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| Title: | World Movement for World Federal Government. Records |
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| Dates: | 1947-1951 |
| Size: | 11 linear ft. (20 boxes) |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | Contains correspondence, reports, minutes, and information files relating to Elisabeth Mann Borgese's tenure as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Council of the World Movement for World Federal Government (1948-1950). Includes correspondence with constituent, subsidiary, affiliated, and observer status federation organizations. Material relates to financing and promoting the movement. Correspondents include Stringfellow Barr, Lord Boyd-Orr, Henry Usborne, and others. Also contains Giuseppe Borgese's files as Co-Chairman of the Commission Constitutionelle Mondiale. Includes correspondence, reports and manuscripts by Robert Hutchins, Quincy Wright, Giuseppe Borgese, and others |
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In 1947, the Committee to Frame a World Constitution became a member of the World Movement for World Federal Government (WMWFG); at this time Mrs. Borgese, a member of the CFWC secretariat, was elected one of the Committee's delegates to the WMWFG. From the fall of 1947 to the fall of 1948 she was a member of the WMWFG Council. From the fall of 1948 to the winter of 1950 she was the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Council of the WMWFG. Until June 1951, Mr. G. A. Borgese was Co-Chairman of the Commission Constitutionelle Mondiale, "a group of scholars mandated by the Congress [of the WMWFG] with the task of preparing some research material" for world congresses of the WMWFG in the future for their consideration. [The papers come to an end on June 30, 1951 with the dissolution of the Committee to Frame a World Constitution and the cessation of its publication, Common Cause.]
Included in the papers are the general correspondence of the movement relative to the executive position held by Mrs. E. M. Borgese, arranged alphabetically by proper name; her "Information and Correspondence File," includes much near-print material that concerned the annual world congresses of the movement, reports and minutes of meetings, and correspondence with constituent, subsidiary, affiliated, observer status world federation organizations, arranged by subject matter, alphabetically.
The "Correspondence" and "Subject" files of the Commission Constitutionelle Mondiale includes letters of invitation to join the Commission, manuscripts by Hutchins, Quincy Wright, Borgese, and others; reports of the Commission; and correspondence relating to the Commission's work.
The arrangement of the material as established by the Committee's secretariat has not been changed.
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Committee to Frame a World Constitution.
Records, 1945-1951
Series I: General Correspondence |
This series is correspondence, filed alphabetically by proper name, concerning World Federation and specifically The World Movement for World Federal Government (WMWFG); business arrangements of WMWFG; plans of action in regard to popularizing and propagandizing the movement; letters of transmittal to various world leaders as Ali Kahn of Parkistan, in Africa, Asia, and Europe; intra-Federation correspondence of leaders like Stringfellow Barr, Lord Boyd-Orr, Farmer Fyke, and Henry Usborne.
| Box 1 Folder 1 | “A” General, 1949-1951 |
| Box 1 Folder 2 | Almstrom, Carl, 1949-1950 |
| Box 1 Folder 3 | Armstrong, Patrick, 1949-1951 |
| Box 1 Folder 4 | “B” General, 1948-1951 |
| Box 1 Folder 5 | Barr, Stringfellow 1949-1951 |
| Box 1 Folder 6 | Boyd- Orr, Lord 1949-1951 |
| Box 1 Folder 7 | Bradley, David 1949-1951 |
| Box 2 Folder 1 | “C” General, 1949-1951
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| Box 2 Folder 2 | Cranston, Alan (U.W.F.), 1949-1951 |
| Box 2 Folder 3 | “D” General, 1949-1951 |
| Box 2 Folder 4 | Dancer, Clifford, 1949-1950 |
| Box 2 Folder 5 | “E” General, 1949-1951
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| Box 2 Folder 6 | “F” General, 1949-1951 |
| Box 2 Folder 7 | Farmer, Fyke, 1948-1951
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| Box 2 Folder 8 | “G” General, 1948-1951 |
| Box 2 Folder 9 | “H” General, 1950-1951 |
| Box 2 Folder 10 | Hamori, Laszlo, 1949-1951 |
| Box 3 Folder 1 | Harrington, Donald, 1950-1951 |
| Box 3 Folder 2 | Harrington, Donald ctd., 1950-1951 |
