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McNaughton, Frank Papers

… naval: april 26, 1946 bean soup (soup thrown on tris coffin by marion carpenter: march 24, 1949 benes, dr.: may 14, 1943 berlin crisis: july 23, 1948 bevin-truman: march 1, 1947 biddle, francis-unesco confirmation: may 16, 1947 biemiller, cong. …

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Abraham Feinberg Oral History Interview

… of arab assaults in 1922, 1929, and 1936. the arab leader, the mufti of jerusalem, had joined hitler and was living in berlin with a rather large complement of soldiers. he was certainly pro-hitler, the arab world was certainly pro-hitler, and …

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Joseph D. Keenan Oral History Interview

… board, 1942; vice chairman, labor production, war production board, 1943-45; labor adviser to general lucius d. clay, berlin, germany, 1945-47; secretary-treasurer, building and construction trades dept. (afl), 1950-54; director, labor's …

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James I. Loeb Oral History Interview, June 26, 1970

… war, and had no intimate knowledge of foreign policy, and yet he will be remembered in that field for the marshall plan, berlin, greece and turkey, and truman doctrine and so on and so forth. i may say, on the other hand, i think the one thing …

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Roberta Barrows Oral History Interview

… dean acheson was secretary of state, and the marshall plan in 1947 was being thought up and worked out, and the airlift to berlin started and things like that. truman came in at a terrible, terrible time. you have no idea how hard we worked. it was …

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John P. McEnery Oral History Interview, March 11, 1970

… and we see what a mess the world is in today, it was much better to do it the way he did, [102] all the way from the berlin airlift to the stand we made in korea. when people read the history books and they know everything that was behind all …

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Edwin M. Wright Oral History Interview

… places these are found, numbers, the 34th chapter and so forth. one of the men whom i discussed this with was rabbi meyer berlin, the chief rabbi in the mizrachi group. these are the ultra-orthodox group, who accept the old testament literally. … 105 barkley, alben w., 48 , 49 baron, salo, 3 baruch, bernard m., 114 ben gurion, david, 9 , 13 , 16 , 39 , 46 , 52 , 124 berlin, meyer, 12 bevin, ernest, 107 bible (hebrew), ii , iii , iv , viii , ix , 12-15 , 60 , 61 biltmore convention, 39 …

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John F. Melby Oral History Interview, November 28, 1986

… i told bob newman this story, and so help me, he discovered that eisler was dead, but that his widow was living in east berlin. she had taken over the editorship of the newspaper that he had been editor of, and she was still living. so he wrote …

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Milton P. Kayle Oral History Interview

… i mean, with the idea of not getting soft. it was around the stuttgart-ulm area. johnson: did you ever get to berlin? kayle: i never got to berlin. i did get down to darmstadt. i was thinking of an excursion, you know, a sightseeing thing: darmstadt and stuttgart, …

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Samuel P. Hayes Oral History Interview

… have been talking to the political people who were worried about things like korea, who were worried about things like berlin, and who were beginning to talk about, although the word didn't come into being until some years later, "the northern …

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Eugene Zuckert Oral History Interview

… hess: the same month as the korean invasion. zuckert: this was at the -- this was -- let's see. there had been the berlin airlift and we had the program of -- we'd gone on a program of basing bomber squadrons if i remember, bombers were …

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John Wesley Jones Oral History Interview

… passed over. the germans didn’t have; if they were loyal to anything, they were still loyal to hitler's government in berlin. mckinzie: to what extent did your division of the state department anticipate the dictation of italian forms, italian …

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Paul H. Nitze Oral History Interviews, August 5 and August 6, 1975

… states were: (a) an armistice in korea, (b) a peace treaty with austria, and (c) an improvement in relations vis a vis berlin and germany. if these three things could be one, then there was a great prospect for a relaxation of tensions and all … to the austrian peace treaty. it clearly did not carry on to any real improvement in the relations in germany or vis a vis berlin. that part of it did not mature. but the first two steps did mature.   [309] fifth oral history interview with paul …

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Francis O. Wilcox Oral History Interview, March 21, 1984

… the evaluation of the joint chiefs about our total military needs. the situation in europe was not easy at that time. the berlin airlift, of course, had been taken care of. the czech invasion had taken place earlier. but the soviet behavior was …

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Charles Burton Marshall Oral History Interview

… war ii and in the immediate sequel. remember this. american policy was preoccupied with a lot of things in the world then: berlin, the future of germany, [61] aid to europe, and all that sort of thing. the president and the secretary of state … the place was divided just sort of absentmindedly after the war; we've got a divided austria, a divided germany, a divided berlin, a divided china, a divided korea. most of the population now is in this american part of it, and most of the …

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Ohly, John H. Papers

… of 3] military pay levels [3 of 3] box 79 military personnel miscellaneous defense materials, 1947-49 [inadequacy of the berlin airlift; copy of "final report of the war department policies and programs review board;" common use of facilities and …

