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Notes on various topics including: Russian imperialism, resources of the Soviet State, Vietnamese resources, classical music. Also, a rough essay draft on "An Ideal University," a one-page reflection on "Our struggle," a bibliography of English language publications on Communist China, Indochina, Marxism in Asia, and Vietnamese revolution. Some notes in French.

CMW was greatly interested in the history of the Chinese Communist Movement, which was coming to power about the same time as he arrived at Columbia. Thus, he instituted a search of the holdings of the East Asian Library to learn what was available. This resulted in Chinese Sources on the History of the Chinese Communist Movement: an annotated bibliography of materials in the East Asiatic Library of Columbia University. Edited by him, it was reproduced for private distribution by the East Asian Institute as No. 1 in the Institutes series of studies, and sent to scholars and libraries with an interest in modern China. In the summer of 1950 CMW wrote a prospectus for research on the history of the Chinese Communist Movement, outlining questions worthy of research in the light of his then knowledge. This prospectus, 50 pages. With the approval of the Institute's Executive Committee and with modest financing from the Institute's research funds, he organized a research project, hiring as an assistant a brilliant graduate student, Ms. Julie Lien-ying How, beginning in March1951. Both CMW and Ms. How made trips to Washington to do research in the Library of Congress or in the National Archives, and their bibliographic notes are in Box 64. CMW also commissioned Mr. Ichiro Shirato to search Columbia's Japanese collections and those in the Library of Congress for a Bibliography of Japanese Sources on the Chinese Communist Movement. which CMW edited and the Institute published in 1953.

In September 1957 CMW, as Initiator, together with Searle Boxes Bates, Howard Boorman, Morton Fried, Franklin Ho, and James Morley as conveners, organized a University Seminar on Modern East Asia with sections on China and Japan. Both sections have continued to the present (1988) with wide memberships, and are managed by the East Asian Institute. Some files pertaining to the Modern China Seminar are in Boxes .39-55. CMW usually taught or participated in three graduate courses each semester. One was a graduate lecture course on Chinese history from approximately 1600 to 1950. A second was a graduate colloquium and .seminar on Twentieth Century China, with emphasis on social history. He participated in a one-semester Chinese bibliography course with Professors Carrington Goodrich and Mr. C.C. Wang, and in a joint lecture course on Japan and China given by Institute faculty members, displaying various social science approaches to the subjects. From these courses there developed various masters theses and doctoral dissertations. Contains some plans for courses, a run of lecture notes for G6826Y, the graduate lecture course, as given in the spring of 1976 reading notes for the colloquium and seminar on 20th Century China. Also some examples of the necessary work in evaluating students for fellowships and efforts at job placement. Box 44. CMW kept brief notes on all students from 1947 to 1976 (about 1,000), and these are now in five loose-leaf note books in Box 45. He kept more extensive records on those who earned the MA degree under his sponsorship, including correspondence with such students and his efforts to help them secure appointments or further fellowships for them. These records are in Boxes 46-49.are more extensive files on students who received the Ph.D under his guidance, or partial Ph.D guidance. With many of these students he continued correspondence.

Speeches, correspondence

Imre Forbáth goes to Berlin for the first Carbide Cartel meeting. On the way back, he stops at Vienna, where he sees swastikas and Nazi banners everywhere. The synagogue is burned down and Jewish stores are vandalized and marked.