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Records of the National Archives and Records Administration: Records of the Harry S. Truman Library: Museum Exhibit Case Files (Record Group 64)
… of the trails traveling exhibit 1986: uss missouri model exhibit 1986: airlift! bridge to a post-war alliance exhibit (berlin airlift) 1987: marshall plan exhibit 1987: marshall plan traveling exhibit (german marshall fund of the u.s.) 1987: … proposed permanent exhibit [2024 accretion] 1995: treasures of the truman library exhibit 1995: american forces in berlin exhibit 1995: 50 years ago today exhibit [1 of 4] 1995: 50 years ago today exhibit [2 of 4] 1995: 50 years ago today …
Robert G. Nixon Oral History Interview, October 20, 1970
… washington to go to norfolk and boarded the cruiser augusta to go across the atlantic to antwerp. then flew on to potsdam, berlin. truman had been in communication with churchill, and churchill was pressing for another meeting with stalin for … communicated with roosevelt about this.) potsdam was the place where it would be held. it couldn't be held [255] in berlin itself because berlin was destroyed, and brother i mean destroyed! not just a house here and a building there knocked down, but everything . …
The President's News Conference
… price control legislation? the president. i do not. i do not. [9.] q. mr. president, the soviet-licensed newspaper in berlin said this morning that general clay was going to be replaced, and that his successor would report directly to the …
Bernard Bernstein Oral History Interview
… a number of valises. i also showed them the art treasures, which i later ascertained constituted almost 25 percent of the berlin art museum, and also showed general eisenhower [120] the plates of the reichsbank used for the printing of the … the art treasure, from the studies made by the art experts of shaef, seemed to have been the legitimate property of the berlin museum. our government turned all of that art back to the west german government. some of it has been taken by the … the mine, we picked up two german civilians who turned out to be officials of the reichsbank. they had been sent down from berlin to keep an eye on that gold and treasure. we began our examination of the gold question by our examination of these …
Karl R. Bendetsen Oral History, November 9, 1972
… may. mr. forrestal phoned me in san francisco where i was practicing law and said that an emergency was in the making, the berlin crisis storm was gathering, the probabilities were high that the defense establishment, as it was then known, would be … certain senators and representatives on these committees. hess: what particular duties did you have in connection with the berlin blockade and the berlin airlift? bendetsen: no direct duties. my duties were in general support functions. i had no direct military …
Dr. Isador Lubin Oral History Interview
… united states that had some technological significance to them as oil people. on our return we visited a good deal around berlin, and other nearby places and then went on to moscow. the mission to moscow was a complete failure. we got nowhere at … transcript | list of subjects discussed ] list of subjects discussed aachen, germany, 2 arden house conference, 42 berlin, germany, 9 blair-lee house, 8 byrnes, james f., 10 , 26-27 clay, lucius d., 33 clayton, william c., 31 connelly, …
Jose Figueres Ferrer Oral History Interview
… he went through the lines, and i think was shot at, and stayed here. but at that time, i remember that we had the berlin airlift and that he and i were day by day watching events and hoping [25] that nothing weird would happen. mccoy: so, … acheson, dean, 22 agency for international development, 14-15 , 16 alliance for progress, 28 batista, fulgencio, 33 berlin, germany, 24 berlin airlift, 24 betancourt, romulo, 34 bowles, chester, 1 bretton woods conference, 29 canada, 27 caracus conference, 34 …
The President's Farewell Address to the American People
… is a bulwark of strength at a strategic corner of the world. then came the marshall plan which saved europe, the heroic berlin airlift, and our military aid programs. we inaugurated the north atlantic pact, the rio pact binding the western …
Robert B. Landry Oral History Interview
… the marshall plan, the president's strong support of the united nations, holding the line under u.n. mandate in korea, the berlin airlift--just to name a few. fuchs: what do you recall about the berlin airlift? [34] landry: i was in germany. i was in the eighth air force. when we dropped the bomb in august '45, i was … in the books about mr. truman and in other historical books. i don't know anything about that. i knew something about the berlin airlift. fuchs: i'm wondering what were your reactions at the time; did you feel that we were biting off more that we …
The President's News Conference
… white house official reporter] the president. i can name you several examples if you want them: greece, turkey, korea, and berlin. trieste in the beginning. q. mr. president, when you speak of the use of force, you are referring in a general way to …
Address at Mechanics Hall in Boston
… must not spread its tentacles into the western zone. we shall not retreat from that position. we shall feed the people of berlin, and the people of germany will be given their chance to work out a decent life under a democratic government. now, …
Andrews, Stanley Papers
… canada speech file - october 26, association of land grant colleges and universities trip to europe trip to europe - berlin speech government service file: 1952 general correspondence general international development advisory board meeting …
Huntington, Albert H., Jr. Papers
