John H. Ohly Papers

Dates: 1917(1940)-ca. 1984

The papers of John H. Ohly document his career as attorney in the War Department specializing in labor relations, as an intimate aid to Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal, as a government official and independent researcher studying and advocating foreign economic and military aid programs, and as an historical consultant to the Department of Defense. The Department of Defense File is particularly important for the study of the Truman administration's defense policies. The John H. Ohly Administrative File subseries in the Department of Defense File includes a record, organized by subject, and describing the issues involved and related actions taken, of practically all the documents that came to Ohly's office. Ohly has called this record "a guide to what went on [during] the first l8 months in the life of the Office of the Secretary of Defense." The rest of the material in the Department of Defense File supplements this record.

Size: 64.4 linear feet (about 128,000 pages)
Access: Open, with the exception that some documents are temporarily restricted in accordance with the provisions of Elizabeth Ohly's deed of gift and of the requirements of the executive order governing the administration of classified information.
Copyright: Elizabeth Ohly donated her copyright interest in any unpublished writings, including her husband's, in this collection or any other collection in the possession of the United States Government to the people of the United States. In addition, documents prepared by United States Government employees in the course of their official duties are also in the public domain. Copyright interest in documents that do not fall in the above two categories is presumed to remain with the writers of the documents.
Processed by: Dennis Bilger, Raymond H. Geselbracht, Shaire Simon, Mary Jo Minter, and Anita Smith

1911		Born, Brooklyn, New York
1933		A.B., Williams College
1936		LL.B., Harvard Law School
1936-37		Harvard University School of Law Moot Court Assistant
1937-40		Practiced law with Breed, Abbott and Morgan, New York City
1940-46		Attorney in the office of the Assistant Secretary of War, and later the Under Secretary of War, specializing in labor relations, manpower and related matters
1946, June-Dec.		Special Assistant to the Secretary of War
1947, Jan.-Sept.		Executive Secretary, President's Advisory Commission on Universal Training
1947, Sept.- l949, Oct.		Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
1949-50		Deputy Director and Acting Director, Mutual Defense Assistance Program, Department of State
1951		Assistant Director, Office of International Security Affairs, Department of State
1951-52		Special Assistant for Mutual Security Affairs, Department of State
1952-53		Assistant Director for Program, Office of Director, Mutual Security Agency
1953-		Deputy to the Director for Program and Coordination, Mutual Security Agency
1953-55		Deputy Director for Program and Planning, Foreign Operations Administration
1955-59		Deputy Director for Program and Planning, International Cooperation Administration
1959		Consultant, President's Committee to Study the United States Military Assistance Program
1959-68		Official with the International Cooperation Administration and Agency for International Development
ca. l968-75		Independent researcher, prepared a report entitled "A Proposal for an Attack on the Problem of Public Support"
l979-84		Part-time consultant in the historian's office of the Department of Defense
l990, Sept.9		Died, North Adams, Massachusetts

The papers of John H. Ohly document his entire career in government, which began in l940 with his accepting a position in the War Department and included later assignments in the Department of Defense and in several agencies having responsibility for foreign economic and military assistance. The papers also document Ohly's work after l968 as an independent researcher and as an historical consultant to the Department of Defense. The collection throughout reflects the considerable care that Ohly took to accumulate in his files everything that he could that related to his responsibilities. It also reflects the great attention that he gave his papers toward the end of his life. The arrangement scheme described in this finding aid is based on that which Ohly created prior to sending his papers to the Truman Library in l990. The inventory that Ohly prepared for his papers is filed in the first folder of the John H. Ohly Administrative File subseries of the Department of Defense File.

The collection has six series: The Chronological File,Ethe War Department File, the Department of Defense File, the Foreign Aid File, the Ford Foundation Project File, and the Printed Materials File.

The al File documents Ohly's work in the War Department and with government agencies concerned with foreign aid. His work as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal is not covered in this series; the Department of Defense series includes a separate al File subseries. Although the series is composed entirely of carbon copies, many of the documents are not duplicated elsewhere in Ohly's papers.

The War Department File documents primarily Ohly's work from September l940 to June l946 as an attorney in the office of the Assistant Secretary of War, and later the Under Secretary of War, specializing in labor relations and manpower issues, and, during the last ten months of this period, organizing his unit's files and writing histories of its operations, and especially a history of the plant seizure program during World War II. There does not appear to be any material in this series relating to his work from June through December l946 as a special assistant to the Secretary of War--despite Ohly's identification of about twenty files relating to this period in Attachment D to his inventory. There is a small amount of material in the series that documents Ohly's assignment from January to September l947 as executive secretary of the President's Advisory Commission on Universal Training. The series contains information about such subjects as anti-labor attitudes, the condition of work for government employees, the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, labor legislation, the labor supply, plant protection, plant seizure, labor statutes, and the War Department's labor policy. About a third of the material in the series concerns plant protection and plant seizures.

The Department of Defense File is probably the most important series in the collection for the study of the Truman presidency. Ohly was, with his fellow Special Assistants Marx Leva and Wilfred J. McNeil, the core of the small staff allotted to the Secretary of Defense prior to the passage of the l949 amendments to the National Security Act. This series comprises a significant part of the documentation of the formative period of the Department of Defense. It is divided into four subseries: a John H. Ohly Administrative File, a al File, a Subject File, and an Historical File.

The John H. Ohly Administrative File, which combines different types of materials that Ohly accumulated to help him to carry out his responsibilities in the most effective way, includes what he called his "Special Control Files" and described as "unquestionably the most important historical material in my files." Most, though not quite all, of the material in this subseries relates to Ohly's tenure in the National Military Establishment and the Department of Defense. The "Issues Books," which are described below, contain material that documents a much longer period in Ohly's career.

Perhaps what Ohly called his "Basic Index," comprising about 700 pages, is the most remarkable group of documents in this series. Ohly describes the "Basic Index" in this way: "My responsibilities in the [office of Secretary of Defense James V.] Forrestal office were such that virtually all important papers except those pertaining to relations with Congress, the budget, legal matters, and office administration (and often many of these too) flowed across my desk coming in and frequently going out. With the help of two secretaries, I maintained a record, elaborately organized by subject, of their receipt, the nature of the matter, and resulting actions taken, often with references to phone calls related thereto.... This record is [more or less] comprehensive and...might serve as a guide to what went on [during] the first l8 months in the life of the Office of the Secretary of Defense." The documents in the "Basic Index" are arranged alphabetically under subject headings. An unclassified version of the list of subject headings according to which Ohly filed this material is included as Appendix A to this finding aid.

Another important group of documents in this subseries is what Ohly called his "Issues Books," comprising about 800 pages. He describes the files as follows: "In most jobs that I have held, I recurrently made lists of issues, questions, and tasks that needed to be addressed or performed--sometimes in terms of my own duties or desires, sometimes in terms of matters that needed to be addressed by some other agency or individual...and sometimes to serve as the agenda for a meeting. Often memos or other material prepared by someone else were incorporated with my own. These lists tell a relatively al story of what I was engaged in doing during the period of my working life and...of the life of the organization of which I was a member." Ohly apparently carried these issues books with him throughout most of his career, with the result that they cover a long period of time, beginning in l939 when he was a lawyer in New York, and extending to his retirement from government service in l968. One of the issues books includes information about the main responsibilities that Ohly had when he served as special assistant to the Secretary of War from June to December, l946, a position and period that are otherwise poorly documented in the collection.

The John H. Ohly Administrative File contains three other types of material. The "JHO People Book No. 5," also called "The Forrestal Notebook," lists and gives information about and assessments of the qualifications of people whom Secretary of Defense Forrestal was considering recruiting into important defense and foreign policy related positions. According to Ohly, Forrestal kept this "People Book" on his desk and used it extensively. "It was my job," Ohly says, "to keep custody of it and to maintain it, as well as to follow through on the addition of names to it and, in some cases, making contact with people on the list to determine whether they might be interested in an assignment, to arrange for interviews with Forrestal or phone calls from him, and to familiarize them with positions for which they might be sought or to orient them for ones they had accepted." Of the remaining "People Books," No. 3 is in the Subject File subseries of the Foreign Aid File, but Nos. l, 2 and 4 cannot be accounted for. Ohly's description of the five "People Books" is included as Appendix B to this finding aid.

