Frank Altschul Papers, 1884-1986, bulk 1925-1980

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Series III: Writings by Frank Altschul and Others, 1910-1974

This series contains material relating to Frank Altschul's many speeches, letters to editors, editorials, book reviews, essays, and articles. Most files contain a draft or copy of the finished piece, as well as notes and related correspondence and articles. There are also several files concerning the publication of "A Catalogue of the Altschul Collection of George Meredith in the Yale University Library" and biographical articles about Altschul. Files have been divided by document type and further arranged alphabetically by title. The series also holds a small number of speech drafts by Altschul's acquaintances, including Raymond Buell, Arther L. Goodhart, and playwright Clare Boothe Luce, which can be found under the heading "Writings by Others."


Catalogue of the Altschul Collection of George Meredith in the Yale University Library, 1931



Box 65 Folder 1 to 3 Correspondence and Related Items, 1923-1971, (3 Folders)


Box 65 Folder 4 Printing of the Catalogue--Correspondence, 1930-1932


Box 65 Folder 5 Acknowledgements for Receipt of Catalogue, 1931


Speeches and Related Correspondence


Box 65 Folder 6 Untitled Speeches, undated



Box 66 Folder 1 "Reparations and War Debts"--Address at the Academy of Political Science,, 1932


Box 66 Folder 2 Untitled, 23, November 1937


Box 66 Folder 3 Kiwanis Club, 1941


Box 66 Folder 4 "The Role of the Republican Party in the Present Emergency,", 1942


Box 66 Folder 5 Meeting of the Fifth Ward Club, 1942


Box 66 Folder 6 Notes and Drafts, 1951-1953


Box 66 Folder 7 "A New Approach to the Soviet Union,", 1952


Box 66 Folder 8 School of Advanced International Studies: Introduction of George Kennan,, 1953


Box 66 Folder 9 Woodrow Wilson Award Dinner, 1953


Box 66 Folder 10 "Some Aspects of Soviet American Relations"--Riverside Church, 1953


Box 66 Folder 11 Woodrow Wilson Commemorative Committee, 1954


Box 66 Folder 12 Stamford Forum, 1955


Box 66 Folder 13 Lehman Speech, 1955



Box 67 Folder 1 American Committee for Cultural Freedom, 1955


Box 67 Folder 2 Roxbury Community Association, 1956


Box 67 Folder 3 United Jewish Appeal, 1957


Box 67 Folder 4 Stamford High School, 1958


Box 67 Folder 5 Stamford Forum on World Affairs, 1958


Box 67 Folder 6 Broadcast on Rockefeller Fund, Panel II Report, 1958


Box 67 Folder 7 Aspen Executive Seminar, 1958


Box 67 Folder 8 Exchange Club of Stamford, 1958


Box 67 Folder 9 Temple Beth-El, 1959


Box 67 Folder 10 National Businessmen's Council, 1960


Box 67 Folder 11 "The Democratic Process and the Berlin Crisis"--Yale University, 1960


Box 67 Folder 12 WBAI-FM Broadcast, 1960


Box 67 Folder 13 Princeton Club, 1960


Box 67 Folder 14 Air Force Reserve Officers, 1960



Box 68 Folder 1 WBAI Broadcast, 1960


Box 68 Folder 2 Lotos Club Luncheon, 1961


Box 68 Folder 3 WBAI Broadcast, 1961


Box 68 Folder 4 National Planning Association, 1961


Box 68 Folder 5 "Cuba: A Turning Point in World History"-- Army Reserve Training Center,, 1962


Box 68 Folder 6 AFL-C10 Free Trade Union News, 1964


Box 68 Folder 7 Unidentified Draft, undated


Letters To Editors and Related Correspondence, 1910-1974


Box 68 Folder 8 New York Sun, 1910 November 10


Box 68 Folder 9 New York Times, 1939 August 17


Box 68 Folder 10 New York Herald Tribune, 1941 December 4


Box 68 Folder 11 to 12 New York Times, 1942 December 20 (2 Folders), 1942 December 20