… by gregg herken "multipolarity in world politics: the challenge" by norman graebner 750th anniversary of the founding of berlin obituary of congressman otto passman, chairman, house appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations, 1955-1977 …
Redding, John M. Papers
… in 1950, he was appointed assistant postmaster general, a post he held until 1953. redding was the author of skyways to berlin (with harold leyshon, 1943), wake of glory (with thor smith, 1945), inside the democratic party (1958), and inside the …
Address at Colorado Springs
… and turkey, and of aid to western europe, which he had praised as "achievements" the day before. he even attacked the berlin airlift. and this is not the only time he has attacked the policies he worked so long to build up for our defense and …
The President's Special Conference With the Association of Radio News Analysts
… and make peace. "why don't you get to the russians and fix this thing up?" he said. i said, "all right, we will give them berlin, we will give them germany, we will give them korea, we will give them japan, we will give them east asia. then they …
Raymond P. Brandt Oral History Interview
… a reporter at the white house? brandt: one thing that i think was his mistake, is that he accepted the yalta agreement on berlin. that was an [90] eisenhower and roosevelt mistake and we should never have let berlin be isolated that way. the story i've heard was that churchill wanted to renege on that, to take berlin, and to abrogate that part of the understanding about four-power government in berlin. truman is supposed to have …
Felix E. Larkin Oral History Interview
… these maps of the world and say, "now one of the things we really have to do if the communists [64] move east into west berlin and so forth, is we're going to have to hold spain; we're going to have to do this; we're going to have to do that" … was europe. and this is, of course--i'm trying to think of the dates of the marshall plan, of greek-turkey aid, the berlin airlift. hess: there was a good deal of activity in europe at [65] this time, but was there any thinking of an attack … that i think most people, finally, were surprised. they never did think that the communists, starting with eisenhower in berlin when they moved in and grabbed everything, would continue with an objective of a world push. they were highly …
The President's News Conference
… of the proposed flag, with the circle of 48 stars, to the white house in july and when the president returned from berlin in august, he tentatively approved that design. it was then sent to the war and navy departments for comment and …
The President's News Conference
… and continually. 2 see 1945 volume, this series, items 26, 27. when the cold war started in greece and turkey, and berlin, and finally in korea, we had to put forth every effort possible to prevent all the free world from coming under …
Benson E. L. Timmons III Oral History Interview
… first for economic recovery and political strength, and then later after the developments in czechoslovakia and the berlin blockade, there is the clear emergence of the soviet threat to western europe. there was the necessity for defense …
Walter H. Judd Oral History Interview
… could do from korea; and to have our forces in korea may be provocative to the soviet union." i said, "that's true of west berlin also; they can take berlin any weekend. we haven't got enough troops there to stop them. why don't they do it? because we do have one regiment in berlin--and the american flag. that's all, but it's a symbol of american power and interest. if we take everything out of …
James W. Riddleberger Oral History Interview, April 26, 1972
… affairs, u.s. dept. of state, 1944-47; counsellor of embassy, and chief, political section, american military government, berlin, germany, 1947-50; acting political adviser to commander-in-chief, u.s. forces, germany, 1949-50; political adviser to … soviet union and germany and what i thought the real intentions of the soviet leaders were. don't forget, i was still in berlin for both the molotov-ribbentrop pact at the outbreak of the war and also for the famous molotov visit in the winter of … i stopped off in germany on my way back i think, yes, to go over a number of things. hess: all right. riddleberger: in berlin--no, of course, this wasn't germany. i beg your pardon. may i stop to think a moment? hess: you certainly may. …
Hillman, William Papers
… 1925 (september 5) married angela sermolino 1926-1931 correspondent, universal service and hearst newspapers, paris, berlin, and london 1934-1939 chief of staff, foreign correspondents, hearst newspapers 1939-1940 foreign editor, … sketches for herbert lee williams, august 25, 1954 profiles by hst [draft of the log of the president's trip to the berlin conference, by lt. w. m. rigdon] proposed chapter arrangement for second draft sample pages from early printing of …
Ross, Charles G. Papers
… b. taft-hartley law terry, lt. r. c. thirty-fifth division time [magazine] todd, dr. tomlinson trips of the president - berlin trip, july 6-august 7, 1945 trips of the president - bermuda trip, august 16- september 2, 1946 trips of the president … germany: medals and memorabilia [2012 accretion] 1949 inaugural invitations to dr. and mrs. john b. ross photographs of berlin, c. 1945 [2012 accretion] ross, john b.: military service, world war ii [2012 accretion] roy a. roberts - night …
Recollections of the 1948 Campaign by William J. Bray