The remaining two types of material in the John H. Ohly Administrative File are appointment books listing and briefly indicating the purport of Ohly's meetings and telephone calls from October l947 through November l949; and a "workbook" which contains memoranda and notes filed under approximately twenty subject headings, from "airplanes" to "war reserve."

The second subseries in the Department of Defense File is the Chronological File, which contains carbon copies of correspondence and memoranda prepared in Ohly's office. This material includes internal Defense Department memoranda, among them detailed "Memoranda for the Files" that Ohly frequently prepared to record the content of meetings and telephone and other conversations. The range of topics documented in this subseries seems to encompass most of the issues that came before the Defense Department during Ohly's tenure there.

The third subseries is the Subject File. Much of the material in this subseries is filed under the names of agencies and organizations within or with a close working relationship with the Department of Defense. The subseries includes files, for example, on the Central Intelligence Agency, the Committee of the Four Secretaries, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Munitions Board, the National Security Council, the National Security Resources Board, the Research and Development Board, and the War Council. Files named for topics include those for civil defense, internal security, unconventional warfare, the unification of the Armed Forces, and universal military training. Additional information has been added to the folder titles, in brackets, by the archives staff in several instances. The subseries includes a small amount of material carried forward by Ohly into his Department of Defense files from his War Department files. Most of it is dated l946, but a few items date from l939 and l940. This material is in the folders entitled "Military Justice," "Organizations," and "Release of Information." The "Organizations" folder--and another folder, entitled "Budget Activities"--contains comments by Ohly on Steven Rearden's History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, The Formative Years, l947-50 (Washington, D.C., l984). The last subseries is the Historical File, which documents Ohly's participation in a conference about the United States military establishment, held at the George C. Marshall Research Foundation in l977, and includes some of Ohly's lengthy comments in review of the two volumes of the History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Steven L. Rearden's The Formative Years, l947-l950 (Washington, D.C., l984), and Doris M. Condit's The Test of War, l950-53 (Washington, D.C., l988). All of Ohly's comments on Condit's book appear to be present in this series; most of his comments on Rearden's book, as mentioned above, are in the Subject File subseries--in the folders entitled "Budget Activities" and "Organizations." Ohly's review of Rearden's and Condit's books was undertaken as part of his responsibilities as part-time consultant in the historian's office of the Department of Defense from l979 to l984.

The large Foreign Aid File documents Ohly's long tenure, from l949 to l968, with government agencies responsible for developing and administering the United States' foreign aid program. During the Truman administration Ohly served, beginning in November l949 and for various periods and sometimes with overlapping tenures, as Deputy Director and Acting Director of the State Department's Mutual Defense Assistance Program, as Assistant Director of the State Department's Office of International Security Affairs, as Special Assistant of the State Department's Office of Mutual Security Affairs, and as Assistant Director of Programs in the office of the Director of the Mutual Security Agency. In an oral history interview conducted in l97l, Ohly said that during this period of his service, he "worked very closely with the White House and Budget Bureau personnel in the drafting of Presidential messages relating to foreign aid, in the preparation of executive orders, in obtaining Presidential findings required under foreign aid laws, and in presenting, and obtaining final decisions on, foreign aid budgets and legislation.... While I never worked directly with the President himself, I did work extensively with Sidney Souers, Clark Clifford, Dave Bell, other members of the White House staff, and the Director of the Budget Bureau...."

The Foreign Aid File is divided into three subseries: a Subject File, a Program Planning and Development File, and a Congressional File. The Subject File, by far the largest subseries, comprises what Ohly called his "functional files," organized "for day-to-day use by Ohly during the years l949 to l967." This subseries includes studies of and reports on the foreign aid program, the administration of the Agency for International Development, and Congressional perceptions of the foreign aid programs; background information on the sources and recipients of foreign aid and on the military and non-military forms that foreign aid can take; documentation of the foreign aid programs in individual countries and regions of the world; a selection of speeches by Ohly and by several Presidents on the foreign aid program; and information about the foreign aid program's complicated organizational structure and the problem of selecting and training qualified personnel to administer the aid program. The Subject File also includes a large amount of material, about l0,000 pages in volume, relating to Ohly's work as Acting Director of the Technical Assistance Study Group, a temporary group that was established in the fall of l959 within the International Cooperation Administration as a result of a decision made by the Director of the ICA and the Under Secretary of State that the government should undertake a major study of the subject of technical assistance. A permanent director for the group was never found and its study was never completed. It was disbanded in the summer of l963. Ohly's files relating to the Technical Assistance Study Group include information on the initiation and progress of the group's study of the government's technical assistance programs, its methods of work and interviewing procedures, and the organization of its research material. These files also include the group's "digests" of information relating to technical assistance programs and transcripts of their interviews with the participants in these programs. The second subseries in the Foreign Aid File is the Program Planning and Development File, which Ohly described as follows: "These files contain...papers having to do with the initial development and the processing through the Executive Branch (including in particular the Bureau of the Budget) of annual requests to Congress for authorizing and appropriations legislation relating to foreign aid and the adaptation and adjustments made in the initial submissions in the light of the actions taken by Congress on the initial Executive Branch request." The subseries has files on the Mutual Defense Assistance Program for fiscal yearsl950 through l96l. The third subseries in the Foreign Aid File is the Congressional File, which Ohly described in this way: "These files have to do with two major matters, (l) the annual Congressional authorization and appropriations processes of the foreign aid programs presented by the executive branch for fiscal [years] l95l through l959, and (2) the general problem of how to obtain adequate Congressional support for the foreign aid program in Congress...." This subseries includes Ohly's study of the problem of achieving Congressional support for the President's foreign aid program, undertaken in the mid l960s at the request of the director of the Agency for International Development.

The next series, the Ford Foundation Project File, contains a copy of a report that Ohly prepared over a period of about six years after his active government employment had ended. He undertook work on this report, which he regarded as a continuation of his investigation for the Agency for International Development of the problem of how to sustain a high level of Congressional support for a foreign aid program, independently. His focus in this study was on the abstract issue of how a society could create and sustain a level of public support for any important public policy issue sufficient to allow it effectively to deal with that issue. Ohly seems to have believed that several gravely serious problems would have to be confronted in the next fifty years. He felt that the work of public education had to be undertaken by some institution outside of government. When he completed the report in l975, he took it to the Ford Foundation, whose leadership he admired and whose endowment he felt was large enough to enable it to undertake the kind of educational effort he envisioned. To the best of Ohly's knowledge at the time he died in l990, his report had not had any significant influence or produced action of any consequence. The series contains a complete copy of the report and a partial draft.

The collection's last series is the Printed Materials File, which contains books, articles, reports and other printed materials from Ohly's personal library that are annotated by him. Most items are only very slightly annotated; heavily annotated items are identified as such on the folder title list. Printed materials from his personal library that do not contain any annotations were transferred to the Library's printed materials collection. The printed materials are divided into five subseries, as follows: Atomic Energy, Universal Military Training, Unification of the Armed Forces, Military Assistance, and Economic Assistance.

The Philleo Nash Papers and the David H. Stowe Papers contain information relating to labor relations issues in the War Department during the time Ohly served there. Material relating to the Defense Department during Ohly's tenure is in the President's Secretary's Files, the Confidential File, the Official File (OF l285), the Ralph N. Stohl Papers, the Clark M. Clifford Papers, and the George M. Elsey Papers. Material relating to the United States' foreign aid programs is included in the records of the President's Committee on Foreign Aid, the Benjamin H. Hardy Papers, the George M. Elsey Papers, the Henry G. Bennett Papers, the Stanley Andrews Papers, and the Milton Katz Papers. The Oral History Collection includes an interview conducted with Ohly on November 30, l971.

