Register of the Lauchlin Bernard Currie Papers, 1941-1993
Register of the Lauchlin Bernard Currie Papers, 1941-1993
Hoover Institution ArchivesStanford University
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- Prepared by:
- Grace M. Hawes
- Date Completed:
- March 1980
| 1902, October 8 | born, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| 1925 | B.S., London University |
| 1931 | Ph.D., Harvard University |
| 1929-1934 | Instructor, Harvard University |
| 1932-1934 | Professor, Fletcher Graduate School |
| 1934 | Economist, U.S. Treasury |
| 1934 | Author, The Supply and Control of Money |
| 1935-1939 | Asst. Director Research, Federal Reserve Board |
| 1939-1945 | Administrative Assistant to President Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| 1940-1941 | Director, Lend-Lease for China |
| 1942 | Personal Representative of President Roosevelt to China |
| 1943-1944 | Deputy Director, Foreign Economic Administration |
| 1945-1949 | President, Lauchlin Currie and Company, New York |
| 1949-1950 | Director, International Bank Mission to Colombia |
| 1950-1951 | Adviser and Director, Comite de Desarrollo Economico, Colombia |
| 1951-1953 | Adviser, Colombian Planning Committee, 1951-1953 |
| 1953-1959 | In retirement |
| 1959 | Director, Robert Nathan Magadalena Valley Study |
| 1961-1967 | Director, Fundación para el Progreso de Colómbia |
| 1965 | Editor and co-author, Una Política Urbana para un País en Desarrollo |
| 1965 | Author, Plan Socio-Económico para el Atlantico |
| 1965 | Professor of Economics, National University of Colombia |
| 1965 | Visiting Professor, Michigan State University |
| 1966 | Author, Accelerating Development |
| 1966 | Royer Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1966-1967 | Director and Professor, Department of Economics, National University, Colombia |
| 1966-1967 | Director, Center of Development Research, National University, Colombia |
| 1967 | Co-author, Governmental Planning and Political Economy |
| 1967-1968 | Visiting Professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada |
| 1968 | Author, Obstacles to Development |
| 1968-1969 | Visiting Professor, Glasgow University |
| 1969-1971 | Professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada |
| 1971-1976 | Adviser, National Planning Agency, Colombia |
| 1972-1974 | Member, Board of Savings and Housing, Colombia |
| 1974 | Author, Ahorro, Correccion Monetaria y Construccion |
| 1974-1976 | Consultant to the United Nations on Urban Matters |
| 1976 | Author, Taming the Megalopolis: A Design for Urban Growth |
| 1976- | Member of Board of Directors, Instituto de Estudios Colombianos |
Series Description
CORRESPONDENCE, 1941-1950.
Scope and Content Note
SUBJECT FILE, 1940-1976.
Scope and Content Note
AUDIO-VISUAL.
Note
INCREMENT RECEIVED OCTOBER 1985, May 18, 1943
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DECLASSIFIED U.S. GOVERNMENT RECORDS, 1945.
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Container List
CORRESPONDENCE, 1941-1950
Bond, W. L., 1941
Brainard, Rear Admiral Roland M., 1941
Carpenter, S.R., 1941
Chang, Carsun, 1941
Chennault, General Claire L., (code name - Groco), 1941-1942
Chiang Kai-shek, 1941
Chiang Kai-shek, Mme., 1941-1943
Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Kai-shek, Mme., (code name - Segac), 1941-1942
Chien, C. C., 1941
Chih Tsang, 1942
Churchill, Winston, 1942
Davies, John Paton, 1942
Donovan, William J., 1942
Eccles, Marriner S., 1941
Fortas, Abe, 1950
Greene, Robert S., 1941-1943
Holbrook, Major Lucius R., 1942-1943
Hopkins, Harry, 1941-1943
Howe, C. D., 1941
Keating, John G., 1941
Kung, H. H., 1941-1944
Li Ming, 1945
Little, L. K., 1943-1945
Liu Chieh, 1942
Luce, Henry R., 1942
McCammon, Colonel J. E., 1942
McHugh, Colonel J. M., 1941-1945
Magruder, Brigadier General John, 1942
Marshall, General George C., 1942
Messersmith, George S., 1941
