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and other miscellaneous material. Grouped by type of material. Clippings, 1949-1960Financial papersAdvertisements, 1949-1950Budget, 1949-1952 (5 folders)Chapter reports and refunds, 1951-1953Finance Committee, 1949-1951 (4 folders)Financial campaign, 1952-1953 (2 folders)Financial statements, 1949-1960Payroll records, 1953-1961Salaries, 1951-1952Special projects, 1951General, 1950-1954Printed matter, 1948-1955Part II: Henry William Nugent Head Papers, 1940-1955Subject files containing correspondence, transcripts, minutes of meetings, articles and reprints, clippings, and other printed matter. Arranged alphabetically by name of person or organization, topic, or type of material. Agar, Herbert Sebastian, 1950-1953Atlantic Affiliates CommitteeCorrespondence1950-1951 (6 folders)1952Minutes and activities, 1950-1952Belgium, 1950-1953Board of governors, 1952Bulletins, 1949-1952CanadaConference, 1952Correspondence, 1950-1952Miscellany, 1949-1952Cavell, R. G., 1950-1951ClippingsChurchill, Sir Winston, 1948-1951, undatedGeneral, 1950-1952 (4 folders)“Today and Tomorrow,” 1951United Europe, 1946-1948Committee on the Atlantic Commission, 1951Council of Europe, 1951Curtis, LionelCircular letters, 1948Correspondence1945-1947 (5 folders)1949-1952 (7 folders)1953Curtis, LionelDeath of, 1955Miscellany, 1944-1952, undatedScrapbook, 1943-1951, undatedSpeeches and writingsFederation ou Guerre, 1945General, 1940-1952The Open Road to Freedom, 1950The Political Repercussions of Atomic Power, 1949Windows of Freedom, 1952Denmark, 1951Dieterlen, Pierre, 1950-1952England, 1949-1952 (3 folders)Euler, William D., 1950-1951Executive Committee minutes19501951-1952 (4 folders)Federal Union, International, 1950-1951Film, “One and One Makes Three,” 1951Foreign, 1950-1953France, 1949-1952Freedom and Union, 1952-1953Friends of Atlantic Union, 1952-1953General1949-1950 (4 folders)1951-1953, undated (4 folders)Gillette, Guy Mark, 1951Gouin, Leon-Mercier, 1951-1952Griessemer, Tom O., 1951Head, Henry William NugentMiscellany, 1955Trip to England, 1951Italy, 1951La Grange, Amaury de, 1951-1953Leather, Edwin H. C., 1950-1952Lindsay, Kenneth, 1950-1953London, England, meeting, 1953Macadam, Ivison S., 1950-1952McCormick, Anne O'Hare, 1952-1953Memphis, Tenn., convention, 1951Moodie, Helen, 1951-1952Netherlands, 1949-1953Norway, 1950-1951Printed matter, 1951-1955Roberts, Owen J.General, 1950-1952 (2 folders)Trip to England, 1951-1953Robertson, Wishart McLain, 1950-52Stewart, Alistair, 1951-1952Streit, Clarence K., 1950-1951Sweden, 1950-1951Swinton, Kurt R., 1950-1951United Europe Movement, 1948-1950Van Lidth de Jeude, Jonkhur, 1950-1952Van Nierop, Hendrik A., 1950-1953Waldorf Astoria, New York, N.Y., dinner, 1951Watson-Armstrong, William H., 1951-1952Part III: General Correspondence, 1949-1968Letters, telegrams, reports, memoranda, minutes, and related material. Arranged by year and therein alphabetically by name of correspondent or subject. 1949 (8 folders)1950A-S (23 folders)T-W (3 folders)1951 (9 folders)1952A-Hern (9 folders)Herr-Ko (10 folders)Kr-Ly (7 folders)Mc-Moo (8 folders)Mor-Ox (7 folders)Pa-Rob (9 folders)Roc-Sq (9 folders)St-V (8 folders)Wa-Y (7 folders)1953A-J (11 folders)K-R (8 folders)S-Z (8 folders)1954A-Bl (3 folders)Bo-G (6 folders)H-Mc (10 folders)M-R (9 folders)S-Y (7 folders)1955AB-E (6 folders)F-K (8 folders)L-O (7 folders)O-T (8 folders)U-Y (4 folders)1956A-B (5 folders)C-H (6 folders)H-N (10 folders)O-R (5 folders)S-Z (8 folders)1957A-H (9 folders)I-Roo (9 folders)Rop-Y (6 folders)1958A-C (3 folders)D-M (13 folders)N-Schm (8 folders)Scho-Z (7 folders)1959A-B (3 folders)C-Mc (12 folders)M-Z (15 folders)1960A-G (4 folders)H-W (9 folders)1961A-V (19 folders)W-Z (2 folders)1962 (11 folders)1963 (20 folders)1964A-L (7 folders)M-S (4 folders)1965 (9 folders)1966A-Mc (13 folders)M-Z (10 folders)1967A-E (5 folders)F-R (14 folders)S-W (5 folders)1968 (14 folders)Part III: Subject File, 1947-1968Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, and related material. Arranged alphabetically by name of person or organization, topic, or type of material. American Association