… a day or two before. an impasse had developed between the soviets and the western powers over the russian blockade of berlin. the russians refused to end the blockade and the westerners refused to be deterred by it. smith said the situation … discussed akron, ohio, 40 albany, n. y., 40 anderson, clinton p., 12 austin, texas, 15 , 18 battery d, 129th f.a., 6 berlin blockade, 17 bonham, texas, 17 bray, william j., 10 , 25 , 36 bridgeport, conn., 44 brockton, mass, 43 butler, robert, … 32 toledo, ohio, 39 , 40 tolono, ill., 29 truman, harry s.: battery d, visit with friend from during 1948 campaign, 6-7 berlin blockade, conference with ambassador b. smith re, 17 campaign fund donations for the democratic party, influence in …
Willard L. Thorp Oral History Interview
… i wouldn't be in on it, but if it was an economic problem, for instance, the currency problem, i would either go to berlin or we'd have the meeting somewhere else. i don't think any of these were actually resolved in berlin. i think we wanted to be away from the generals to resolve them. we would work out some solution and, of course, the … by and large the state department became more and more distressed about the status of germany and the situation there. the berlin airlift crisis was an indication of weakness: i think every government felt that berlin was one of our vulnerable …
The President's Special Conference With Editors of Business and Trade Papers
… next world war will be the safest place in the world. it won't be at home. we won't be safe at home. if you could look at berlin right now, or frankfurt, or dresden, or london, you will find out what happens to the people who stayed at home. there …
Max Lowenthal Oral History Interview
… often, in the early part of his presidency. in fact there was a war job, or a wartime produced task to be performed in berlin and i was directed by the war department to work on that matter and go over to germany. i had known bob patterson, and … other official job. hess: what was the task that you had in germany? lowenthal: in the fall of 1946 i was asked to go to berlin. at the time berlin was under a three or four nation army administration. the american military authorities in berlin wanted to have a …
Address in Springfield at the 32d Reunion of the 35th Division Association
… security. the communists are building up forces in korea and other parts of asia. in europe the russians are threatening berlin. communist parties are staging riots in paris and tokyo. the kremlin is not going to take a vacation just because we …
Papers of Harry S. Truman Staff Member and Office Files: National Security Council File
… european members of the north atlantic treaty organization] [3 of 3] box 7 # 19 [federal republic of germany and western berlin] # 20 [japan & ryukyu islands] # 21 [certain latin american republics] [1 of 2] # 21 [certain latin american …
Charles P. Kindleberger Oral History Interview
… army group in europe to members of his staff in london; (2) letters from kindleberger to his office as he toured brussels, berlin, and vienna for the department of state in 1946; and (3) letters to his office from moscow in march-april, 1947.] you … and we did that for a long time. there were reparations issues, reconstruction issues, feeding issues. i went to berlin and austria in the summer of 46, thats where one of those piles of letters comes from. we elaborated the policies … felt, i think, that it was outrageous to let foreign businessmen go into germany and buy up things. and my letters from berlin here do talk about the moratorium. now the moratorium was a device we worked out. there would be a moratorium on …
Paul H. Nitze Oral History Interview, August 4, 1975
… it was ultimately going to be for the three western zones? nitze: well, the problem was complicated by the situation in berlin. there, that problem was made extremely difficult by harry dexter white and the treasury department. harry dexter … currency be turned over to the russians, and so the russians printed unlimited quantities of occupational currency in the berlin area, [207] all of which occupation currency was convertible into u.s. dollars. so, this was a wide open hole in our … in desperation we made all those occupation dollars unconvertible into u.s. dollars, that's what brought about the first berlin blockade. and that in turn led to the 1949 palais rose conference, because after the airlift the russians finally …
Theodore Christidis Oral History Interview
… the united states of america, which after sending its sons, fathers, and brothers, to fight from one end of europe up to berlin and further, to come once more and give the great aid which was known as the marshall plan aid and the truman dogma. … is with deep respect that i bend my head to those who covered the whole european continent, from the atlantic ocean up to berlin and further with their tombs. it is with respect and gratitude that the greek people turn their eyes and their spirits …
Oral Histories
… department of state, 1944-47; counselor, u.s. embassy, and chief, political section, american military government, berlin, germany, 1947-50; political adviser to the economic cooperation administration, paris, france, 1950-52; director, …
Address in Lincoln, Nebraska
… with the success of our program for peace. you here in lincoln are directly affected by what happens these days in berlin, in paris, in singapore. no one should know that better than the american farmer, because farmers remember what …
Address at the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh
… the korean conflict but for world war ii and for world war i. he has listed our action to save greece and turkey, and the berlin airlift, and our defense of korea--not as great achievements, but as calamities. he has intimated that our policies in …
Donald C. Blaisdell Oral History Interview