Meyberg, Manfred, 1942
Morganthau, Henry, Jr., 1942-1943
People's Political Council, 1941
Price, Frank W., 1941-1942
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1943
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1941-1942
Sayre, Francis B., 1941
Smith, General Walter Bedell, 1942
Soong, T. V., 1941-1942
Stilwell, General Joseph, 1942
Stimson, Henry L., 1942
Thompson, Malvina, 1942
Tong, Hollington, 1941-1945
Tully, Grace, 1942-1943
Vincent, John Carter, 1941-1943
Walsh, R. J., 1942
Wang Shih-chieh, 1941
Wei Tao-ming, 1945
Welles, Sumner, 1941-1943
Wheeler, General R. A., 1941-1943
Wong Wen-hao, 1941-1976
SUBJECT FILE, 1940-1976
American Volunteer Group (AVG)
Correspondence and memoranda
January 1940-April 1941
May-September 1941
October 1941
November 1941
December 1941
January-March 1942
April-May 1942
June-July 1942
September 1942-September 1943
Reports
History and Status of the First American Volunteer Group, Toungoo, Burma, October 19, 1941
Notes on Strategic Possibilities of A Small American Air Force in China
Burma
Burma Road
Correspondence and memoranda, August 1941- January 1942
Reports
Present Trucking Operations as Conducted on the Burma Road and Recommendations for Their Improvement, by Daniel G. Arnstein, Harold C. Davis, and Marco F. Hellman, August 9, 1941
Some Observations and Impressions on the Yunnan-Burma Transportation Situation, n.d.
Yui Fei-pang, Chairman of the Yunnan-Burma Highway, Report 1, June 16, 1941 and Report 2, June 17, 1941
Canada - Foreign relations
Chang Kia-ngau - Notes on conference, February 21, 1941
Chen Pao-chuang - Notes on conference, February 14, 1941
Chennault, General Claire L. - Memoranda, August, 1942
Chiang Kai-shek
Biographical notes
Correspondence
Churchill, Winston, 1941
Lo Ying-ching, 1942
Roosevelt, President Franklin D., 1941-1942
Soong, T. V., 1941-1942
Stilwell, General Joseph, 1942
Memoranda
To Lauchlin Currie (2), n.d. and February 26, 1941
To Franklin Roosevelt (2), July 30, August 6, 1942
Report by Lauchlin Currie for Chiang Kai-shek
Speeches and writings
China's Destiny
Summary translation
Comments on the book by two American observers in China
Impressions of My Visit to India and Observations on the War Situation in the Pacific. Address delivered at Memorial Service, March 9, 1942
Speech to Kuomintang leaders, March 24, 1941
Chiang Kai-shek, Mme.
Ch'ien, T. S., excerpt from letter, August, 1941
China
Communists
Economic conditions
General
Banknotes
Correspondence, 1941-1942
Currency
Exchange
Gold
Loans
Rural economy
State monopolies
Trade
Labor
Military
Politics and government
Chinese Exclusion Act
Chinese Flying Cadets - Training in U.S.
Chinese Industrial Cooperatives
Chou En-lai (see Currie, Lauchlin - First Trip to China, February, 1941 - Chiang Kai-shek - Interviews)
Clark-Kerr, Sir Archibald - Notes on conference, February 8, 1941
Cooper, Meriam - Notes on conversation, December 29, 1942
Currie, Lauchlin
First trip to China, February 1941
Awards - Decoration of the Order of Ching Hsin, February 19, 1947
Expense report
Interviews with Chiang Kai-shek, February 7, February 8, and compiled notes on interviews, March 17, 1941 (latter includes notes on interview with Chou En-lai, February 14, 1941)
Notes
Plans and letters of introduction
Press clippings
Report by American Ambassador Nelson Johnson, March 3, 1941
Report by Lauchlin Currie to President Roosevelt, March 15, 1941
Second trip to China, July - August, 1942
Conference notes
Interviews with Chiang Kai-shek, July 21, July 22, July 26, July 29, July 30, August 3, August 4, August 5, August 6, 1942
Miscellaneous
Notes
Plans
Press clippings
Report by Lauchlin Currie to President Roosevelt, August 24, 1942
Travel arrangements and expense
Davies, John Paton - The China-Burma-India Theater - a Reappraisal, July 31, 1942
Eisenhower, President Dwight D. - Memoranda, 1942; copy of letter, March 25, 1942