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Stephen J. Spingarn Oral History Interview, March 22, 1967

… who were fleeing communism. there were a lot of people coming out from the iron curtain countries, especially from east berlin, through east berlin of course, but also elsewhere, and the difficulty was that there was no good arrangement for handling them. i mean if …

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Andrew J. Biemiller Oral History Interview

… their language they're going to listen. what the hell. these things you don't laugh off. fuchs: kennedy went over big in berlin by just a phrase. biemiler: "ich bin ein berliner." fuchs: they loved it. biemiller: sure. i mean this is just human …

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Isaac N. P. Stokes Oral History Interview

… was not a real threat. again, of course, i didn't know. i have no doubt they were building up a huge army, and the berlin blockade indicated that they were prepared to do some fairly drastic things. i didn't question that some rearmament in …

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Harry S. Truman Papers Post-Presidential Papers

… bartle, h. roe baruch, bernard battery "d" roster battlefield - santiago de cuba bell, david e. berkowitz, e. bertram berlin airlift box 12 bill data birthdays, 1959 and 1972 [2011 accretion] bl blackstone hotel book - mr. citizen book - … of 3] ben gradus productions (screen gems, inc.): tv and radio ben gradus productions (screen gems, inc.): tv program on berlin airlift, comments ben gradus productions (screen gems, inc.): tv program on macarthur, favorable comments ben gradus …

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The Truman White House Oral History Interview

… in the -- disregarding the yalta agreement and going into these countries like czechoslovakia and hungary, etc.; and the berlin airlift had to take place, you see, all of these were very traumatic incidents along about the time of the campaign. …

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Joseph D. Coppock Oral History Interview

… texas in may of 1948, when bedell smith, just back from moscow, had indicated there was going to be a relaxation of the berlin blockade. so i called back to the state department to find out anything beyond the press report, because i knew there …

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J. Wesley Adams Oral History Interview

… issues. important in the sense that, in kashmir at least the fighting , had stopped. these two other issues were the berlin airlift and the arab-israeli fighting, which was at its peak during that summer. to cut through this, we drew up our …

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Stephen J. Spingarn Oral History Interview, March 21, 1967

… fled the country, it was syria then, when the free french came in he had left with the germans, the nazis, he had gone to berlin and there he had sat out the war [279] as a propagandist, for the nazis propagandizing the arabs on behalf of the …

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Harry S. Truman Papers: Papers as U.S. Senator and Vice President

… cases: belluz, giacomo del bel immigration cases: berg, robert immigration cases: berg, seigfried immigration cases: berlin, marianne immigration cases: beth, dr. and mrs. karl and erich beth immigration cases: bick, regina leontyna …

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Lincoln Gordon Oral History Interview

… another. he had other qualities like julius caesar. they could be a tremendous virtue in some circumstances, as during the berlin blockade. he was a very intelligent man, but a man of absolute firm resolve, once resolved on a course of action [165] …

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Harry S. Truman Papers: White House Central Files: Official File

… 4] of 198 germany - miscellaneous, 1951-1953 [3 of 4] of 198 germany - miscellaneous, 1951-1953 [4 of 4] of 198 germany - berlin blockade of 198 germany - berlin blockade, miscellaneous of 198-a germany - endorsements for ambassador of 198-b germany - united states group control … - chicago lake front fair of 373-d expositions; exhibitions - japanese trade fair of 373-e expositions; exhibitions - berlin industrial fair - berlin, germany of 374 leaflets scattered over enemy territory box 1118 of 375 rural electrification …

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Ken Hechler Oral History Interview

… to supervise a 600-acre estate where my father was superintendent for clarence h. mackay, the father-in-law of irving berlin. johnson: what were the names of your parents? hechler: charles h. and catherine hauhart hechler. they were both very …

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George L. McColm Oral History Interview

… our worry was that the russians would get to tokyo first and get [81] the rebellion organized. johnson: like they got into berlin. mccolm: yes. they had it set up, they had the people, and that was most disturbing to me, and i understand also to …

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Clifford C. Matlock Oral History Interview

… now, up in washington. it's a private organization. mckinzie: but their stock seemed to rise in 1948 and 1949 after the berlin blockade and the clear need for something like nato. matlock: i thought hickerson reached his peak of influence almost …

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John H. Tolan, Jr. Oral History Interview

… shaef (supreme headquarters, allied expeditionary forces) in rheims, france. he refused to help the senators travel to berlin. but he had the top staff officers take us to his "war room" and give us the full story of the battle of the bulge. in …

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Stephen J. Spingarn Oral History Interview, March 24, 1967

… say that the exploits of this remarkable little espionage outfit were going back all the way to the fuhrer in germany in berlin, and everybody was very proud of them, they were doing such a great, terrific job. but late in the war, toward the …

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