… general assembly. there were special sessions of the security council held at the same time, because this was the time the berlin blockade was on and there were negotiations. philip jessup was our representative in those debates. my job was … and said, "why, there is you." mckinzie: in paris in 1948 what did you have to do, if anything, with the negotiations on berlin? blaisdell: i had nothing to do with that. the security council held one or two special meetings [124] in connection … or where i don't know, but someone detected [125] stalin's public statement as the chance to negotiate the end of the berlin blockade; how philip jessup approached jacob malik in the delegates' lounge at the u.n. to determine whether the …
Frederick Nolting Oral History Interview
… and luxembourg, i didn't have much to do with that. mckinzie: with the coming of nato, which came on the heels of the berlin blockade, which came on the heels, itself, of the marshall plan, a lot of tension filled events in western europe. … discussed acheson, dean, 22 , 26 , 34 , 38 achilles, theodore, 20 austria, 3 , 4 belgium, 20-21 benelux countries, 5 , 21 berlin blockade, 21 chiang kai-shek, 23 , 36 china, 19 , 23-24 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 36-37 clay, lucius, 3 cumming, hugh., 3 diem, …
Address at the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner
… against communism; we are helping them to arm against communism; we have met and halted communism in greece and turkey, in berlin and austria, in italy and iran, and the most important of all, in korea. we have fought communism abroad. we have …
The President's News Conference at Key West
… of the kremlin to control the world. a procedure was instituted which came to be known as the cold war. the airlift to berlin was only one phase of it. people became alarmed here in the united states then, that there might be people whose …
Clark, Tom C. Papers
… bar - barker barkley, alben w. barksdale - barn barr bart - baruch bas - bat bau - baz bea - bed bee - bel box 21 ben ber berlin, richard e. bet - bez bia - bil biddle, francis - r.a.f. penrose, jr. memorial lecture - the nurenberg trials, april …
Pauley, Edwin W. Papers
… ocl-2815, vol. i, part ii, oct. 3, 1946 potsdam conference potsdam conference—report of the tripartite conference of berlin, august 1945 proposed reparations conference (1946) reparations, 1945 [1 of 2] reparations, 1945 [2 of 2] box 19 …
George M. Elsey Oral History Interview, July 9, 1970
… also have taken that comment under advisement. hess: well, that may be true. also one other point on foreign affairs. the berlin airlift took place in june of 1948, or the elsey: the airlift commenced then. hess: right, it commenced then. the russian blockade of [391] berlin, and we did not discuss that last time. does anything particular come to mind about mr. truman's decision to act as he did in that way and have an airlift. what was the thinking around the white house at the time of the berlin blockade? elsey: i have no special insight or comments to offer on that. by that time the national security council …
Loy W. Henderson Oral History Interview
… red cross commission attached to the interallied commission for the repatriation of prisoners of war with headquarters in berlin, i acted as an inspector of prison camps in germany. there were several hundred thousand russian prisoners in these … and the problems connected with their repatriation were complex and numerous. there were arguments both in paris and berlin with regard to decisions relating to their [3] repatriation. on the one hand, there was a fear that if they should be … lithuania in order to hold back the soviets. this sub-commission was composed of members of the interallied commission in berlin. it was headed by a british major; and its other members consisted of a united states medical officer, a french …
Harry S. Truman Collection
… relating to the internal revenue bureau and reorganization plan of no. 1 of 1952 [donated by stewart berkshire, mhdc 212] berlin airlift: a special study of operation “vittles” and related materials [donated by jeff huston, mhdc 1038] bernstein, … truman": program, may 1, 1964 [mhdc 24] "fassberg diary": satirical piece circulated among air force personnel during the berlin airlift [donated by robert a. bass and daniel r. stone, mhdc 956] faunce, evalena: letter signed by harry s. truman as … "some thoughts on foreign affairs," [mhdc 393, ghdc 122] garnett, christopher, jr.: letter regarding harry s. truman and berlin, december 28, 1972 [mhdc 168] garrison, robert c.: correspondence with harry s. truman, bess truman, and rose conway, …
Sheet Music Collection
… america, we love thee by: william s hauser america your daughter and your son america's and her allies' victory march to berlin and tokyo america's big three america's choice america's marseillaise america's our home america's pride american … victory by: will pedras below the mason-dixon line ben hur chariot race march beneath the maori moon berceuse bergerettes berlin betsy ross better times are on the way better write a letter betty lou between tonight and tomorrow beyond the purple … christmas glorious old glory glory glory to our warriors glory to the flag of the u.s.a. god bless america by: irving berlin god bless america by: albert d. cowden god bless america, the grand old u.s.a. god bless ev'ry nation god bless mr. …
Emilio Collado Oral History Interview, July 11, 1974
… completely out of joint as a result of that and we finally did make a concession and let the french have their zone in berlin and germany. the poles kept showing up, poor guys, and not getting anywhere. as you know, our support of them didn't … 26 , 41 , 46 and the marshall plan, 42-43 atlantic city, new jersey, 14 babelsberg, germany, 49 berle, adolf a., jr., 6-7 berlin, germany, 33 bolivia, 12 bonsal, phil, 9 brand, bob, 46 bretton woods conference, 12 , 14 , 15-17 , 18 , 21-22 , 46 …
