Inventory of the Samuel Sloan Walker papers
Finding aid prepared by A. Ross Johnson, Beth Goder, and Zivka Mares Randic
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-6010
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Collection Summary
Title: Samuel Sloan Walker papers
Date (inclusive): 1951-1963
Creator:
Walker, Samuel Sloan
Collection Number: 2001C58
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Physical Description:
11 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box
(4.7 linear feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and printed matter, relating to activities of the Free Europe Committee in promoting opposition
to the communist regimes of Eastern Europe.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language of the Material : The collection is in English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to
copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see
or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.
Publication Rights
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Samuel Sloan Walker papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2001.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Related Collection(s)
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty broadcast records, Hoover Institution Archives
George Caputineanu Minden papers, Hoover Institution Archives
Arch Puddington collection, Hoover Institution Archives
Leszek Gawlikowski interviews, Hoover Institution Archives
Albert H. Arkus papers, Hoover Institution Archives
Free Europe Press issuances, Hoover Institution Archives
Biographical Note
Samuel Sloan Walker was vice president of the Free Europe Committee (FEC) from 1950 to 1959, where he was responsible for
printed word programs. As New York-based director of the Free Europe Press, a division of the FEC parallel to Radio Free Europe,
he oversaw publication projects intended for the Western reader, such as the magazine
News From Behind the Iron Curtain (later titled
East Europe) and its foreign language counterparts. He also oversaw printed word projects intended for audiences in the East, such as
leaflets delivered by balloon and mail. After 1956, he launched a book program in which travelers would mail and deliver Western
books, mostly non-political, to Eastern Europe. He oversaw the program in an FEC-spin-off, the East European Institute (EEI),
based in New York in 1958-1959. Later in his career, Walker devoted himself to publishing, establishing Walker Publishers
in New York City.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Samuel S. Walker papers contain correspondence, memoranda, reports, and printed matter related to activities of the Free
Europe Committee in promoting opposition to the communist regimes of Eastern Europe. The collection includes publications
produced or sponsored by the Free Europe Committee (FEC) and East Europe Institute (EEI), materials related to a project to
distribute Western books at the Vienna Youth Festival of 1959, and corporate records of the IEE.
Walker coordinated a program to distribute books at the Communist-sponsored Vienna Youth Festival of 1959. The program aimed
to counterbalance the pro-Communist effects of the Vienna Youth Festival by contributing 155,000 publications (including copies
of
Dr. Zhivago) to distribute before, during, and after the festival. The collection includes correspondence, memoranda, and reports detailing
this program.
The collection documents Walker's role in the East Europe Institute (EEI) and includes material documenting the life cycle
of the organization, such as the articles of incorporation, by-laws, meeting minutes, and papers of dissolution.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Free Europe Committee.
Anti-communist movements.
Europe, Eastern.
Box: 1
Vienna Youth Festival correspondence and memoranda,
1957-1959
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence with Robert H. Bass, Mucio Delagdo, C. D. Jackson, Fritz P. Molden, and George A. Trutnovsky
Box: 1
"Hungary Since the Twentieth Party Congress," Free Europe Press Plans and Analysis Department,
1956
Box: 1
Printed matter,
1956-1959, undated
Box: 2
Berlin meeting notes,
1955
Box: 2
Jackson, C. D.,
1951-1958
Box: 2
Vienna Youth Festival,
1959
Box: 2
Free Europe Committee memoranda,
1955
Box: 2
Free Europe Press project reports and correspondence,
1953-1955
Scope and Contents note
Includes report on producing leaflets for political warfare purposes
Box: 2
Free Youth Action project,
1955-1956
Box: 2
Photographs of book storage,
undated
Box: 2
Radio Free Europe Poland scripts,
1956
Box: 2
Speeches,
1956, undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes draft of speech for General Crittenberger, Crusade Dinner
Box: 2
Translations, including Polonia Book Fund,
undated
General note
On photographic paper. See also box 3
Box: 2
Travel file (Munich and European trip),
1955-1965
Box: 3
Publications about Kadar and Hungary,
1956-1957
Box: 3
Behind the Iron Curtain,
1957-1959
Box: 3
Publications Development Corporation proposal,
undated
General note
On photographic paper
Box: 4
Vienna Youth Festival correspondence, memoranda, reports, and book program outline,
1958-1959
Box: 4
Printed matter,
1952-1960
Box: 4
East Europe Institute (EEI) project descriptions,
undated
Scope and Contents note
Discusses literature distribution in Poland without attribution to the Free Europe Committee (FEC)
Box: 5
Map comparing Imperial and Soviet Russian expansion in Europe, Assembly of Captive Europe Nations,
1958
Box: 5-7
Printed matter,
1951-1963
Scope and Contents note
Includes publications of Free Europe Press (FEP) and Free Europe Committee (FEC)
Box: 7
East Europe Institute (EEI) corporate records,
1957-1958
Scope and Contents note
Includes articles of incorporation, by-laws, and meeting minutes
Box: 8
Vienna Youth Festival correspondence, memoranda, and action plan,
1958-1959
Box: 8
East Europe Institute (EEI) correspondence, memoranda, and budget plan,
1957-1959
Box: 9
Printed matter,
1953-1957
Box: 9
East Europe Institute (EEI) correspondence, monthly reports, and catalogs,
1959
Scope and Contents note
Includes letters of John G. Kirk, Margaret Evans, Unity Evans, and Andrzej Stypulkowski and correspondence with Roy Publishers.
Includes documents related to Person-To-Person Program and Vienna Youth Festival
Box: 10
East Europe Institute (EEI) correspondence, financial documents, dissolution papers, and Walker's departure letters,
1959-1960
Box: 10
Vienna Youth Festival correspondence, reports, notes, Newport Jazz Festival proposal, and Newspaper Project memorandum,
1959
Scope and Contents note
Includes letters to or from Francis Bregha and Robert Minton
Box: 11
Wiener Nachrichten, bound newspaper,
1959
Box: 12
"Chronology of Events in Hungary," Free Europe Press, early version,
1956
Box: 12
International Organizations, serial issues,
1959-1960