Container Nos.		Series
1-6		CHRONOLOGICAL FILE, l943-46, l949-58, l963, l968
		Carbon copies of correspondence and memoranda together with a small number of mimeographed copies and original documents relating to Ohly's work in the War Department and with agencies responsible for foreign aid programs. The files from l943 to l946 include memoranda for the record that Ohly prepared to record the content of meetings and conversations and to describe the subsequent actions taken. This series does not document Ohly's work in the Department of Defense from l947 to l949. A separate Chronological File subseries in the Department of Defense File documents this period. Arranged in chronological order.
7-61		WAR DEPARTMENT FILE, l9l7(l940)-(l946)l952
		Correspondence, memoranda, reports, legal documents, press releases and newspaper clippings relating primarily to Ohly's work as an attorney in the office of the Assistant Secretary of War, and later the Under Secretary of War, specializing in labor relations, manpower and related issues. About a third of the material in the series concerns plant protection and plant seizure. A small amount of material relates to Ohly's assignment as executive secretary of the President's Advisory Commission on Universal Training. Arranged alphabetically by subject.
62-85		DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FILE, l939(l947)-(l949)ca. l984
		consisting of four subseries as follows:
62-68		JOHN H. OHLY ADMINISTRATIVE FILE, l939 (l947)-(l949)l968: Correspondence, memoranda, personnel lists, appointment books, handwritten notes, and printed material constituting what Ohly called his "Special Control Files" and documenting primarily his work as Special Assistant to Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal. Ohly considered the remarkable compilations of inform ation that he called his "Basic Index" and "Issues Books" to be the most important historical material in his collection. An unclassified version of the list of subject headings according to which Ohly filed the material in the Basic Index included as Appendix A to this finding aid. The issues books document Ohly's career from l939, when he was a lawyer working in New York, until l968, when he retired from active federal service. Ohly's inventory to his files has been placed at the beginning of this subseries. Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
69-75		CHRONOLOGICAL FILE, 1947-49: Carbon copies of correspondence and memoranda prepared in Ohly's office and apparently relating to All of the duties of the Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense. The subseries includes "Memoranda for the Files" that Ohly prepared to record the content of meetings and telephone and other conversations. Filed chronologically.
76-84		SUBJECT FILE, l939(l947)-(l949)ca. l984: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, agenda, agency directives, minutes of meetings, handwritten notes, organizational charts, speeches, Congressional publications and newspaper clippings relating to Ohly's Defense Department responsibilities. Arranged alphabetically by subject. Information about the contents of many of the folders has been added, in brackets, to the folder-title listings.
85		HISTORICAL FILE, l947-ca. l984: Correspondence, notes, a draft of a professional paper and a newspaper clipping relating to Ohly's participation in a conference about the United States military establishment, held at the George C. Marshall Research Foundation in l977; and chapter drafts of Steven L. Rearden's and Doris M. Condit's volumes in the History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, together with Ohly's lengthy commentary on portions of Condit's book, and a small part of his commentary on portion's of Rearden's book. The rest of his commentary on Rearden's book is in the Subject File subseries of the Department of Defense File, in the folders entitled "Budget Activities" and "Organizations." Arranged in chronological order.
85-162		FOREIGN AID FILE, l940(l950)-(l968)l979
		The series consists of three subseries
86-140		SUBJECT FILE, l940(l950)-(l968)l979: Memoranda, correspondence, handwritten notes, reports, studies, article reprints and other printed material relating to the United States foreign aid program, to Congressional perceptions of the foreign aid program, to forms that foreign aid can take, to specific foreign aid recipients, and about the staffing and administration of the foreign aid program. The subseries includes a large amount of material, filed together within the alphabetical sequence, relating to the Technical Assistance Study Group. Arranged alphabetically.
141-148		PROGRAM PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT FILE, 1941(1950)-1962: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, including reports to Congress, drafts of legislation, notes, legislation, agenda and minutes of meetings, and newspaper clippings relating to the development and processing within the executive branch of submissions to Congress of foreign aid budget requests. Most of the material in the subseries is arranged chronologically under the headings Mutual Defense Advisory Committee and Mutual Defense Assistance Program.
148-162		CONGRESSIONAL FILE, 1950-68: Congressional File, l950-68: Correspondence, memoranda, Congressional documents, reports, press releases, outlines, charts and graphs, and copies of the Congressional Record relating to Congressional authorization of an appropriations for the foreign aid program, and to the issue of how to obtain Congressional support for the foreign aid program. The material relating to Congressional authorization and appropriations is filed first, by fiscal year, and that relating to the problem of Congressional support for foreign aid afterward, arranged alphabetically. Included with this latter grouping of material is the study Ohly did of Congressional support for foreign aid in the mid l960s.
163-166		FORD FOUNDATION PROJECT FILE, 1975
		A copy of the report that Ohly prepared from about l968 to l975 whose purpose was to investigate the problem of how to create a level of public support sufficient to permit society to deal effectively with the major problems that would arise in the next fifty years. Ohly presented the report to the Ford Foundation in March l975. The series includes a complete copy of the report with its appendices, together with a partial draft.
166-192		PRINTED MATERIALS FILE, 1945-70
		Congressional reports and documents, reports by government agencies and presidential commissions, reports of private organizations and other printed materials that have been annotated, sometimes only slightly, by Ohly. Heavily annotated items are identified as such on the folder title list. The series consists of five subseries as follows:
166		ATOMIC ENERGY FILE, l946-47
166-167		UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING FILE, l945-47
167-169		UNIFICATION OF THE ARMED FORCES FILE, l945-49
169-182		MILITARY ASSISTANCE FILE, l949-62
183-192		ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE FILE, l948-70

Box 1

CHRONOLOGICAL FILE, l943-45, l949-58, l963 and l968

• September 30-November 26, l943
• December l, l943-February 24, l944
• March 4-June 28, l944
• July l-September 28, l944
• October 2-December 29, l944

• January 2-July l4, l945
• June-December l946
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  [4 of 4]
• November 21-December 30, l949
• January 2-March 3l, l950
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  [3 of 3]

• April 3-June 30, l950
• July 3-December 26, l950
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• January 3-June ll, l95l
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• July 2-December 29, l95l
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• January-June l952
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  [2 of 2]

• July-December l952
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• January 5-June 30, l953
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• July 24-December 30, l953
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• January-June 29, l954
• July 9-December 28, l954

• January 3-June 24, l955
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  [2 of 2]
• July l4-December 30, l955
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• January 4-June 28, l956
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• July 5-December 28, l956
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• January 7-June 24, l957

• July l2-December 30, l957
• January 2-June l0, l958
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• September 24, l959-August l9, l963
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  [3 of 3]
• December 6, l963-September l8, l968

WAR DEPARTMENT FILE, l9l7(l940)-(l946)l952

• Absenteeism
• Aliens-Employment
• Analysis of Strikes, l939-44
• Annual Report of the Industrial Personnel Division for FY l943
• Anti-Labor Attitude in the Army
• Army Bands, Participants Off Military Reservations
• Army-Navy Munitions Board [amendment to the directive establishing the Munitions Board, l950]
• Austin-Wadsworth Bill [requiring non-combatants to render service that would aid the war effort]
• Award of Contracts--Policy and General Construction

• Committee to Deal with Management's Right to Manage
  [1 of 2]
  [2 of 2]
• Construction--Building Trades Stabilization Agreement of July l94l
• Construction--Labor
• Construction--"Notes on Hours of Labor for the "QM" [quartermaster] Crisis"
• Construction Outside of the United States
• Construction--Policies and Problems
  [l of 4]
  [2 of 4]
  [3 of 4]
  [4 of 4]
• Construction--Prohibited Items

• Contract Clauses--General
• Contract Clauses--Labor Construction
• Contracts--Lump Sum Master File
• Contract Clauses--Labor--EPF [emergency plant facility] Contract
• Contract Clauses--Labor Supply Contracts--Lump Sum Master File
• Contract Terminations
• Court Martial of Civilians
• Defense Housing--Rent Control--General
• Department of Justice--Report on World War I--Labor Strike
  [l of 4]
  [2 of 4]
  [3 of 4]

[4 of 4]
• Foreign Employment Contracts--General
• Government Employees--Civil Service Act--Rules, Statutes, Executive Orders and Regulations
  [l of 4]
  [2 of 4]
  [3 of 4]
  [4 of 4]
• Government Employees--Conditions of Work--Annual Leave--General
• Government Employees--Conditions of Work--Field Employees--Quartermaster Construction
• Government Employees--Conditions of Work--Hours and Overtime--Eight Hour Law