For United Nations Resolution, 1953American Legion, 1950-1955American Veterans Committee, 1966Atlantic Council, 1961 (2 folders)Atlantic Council of the United States, 1963-1967Atlantic Exploratory Convention, 1949-1957Atlantic Institute, Paris, France, meeting, 1960-1961Background report, 1950Blackwelder, JustinField work, 1957Résumé, 1961-1967Board of directors, minutes, 1949-1950 (2 folders)Board of governorsCommittees, 1956Congress, 1961Minutes1950-1951 (2 folders)1951-1955 (2 folders)1955-1960 (2 folders)Brief for and against the Federal Union plan of Clarence K. Streit, undatedBuffalo, N.Y., branch, 1957-1959Bylaws, 1949-1958 (3 folders)Central Intelligence Agency, Justin Blackwelder, 1952-1953Chapter programs, 1954Checklist of materials relating to the International Trade Organization and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 1950Circulars, lists, and related notes, 1956-1961 (4 folders)Citizens convention, 1953-1954Communism, 1953-1954Conference Group of the United States, National Organization on the United Nations, 1954Conference Upon Research and Education, 1954-1960Congress, 1952-1959Congressional relationsAtlantic Commission, 1951-1952Atlantic Union Resolution, 1950Bills, resolutions, and reports, 1947-1958Congressional Record, 1958-1960Copies of lobbying report, 1952CorrespondenceGeneral, 1951-1960 (4 folders)Replies, 1952Drafts, joint resolutions, 1959-1960Government commission report, 1958-1959HearingsHouse Committee on Foreign Affairs, 1960-1966 (2 folders)House of Representatives, 1967Resolutions, 1955 (2 folders)Senate Resolution 57, 1950Testimony, Foreign Relations Committee, 1955Witnesses, 1955Letters from senatorsGeneral, 1956Resolution, 1954-1955A-H (2 folders)I-Z (2 folders)Letters to senatorsGeneral, 1956Resolution, 1954-1955 (4 folders)Letters from representativesGeneral, 1956Resolution, 1954-1955 (4 folders)Letters to representativesGeneral, 1956Resolution, 1954-1955 (4 folders)National Political Committee, 1950-1952Political action, 1952Replies to Hale Boggs, 1955ResolutionsDraft, 1955-1956General, 1955Hartley, Livingston, material, 1950-1952Miscellaneous, 1955Senate Concurrent Resolution 36, 1951-1952CorrespondenceGeneral, 1955 (2 folders)State Department and White House, 1949-1956 (3 folders)Delegates to Atlantic Union Convention, undatedDisarmament, 1957-1958Dulles, John Foster, 1953-1957European Free Trade Association, 1967-1968Executive CommitteeBoard material, 1954Minutes1949-1950 (3 folders)1951-1952 (3 folders)1956-1960Federal Union, Inc., 1956-1966Ford Foundation, 1953Forms, petitions for chapter charters, undatedFoundations, 1948Freedom Studies Center, 1966Future of the Committee, 1960Inquiries, 1961Institute of Significant Affairs, 1966Jackson Committee, President's Committee on International Informational Activities, 1953Kentuckiana branch, 1947Keymen and chapter officers, 1953-1955Lease agreement, 1953-1961Literature requests, 1952-1954Match folder, 1950-1957Membership campaigns, 1949-1950Memphis, Tenn., branch, 1951Minnesota branch, 1951Minutes, bylaws and legal papers, 1949-1955 (2 folders)National CouncilAcquaintances in Congress, 1951-1953CorrespondenceGeneral1949 (3 folders)1950A-G (2 folders)H-W (3 folders)1951-1957 (4 folders)Acceptances1948-1950 (10 folders)1951-1957 (9 folders)InvitationsGeneral, 1949-1950Unanswered, 1952-1953 (3 folders)Regrets1949-1950 (5 folders)1951-1957 (9 folders)Resignations, 1949-1953Suspended1949-1950 (2 folders)1951-1952 (2 folders)Form letters, undatedLists, 1951-1953Members by congressional districts, undatedNominations, 1952Procedure for handling files, undatedNew York branchCorrespondence, 1951-1952 (7 folders)Chapter activity, 1952Financial papers, 1950-1953Membership Committee, 1953North Atlantic Treaty OrganizationGeneral, 1953-1956 (2 folders)Parliamentary meetings, 1956-1957Organization For Economic Cooperation and Development, 1961Planned Parenthood, 1965Policy Committee, 1953Political CommitteeAcceptances, 1952Memoranda, 1950-1952Minutes and agenda, 1951-1952 (2 folders)Political convention strategy, 1952Population Association of America, 1965-1967Population Reference Bureau, 1959-1968Primaries, selecting