Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
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Biographical List
Descriptive Summary
Title: Robert Allen Griffin Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1942-1971
Collection number: 75027
Creator:
Griffin, R. Allen (Robert Allen), 1893-1981
Collection Size:
13 manuscript boxes, 3 envelopes(5.7 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, memoranda, speeches and writings, photographs, and printed
matter, relating to American technical and economic assistance missions to China and
Southeast Asia.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Robert Allen Griffin papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1975.
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.
Access Points
United States. Dept. of State.
United States. Economic Cooperation Administration.
Economic assistance, American--Asia, Southeastern.
Economic assistance, American--China.
Reconstruction (1939-1951)--China.
Technical assistance, American--Asia, Southeastern.
Technical assistance, American--China.
Asia, Southeastern.
China.
China--History--Civil War, 1945-1949.
Indochina.
Indochina--History.
Vietnam.
Vietnam--History.
United States--Foreign relations.
Lapham, Roger Dearborn, 1883-1966.
Biographical List
| 1893, September 27 |
Born, Kansas City, Missouri |
| 1917 |
B. A., Stanford University |
| 1917-1919 |
Military service |
| 1919 |
Reporter,
Portland Oregonian and
Portland Journal, Portland, Oregon
|
| 1919-1920 |
Secretary to First Polish Minister to U.S., Prince Lubormirski |
| 1920-1921 |
Director, Polish Bureau of Information |
| 1921 |
Manager, American Polish Chamber of Commerce |
| 1922 |
Founder and publisher,
Monterey Peninsula Herald, Monterey, California
|
| 1935 |
Founder of radio station, KDON, Del Monte, California |
| 1941-1945 |
Military service |
| 1942 |
Co-author,
The School of the Citizen Soldier
|
| 1948-1949 |
Deputy Chief, U.S. Economic Cooperation Administration, China |
| 1950 |
Chief, U.S. Department of State Economic Mission to Southeast Asia |
| 1950-1951 |
Director, U.S. Economic Cooperation Admnistration, Far East Program Division |
| 1951-1952 |
Special Representative of the Far East, U.S. Economic Cooperation Administration and Mutual Security Agency |