Holdings
Title:
Jean Monnet American Sources
Abstract:
Jean Monnet, "Father of Europe", was one of the most influential personalities of the post-World War II era. This collection of material consists of photocopied excerpts of collections taken from various Presidential and University libraries and archives, and also from the Department of State (NARA), which pertain to Jean Monnet and to his relationships with American officials and with the US Administration's policies in connection with the "Victory Programme" and European integration.
All aspec
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Description Level:
Fonds
Dates:
1919 to 1988
Fonds:
JMAS
Title:
Amhearst College Library
Abstract:
The Amhearst Library is trustee of the Dwight Morrow and John McCloy papers, in this capacity Amhearst reserves all rights to the above papers. The documents which Morrow and McCloy collected relating to Jean Monnet and European affairs were retrieved from Amhearst and they detail the relationship between these men. The original record code from Amhearst is detailed in each individual dossier description.
Both the Morrow and McCloy descriptions are treated separately within the unit - Amhearst C
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Description Level:
Sub-Fonds
Fonds:
JMAS
Title:
Dwight Morrow Papers
Abstract:
Jean Monnet's initial contact with Dwight Morrow was through the Allied Maritime Transport Council (AMTC), established in 1917, in which Morrow was involved. This Council was later absorbed into the new Supreme Economic Council in 1919. Monnet was the French representative in the Council's supply section. Morrow and the Dulles brothers, John Foster and Allen were also involved with this Council. Morrow's relationship with Monnet continued because of their interest and participation in the world
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Description Level:
Series
Dates:
1919 to 1926
Fonds:
JMAS
Abstract:
CECA_TRAR-5642
CECA_TRAR.01-5642
CECA-TRAR-BAC-1-1970-489
Description Level:
Dossier
Dates:
1955 to 1956
HAEU Reference Code:
CECA_TRAR-5642
Original Reference Code:
CECA-TRAR-BAC-1-1970-489
Title:
John McCloy Papers
Abstract:
The John McCloy papers relating to Jean Monnet and European/US co-operation reveal the special relationship, what Thomas Schwartz called the «Transnational Partnership» (1) between the two men. McCloy was a lawyer by profession and it was in this capacity, while working for the Cravath law firm, that he and Monnet met. Another Cravath lawyer, Donald Swatland, who worked with Monnet on the re-organisation of Transamerica, a holding company of Amadeo Giannini's Bancamerica, introduced the two men.
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Description Level:
Series
Dates:
1943 to 1983
Fonds:
JMAS
Title:
Correspondence
Abstract:
Material relating to the correspondence between Jean Monnet and John McCloy on both personal and working issues.
The correspondence has been divided according to content.
JMAS.A-02.1
JMAS.A-02.1
Description Level:
Sub-Series
Dates:
1973 to 1979
Fonds:
JMAS
Title:
Princeton University Library
Abstract:
The Princeton University Library (Seely G. Mudd Manuscript Library) houses both the John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles papers. To complement the J.F. Dulles papers, Philip A. Crowl of Princeton University, initiated an oral history programme to fill any gaps that existed in written form. The documents relating to Jean Monnet and European affairs have been extracted from the brothers' collections in Princeton and from the oral history project. The closeness of the relationship between J.F. Dulle
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Description Level:
Sub-Fonds
Fonds:
JMAS
Title:
John Foster Dulles Papers
Abstract:
The enduring friendship between John Foster Dulles (JFD) and Jean Monnet began at the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919 where JFD was legal advisor to the US representative on the reparations committee. Their association continued in the financial world and it was JFD, who was the lawyer for the consortium led by Monnet, for the Polish loan in 1927. In 1935 JFD provided the financial backing for Monnet and George Murnane to go into investment banking. During the second World War Monnet had wor
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Description Level:
Series
Dates:
1931 to 1959
Fonds:
JMAS
Title:
Political Life
Abstract:
Material relating to the political and diplomatic relationship between Jean Monnet and John Foster Dulles and information regarding his position on European affairs.
Arrangement is according to subject matter.
JMAS.B-01.1
JMAS.B-01.1
Description Level:
Sub-Series
Dates:
1940 to 1958
Fonds:
JMAS
Title:
Private Life
Abstract:
Material relating to the personal and business relationship shared by Jean Monnet and John Foster Dulles.
Arrangement is according to subject matter.