Fairbank, John K. - Memorandum on Air Program for China, 1942 (attached note by Lauchlin Currie, April 13, 1976); memoranda, January-March, 1944
Flying Tigers (see American Volunteer Group)
Freeman, Fulton? - Conference on situation in China, February, 1941
Ho Ying-chin - Conference, February 17, 1941
Hopkins, Harry - Memoranda, August-September, 1941
Hsu Yung-chang - Notes on conversation, February 20, 1941
Hull, Cordell - Notes and memoranda, April-May 1941, September, 1942
International business enterprises, January, 1944
Jones, Joseph - Memoranda, April-May, 1941
Koo, Y. C. - Notes on conference, February 13, 1941
Kung, H. H. - Notes on conference, February 17, 1941; letter from Henry Luce, March 3, 1944; letter to Franklin Roosevelt, November 11, 1942
Lattimore, Owen (code name - Omita)
Correspondence, 1941-1942
Meeting notes, December 4, 1942
Memoranda on appointment as political adviser to Chiang Kai-shek, May-June, 1941
LeHand, Miss - Memorandum, March 16, 1941
Liu Wei-chang - Notes on conversation, February 25, 1941
Lo Ying-ching - Report to Chiang Kai-shek. June 25, 1942
Luce, Henry - Memorandum on Luce, November 10, 1942
Lynch, - Notes on conference, February 14, 1941
Magruder, Brigadier General John. Holograph report by Lauchlin Currie entitled The Magruder Mission, n.d.
Marshall, General George C. - notes on interview, December 7, 1942; memorandum from Lieutenant General Brehon Somervell, August 28, 1942
Pai Chung-hsi - Notes on conversation, February 20, February 26, 1941
Philippine Islands - Letter to Department of State from Laurence Salisbury, December 13, 1940
Price, Harry B. - Memorandum on China's Economic Needs and American Aid, February 19, 1941
Roosevelt, Eleanor - Memoranda (2), undated and September 16, 1942
Roosevelt, President Franklin D.
Meeting notes, June 26, 1942
Memoranda, 1941-1944
Roy, Andrew T. - Notes on conference, February, 1941
Schaberg, Benjamin F., Jr. - Memorandum on Russia as a Source of Supply for China, September 4, 1942
Stein, Gunther - Notes on conference, February 1941
Situation in China Since Stilwell's Recall, December 22, 1942 (carbon of article by Newsweek correspondent Harold Isaacs)
Somervell, Lieutenant General Brehon - Memorandum for General Clay, August 29, 1942
Soong, T. V. - Memorandum for Franklin Roosevelt, October 31, 1941; newspaper clipping about Soong; notes on Soong, 1942-1944
Stilwell, General Joseph - Memoranda, 1942; notes; proposed message, n.d.; holograph and typewritten memorandum by Stilwell entitled, General View of the Situation, August, 1942
Stimson, Henry - Memorandum, April 22, 1941
Sun Fo - Notes on conference, January 18, 1941
Sun Yat-sen, Mme. - proposed trip to the United States
Tong, Hollington - excerpts from memoranda, 1941; notes on Tong, 1941, 1943
United China Relief
United States
Department of the Treasury
Economic assistance - China
Foreign relations
Canada
Russia
Military assistance - China
War Production Board, 1944
Watson, General Edwin M.? - Memorandum, February 11, 1942
Wei Tao-ming - Biography; seating arrangement at Chinese Ambassador's dinner, October 21, 1942
Welles, Sumner - Memoranda, 1941-1942
Wheeler, Major General R. A. - Memorandum for General Stilwell on "Monthly Shipping Tonnage Required from United States to Supply One Triangular Division in India," August 11, 1942
White, Theodore - Dispatch from Loyang, March 13, 1943 (also correspondence received by Lauchlin Currie about dispatch)
Willauer, Whiting - notes on conversation, June 4, 1942
World War, 1939-1945
General
Pacific theater
Wu, K. C. - Notes on conference, February 15, 1941
AUDIO-VISUAL
Additional Note
INCREMENT RECEIVED OCTOBER 1985, May 18, 1943
Photocopy of a memorandum for the president written by L. Currie on May 18, 1943, relating to the situation in China and to U.S. foreign policy vis-a-vis that country
DECLASSIFIED U.S. GOVERNMENT RECORDS, 1945
Record released in 2010, 1945