• Government Employees--Conditions of Work--Hours and Overtime Pay--General
• Government Employees--Conditions of Work--Hours and Overtime--Saturday--Half-Holiday Law
• Government Employees--Discharge
• Government Employees--Labor Relations Policy
• Government Employees--Miscellaneous
• Government Employees--Prohibitions and Limitations on Government Employees--Protection Against Subversive Elements
• Government Employees--Recruitment and Placement
• Government Employees--Unions
• GOPOP [government-owned privately operated plants]--Background and Development of Labor Policy
  [l of 2]
  [2 of 2]

• GOPOP--Interpretation and Application of Labor Policy
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  [2 of 2]
• Hawaii--Labor
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  [2 of 2]
• Hawaii--Martial Law--Internment of Civilians [Japanese-Americans]
• Headquarters--Army Service Forces--Memoranda and Amendments ReRelease of Men from the Army for the Years l94l, l942 and l943
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[4 of 7]
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[7 of 7]
• Implications of the New Agreement
• Index to Outline [annotated drafts of an index to labor files in a War Department manual]
• Industrial Disputes--Arbitration
• Industrial Disputes--General Discussions
• Industrial Disputes--Grievance Procedure
• Industrial Disputes--Plans to Prevent--Proposed Legislation and Congressional Hearings
• Industrial Disputes--Plans to Prevent--Use of Troops
• Industrial Disputes--Special Techniques

• Industrial Disputes--World War I Experience
• Job Controls--Newspaper Clippings, January-June l943
• Labor Branch--IPD [Industrial Personnel Division] Staff Meetings, Annual Reports and Conferences
• Labor Branch--IPD--Weekly Reports
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[8 of l0]
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• Labor Branch--Organization
• Labor Cutbacks
• Labor--Demobilization Problems
• Labor Discrimination (Problems of a Racial Character)
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  [2 of 4]
  [3 of 4]

[4 of 4]
• Labor Disputes--Legislative
• Labor Factor in Award of Contracts--Particular Contracts
• Labor Health--General Labor Laws
• Labor Laws and War Production
• Labor Legislation
• Labor Legislation--Dead Bills (House of Representatives)
• Labor Legislation--Dead Bills (Senate)
• Labor Legislation--40 Hour Week (Fair Labor Standards)
• Labor Legislation--Methods of Commenting on Proposed Bills

• Labor Legislation--Proficiency
• Labor Legislation--Resolutions
• Labor Legislation--77th Congress
• Labor Legislation--78th Congress--Proposed Legislation
• Labor Legislation--78th and 79th Congresses--Proposed Legislation
• Labor Legislation--West Coast Aircraft--File #l
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  [2 of 3]
  [3 of 3]
• Labor Legislation--West Coast Aircraft--File #2
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  [2 of 2]

• Labor--Miscellaneous
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  [2 of 3]
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• Labor Morale
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  [2 of 2]
• Labor--Overseas
• Labor Policies--General
• Labor Policies--Specific

• Labor Policies--War Labor Disputes Act
• Labor Policy Committee
• Labor Security--Unions
• Labor Seniority
• Labor Standards--General
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• Labor Supply--General
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[4 of 9]
[5 of 9]
[6 of 9]
[7 of 9]
[8 of 9]
[9 of 9]
• Labor Supply--Miscellaneous
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  [2 of 2]
• Labor Supply--Miscellaneous Problems

• Labor Supply--Prisoners of War--Employment (Interned Aliens)
• Labor Supply--Production Urgency and Manpower Priority Committees
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  [3 of 3]
• Labor Supply--Release and/or Furlough of Enlisted Men
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  [5 of 5]

• Labor Supply--Reports and Maps
• Labor Supply--Special Projects
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• Labor Utilization--General
• Labor--World War I
• Legislation--Proposed Bills
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[2 of 3]
[3 of 3]
• List of Critical Occupations
• Longshore Work on Eastern and Gulf Coasts
• Longshoremen's Union--AFL-CIO
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  [2 of 2]
• Major Webber's Report on Labor [relating to the reasons for exempting certain categories of workers from the draft
  [l of 7]
  [2 of 7]
  [3 of 7]
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[6 of 7]
[7 of 7]
• Manpower--British
• Manpower--General
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[8 of l0]
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[l0 of l0]
• Manpower--Newspaper Clippings
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  [2 of 2]
• Manpower Reports [drafts]
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[2 of 2]
• Manpower Requirements
• Maritime Labor Problems (Includes ATS) [Army Transport Service]
• MCB [Military Claims Board]--Duplicates [inventory of government-owned plant equipment]
• Ministry of Supply (British)
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  [2 of 2]
• Miscellaneous Materials [labor issues, contracts, plant shut-downs, use of military personnel forcivilian purposes, Army Service Forces circulars relating to labor issues, wage demands, requirements of Executive orders relating to labor issues and contracts, the organization of the War Department for handling labor issues, the Walsh-Healey Act, manpower shortages in specific industries and companies, War Production Board policies, speeches and statements of War Department officials regarding labor issues, tax regulations relating to wartime facilities, civil service regulations, War Department labor directives, etc.]
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[2 of 9]
[3 of 9]
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[8 of 9]

[9 of 9]
• Mobilization
• Movement--National Service Legislation (Chronology)
• National Service Legislation [proposed legislation to promote efficient organization and utilization of manpower needed in total war]
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  [2 of 4]
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  [4 of 4]

• Negro Personnel
• Occupied Territories and Other Foreign Areas
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  [2 of 3]
  [3 of 3]
• Organization for Mobilization [reports, Executive orders and other types of documents relating to the government's capacity for mobilization]
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  [2 of 5]
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  [5 of 5]

• Overtime Pay
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  [2 of 3]
  [3 of 3]
• Panama Canal Zone--Conditions of Employment
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  [2 of 2]
• Placement of Contracts with Regard to Labor Supply
• Plant Protection--Admission to Plants
• Plant Protection--Aliens

• Plant Protection--Aliens' Admission to the United States
• Plant Protection--Army Improved Rules--Miscellaneous
• Plant Protection--British System
• Plant Protection--Civilian Protective Organization
• Plant Protection--Communists
• Plant Protection--Defense Commands
• Plant Protection--Dual Nationality
• Plant Protection--Employment of Ex-Convicts
• Plant Protection--Fingerprinting
• Plant Protection--General
  [l of 3]
  [2 of 3]
  [3 of 3]
• Plant Protection--Identification Badges
• Plant Protection--Labor Branch--IPD [Industrial Personnal Division]--Reports to CGASF [Commanding General, Army Service Forces. Most of the material concerns the Conference on Manpower Situation--Ground Forces, January 3, l945]
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[3 of 6]
[4 of 6]
[5 of 6]
[6 of 6]
• Plant Protection--Labor Subversives
• Plant Protection--Legislation and Proposed Legislation
• Plant Protection--Navy
• Plant Protection--Personnel Security Questionnaires
• Plant Protection--Plant Guards--Military and Semi-Military Protection
  [l of 2]
  [2 of 2]
• Plant Protection--Plant Guards--The Private Guard Problem
• Plant Protection--Plant Guards--Specific Cases
• Plant Protection--Removal of Subversives--A
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[2 of 6]
[3 of 6]
[4 of 6]
[5 of 6]
[6 of 6]
• Plant Protection--Removal of Subversives--B
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  [2 of 3]
  [3 of 3]
• Plant Protection--Removal of Subversives--C
• Plant Protection--Removal of Subversives--Transportation

• Plant Protection--Safeguarding Information--General
• Plant Protection--Safeguarding Information--Office of Censorship
• Plant Protection--Safeguarding Information--Office of War Information and Committee on War Information
• Plant Protection- Safeguarding Information--Release of Information--Bills
  [1 of 2]
  [2 of 2]
• Plant Protection--Safeguarding Information--Release of Information--Employment Service
• Plant Protection--Safeguarding Information--War Department
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  [2 of 2]
• Plant Protection--Security Clearances
• Plant Protection--Subversive Activities
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  [2 of 2]
• Plant Protection--Subversives in the Army
• Plant Seizure