| Box 3 Folder 3 | Hovelaque, Pierre, 1950-1951 |
| Box 3 Folder 4 | Hovelaque, Pierre ctd., 1950-1951 |
| Box 3 Folder 5 | Hanot, Peter, 1949-1950 |
| Box 3 Folder 6 | Hanot, Peter ctd., 1949-1950 |
| Box 3 Folder 7 | “I” General, 1949-1950 |
| Box 3 Folder 8 | Inagaki, Morikatsu, 1950 |
| Box 3 Folder 9 | “J” General, 1948-1951 |
| Box 4 Folder 1 | Joyce, James Avery World Citizenship Movement, 1949-1951 |
| Box 4 Folder 2 | “K” General, 1950-1951 |
| Box 4 Folder 3 | Keith, Kilby, 1949-1950 |
| Box 4 Folder 4 | Koch, Alison, 1949-1950 |
| Box 4 Folder 5 | Koch, Henri, 1949-1950 |
| Box 4 Folder 6 | Koch, Henri ctd., 1950 |
| Box 4 Folder 7 | Koch’s Carbon Copies to EMB, 1949-1950 |
| Box 5 Folder 1 | “L” General, 1949-1951 |
| Box 5 Folder 2 | “M” General
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| Box 5 Folder 3 | “Mc” General, 1950-1951 |
| Box 5 Folder 4 | Malan, 1950 |
| Box 5 Folder 5 | Marc, Alexandre, 1949-1959 |
| Box 5 Folder 6 | Marc, Alexandre ctd., 1949-1959 |
| Box 5 Folder 7 | Meyerhoff, William A., 1949-1950 |
| Box 5 Folder 8 | “N” General, 1950 |
| Box 5 Folder 9 | “O” General, 1950-1951 |
| Box 6 Folder 1 | “P” General, 1950-1951 |
| Box 6 Folder 2 | “R” General, 1948-1951 |
| Box 6 Folder 3 | “S” General, 1949-1951 |
| Box 6 Folder 4 | “T” General, 1949-1951 |
| Box 6 Folder 5 | “U” General, undated |
| Box 6 Folder 6 | Usborne, Henry, 1949-1950 |
| Box 6 Folder 7 | “V” General, 1949-1951 |
| Box 6 Folder 8 | Warburg, 1948-1951 |
| Box 6 Folder 9 | Warburg ctd., 1948-1951 |
| Box 7 Folder 1 | Wingate, Monica, 1949-1951 |
| Box 7 Folder 2 | “W”—”Z” General, 1949-1951 |
Series II: Subject Files |
This series is arranged by subject matter, material consists of same general type as in GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE; with some additions: near-print material concerning WMWFG Congresses in Geneva, Luxembourg, Rome, and Stockholm; mimeographed reports and minutes of various meetings and commissions, with exception of Commission Constitutionelle Mondiale which is separately organized; Correspondence with constituent, subsidiary, affiliated, or observer status World Federation Organizations.
| Box 7 Folder 3 | Administrative and Standing Committee of WMWFG, 1951-1969 |
| Box 7 Folder 4 | Personal Correspondence (Old), July 1949-March 1950 |
| Box 7 Folder 5 | Membership Lists, 1948-1950 |
| Box 7 Folder 6 | Membership Lists, 1949-1950 |
| Box 7 Folder 7 | Membership Lists, 1950 |
| Box 7 Folder 8 | Membership Lists, 1950-1951 |
| Box 7 Folder 9 | Air France, 1949-1951 |
| Box 8 Folder 1 | E. M. Borgese, typescript, “Making a Constitution for the World,” undated
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| Box 8 Folder 2 | E. M. Borgese, typescript, “Why a Maximalist Constitution?”, “Senate
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| Box 8 Folder 3 | E. M. Borgese, typescripts “Official-Unofficial Approach,” “The Peoples’ Convention II, A New Approach,” undated |
| Box 8 Folder 4 | Council of WMWFG notes, 1950-1951 |
| Box 8 Folder 5 | Executive Committee, WMWFG Notes, 1949-1951 |
| Box 8 Folder 6 | Executive Committee, WMWFG Notes, 1950-1951 |
| Box 8 Folder 7 | Commissions, WMWFG Cultural Correspondence, 1950-1951 |
| Box 8 Folder 8 | Commissions, WMWFG Financial and Social Correspondence, 1950-1951 |
| Box 9 Folder 1 | Commissions, WMWFG Political Reports and Correspondence, 1950-1958
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| Box 9 Folder 2 | Commissions, WMWFG Constitutional Sub-Commission Correspondence, 1950-1951 |
| Box 9 Folder 3 | Congress, WMWFG notes, 1948 |
| Box 9 Folder 4 | Congress, Luxembourg, Correspondence and Notes, 1947-1948 |
| Box 9 Folder 5 | Congress, Luxembourg, Correspondence and Notes, 1947-1955 |
| Box 9 Folder 6 | Congress, Rome, Memeograph Reports, 1947-1955 |
| Box 10 Folder 1 | Congress, Rome II, 1949-1951 |
| Box 10 Folder 2 | Congress, Rome I, 1950-1951 |
| Box 10 Folder 3 | Meeting of Executive Committee of WMWFG, Report on Stockholm Congress, Application for Secretary-Generalship, Financial Statement, October 23rd, 1949 |
| Box 10 Folder 4 | Meeting of Executive Committee of WMWFG, Minutes of Council and Executive Committee at Stockholm, October 23rd, 1949 |
| Box 10 Folder 5 | Meeting of Executive Committee of WMWFG, Reports and notes of Stockholm Congress, October 23rd, 1949 |
| Box 10 Folder 6 | Meeting of Executive Committee of WMWFG, List of Delegates and Observers at Stockholm; Council Members with Biographical Details; Movements, Members and Affiliated, October 23rd, 1949 |
