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Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, journals, writings, speeches, subject files, newspaper diaries, biographical material, family papers, financial records, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to foreign affairs with emphasis on American-Soviet relations. The papers document Davies's career as chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (1915-1916), U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union (1936-1938) and to Belgium and Luxembourg (1938-1939), as special presidential envoy for Franklin D. Roosevelt to confer with Joseph Stalin (1943) and for Harry S. Truman to confer with Sir Winston Churchill (1945), as special adviser to Truman and U.S. secretary of state James F. Byrnes at the Potsdam Conference (1945 ), and as vice chairman of the U.S. President's Advisory Commission on Military Training (1946-1947). Subjects include Belgium, economic relations, presidential and senatorial election campaigns, post-World War II conditions, universal military training, and Davies's yacht Sea Cloud. Includes manuscripts of two unpublished books titled In the Days of Their Power and Glory and Missions for Peace.
Correspondents include Bernard M. Baruch; Max Aiken, Baron Beaverbrook; James F. Byrnes; Sir Winston Churchill; Homer S. Cummings; Josephus Daniels; Stephen T. Early; Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon; Albert Einstein; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Felix Frankfurter; Joseph C. Grew; Andreĭ Andreevich Gromyko; Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Earl of Halifax; Warren G. Harding; W. Averell Harriman; Loy W. Henderson; J. Edgar Hoover; Harry L. Hopkins; Cordell Hull; Harold L. Ickes; Arthur Krock; Oskar Lange; Henry Robinson Luce; Alfred Lunt; George C. Marshall; Marvin Hunter McIntyre; Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov; Henry Morgenthau; Edward R. Murrow; N.V. Novikov; Drew Pearson; Key Pittman; Sam Rayburn; Eddie Rickenbacker; Eleanor Roosevelt; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Samuel I. Rosenman; Edward R. Stettinius; Adlai E. Stevenson; Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina, Harry S. Truman; Millard E. Tydings; Fred M. Vinson; Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky; Henry A. Wallace; Harry Morris Warner; Sumner Welles; Wendell L. Willkie; Woodrow Wilson; and Edward, Duke of Windsor.
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Correspondence, Politics and government, International economic relations, American Diplomatic and consular service, Trade regulation, Military education, Elections, Yachts, Potsdam Conference (1945), United States, Congresses, Economic conditions, World War, 1939-1945, Sea Cloud (Yacht), Social conditions, Draft, Foreign economic relations, United States. Federal Trade Commission, United States. President's Advisory Commission on Military Training, Foreign relationsPeople
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina (1891-1961), Loy W. Henderson (1892-1986), Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965), Edward Frederick Lindley Wood Halifax Earl of (1881-1959), Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Harry Morris Warner (1881-1958), Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov (1890-1986), Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), Samuel I. Rosenman (1896-1973), Wendell L. Willkie (1892-1944), Fred M. Vinson (1890-1953), Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965), Warren G. Harding (1865-1923), Edward R. Murrow, J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972), Drew Pearson (1897-1969), Harry L. Hopkins (1890-1946), Max Aitken Beaverbrook Baron (1879-1964), Andreĭ Andreevich Gromyko (1909-1989), Winston Churchill Sir (1874-1965), Edward Windsor Duke of (1894-1972), Sam Rayburn (1882-1961), Alfred Lunt, Homer S. Cummings (1870-1956), Cordell Hull (1871-1955), Anthony Eden Earl of Avon (1897-1977), Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965), Key Pittman (1872-1940), Albert Einstein (1879-1955), Arthur Krock (1886-), Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), Edward R. Stettinius (1900-1949), Millard E. Tydings (1890-1961), Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965), Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), N. V. Novikov (1903-), Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky (1883-1954), Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), Stephen T. Early (1889-1951), Sumner Welles (1892-1961), Marvin Hunter McIntyre (1878-1943), Henry Morgenthau (1891-1967), Henry Robinson Luce (1898-1967), W. Averell Harriman (1891-1986), George C. Marshall (1880-1959), James F. Byrnes (1882-1972), Eddie Rickenbacker (1890-1973), Oskar Lange (1904-1965), Joseph C. Grew (1880-1965), Harold L. Ickes (1874-1952), Josephus Daniels (1862-1948)Places
United States, Belgium, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Soviet UnionTimes
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Classified, in part.
Deposit, Eleanor Davies Tydings, Rachel Davies Broun, and Emlen Davies Grosjean, 1961.
Converted to gift, 1962-1969.
Other gifts, 1967-2008.
transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
Diplomat, lawyer, and author. Born 1876; died 1958.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.
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