JMAS.B-01.2
JMAS.B-01.2
Description Level:
Sub-Series
Dates:
1931 to 1959
Fonds:
JMAS
Title:
Allen W. Dulles Papers
Abstract:
Jean Monnet's contacts with Allen Dulles would have been mainly as a result of Allen's brother John Foster Dulles. In the post war years Allen Dulles held a prominent position in the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He then became Director of the C.I.A.. The Allen Dulles papers held in the Princeton Library relating to Monnet date from the death of Foster Dulles in 1959 and generally refer to Foster but also touch on other matters such as European unity and US/European co-operation and
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Description Level:
Series
Dates:
1959 to 1968
Fonds:
JMAS
Title:
James V. Forrestal Papers
Abstract:
James V. Forrestal was US Secretary of the Navy during the war years, he later became Secretary of Defence, because of these positions Forrestal was able to exert a great deal of influence in the formulation of American foreign policy. He would have been aware of Jean Monnet's movements in Algiers on behalf of the French Committee for National Liberation. In the post-war era, Forrestal adopted a hardline, pro-atomic, anti-Soviet stance, but this position led to his supporting the idea of America
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Description Level:
Series
Dates:
1943
Fonds:
JMAS
Abstract:
The Princeton University Library in order to complement the John Foster Dulles written sources initiated an oral history programme to fill any gaps that existed and to get other perspectives on Dulles. The documents in this unit are transcripts of interviews with contemporaries of Dulles concerning his relationship with Jean Monnet.
JMAS.B-04
JMAS.B-04
Description Level:
Series
Dates:
1964 to 1967
Fonds:
JMAS
Abstract:
Princeton University Library has received copies of documents from the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, relating to Princeton's holdings on John Foster Dulles (Secretary of State during the Eisenhower Presidency). The documents in this unit are part of - 1. Ann Whitman File, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dulles-Herter Series and 2. John Foster Dulles files 1951-1959 in the Eisenhower Library.
I have arranged the documents from the Eisenhower Library into files together, but their original reference codes a
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Description Level:
Series
Dates:
1953 to 1957
Fonds:
JMAS
Abstract:
CECA_TRAR-5489
CECA_TRAR.01-5489
CECA-TRAR-BAC-1-1970-49
Description Level:
Dossier
Dates:
1951 to 1951
HAEU Reference Code:
CECA_TRAR-5489
Original Reference Code:
CECA-TRAR-BAC-1-1970-49
Abstract:
The material relating to Jean Monnet extracted from the collections in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library is derived from the Presidential Personal files, the Presidential Secretary's files, the White House Official files, the Map Room files, Official files, the Morgenthau Diaries, the Harry L. Hopkins collection, the Oscar Cox papers and the Isador Lubin files. While Monnet had direct contact with the President, most of his dealings during the crucial years of the Roosevelt Presidency was with h
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Description Level:
Sub-Fonds
Fonds:
JMAS
Title:
Presidential Files
Abstract:
Franklin D. Roosevelt was a man much admired by Jean Monnet. While their personal contact was limited, Roosevelt supported Monnet's position on the re-armament of Europe and the provision of aid, even though many in his "New Deal" administration were sceptical and leaned towards isolationism. Rooselvelt was enthusiatic about Monnet's and Ambassador Bullitt's plans for the building of aircraft factories in Canada to supply the French. By 1941 the US government was shifting its position in the fac
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Description Level:
Series
Dates:
1935 to 1945
Fonds:
JMAS
Title:
Morgenthau Diaries
Abstract:
There were two key officials with whom Jean Monnet worked closely during the Roosevelt Administration, Harry L. Hopkins, Presidential Aide and Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury, but he had very different relationships with both men. Morgenthau had an innate distrust and suspicion of international investment bankers and in 1938 when Monnet arrived in Washington to purchase aircraft on behalf of the French, he was still involved in banking. So besides the problems Monnet experienced with
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Description Level:
Series
Dates:
1938 to 1945
Fonds:
JMAS
Title:
Harry L. Hopkins Collection
Abstract:
Harry L. Hopkins was Monnet's most important link to Roosevelt and to the administrative decision makers, for in 1941 Hopkins a former Secretary of Commerce moved into the White House as the President's key aide on the war. Hopkins took over from Morgenthau's Treasury Procurement Division the task of supplying arms to Britain, in this capacity he was Roosevelt's chief negotiator with Churchill. In 1943, Monnet left Washington for Algiers with the support of Hopkins and therefore with the approva
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Description Level:
Series
Dates:
1943
Fonds:
JMAS
Title:
Oscar Cox Papers
Abstract:
Oscar Cox, formerly the Assistant Solicitor General at the Dept. of Justice took over the position of General Counsel for the Foreign Economic Administration (FEA), which assumed responsibility for Lend Lease near the end of the war. Cox with the help of Harry Dexter White from the Treasury Dept. and Will Clayton, Under Secretary of State promoted the idea of a "master agreement" on Lend Lease to be signed with France along the same lines as the agreements with GB and the Soviet Union. They brou
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Description Level:
Series
Dates:
1942 to 1945
Fonds:
JMAS
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