Collection MF565-MF608 - DULLES, JOHN FOSTER, AND HERTER, CHRISTIAN A, 1953-1961

Key Information

Reference code

MF565-MF608

Title

DULLES, JOHN FOSTER, AND HERTER, CHRISTIAN A, 1953-1961

Date(s)

  • 1986 (Creation)
  • 1980 (Creation)
  • 1953-1961 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

44 reels

Scope and content

The Papers of John Foster Dulles and of Christian A Herter, 1953-1961 are microfilmed copies of minutes of telephone conversations, memoranda, reports, and correspondence between Dulles and Herter as US Secretary of State and Under Secretary of State respectively (1953-1959), and Herter as US Secretary of State (1959-1961), and White House staff members, Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon, Central Intelligence Agency Director Allen Welsh Dulles, members of the US Senate and House of Representatives, US armed forces personnel and US political lobbyists. Material included in the collection relates to the International Information Agency re-organisation, 1953; the Panama Canal Treaty, 1953; the Republic of China Mutual Defense Treaty, 1953; Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy and his quest for communist infiltrators in the US, 1953; the cease-fire in Korea and Prisoner of War exchanges, 1953; the coronation of HRH Queen Elizabeth II, 1953; Far Eastern and Asian policy; the treason trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, 1953; the Federal Bureau of Investigation clearance of African-Americans for government posts; the depreciating civil situation on Indochina; atomic agreements with Great Britain; the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); the India/Kashmir Crisis, 1954; deteriorating Arab-Israeli relations, 1954-56; the US intervention into Guatemala, 1954; the French defeat in Indochina, 1954; the European Common Market; visit of Rt Hon Sir Anthony Eden to the US; the Suez Crisis, 1956; the Soviet invasion of Hungary, 1956; NATO and nuclear weapons; US stance on French and British colonialism; the testing of US satellite 'Vanguard' and the subsequent space race with the Soviet Union, 1957; the Mutual Security Program; American troops in Lebanon as part of a UN force, 1958; Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon and the political defence of US foreign policy. Correspondents include President Dwight David Eisenhower; Gen Juan Domingo Peron, president of Argentina; Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy; Rt Hon Sir Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill; Marshal Josip Broz (Tito), Prime Minister of Yugoslavia; Shri Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India; Dr Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; Gen Douglas MacArthur; Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr; Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of the Republic of Egypt; Special Assistant to the President Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller; Gen Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle, President of France; Rt Hon (Maurice) Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of Great Britain; Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, President of the Republic of China; Hussein ibn Talal, King of Jordan; Senator Lyndon Baines Johnson; Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers; David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel; Fidel Castro, Prime Minister of Cuba.

System of arrangement

The Papers of John Foster Dulles and of Christian A Herter, 1953-1961 are arranged in three main sections. 'Minutes of Telephone Conversations of John Foster Dulles and of Christian Herter, 1953-61' includes microfilmed copies of the minutes of telephone conversations between Dulles and Herter as US Secretary of State and Under Secretary of State respectively (1953- 1959) and of Herter as US Secretary of State (1959-1961), and are arranged in reverse chronological order, 30 Dec 1952-16 Jan 1961. 'The White House Correspondence and Memoranda Series' includes microfilmed copies of correspondence and memoranda between Dulles and Herter, the President, the Central Intelligence Agency, and members of the White House staff, Jan 1953-Jan 1961, arranged in reverse chronological order. 'The Chronological Correspondence Series' includes microfilmed copies of correspondence from Dulles's tenure as Secretary of State, Dec 1952-Mar 1959; and, from Herter's tenure as Under Secretary of State and as Secretary of State, Feb 1957-Jan 1961, arranged in chronological order.

General Information

Custodial history

University Publications of America, Inc., Bethesda, MD, with fully indexed guides edited by Paul Kesaris and Joan Gibson and co-ordinated by Robert E Lester.

Conditions governing access

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies may be printed off the microfilm/microfiche for research purposes and are charged at cost.

Enquiries concerning the copyright of the original material should be addressed to University Publications of America Inc.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Finding aids

This collection level description. The following published guide is available in the Reading Room: Paul Kesaris and Joan Gibson (eds.), The Papers of John Foster Dulles and of Christian A Herter, 1953- 1961 (University Publications of America, Inc, Bethesda, MD, 1980, 1986).

Existence and location of originals

Dwight D Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas, USA

Related descriptions

Note

Compiled Jun 1999

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Genre access points

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

Script(s)

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