Box 68 Folder 13 New York Times, 1944 July 16


Box 68 Folder 14 New York Herald Tribune and New York Times, 1947


Box 68 Folder 15 New York Times, 1948 July 25



Box 69 Folder 1 New York Times, 1949 April 10


Box 69 Folder 2 New York Times, 1952 October 29


Box 69 Folder 3 New York Times, 1953 June 21


Box 69 Folder 4 New York Times, 1955 November 23


Box 69 Folder 5 New York Times, 1957 February 11


Box 69 Folder 6 New York Times, 1957 September 8


Box 69 Folder 7 New York Times, 1958 January 13


Box 69 Folder 8 New Statesman, 1958 February 22


Box 69 Folder 9 New York Times, 1958 September 14


Box 69 Folder 10 New York Times, 1960 May 26


Box 69 Folder 11 New York Times, 1960 October 7


Box 69 Folder 12 New York Times, 1960 December 1


Box 69 Folder 13 New York Herald Tribune, 1961 May 3


Box 69 Folder 14 New York Times, 1962 October 29


Box 69 Folder 15 AFL-CIO Free Trade Union News, 1964 August


Box 69 Folder 16 New York Times (unsent), 1965 November 5


Box 69 Folder 17 New York Times, 1971 March 31


Box 69 Folder 18 New York Times, 1971 June 20


Box 69 Folder 19 New York Times, 1973 January 8


Box 69 Folder 20 New York Times, 1973 August 31


Box 69 Folder 21 New York Times, 1974 July 8


Newspaper Articles About Frank Altschul


Box 69 Folder 22 New York World-Telegram, 1933 September 26


Box 69 Folder 23 General, 1938-1961


Editorials and Related Correspondence, 1945-1948



Box 70 Folder 1 to 4 Subjects A-L (4 Folders)



Box 71 Folder 1 to 3 Subjects M-Ru (3 Folders)



Box 72 Folder 1 to 2 Subjects S-Z (2 Folders)


Box 72 Folder 3 Selected Editorials, 1945-1948


Box 72 Folder 4 Chronological Index, 1945-1948


Box 72 Folder 5 to 6 Subject Index, 1945-1946 (2 Folders), 1945-1946



Box 73 Folder 1 to 2 Subject Index, 1947 (2 Folders), 1947


Box 73 Folder 3 Correspondence on Editorials, 1947


Box 73 Folder 4 Clippings and Letters to Stamford Advocate from Readers, 1945-1947


Book Reviews and Related Correspondence


Box 73 Folder 5 Reviews, 1947-1951


Book Reviews for Saturday Review and Related Correspondence, 1951-1969


Box 73 Folder 6 Peace Can Be Won, by Paul Hoffman, 1951 April 21


Box 73 Folder 7 The Defense of Europe, by Drew Middleton, 1952 May 31


Box 73 Folder 8 Isolation and Alliances, by Walter Lippmann, 1952 October 10


Box 73 Folder 9 The Challenge to American Foreign Policy, by John J. McCloy, 1953 July 11


Box 73 Folder 10 Common Sense and World Affairs, by Dorothy Fosdick, 1955 January 29


Box 73 Folder 11 The Public Philosophy, by Walter Lippmann, 1955 February 19


Box 73 Folder 12 The Oppenheimer Case, by Charles R. Curtis, 1955 October 15



Box 74 Folder 1 Choice for Survival, by Louis Halle, 1958 March


Box 74 Folder 2 Ideas, People and Peace, by Chester Bowles, 1958 April 12


Box 74 Folder 3 Foreign Policy: The Next Phase, by Thomas K. Finletter, 1958 May 24


Box 74 Folder 4 The Great Arms Race, by Hanson Balwin, 1958 July 26


Box 74 Folder 5 Foreign Policy and the Free Society, by Walter Millis and John C. Murray,, 1958 August 30


Box 74 Folder 6 Strategic Surrender, by Paul Kecskemeti, 1958 September 6


Box 74 Folder 7 On War, by Raymond Aron, 1959 January 19


Box 74 Folder 8 What's Wrong with U.S. Foreign Policy, by C.L. Sulzberger, 1959 March 14


Box 74 Folder 9 Five Ideas That Change the World, by Barbara Ward, 1959 March 21


Box 74 Folder 10 Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare, by Bertrand Russell and The Devil's Repertoire, by Victor Golancz, 1959 April 18


Box 74 Folder 11 Germany and the East-West Crisis… by Eilliam S. Schlam, 1959 May 30


Box 74 Folder 12 America, The Vincible, by Emmet Hughes, 1959 August


Box 74 Folder 13 Strength of Men and Nations, by William Ernest Hocking, 1959 October 32


Box 74 Folder 14 Political Realism and the Crisis of World Politics, by Kenneth W. Thompson,, 1960 April 2


Box 74 Folder 15 Live and Let Live, by Stuart Chase, 1960 May 28


Box 74 Folder 16 Can We End the Cold War? by Leo Perla, 1960 July 30


Box 74 Folder 17 Between War and Peace, by Herbert Feis, 1960 October 1


Box 74 Folder 18 The Necessity for Choice, by Henry Kissinger, 1960 January 14


Box 74 Folder 19 A Forward Strategy for America, by Robert Strausz-Hupe, 1961 February 25


Box 74 Folder 20 Japan Subdued, by Herbert Feis, 24 June 1961.