• Plant Seizure--American Enka Corporation
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  [2 of 3]
  [3 of 3]
• Plant Seizure--American Railroads
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  [2 of 2]
• Plant Seizure--Bituminous Coal, l943-45
• Plant Seizure--Bituminous Coal--Plan for Possessing and Operating Coal Mines Owned and Operated by Steel Companies or Subsidiaries
  [l of 2]
  [2 of 2]

• Plant Seizure--Cleveland Graphite Bronze Company
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  [2 of 2]
• Plant Seizure--Cocker Machine and Foundry Company
• Plant Seizure--Cudahy Brothers Company
• Plant Seizure--Diamond Alkali Company
• Plant Seizure--Executive Orders
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  [2 of 3]
  [3 of 3]
• Plant Seizure--Fall River Textile Mills
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  [2 of 2]
• Plant Seizure--Farrell-Cheek Steel Corporation
• Plant Seizure--Gaffney Manufacturing Company

• Plant Seizure--General
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  [2 of 2]
• Plant Seizure--Hughes Tool Company
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  [2 of 6]
  [3 of 6]
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  [5 of 6]
  [6 of 6]
• Plant Seizure--Hummer Manufacturing Division (Montgomery Ward and Company)
• Plant Seizure--Hummer Manufacturing Division of Montgomery Ward and Company--Final Report (Army Operation)
• Plant Seizure--Hummer Manufacturing Division of Montgomery Ward and Company--Interim Report (Army Operation)
• Plant Seizure--Hummer Manufacturing Division of Montgomery Ward and Company--Supplemental Report (Army Operation)

• Plant Seizure--International Nickel Company
• Plant Seizure--Ken-Rad Tube and Lamp Corporation
• Plant Seizure--Legal Basis
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  [2 of 2]
• Plant Seizure--Legislation, 78th Congress--Smith-Connally Bill (S.796)
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  [2 of 4]
  [3 of 4]
  [4 of 4]
• Plant Seizure--Los Angeles Water and Power
• Plant Seizure--Manual on Operation
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[2 of 4]
[3 of 4]
[4 of 4]
• Plant Seizure--Mary-Leila Cotton Mills, Inc.
• Plant Seizure--Memorandum and Supporting Documents Re Smith and Wesson Case--World War I
• Plant Seizure--Montgomery Ward and Company
• Plant Seizure--Montgomery Ward and Company--Legal Case Files
• Plant Seizure--Montgomery Ward and Company--Newspaper Clippings
  [l of 2]
  [2 of 2]
• Plant Seizure--Montgomery Ward and Company--Plan for the Seizure and Operation by the War Department of Montgomery Ward and Company

• Plant Seizure--Montgomery Ward and Company--Report on the Fiscal Aspects of the War Department Operation, January 2-October l8, l945
• Plant Seizure--Montgomery Ward and Company--Terms and Conditions of Employment for Employees of Montgomery Ward and Company
• Plant Seizure--Montgomery Ward and Company--War Department Seizure of
  [l of 6]
  [2 of 6]
  [3 of 6]
  [4 of 6]
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  [6 of 6]
• Plant Seizure--North American Aviation Company
  [l of 2]
  [2 of 2]

• Plant Seizure--Organization
• Plant Seizure--Philadelphia Transportation Company
• Plant Seizure--Reports File--American Enka Corporation
• Plant Seizure--Reports File--Bingham and Garfield Railway Company
• Plant Seizure--Reports File--Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company
• Plant Seizure--Reports File--Cocker Machine and Foundry Company
  [l of 2]
  [2 of 2]
• Plant Seizure--Reports File--Cudahy Brothers Company
• Plant Seizure--Reports File--Diamond Alkali Company
• Plant Seizure--Reports File--Farrell-Cheek Steel Corporation

• Plant Seizure--Reports File--Gaffney Manufacturing Company
  [l of 3]
  [2 of 3]
  [3 of 3]
• Plant Seizure--Reports File--Hughes Tool Company
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  [2 of 2]
• Plant Seizure--Reports File--Mary-Leila Cotton Mills, Inc.

• Plant Seizure--Reports File--Montgomery Ward and Company--Interim Report
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  [2 of 6]
  [3 of 6]
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• Plant Seizure--Reports File--Montgomery Ward and Company--Second Interim Report
• Plant Seizure--Reports File--Montgomery Ward and Company--Final Report

• Plant Seizure--Reports File--Springfield Plywood Corporation
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  [2 of 2]
• Plant Seizure--Reports File--Toledo, Ohio--Eight Plants in
• Plant Seizure--Reports File--20th Century Brass Works
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  [2 of 2]

• Plant Seizure--Reports File--United States Rubber Company, Detroit Facilities
• Plant Seizure--Reports File--Western Electric Company, Inc.--Point Breeze Plant of
• Plant Seizure--Salem-Peabody Tanneries
• Plant Seizure--S.A. Woods Machine Company
• Plant Seizure--Seizure of Other Agencies
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  [2 of 3]
  [3 of 3]

• Plant Seizure--Steel Seizure--l952
• Plant Seizure--Termination of Seizures
• Plant Seizure--Threatened
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  [2 of 4]
  [3 of 4]
  [4 of 4]
• Plant Seizure--Toledo--Eight Plants in
• Plant Seizure--War Department Assistance in Seizure of Other Agencies

• Plant Seizure--War Department History of Seizure of Industrial Facilities, l94l-45, Vol. I
  [l of 6]
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  [3 of 6]
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• Plant Seizure--War Department History of Seizure of Industrial Facilities, l94l-45, Vol. II
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[l2 of l5]
[13 of 15]
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[15 of 15]
• Plant Seizure--Western Electric Company
• Plant Seizure--Western Electric Company--Policy-Planning
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  [2 of 4]
  [3 of 4]
  [4 of 4]
• Policy on Pricing

• President's Committee on Fair Employment Practices--Correspondence, l942-43
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  [2 of 3]
  [3 of 3]
• President's National Labor-Management Conference (l945)--Vol. I
• President's National Labor-Management Conference (l945)--Vol. III
  [1 of 2]
  [2 of 2]
• Procedure in Development and Execution of Army Supply Program

• Procurement--General [relates primarily to military procurement practices in l940 and l942]
  [l of 3]
  [2 of 3]
  [3 of 3]
• Procurement--Power to Negotiate Procurement Without Advertising Directives, Etc.
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  [2 of 2]
• Railroads Relations Between the Secretary of War's Office and the Labor Movement

• Selective Service--File #l
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  [2 of 4]
  [3 of 4]
  [4 of 4]
• Selective Service--File #2
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  [2 of 2]
• Selective Service--Deferments
  [l of 4]
  [2 of 4]
  [3 of 4]
  [4 of 4]

• Services of Supply
• Statutes--Fair Labor Standards Act--Wage-Hour Law
• Statutes--General
• Statutes--Labor--Davis-Bacon Law
• Statutes--Labor--8 Hour Law
• Statutes--Labor--Kickback Provisions
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  [2 of 2]
• Statutes--Labor-Walsh-Healey Act
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  [2 of 3]
  [3 of 3]

• Statutes--NLRB [National Labor Relations Board]
• Statutes--Miscellaneous
• Strikes [effects on the war effort]
  [l of 3]
  [2 of 3]
  [3 of 3]
• Strikes--General
• Strikes--Statistics--General
  [l of 2]
  [2 of 2]

• Unionization of Protective Workers
  [l of 3]
  [2 of 3]
  [3 of 3]
• Unions [information on atomic energy projects, l943-46]
  [l of 2]
  [2 of 2]
• Unions--URW [United Rubber Workers]--CIO
• Universal Military Training--PACUT [President's Advisory Committee on Universal Training]
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  [2 of 6]
  [3 of 6]
  [4 of 6]

[5 of 6]
[6 of 6]
• Universal Military Training--PACUT--Master Book of the Executive Secretary
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  [2 of 4]
  [3 of 4]
  [4 of 4]
• Wage Control--Modification of Controls to Provide for Increased Wages
• Wage Control--Problem of Reimbursement and Cost

• Wages--Dismissal Wages, Incentive Plans and Attendance Bonuses
• Wages--General
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  [2 of 5]
  [3 of 5]
  [4 of 5]
  [5 of 5]
• Walsh-Healey Act--Railroads
• War Department Functions
• War Department--Labor Branch--IPD [Industrial Personnel Division]--Organization--File #l