Spyros Markezinis Oral History Interview
… in greece, it did not get projected universally as it ought to be. just as i think the splendid success of the airlift in berlin was also badly publicized. question: did the united states aid programs have influence upon the political system and … to see it after world war ii. that is why they pushed through the division of germany and the curious status quo of berlin, while clemenceau, foch, and poincare had failed mutatis mutandis in their similar pursuit earlier. (boundaries of the … targets. the russians had correctly marked greece as the key position for the control of the eastern mediterranean. berlin was the other target at that time. that is why i consider [53] that the final success of american policy in these two …
Harry S. Truman Papers: White House Central Files: President's Personal File
… ppf 1-f the president - drafts of messages and speeches, etc. - address of the president reporting to the nation on the berlin conference, august 9, 1945 ppf 1-f the president - drafts of messages and speeches, etc. - address after the signing … the united nations charter, july 2, 1945 ppf 200 speeches by the president; public reaction - radio address report on the berlin [potsdam] conference, august 9, 1945 ppf 200 speeches by the president; public reaction - radio address report on the berlin [potsdam] conference, august 9, 1945 - a ppf 200 speeches by the president; public reaction - radio address report on …
James J. Rowley Oral History Interview
… d.c. we took one of those four-motored planes, a dc-4, and flew to miami. then we flew to trinidad, from trinidad to berlin, and berlin to natal, where we refueled. by the way, after taking off from natal, we're in the air, and all of a sudden i smelled … the meeting arrangements. i landed in paris and i called bob [robert] murphy, who was ambassador, and he was going up to berlin, so he wouldn't be available. finally i found out that an admiral that i worked with in hawaii when roosevelt went and …
Paul H. Nitze Oral History Interviews, June 11 and June 17, 1975
… the ten days and i found it not worthwhile reading something i already knew about. shortly after this period, i was in berlin at the time of the potsdam conference. the reason i was there was that speer had an economic and planning section … of this planning section would be the best records to give us everything we needed. but wagenfuehr had disappeared to berlin and that's why i went to berlin to see whether i could find [85] wagenfuehr. we got to berlin and found that wagenfuehr was in that section of …
John W. Snyder Oral History Interviews
… report, 441-445 benton, william, 1925-1926 berchtesgaden, germany, features of, 485-489 berenstein, david, 133-134 berlin, germany, as a strategic target during world war ii, 468-469 bevin, ernest, and marshall plan, role in, 1125 , …
Bernstein, Bernard Papers
… showing currency in various denominations banknotes from germany--illustration showing currency in various denominations berlin--united states forces telephone directory, december 15, 1945 bernstein, bernard--address to the benjamin n. cardozo …
Harry S. Truman Papers: President's Secretary's Files
… the conferences documented in this subseries include the united nations conference in san francisco and the potsdam (berlin) conference in 1945; the paris conference of foreign ministers in 1946; the moscow and london conferences of foreign … among the topics discussed in the conferences subseries are european recovery, germany, reparations, peace treaties, the berlin blockade, the atomic bomb, trade, the north atlantic treaty organization (nato), and the korean war. the council of … reports, schedules, speeches, telegrams, and transcripts pertaining to asia, statehood for alaska, military bases, the berlin crisis, the occupation of germany, the palestine issue, reparations, the truman doctrine, the united nations, the suez …
Reverend Welbern Bowman Oral History Interview
… town was that near, or close to? bowman: our mail address was king city, missouri, but we lived near a little town called berlin. i went to the grade school and then to high school in the grandview consolidated schools -- not the grandview we live … baptist church, grandview, missouri, 9-14 , 16-29 , 34-39 , 45 benton boulevard baptist church, kansas city, missouri, 6-7 berlin, missouri, 2 blue ridge baptist church, grandview, misouri, 22-23 bowman, jasper, 1 bowman, maggie, 1 bowman, welbern, …
George M. Elsey Oral History Interview, March 17, 1976
… much of my work in april and may and [4] june was preparing background data for president truman to use at the potsdam or berlin conference. as a result, i came to see him more often and know him better than anyone as young and as junior in rank … assume that in des moines he was going to talk about the price of hogs or something like that. he might be discussing the berlin airlift in des moines, and they would have to be out there listening, and as a result of this, they were just filing …
George M. Elsey Oral History Interview, March 9, 1965
… which was then in the process of negotiation and formation, of the [100] necessity of opposition to soviet pressures, of berlin--we can carry on a dozen or more major areas of extreme national significance where the national unity and the …
Sir Alexander Cairncross Oral History Interview
… with sir alexander cairncross director of programmes, ministry of aircraft production, 1945; economic advisory panel, berlin, 1945-46; member of wool working party, 1946; economic advisor to the board of trade, 1946-49; economic advisor to …