| Box 10 Folder 7 | Meeting of Executive Committee of WMWFG, Newsletter No. 1 with Appendix, October 23rd, 1949 |
| Box 10 Folder 8 | Meeting of Executive Committee of WMWFG, Press and Radio, October 23rd, 1949 |
| Box 10 Folder 9 | Meeting of Executive Committee of WMWFG, Inter-Parliamentary Union, October 23rd, 1949 |
| Box 10 Folder 10 | Meeting of Executive Committee of WMWFG, Lord Boyd Orr, the Nobel Peace Prize, October 23rd, 1949 |
| Box 10 Folder 11 | Congress, Stockholm, E. M. Borgese’s Material, 1949 |
| Box 10 Folder 12 | Congress, Stockholm, E. M. Borgese’s Material ctd., 1949 |
| Box 11 Folder 1 | Congress, Stockholm, E. M. Borgese’s Material, 1949 |
| Box 11 Folder 2 | Congress, Stockholm, E. M. Borgese’s Material, 1949 |
| Box 11 Folder 3 | Congress, Stockholm, E. M. Borgese’s Material, 1949
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| Box 11 Folder 4 | Congress, Stockholm, E. M. Borgese’s Material, 1949 |
| Box 11 Folder 5 | Congress, Stockholm, E. M. Borgese’s Material, 1949 |
| Box 12 Folder 1 | Congress, Stockholm, E. M. Borgese’s Material, 1949 |
| Box 12 Folder 2 | Congress, Stockholm, E. M. Borgese’s Material, 1949 |
| Box 12 Folder 3 | Economic and Social Council of UN, 1948-1951
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| Box 12 Folder 4 | Financial Reports, 1949-1951 |
| Box 12 Folder 5 | Nouvelles Equipes Internationales, Reports, Bulletins, Notes, 1948-1950 |
| Box 12 Folder 6 | Press and Information Releases, WMWFG, 1949-1950 |
| Box 13 Folder 1 | Memorandums and Organization Constitutions, 1945-1950 |
| Box 13 Folder 2 | Peoples’ World Convention, 1949-1955
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| Box 13 Folder 3 | Statutes, WMWFG and Rules of Procedure, 1949-1951 |
| Box 13 Folder 4 | Statutes, WMWFG and Rules of Procedure Drafts, undated |
| Box 13 Folder 5 | Statutes, Preliminary Draft, undated |
| Box 13 Folder 6 | Statutes, Draft, Undated |
| Box 13 Folder 7 | Statutes, Revised Drafts, undated |
| Box 13 Folder 8 | Statutes, Agenda, April 18, 1949 |
| Box 13 Folder 9 | Statutes, Conference, April 18, 1949 |
| Box 13 Folder 10 | Statutes, Lloyd Case, June 7, 1949 |
| Box 13 Folder 11 | Statutes, Letter on, June 7, 1949 |
| Box 14 Folder 1 | Statutes, National Liason Council Correspondence, 1949 |
| Box 14 Folder 2 | Statutes, Recommendations for New, undated |
| Box 14 Folder 3 | Statutes, Report to Secretary, General, WMWFG, from National Liason Council, 1949 |
| Box 14 Folder 4 | United World Federalists Minutes and Correspondence, 1949-1950
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| Box 14 Folder 5 | United World Federalists Minutes and Correspondence, 1949-1950, ctd
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| Box 14 Folder 6 | United World Federalists, Official and Personal Correspondence, 1948-1951 |
| Box 14 Folder 7 | United World Federalists, Requests for Information, 1949-1950 |
| Box 14 Folder 8 | World Citizenship Movement, Correspondence, Brochures, Publications, 1947-1951 |
| Box 15 Folder 1 | World Citizenship Movement, Correspondence, Brochures, 1947-1949 |
| Box 15 Folder 2 | World Government, Crusade For, Ephemera and Publicity, 1948-1950 |
| Box 15 Folder 3 | World Movement for World Federal Government, Newsletters and Bulletins, 1950-1951 |
| Box 15 Folder 4 | World Movement for World Federal Government- Newsletters and Bulletins ctd., 1950-1951
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| Box 15 Folder 5 | World Peoples’ Convention, Bulletins, Publications, and Memoranda, 1949-1950 |
| Box 15 Folder 6 | World Republic, Correspondence, Publications, Proposals, 1949 |
| Box 16 Folder 1 | World Republic, Correspondence, Publications, Proposals, Notes, Minutes, 1948-1949 |
| Box 16 Folder 2 | World Republic, Correspondence, 1949 |
| Box 16 Folder 3 | World Student Federalists, Publications, Promotions, Statutes, 1948-1951
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| Box 16 Folder 4 | World Student Federalists, Publications, Promotions, Statutes, ctd., 1948-1951 |
| Box 16 Folder 5 | World Student Federalists, Correspondence, 1947-1950 |
Series III: Commission Constitutionelle Mondiale |
This series includes letters of invitation to join the Commission; manuscripts by Hutchins, Quincy Wright, Borgese, and others; reports of the Commission; and correspondence relative to the Commission’s work.