• War Department--Labor Branch--IPD--Organization--File #2
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  [3 of 4]
  [4 of 4]
• War Department--Industrial Services Division (Organization and Functions)
• War Department--Labor Operations Manual
  [l of 2]
  [2 of 2]

• "War Department Labor Organization for the Handling of Labor Problems in World War II," Part One of Monograph by Lt. Col. H.M. Souers and J.H. Ohly (Part l Prepared by Ohly)
• War Department Labor Organization--History
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  [2 of 2]
• War Department Labor Organization--Labor Branch--OUSW [Office of the Under Secretary of War]
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  [2 of 2]
• War Department Labor Organization--Relations to Other Government Agencies
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• War Department Labor Organization--SAS [Supply Arms and Services]

• War Department Labor Policy
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  [5 of 5]
• War Department--Notes by John H. Ohly [handwritten notes, December l943-March l945]
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  [2 of 2]

• WMC [War Mobilization Committee]--West Coast Plan
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  [2 of 2]
• Workmen's Compensation--General

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FILE: John H. Ohly Administrative File, l939 (l947)-(l949)l968

• John H. Ohly--Government Career Files [Ohly's description of and arrangement scheme for his papers]
• Ohly's Basic Index--Vol. I (A-F) [see Appendix A]
  [l of 3]
  [2 of 3]
  [3 of 3]
• Ohly's Basic Index--Vol. II (G-O) [see Appendix A]
  [l of 2]
  [2 of 2]

• Ohly's Basic Index--Vol. III (P-R) [see Appendix A]
  [l of 2]
  [2 of 2]
• Ohly's Basic Index--Vol. IV (S-Z) [see Appendix A]

• National Diary, The Year l947 [appointment book]
• National Diary, The Year l948 [appointment book]
• National Diary, The Year l949 [appointment book]

• The Department of Defense--Issues Book, September l7, l947 to October l949
  [l of 6, "Current Matters"]
  [2 of 6, "Current Matters," cont.]
  [3 of 6, definition of function and outstanding matters--Departments of Army, Navy, and Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of Defense]
  [4 of 6, definition of function and outstanding matters--Leva, McNeil, Blum, Whelan, Hinton, The War Council, the Committee of the Four Secretaries, and other]

[5 of 6, definition of function and other information--Administrative Assistant to the Secretary, Public Information Officer, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Munitions Board]
[6 of 6, definition of function and other information--National Security Resources Board, Resesarch and DevelopmentBoard, Military Liaison Committee, Office of Civil Defense Planning, National Security Council, Central Intelligence Agency]
• Issues Book #l
  [l of 5, relating to Ohly's work with Breed, Abbott and Morgan, 1939-40]
  [2 of 5, relating to Ohly's work as Special Assistant to the Secretary of War, l946]
  [3 of 5, relating to Ohly's work as Special Assistant to theSecretary of War, l946, and as an official with the State Department's Mutual Defense Assistance Program, l950-5l]
  [4 of 5, relating to Ohly's work as an official with the State Department's Mutual Defense Assistance Program, l950-5l]

[5 of 5, relating to Ohly's work as an official with the State Department's Mutual Defense Assistance Program, 1950-5l]
• Issues Book #2
  [l of 4, l952]
  [2 of 4, l952-55]
  [3 of 4, l955-57]
  [4 of 4, l958, l964-68]

• Ohly's Workbook
  [l of 3, airplanes, air power, Antarctic, atomic energy, Crimean War]
  [2 of 3, Executive order 9950, Eisenhower's report to the Secretary of Defense, flight pay, ground forces, Inter-American Defense Council, Kurile and Sakhalin Islands, military legal research and planning, oil]
  [3 of 3, oil, Panamal Canal, pay, electric power, War reserves, organization of the Departments of Army and Navy]
• People Book #5, Prospective Personnel for Various Positions (The Forrestal Book)
  [l of 3]
  [2 of 3]
  [3 of 3]

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FILE: Chronological File, l947-49

• Office of the Secretary of Defense--October l947
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  [2 of 2]
• Office of the Secretary of Defense--November l947
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  [2 of 2]
• Office of the Secretary of Defense--December l947
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  [2 of 3]
  [3 of 3]
• Office of the Secretary of Defense--January l948
  [l of 3]

[2 of 3]
[3 of 3]
• Office of the Secretary of Defense--February l948
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  [2 of 2]
• Office of the Secretary of Defense--March l948
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  [2 of 3]
  [3 of 3]
• Office of the Secretary of Defense--April l948
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  [2 of 4]

[3 of 4]
[4 of 4]
• Office of the Secretary of Defense--May l948
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  [2 of 2]
• Office of the Secretary of Defense--June l948
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  [2 of 2]

• Office of the Secretary of Defense--July l948
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  [2 of 2]
• Office of the Secretary of Defense--August l948
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  [2 of 2]
• Office of the Secretary of Defense--September l948
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  [2 of 3]
  [3 of 3]

• Office of the Secretary of Defense--October l948
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  [2 of 2]
• Office of the Secretary of Defense--November l948
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  [2 of 2]
• Office of the Secretary of Defense--December l948
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  [2 of 2]

• Office of the Secretary of Defense--January l949
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• Office of the Secretary of Defense--February l949
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• Office of the Secretary of Defense--March l949
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  [2 of 2]

• Office of the Secretary of Defense--April l949
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• Office of the Secretary of Defense--May l949
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  [2 of 2]
• Office of the Secretary of Defense--June l949
• Office of the Secretary of Defense--July l949
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  [2 of 2]
• Office of the Secretary of Defense--August l949
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  [2 of 2]
• Office of the Secretary of Defense--September l949
• Office of the Secretary of Defense--October l949

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FILE: Subject File, l939 (l947)-(l949)ca. l984

• Army Air--Army Divorce--General
• Budgetary Activities [includes Ohly's comments on portions of Steven L. Rearden's History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, The Formative Years, l947-l950]
• Central Intelligence Agency
  [l of 2]
  [2 of 2]
• Civil Defense
  [l of 3]
  [2 of 3]
  [3 of 3]

• Commitments Involving Use of Armed Forces
• Committee of the Four Secretaries [memoranda and agendas relating to meetings, October l947 to March l949. An index is included at the front of the folder. The Committee of the Four Secretaries was abolished on April 6, l949; its functions were given to the War Council.]
  [l of 4]
  [2 of 4]
  [3 of 4]
  [4 of 4]
• Information and Education [relating to the creation within the Office of the Secretary of Defense of the Armed Forces Information and Education Division]
• Internal Security
• Joint Chiefs of Staff [relating to the organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, l948-49]
• Legislative Activities

• Medical [shortages of armed services medical personnel]
  [l of 4]
  [2 of 4]
  [3 of 4]
  [4 of 4]
• Military Justice
• Military Pay Levels
  [l of 3]
  [2 of 3]
  [3 of 3]

• Military Personnel
• Miscellaneous Defense Materials, l947-49 [inadequacy of the Berlin airlift; copy of "Final Report of the War Department Policies and Programs Review Board;" common use of facilities and services among the armed services; cooperative recruiting practices among the armed services; establishment of an air academy; notes of Secretary Forrestal's meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, September 29, l948]
• Munitions Board
• National Defense Manual [relating to the organization of the National Military Establishment and the functions of its various operating units and including a l949 directory of the boards and commissions within the office of the Secretary of Defense]
  [l of 2]
  [2 of 2]
• National Security Council
• National Security Resources Board
  [l of 2]
  [2 of 2]
• NATS and ATC [Naval Air Transport Service and Air Transport Command]

• Organizations [relating to the organization of and reorganization proposals for various components of the National Military Establishment, and particularly the Office of the Secretary of Defense. These folders include lists of NME offices and personnel, Ohly's extended comments on the portion of historian Steven Rearden's volume of the history of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, The Formative Years, l947-50, that relates to organizational issues, documents from the period l939 to l946 relating to the organization of the War Department, and information about the organization of Australia's Defence Department and Great Britain's Ministry of Defence.]
  [1 of 11]
  [2 of 11]
  [3 of 11]
  [4 of 11]
  [5 of 11]
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  [7 of 11]
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[9 of 11]
[10 of 11]
[11 of 11]
• Personnel Policy Board
• Public Relations
  [l of 3]
  [2 of 3]
  [3 of 3]
• Release of Information
• Reports and Memoranda--Forrestal's Workbook--Miscellaneous [contents of a notebook from Secretary Forrestal's office that Forrestal gave to Ohly on his (Forrestal's) last day in office. The information relates to the operations of the Office of the Secretary of Defense.]
  [l of 2]