Theodore Tannenwald, Jr. Oral History Interview
… gasoline consumption studies, which became very important as they tried to push the outer range of the fighter planes, to berlin for example, and then later in the pacific, when the planes based on the philippines and okinawa were flying over … henry h., 9 ball, george, 13 , 14 barkley, alben w., 68 bell, david e., 37 , 38 , 40 , 44 berger, samuel david, 36 , 37 berlin, germany, 11 bradley, general omar n., 32 , 46 brown brothers, 33 brown university, 3 bruce, david, 34 burma, 72 …
Harding F. Bancroft Oral History Interview
… of indonesia. i remember we had a whole lot of meetings in paris during the general assembly meeting there following the berlin blockade in the fall of '48. in early 1949, dr. jessup was the person who had to announce the [24] united states … and dulles, john foster, 52-54 and the office of price administration, 3-4 and the state department, 15 bard, ralph a., 2 berlin blockade, 23 bernadotte, count folke af wisborg, 43 black, cyril, 14 bulgaria, 14 , 16 bunche, ralph, 43 butterworth, …
Clark M. Clifford Oral History Interview, February 14, 1973
… to a great extent that was due to the farsightedness and vision of harry s. truman. as he carried on he went through the berlin airlift. people forget today how all embracing soviet expansionism was during that period. people forget that in the …
Fred L. Lee Oral History Interview
… the potsdam conference, and of course, he did meet patton there. there was that flag-raising picture with truman at berlin. lee: well, maybe that was the occasion. johnson: and some other important people. i think patton came to the white …
Lloyd, David D. Papers
… communism communist strategy correspondence concerning harry s. truman library location corruption eisenhower eisenhower—berlin blockade eisenhower—communist line [missing] eisenhower—joint chiefs of staff assignments eisenhower—korean troops …
Francis O. Wilcox Oral History Interview, February 1, 1984
… for its work in the field of international law. i had a fellowship to go there for the summer. so i spent some time in berlin and some time at the hague. ritchie: what was your impression of berlin in 1937? wilcox: well, you couldn't help but feel that hitler's efforts were moving the world toward a very serious …
John W. Snyder Oral History Interview, December 27, 1967
… and visited the bombed out cities of germany. it was an appalling sight to see the industrial cities, and particularly in berlin, to see these gaunt walls standing there with the entire interior burned out by the incendiary bombs. these were the …
John H. Ohly Oral History Interview
… -- the state-army-navy-air force coordinating committee (sanacc). some six months later, when the russians blockaded berlin, creating a grave international crisis and raising the specter of active military hostilities, forrestal himself did … economic recovery program. .among other things, the soviet [34] union had taken over control in czechoslovakia and the berlin blockade had been instituted. if you would talk to some of the people in eca who were stationed in paris during this … 10 andrews, stanley, 130-132 army, u.s., occupation authority in germany, 2-4 b bell, david, 9 bennett, henry g., 130 berlin blockade, 3 , 34 bingham, jonathan, 130 , 131 bissell, richard m., jr., 103 , 106 blum, robert, 29 , 30 , 115 bridges, …
Robert L. Riggs Oral History Interview
… and japan; the dropping of the atomic bomb; aid to turkey and greece; and the fall of china and czechoslovakia; the berlin blockade, the korean war. just what was your general opinion of the truman administration's handling of foreign … ayers, eben a., 23 barkley, alben, 6 , 35 , 43-44 , 45 battery d, 129th field artillery, 28 berkeley, california, 30 , 32 berlin blockade, 49 biffle, leslie, 35 blackstone hotel, chicago, 44-45 boston, massachusetts, 9 byrnes, james f., 23 …
Roger Tubby Oral History Interview
… say, in effect, well, by god, they thought the president had done the right thing on greece and turkey or iran or the berlin airlift, or whatever it might have been. and, "yes, he's done the right thing." but there was a refrain, i said, and … of state and defense because this was the period of the start of the marshall plan, and before i went over there, the berlin airlift and korea, so that he was very close to the secretaries of state and defense. hess: were there other men …
George C. McGhee Oral History Interview
… the soviets been a member. all of our other postwar efforts in which they participated made little progress. the regime of berlin is a very [14] good example. mckinzie: the way the marshall plan legislation was drafted, there was almost a …
John D. Hickerson Oral History Interview
… that's just the brussels pact. things were happening: the takeover in czechoslovakia; the spy scare in scandinavia; the berlin blockade, all of those things scared the living daylights out of people. out of that we had approaches from everybody, … the result of all of that was that everybody was scared absolutely sick. now, later on, there was another ingredient, the berlin blockade, but that only came in june. but the february takeover in czechoslovakia triggered the whole thing. now, the … to consider what should be done about the situation. those talks opened in early july, 1948, in the meantime the berlin blockade had come along and given a further boost to the urgency of this idea, the blockade lasted until the following …
U. Alexis Johnson Oral History Interview
