Item COLD WAR 27/10 - Transcript of interview with US State Department employee Martha Halloran Mautner, 1995

Typescript transcript of interview with Martha Halloran Mautner, US State Department employee, stationed in Moscow, 1945-1948, and Berlin, 1950-[1956], relating to her experiences in Moscow, including difficulties of relationships with local people, working with George F Kennan, US diplomat, and author of the 'long telegram', his analysis of Soviet policies in the light of Russian history, Feb 1946; reaction of Soviet leaders and US personnel in Moscow to the US announcement of military and economic aid for any country threatened by Communism, Mar 1947 (Truman Doctrine), and the Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill's 'Iron curtain' speech at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, USA, 5 Mar 1946; the rise of anti-communist feeling in the US and the campaign against alleged communists and communist sympathisers in US society instigated by Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy, 1950-1954, (McCarthyism); the publication of The Soviet World Outlook by the US State Department and development of public and institutional education in the field of Soviet studies; witnessing the unreported famine in the Ukraine, 1947; West Berlin during the 1950s and the response in response of Berlinners to the death of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, 5 Mar 1953; the East German Revolt, 1953; the Hungarian revolt, 1956; and development of US strategy in dealing with the Soviet Union. 50pp