[2 of 2]
• Reports and Memoranda--Papers Prepared by Staff Members [copies of papers prepared for Secretary Forrestal's signature in Ohly's office by Robert Blum, Najeeb Halaby, John Sherman, and other personnel]
  [l of 2]
  [2 of 2]
• Reports and Memoranda--Report to the President from the Secretary of Defense, February 28, l948 [the management of the Office of the Secretary of Defense; the Navy's need for land-based aircraft; military bases; the strategic importance of Greece and Turkey; the international control of atomic energy, etc.]
  [l of 2]
  [2 of 2]
• Research and Development Board
• Reserve National Guard
  [l of 2]
  [2 of 2]

• Unconventional Warfare
  [l of 2]
  [2 of 2]
• Unification of the Armed Forces
• Unification Notebook [prepared ca. late l948. The notebook's subtitle is "A Compendium of Accomplishments in the Field of Armed Forces Unification."]
• Universal Military Training
• War Council--Vol. I [memoranda and agenda relating to the meetings of the War Council and also to the Committee of the Four Secretaries, October l947-December l948. An index to this material is included at the front of the folder.]
  [l of 4]
  [2 of 4]
  [3 of 4]
  [4 of 4]

• War Council--Vol. II [memoranda and agenda relating to the meetings of the War Council, December l948-November l949. The War Council's name was changed to the Armed Forces Policy Council in August l948.]
  [l of 4]
  [2 of 4]
  [3 of 4]
  [4 of 4]
• War Plans--Roles and Missions, Etc. [relating to the roles and missions assigned by the Secretary of Defense to the three armed services, l948-49]
• Establishment of the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group
  [l of 2]
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• Welfare and Recreation

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FILE: Historical File, l947-ca. l984

• George C. Marshall Research Foundation Conference on The National Military Establishment (l977)
• History of OSD [Office of the Secretary of Defense] by Steve Rearden--Ohly's Comments [ca. l984. See also the folders "Budget Activities" and "Organizations" in the Department of Defense File]
• History of OSD by Doris Condit--Ohly's Comments [ca. l984]
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FOREIGN AID FILE: Subject File, l940(l950)-(l968)l979

• Aid Recipients--Criteria for Eligibility
• Aid Recipients--The Problem of Numbers [this folder is empty]
• Aid Recipients--The Problem of Priorities
• Aid Recipients--The Several Problems of Concentration
• Aid, Terms of--Reimbursable Aid
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• AID [Agency for International Development] Files--Military Assistance Reappraisal, June l965
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• Basic Data and Statistics--File #l
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• Basic Data and Statistics--File #2
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• Basic Issues [l959-65]

• Bibliographies on Foreign Aid and Development
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• Bureau of the Budget Staff Report--Organization and Coordination of Foreign Economic Activities--Vol. I, January l96l
• Bureau of the Budget Staff Report--Organization and Coordination of Foreign Economic Activities--Vol. II, January l961

• Channels and Sources of Aid--Border-Sharing
• Channels and Souces of Aid--Coordination--DAG [Development Assistance Group]
• Channels and Sources of Aid--General
• Channels and Sources of Aid--Multilateral vs. Bilateral Aid
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• Channels and Sources of Aid--Multilateral Donors--General
• Channels and Sources of Aid--Multilateral Donors--IBRD [International Bank for Reconstruction and Development]
• Channels and Sources of Aid--Multilateral Donors--Specific Donors

• Channels and Sources of Aid--Multilateral Donors--UNTA and UNSF [U.N. Technical Assistance Program and U.N. Special Fund]
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• Channels and Sources of Aid--Other National Sources--Free World
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• Channels and Sources of Aid--Other National Sources--Soviet Block
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• Channels and Sources of Aid--Other U.S. Instrumentalities
• Channels and Sources of Aid--Private Donors--General
• Channels and Sources of Aid--Private Donors--Voluntary and Charitable
• Channels and Sources of Aid--Private Investment--General
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• Comments on Robert Donovan's Paper on the Truman Administration [the basis of his book, The Tumultuous Years]
• Comments on Noel Eggleston's Paper [relating to the Mutual Defense Assistance Program, and including the Melby-Erskine Mission to Southeast Asia]

• Comments on Lawrence Kaplan's Manuscript, "NATO and the Military Assistance Program, l948-5l--The Politico-Military Implications"
• Conditions on Foreign Aid
• Congressional Reports--80th Congress, lst Session--European Recovery Program
• Congressional Reports--80th Congress, lst Session--Report of a Study of U.S. Foreign Aid in Ten Middle Eastern and African Countries, October l, l963
• Department of State--Alliance for Progress, l962
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• Department of State--Latin America
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• Development of LDCs [less developed countries]--Developing and Planning
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• Development of LDCs--The General Problem
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• Development of LDCs--Political Development
• Domestic Factors--General
• Domestic Factors--Impact on U.S. Trade, Production and Employment

• Domestic Factors--U.S. Balance of Payments
• Donor-Donee Relationships
• Duration of Country Programs (Termination)
• Duration of Individual Projects, Etc.
• Duration of Long Term Development Process
• Duration--The Problem of Continuity
• Early Foreign Aid Programs
• Evaluation--General
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• Evaluation--Specific Studies
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• Foreign Economic Policy--General
• Foreign Policy--Refugees, Migrants and Escapees
• Foreign Policy--Role of Congress
• Foreign Policy--Role of Private Organizations
• Forms of Aid--Contingency Fund
• Forms of Aid--Development Assistance (Loans and Grants for Developing Process)--General
• Forms of Aid--Food Aid [Food for Freedom, War on Hunger]
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• Forms of Aid--General
• Forms of Aid--Military Assistance--General--Current

• Forms of Aid--Military Assistance--General--MDAP [Military Defense Assistance Program]
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• Forms of Aid--Military Assistance--Increasing European Production
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• Forms of Aid--Military Assistance--Sales--General
• Forms of Aid--Military Assistance--Training
• Forms of Aid--Relief
• Forms of Aid--Supporting Assistance (Defense Support)

• Forms of Aid--Technical Assistance--General
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• Forms of Aid--Technical Assistance--High Level Human Resources
• Forms of Aid--Technical Assistance--Participant Training--Evaluation
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• Forms of Aid--Technical Assistance--Participant Training--General
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• Forms of Aid--Technical Assistance--Special Subjects--"The Brain Drain"
• Forms of Aid--Technical Assistance--Special Subjects--Technical Aids, Etc.
• Forms of Aid--Technical Assistance--Systems and Methods of Providing Aid
• Forms of Aid--Technical Assistance--TASG [Technical Assistance Study Group]--File # l
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• Forms of Aid--Technical Assistance--TASG--File #2
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• Forms of Aid--Technical Assistance--TASG--File #3
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• Funding and Fiscal Matters--Administration and Management
• Funding and Fiscal Matters--General

• General--Miscellaneous Memorabilia [meetings of the Foreign Operations Administration, l953-54 and Lyndon B. Johnson's world trip, May l96l]
• Implementation--Operations--General
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• Implementation--Operations--Use of Contractors--General #l
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• Implementation--Operations--Use of Other Government Agencies
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• Implementation--Operations--Use of State and Local Governments
• Implementation--Operations--Use of University Contractors
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• Individual Regions and Countries--Africa
• Individual Regions and Countries--Asia
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• Individual Regions and Countries, A-I [Afghanistan to Italy]
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• Individual Regions and Countries--India
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• Individual Regions and Countries--Indochina [including Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam]
• Individual Regions and Countries--Iran
• Individual Regions and Countries, J-Y [Jordan to Yugoslavia]
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• Individual Regions and Countries--Japan
• Individual Regions and Countries--Korea
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• Individual Regions and Countries--Latin America
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• Individual Regions and Countries--Palestine
• Individual Regions and Countries--The Philippines
• Individual Regions and Countries--The Ryukyus
• Individual Regions and Countries--Taiwan (Formosa)