… in 1949, when you came back, if such existed it was at its peak, with the marshall plan going the way it was and with the berlin airlift winding down. you, too, had been conditioned by four years of scap, in which the dominant view was that the … approach to the war than ours tended to be. and you have such things as the decision not to occupy prague, not to go into berlin, and these things. but, coming back, the inseparability of political and military factors was truly brought home to …
Edwin W. Martin Oral History Interview
… of got rid of that issue. but by that time our other talks had broken down. then in january of '54 there was a meeting in berlin which--and i forget the details of this, but anyway at that meeting it was decided to hold the conference in geneva on … walked out on me , and i think they did that just to pay us back. but, in that very same month, in january of '54, this berlin meeting had taken place in which they decided to have the geneva conference, so the conference on korea was set up …
Clayton Fritchey Oral History Interviews
… of action in one place and one time, a different kind in another time and another place. for instance, in the crisis over berlin, we could have resorted to force rather than the airlift. in greece we relied on military advisors and economic and …
Durward V. Sandifer Oral History Interview
… by everyone as being the adoption of that declaration. there were very important political questions going on; the berlin blockade for example, was in the security council and to some extent in the general assembly that year. there were … agreement that the approval of a declaration of human rights was the great achievement of that session. of course, the berlin blockade was also unraveled in the course of that period. mckinzie: did you have anything to do with the proposed … out" of positions when things were happening so rapidly? the marshall plan was being formulated and implemented; the berlin crisis was on. sandifer: those were handled by a different side of the department, the one i operated in. i think to …
Edward W. Barrett Oral History Interview
… up all the information they could, which was awfully inadequate on occasion. but usually, your american who had worked in berlin, an ed taylor and someone like that, would know of four or five germans and say, "oh, damn it, i know that he's a good … scientific, and cultural organization, 18-19 and voice of america, 35-39 benton, william, 20-21 , 24 , 27 , 32 berlin, germany, 15 bowles, chester, 27 bradley, omar n., 6 brooklyn, new york, 56 brooklyn tablet , 56 , 62 bulgaria, 55 …
Thomas C. Blaisdell, Jr. Oral History Interview
… through the battle of the bulge and all of that terrible business. troops had moved east. the armies were closing in on berlin and the bombers that had been coming over london every night no [29] longer came over. we did have a few v 2s drop in … was the state department dealing on the political [45] level, through winant and his position in the eac with regard to berlin and all of these things, which i had nothing to do with at all. except for this what i regarded as one attempt to …
Josiah E. Dubois, Jr. Oral History Interview
… counsel of the war refugee board, 1944; member of allied reparations commission, moscow, 1945; member u.s. delegation, berlin conference (potsdam), 1945; dep. chief of counsel for war crimes in charge of i.g. farben case, nuremberg, germany, …
John A. Kennedy Oral History Interview
… party for both groups in shanghai and came back by way of bangkok, cairo, and several other stops. we stayed a while in berlin with general lucius d. clay, which was a horrible sight because it had been damaged by both the british and american …
Carroll H. Kenworthy Oral History Interview
… house and other news sources in washington was to pick up news which would interest newspapers in london, paris, rome, berlin, buenos aires, tokyo and you name almost any other capital in the world. we had -- when i first started -- we had only … fewer things for you to ask. kenworthy: that's right. that's right. or a correspondent for some london newspaper or some berlin newspaper would ask a question which i had expected to ask in that area, in those areas. hess: i would like to ask a …
Hoffman, Paul G. Papers
… committee on traffic safety - 1956-1958 reuter, ernst - geseleschaft (promoters and friends of the free university of berlin) - 1953-1956 spiritual mobilization (1. committee to proclaim liberty; 2. freedom club - fifield) stanford research … (outline) 1950 - september - article - common council for american unity, new york city 1950 - october 1 - trade fair - berlin, germany 1950 - october 11 - press conference - athens, greece 1950 - october 24 - overseas writers - washington, d.c. … nations economic committee for africa, addis ababa, ethiopia 1961 - february 23 - conference for developing countries, berlin, germany (delivered by clinton rebling) 1961 - february 28 - twilight club, pasadena, california 1961 - march 2 - …
Harold Stassen Oral History Interview
… as to how aggressive the soviet union might be in europe. they were pressing very hard, maybe somewhere in the area of the berlin blockade, and things of that kind, and i wanted to create an atmosphere on their part that they could not count on the …
Karl R. Bendetsen Oral History, November 21, 1972
… defense there was an awareness that the soviets were indeed testing our determination to stand by the continuity of west berlin during the first berlin crisis. was there a specific awareness in the pentagon that the soviet tests of our determination might shift from …
Frederick Osborn Oral History Interview
… with them. mckinzie: i was going to ask you if you could tell if the cold war and the events of the cold war, the berlin airlift, the soviet bomb, and the fall of china, and all of that was reflected in the way the members of the committee …