| Box 17 Folder 1 | “A’’, 1946-1950 |
| Box 17 Folder 2 | Allee, W. C., Animal Sociology typescript, 1945 |
| Box 17 Folder 3 | “B”, 1948-1949 |
| Box 17 Folder 4 | Borgese, E. M., typescripts, undated |
| Box 17 Folder 5 | “C”, 1948-1949 |
| Box 17 Folder 6 | Constitutions, Summary, Preface, 1949 |
| Box 17 Folder 7 | “D”, 1948-1949 |
| Box 17 Folder 8 | “G”, 1947-1949 |
| Box 17 Folder 9 | “H”, 1948-1949 |
| Box 17 Folder 10 | Hutchins, Robert M., Speeches and Reports, 1946-1947 |
| Box 17 Folder 11 | “I”, 1949 |
| Box 17 Folder 12 | Invitation to Join Commission, Letter of, 1949 |
| Box 17 Folder 13 | International Committee, World Constitutional Questions, 1948 |
| Box 17 Folder 14 | “J”, undated |
| Box 17 Folder 15 | “K”, 1948-1949 |
| Box 17 Folder 16 | Kahler, Erich, 1948 |
| Box 17 Folder 17 | Krekel, P., undated |
| Box 18 Folder 1 | “L”, 1948-1949 |
| Box 18 Folder 2 | List of Names, 1949 |
| Box 18 Folder 3 | Lectures, G. A. Borgese, 1946-1949 |
| Box 18 Folder 4 | Lectures, G. A. Borgese, ctd., 1946-1949 |
| Box 18 Folder 5 | “M”, 1948-1949 |
| Box 18 Folder 6 | Marc, A., undated |
| Box 18 Folder 7 | Manuscripts, undated |
| Box 18 Folder 8 | Manuscripts, 1947-1948 |
| Box 18 Folder 9 | Manuscripts, Lists and Notes, 1949 |
| Box 18 Folder 10 | “N”, 1948-1949 |
| Box 18 Folder 11 | “P”, 1949 |
| Box 19 Folder 1 | “R”, 1948-1949 |
| Box 19 Folder 2 | Reports, Constitutional Commission, undated |
| Box 19 Folder 3 | “Representation in a World Legislature”, E. M. Borgese typescript, undated |
| Box 19 Folder 4 | “S”, 1948-1949 |
| Box 19 Folder 5 | “T”, 1948-1949 |
| Box 19 Folder 6 | “U”, 1949 |
| Box 19 Folder 7 | “W”, 1948-1949 |
| Box 19 Folder 8 | Wright, Quincy, 1944 |
| Box 19 Folder 9 | “X”--”Z”, 1948-1949 |
Series IV: Oversize |
This series includes oversize materials removed from previous series and folders. It includes a number of newspaper articles and some letter correspondence.
| Box 20 Folder 1 | Cohn, Heinz G. Correspondence, 1950 |
| Box 20 Folder 2 | Einstein Newspaper Article, 1950 |
| Box 20 Folder 3 | Farmer, Fyke Correspondence, 1950 |
| Box 20 Folder 4 | Atlantic Union Resolution, 1949 |
| Box 20 Folder 5 | “Making a Constitution for the World” typescript, undated |
| Box 20 Folder 6 | WMWFG Newspaper Publication, 1950 |
| Box 20 Folder 7 | Peuple du Monde, Newspaper, 1949 |
| Box 20 Folder 8 | WMWFG Reply to UN Questionnaire, Undated |
| Box 20 Folder 9 | People’s World Convention Correspondence, 1950 |
| Box 20 Folder 10 | World Convention Newspaper Clippings and Notes, Undated |
| Box 20 Folder 11 | New York Times Article, 1946 |
| Box 20 Folder 12 | World Federalists LIFE Magazine Article Advertisement, undated; WMWFG Reply to UN Questionnaire, 1950 |
| Box 20 Folder 13 | World Student Federalists Annual Report Cover Page, 1948/49 |