• Individual Regions and Countries--Tunisia
• Individual Regions and Countries--Turkey
• Individual Regions and Countries--United Kingdom
• Individual Regions and Countries--Yugloslavia
• Individual Regions and Countries--Special Subjects--Middle East
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• Information--Systems of Retrieval--AID [Agency for International Development]--File #l
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• Information--Systems of Retrieval--AID--File #2
• Information--Systems of Retrieval--General

• Lists and Indices of Documents (Secretariat Notes, ICA and AID)[International Cooperation Administration and Agency for International Development]
• Major Studies and Reports
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• Major Studies and Reports--Ball Committee--l964
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• Major Studies and Reports--Prochnow and USEA [Herbert V. Prochnow, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, l956; USEA--U.S. Economic Aid]

• Major Studies and Reports--General Advisory Committee, l963-67
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• Major Studies and Reports--Kaysen (l964)--Foreign Economic Policy and [Rudolph A.] Peterson (l970)
• Major Studies and Reports--Proposals for Major Studies, Reappraisals
• Major Studies and Reports--Proposals for Changes and Reorganization (Inventory)
• Major Studies and Reports--Proposed Organization of Files for a Fairless-Type Study (l957-58)
• Major Studies and Reports--Report to the President from the Committee to Strengthen the Free World (Draper Report)
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• Major Studies and Reports--Report to the President on Guatemala and Venezuela (l962)
• Major Studies and Reports--Report to the President on Liberia and Tunisia (l963)
• Mobilization of U.S. Resources
• National Strategy
• National Support--Congressional Opinion
• National Support--Public Education
• National Support--Public Opinion

• [Ohly] "People's Book"--AID [lists of government personnel with specific skills]
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• [Ohly] Speeches and Articles [primarily notes and outlines for speeches and lectures]
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• [Ohly] Speeches and Notes
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• Organization--Advisory Committees [General Advisory Committee on Foreign Assistance Programs]
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• Organization--The [George] Ball Committee, l963-64
• Organization--Coordination of Participant Training and Other Training Programs
• Organization--Coordination and Related Problems [l953-6l]
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• Organization--[William H.] Draper Committee [The President's Committee to Study the U.S. Military Assistance Program, l959]
• Organization--Field Mission Organization and Relations
• Organization--General

• Organization--General Papers and Miscellaneous
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• Organization--ISA [International Security Affairs], ECA [Economic Cooperation Administration] vs. Department of State, DMS [Director for Mutual Security]
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• Organization--MDAP and NATO [Mutual Defense Assistance Program and North Atlantic Treaty Organization]
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• Organization--MSA to FOA [Mutual Security Agency to Foreign Operations Administration]
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• Organization--l960-62 Reorganization of AID [Agency for International Development]--File # l
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• Organization--l960-62--Reorganization of AID--File # 2
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• Organization--TCA to FOA [Technical Cooperation Administration to Foreign Operations Administration] Technical Assistance, Organization Proposals
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• Other Countries Programs
• Party Platforms--Political Speeches
• Peace Corps--General

• Personnel--Executive Personnel--General
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• Personnel--Executive--Senior Executive Evaluation Panel
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• Personnel--General
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• Personnel--Loyalty and Security
• Personnel--Need for and Use of Social Scientists
• Personnel--Numbers--Issues of Too Many Americans
• Personnel--Organization and Administration of Personnel Role in Aid
• Personnel--Personnel System

• Personnel--Recruitment and Selection
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• Personnel--Selection Out--Removal Procedures
• Personnel--Training and Orientation
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• Presidential Statements and Messages, l950-67
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• President's Committee to Study U.S. Military Assistance Program, l959
• Programs and Programming--General

• Programs and Programming--Programming Procedures
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• Rationale--Aid Effectiveness--Arguments for and Against Foreign Aid
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• Rationale--Aid Effectiveness--Successes and Failures
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• Rationale--Levels of Aid [l956-65]
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• Rationale--Terms of Aid--The Debt-Servicing Problem
• Rationale--Terms of Aid--General [l954-6l]
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• Report to the Administrator of AID on the Mobilization of Fedral Resources in Support of the Foreign Aid Program, by John H. Ohly, July 23, l962
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• Report to the Administrator of AID on the Mobilization of Federal Resources in Support of the Foreign Aid Program--Annex D--Vol. I--Implications of l963 Congressional Experience--Digest of Congressional Views
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• Report to the Administrator of AID on the Mobilization of Federal Resources in Support of the Foreign Aid Program--Annex D--Vol. II--Implications of l963 Congressional Experience--Digest of Congressional Views
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• Report--Interim Report to the Administrator of AID on "An Analysis of Congressional Views on Foreign Aid as Reflected in the Congressional Handling of the FY l964 Foreign Aid Request"--October 20, l965
• Report--Second and Concluding Report to the Administrator of AID on "An Analysis of Congressional Views on Foreign Aid as Reflected in Congressional Handling of the FY l964 Foreign Aid Request," November l, l967--Part I
• Report--Second and Concluding Report to the Administrator of AID on "An Analysis of Congressional Views on Foreign Aid as Reflected in Congressional Handling of the FY l964 Foreign Aid Request," November l, l967--Part II
• Report--Second and Concluding Report to the Administrator of AID on "An Anaylsis of Congressional Views on Foreign Aid as Reflected in Congressional Handling of the FY l964 Foreign Aid Request," November l, l967--Parts III and IV and Appendices
• Report--Summary of Report by John H. Ohly on the Mobilization of Federal Resources in Support of the Foreign Aid Program
• Research and Development--General
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• Special Subjects--Congressional Attitudes--General
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• Special Subjects--Congressional Attitudes--l963 Study
• Special Subjects--Cooperatives
• Special Subjects--Economic Corps for Peace (Smith) [Probably Eldon B. Smith, Deputy Director, Office of the Budget, Department of State]
• Special Subjects--Encouraging Local Private Enterprise
• Special Subjects--Local Currency
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• Special Subjects--Policy Papers and Directives--General
• Special Subjects--Relations with Congress
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• Special Subjects--Religious Factors and Leaders in Development
• Special Subjects--Reports to Congress
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• Special Subjects--Use of Military Resources for Development--Civic Action Programs
• Special Subjects--Women in Development
• Speeches and Articles--General (Non-Ohly)
• TASG [Technical Assistance Study Group]--List of Materials
• TASG--Digest of TASG Materials on Participants--Volumes I and II, July l963
• TASG--Digest of TASG Materials, May l963--General Approach to Technical Assistance--Volume I

• TASG--Digest of TASG Materials, May l963--General Approach to Technical Assistance--Volume II
• TASG--Digest of TASG Materials, May l963--General Approach to Technical Assistance--Volume III
• TASG--Digest of TASG Materials, May l963--General Approach to Technical Assistance--Volume V [there is no Vol. IV]
• TASG--Digest of TASG Materials, May l963--General Approach to Technical Assistance--Volume VI
• TASG--Digest of TASG Materials, May l963--General Approach to Technical Assistance--Volume VII
• TASG--Digest of TASG Materials on Technical Assistance on Language (TECH-T, 2f)
• TASG--"Education in the Less Developed Countries," by J.B. Stabler, December 3l, l96l
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• TASG--Forms of Donor-Host Government Operational Relationships, l96l
• TASG--Forms of Donor-Host Government Operational Relationships--Summary of TASG Files on Services, Joint Services and Joint Funds
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• TASG--General Approach--Organization of Master Research File
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• TASG--Interviews--ICA/W [International Cooperation Administration, Washington, D.C.] Interviews
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• TASG--Interviews--Participating Agency Interviews
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• TASG--Interviews--Private Non-U.S. Interviews
• TASG--Interviews--Private U.S. Interviews
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• TASG--Interviews--Non-Technician Interviews--Vol. I
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• TASG--Interviews--Non-Technician Interviews--Vol. II
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• TASG--Interviews--Technician Interviews
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• TASG--Master Research File--History of TASG--Introduction
• TASG--Master Research File--History of TASG--Purpose and Nature of Technical Assistance
• TASG--Master Research File--History of TASG--Technical Potential an