William J. Randall Oral History Interview, November 14, 1989
… somebody else, and they'd say, "i just came in from istanbul;" i'd see somebody else, who would say, "i just came in from berlin, or vienna." he had people invited from all over the world that night. johnson: what was the date of that? randall: in …
Frank K. Kelly Oral History Interview
… kelly: he didn't mention korea, so maybe it hadn't happened. he mentioned the atom bomb, and his decision to stay in berlin when the soviets blockaded the city. johnson: yes, because after korea he said his major decision was korea. kelly: … 77-78 , 84 barriere, john, 39 , 60 , 66 , 67 batt, william, 32-33 , 39-41 , 43 , 45 , 48 , 52-53 , 62 , 67 bean, louis, 67 berlin blockade, 58 birkhead, ken, 29-30 , 32-35 , 41 , 48 , 60 , 75-76 , 96 birkhead, leon, 33 , 77 bolte, charles, 34 …
General Louis W. Truman Oral History Interview
… that's when i asked eisenhower about this thing. heck, we had everything going; given another day we would have been in berlin. and then he told me about yalta -- not me -- but the gathering there at lunch time. johnson: the russians did take terrific casualties, in taking berlin. truman: yes, they did. johnson: a very bloody battle. do you remember what he had [73] to say to you at all? …
Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union
… becoming a member of the peaceful community of nations, and a partner in the common defense. the soviet effort to capture berlin by blockade was thwarted by the courageous allied airlift. an independent and democratic japan has been brought back …
George M. Elsey Oral History Interview, April 9, 1970
… whether mcintire did or not, of course, i have no way of knowing. hess: all right, the first one in the next box is on the berlin conference. i don't have any particular questions on this. it seems to be photographs and some newspapers . . . elsey: …
John Franklin Carter Oral History Interview
… enormous that what you read in the old history books doesn't affect them too much. i suppose that his greek-turk aid, his berlin airlift, nato, must be considered as a very vigorous and honorable attempt to lead the country in the direction of …
Robert G. Nixon Oral History Interview, October 9, 1970
… gave up. the bombing of london did not really resemble [15] what the u.s. air force and the british air force did later to berlin and some of the other german cities. i remember flying over, i think it was castell, a city in central germany, on the …
Henry L. Deimel Oral History Interview
… i remember once, for instance, that i was busy dictating an instruction, a memorandum, to go to our commercial attaché in berlin i think. it was on the subject of the duty on canned sardines. the german import duty on our sardines, which were a … his hands full with his own troubles, too. and, for instance, it was the deputy chief of mission, a man who came over from berlin, who did me the ruination, who prepared my efficiency report. now, here in washington, an efficiency report was the …
Stanley Andrews Oral History Interview
… i was there 72 days when a call came from general clay. he said, "andrews, we've got to have you over here." this was from berlin. i said, "to hell with that, general clay, i've done my share, three years and nine months, and i'm through." "well," … dealt with. he was hard and he had great respect for authority. if mr. truman told general clay to jump through a hoop in berlin, he jumped through a hoop. he said when the commander in chief speaks we move. but with that integrity he was not …
Nicholas G. Thacher Oral History Interview
… it was a series of events. the korean war, as naked communist aggression, was certainly a very important event, but the berlin blockade, the conquest of china by mao tse-tung, expansion of communist control in eastern europe and southeast europe …
Robert G. Nixon Oral History Interview, November 5, 1970
… home, as i erroneously said yesterday. they were to be sent to germany. the cold war with russia, centered in occupied berlin, was going on very furiously at the same time the conflict was in korea. the threat of a war with russia was a …
James H. Rowe Oral History Interview
… [truman doctrine] -- maybe that saved the middle east. i'd put those as one and two. he was hardboiled, of course, about berlin at the right time, and he was a great man in this field i think. now domestically, until '48, he didn't have a …
Records of the U.S. Secret Service: Personnel Investigation Files (Record Group 87)
… co-3-1180 [philip funk] co-3-1181 [bruce sodolski] co-3-1182 [walter molesky] co-3-1183 [roy klinger] co-3-1184 [berlin blake] co-3-1185 [john kent] co-3-1186 [frances jolly] co-3-1187 [floyd hudson] co-3-1188 [robert norman] co-3-1189 …
Theodore Achilles Oral History Interview
… that required somewhat more precision. how about ships, aircraft, island possessions, occupation forces in west germany or berlin? article 6 spelled this out: for the purpose of article 5 an armed attack on one or more of the parties is deemed to …
Wallace H. Graham Oral History Interview
… i think that's in the other interview, so i won't go into detail on that. it was quite an experience; you went through berlin and saw all the devastated buildings and rubble. one of your soldiers went down into the bunker and came out with the …
Fraser Wilkins Oral History Interview
… did you ever feel at the time that you suffered from what might be called secretarial neglect? there was, after all, the berlin airlift going on in the middle of all of this; china was falling on the one hand; there was the domestic business with …