delegates to national political conventions, 1952 (2 folders)Psychological Strategy Board, 1952Public relations, 1949-1950 (6 folders)Publicity, 1949-1953Radio Free Europe, 1952-1953Reports, 1952Roper Public Opinion Research Center, 1967-1968Sierra Club, 1966-1967Stationery, undatedStatistics and charts, 1947-1956Stocks, 1960-1961Students convention, 1952-1957Tennessee, 1950-1952Topeka State Journal, 1949Trends of communist propaganda, 1954United Nations, 1950-1954 (2 folders)United World Federalists, 1949-1951Veterans of Foreign WarsGeneral, 1951Magazine, 1955Victory dinner, Washington, D.C., 1960-1961Voice of America, 1952Waldorf Astoria dinner, New York, N.Y., 1951Washington, D.C., branch, 1951-1953Washington Journalism Center, 1967White House Task Force on the Education of Gifted Persons, 1968Wilton Park, EnglandGeneral, 1964-1967Institute of International Relations, 1967Women for Union of the Free, 1949-1950World government materials, 1949-1950World Population Control Council, 1967Part III: Speeches and Statements, 1948-1967Handwritten and typewritten drafts, notes, and correspondence relating to speeches, statements, and miscellaneous writings. Arranged by type of material and therein chronologically by year. Correspondence, 1950-1955General, 1948-1967, undated (7 folders)(3 folders)Radio scripts, undatedPart III: Miscellany, 1949-1967Financial records, photographs, press releases, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and other miscellany. Arranged by type of material. Financial recordsAudit report and financial statement, 1954-1957Budget, 1955-1957Financial statements, 1952-53Income taxes, 1949-1959Insurance, 1949-1963New York branch, chapter finance report, 1952-1954New York State unemployment tax, 1949-1955Payroll records, 1949-1953 (2 folders)Philadelphia, Pa., chapter finance report, 1956Statements of revenues and expenditures, 1953Miscellaneous items, 1950-1961Press releases, 1949-1967 (7 folders)Printed matter, 1949-1959 (2 folders)Clippings1949 (2 folders)1949-1950 (4 folders)1950-1951 (5 folders)1952-1953 (3 folders)PhotographsPart IV: Subject File, 1946-1960Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, circulars, pamphlets, photographs, congressional resolutions, notes, press releases and statements, newspaper clippings, and printed matter. Arranged alphabetically by topic or type of material. General correspondence, 1951-1960Atlantic Union, conventionAgenda, 1957Delegates, 1957European support, 1949-1955Board of governors and Executive Committee, minutes, 1956-1958Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., study, 1953Bylaws and constitution, 1949-1956Campaign handbook, undatedCatechism, 1954ChaptersGeneral, 1949-1953Memphis, Tenn., 1946-1950Circulars, 1949-1952Citizens' Conference delegates, 1954Commission to Study Atlantic Relations, 1951-1952Committee for Board of Governors, 1957Committee for Liaison with National Organizations, 1951Committees, general, 1949-1956ConferencesGeneral, 1950-1953 (2 folders)Ottawa, Canada, 1952Projected, 1957Washington, D.C., 1951-1952 (2 folders)Congress19511952-1958 (4 folders)Contributions, 1949-1950CouncilGeneral, 1949-1959Invitations, 1949-1952Executive Committee, 1958-1959Executive director, prospects, 1953Field organization, 1951-1952FinanceCommittee, 1950-1952Lists, 1949-1950, undatedFinancial, 1949-1959 (2 folders)Fund-raising, 1949-1951Incorporation, 1949Membership Committee, 1949-1952Memoranda, 1955-1959New England Atlantic Union Council, 1952News, 1949-1956 (2 folders)North Atlantic Treaty Organization, strengthening of, 1953Origins, 1948-1949Osborn, Stellanova Brunt (Mrs. Chase), German contacts, 1955-1956Photographs, undatedPolitical Committee, 1951-1952PressClippings, 1949-1955Releases and statements, 1949-1958Promotion, 1949-1956, undatedPublic Relations Committee, 1949-1952Publicity, 1949-1953Trips, Paris, France, 1953United StatesCongressAnti-Atlantic union, 1950-1952General, 1949-1956Neutral Atlantic union, 1949-1951Pro-Atlantic union, 1949-1955Senate, hearings, 1950 (2 folders)United World Federalists, cooperation, 1949-1952Miscellany, 1949-1956, undatedReturn to the Table of Contents |