Box 74 Folder 21 The United Nations and US Foreign Policy, by Lincoln P. Bloomfield,, 1961 July 1


Box 74 Folder 22 The Balance of Terror, by Pierre Gallois , 1961 November 25


Box 74 Folder 23 Has Man A Future? by Bertrand Russell, 1961 December


Box 74 Folder 24 Appeasement: A Study in Political Decline, 1933-39, by A.L. Rowse,, 1962 January 13


Box 74 Folder 25 Appeasement: Road to War, by William Henry Chamberlain, 1962 March 3



Box 75 Folder 1 The Limits of Defense, by Arthur I. Waskow, 1962 March 24


Box 75 Folder 2 The Hard Way to Peace, by Amitai Etzioni, 1962 April 28


Box 75 Folder 3 An Approach to Peace and Other Essays, by H. Stuart Hughes, 1962 May 26


Box 75 Folder 4 On the Prevention of War, by John Strachey and Hostage America, by Robert A. Dentler and Phillips Cutright,, 1963 March 16


Box 75 Folder 5 Unarmed Victory, by Bertrand Russell, 1963 September 7


Box 75 Folder 6 Prospects for the West, by J. William Fulbright, 1964 January 4


Box 75 Folder 7 Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism, by James Burnham , 1964 April 25


Box 75 Folder 8 The Futile Crusade: Anti-Communism as American Credo, by Sidney Lens,, 1964 July 4


Box 75 Folder 9 The President as World Leader, by Sidney Warren, 1964 October 10


Box 75 Folder 10 Détente: Cold War Strategies in Transition, by Eleanor Lansing Dulles, and Robert Dickson Crane,, 1965 April 17


Box 75 Folder 11 The Cold War… and After, by Charles O. Lerche, Jr. and After Twenty Years: Alternatives to the Cold War in Europe, by Richard J. Barnet and Marcus Raskin,, 1965 August 14


Box 75 Folder 12 Beginnings of the Cold War, by Martin Herz, 1966 March


Box 75 Folder 13 The Arrogance of Power, by J. William Fulbright, 1967 February 11


Box 75 Folder 14 The Diplomacy of a New Age, by Dexter Perkins, 1967 June 10


Box 75 Folder 15 Crisis Now, by James Gavin, 1968 March 2


Box 75 Folder 16 The Limits of Power, by Eugene McCarthy, 1967 October 21


Box 75 Folder 17 A Peace Policy for Europe, by Willy Brandt, 1969 March 2


Essays, Articles, and Notes with Related Correspondence, 1924-1971


Box 75 Folder 17 International Exchange--Notes and Memoranda, 1924-1943



Box 76 Folder 1 International Exchange, 1924-1943


Box 76 Folder 2 NY Stock Exchange--Notes and Memoranda, 1925-1939


Box 76 Folder 3 Republican Party--Notes and Memoranda, 1932, 1938, 1932, 1938


Box 76 Folder 4 "Revolution by Inadvertence"--Essay, 1937


Box 76 Folder 5 "The Challenge to Republican leadership"--Essay and Correspondence, 1938


Box 76 Folder 6 WWII--Notes, Memoranda, and Proposals for Post-War Stabilization, circa, 1940


Box 76 Folder 7 "Let No Wave Engulf Us," 1941, 1968, 1941, 1968


Box 76 Folder 8 "Chance of Our Lifetime,", 1942


Box 76 Folder 9 List of Articles and Reviews, 1942


Box 76 Folder 10 "The Nature of the Problem," circa, 1953


Box 76 Folder 11 "America's New Economic Role" in Foreign Affairs Magazine--Correspondence and Notes,, 1953 April


Box 76 Folder 12 Memorandum, 1953 August


Box 76 Folder 13 Committee for the Present Danger and "Do We Deserve to Survive?", 1953-1954


Box 76 Folder 14 Unpublished Article on John Foster Dulles--Notes, 1954



Box 77 Folder 1 Joseph McCarthy--Notes and Articles, 1954 February


Box 77 Folder 2 "Reflections on Suez"--Clippings and Correspondence, 1956, 1962-1964, 1956, 1962-1964


Box 77 Folder 3 "Reflections on Disarmament in the Light of the Arden House Conference,", 1961


Box 77 Folder 4 "Cuba: A Turning Point in World History?"--Notes for Unpublished Article,, 1962


Box 77 Folder 5 Essay on Impressions of Israel, 1963


Box 77 Folder 6 Republican Party and Foreign Policy--Memorandum, 1964


Box 77 Folder 7 "Reflections Upon Returning from State Department Meeting on International Cooperation Year,", 1965


Box 77 Folder 8 General Memoranda, circa, 1971


Box 77 Folder 9 to 10 Printed Materials, 1932-1953 (2 Folders), 1932-1953


Writings by Others


Box 77 Folder 11 General, 1933-1961


Box 77 Folder 12 Buell, Raymond, 1942-1944


Box 77 Folder 13 Goodhart, Arthur L., undated



Box 78 Folder 1 to 4 Goodhart, Arthur, 1955-1970 (4 Folders), 1955-1970


Box 78 Folder 5 Luce, Clare Boothe, 1957-1961