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Series I: Allied Reparations Commission, 1944-1956
Series II: UNRRA, 1945-1949

Richard Brown Scandrett papers, 1944-1954, bulk 1945-1947

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Series I: Allied Reparations Commission, 1944-1956

This series is comprised of two letter books contains a large range of documents relating to the creation, goals, and actions of the Allied Reparations Commission. Documents include Scandrett's summary and criticism of the commission's activities, his suggestions to Isador Lubin for a reparations plan, descriptions of the duties assigned to each US commission member, notes and instructions given to the staff of the commission, reports, correspondence, newspaper and journal articles. Volume 19A also includes a photograph of Scandrett.


Box 1 Volume 19A

Box 1 Confidential Summary of Procedures of Allied Reparations Commission--Scandrett to Joe, A. Panuch, 1945 August, 1945

Box 1 Clippings, 1945 March28-June 14, 1945

Box 1 Scandrett to Isador Lubin--Memo, 1945 April 19-24, 1945

Box 1 Correspondence among Scandrett, Bryant Smith, Robert M. La Follette, Joe Panuch, and Robert Frost, 1945 January 15-May 7, 1945

Box 1 "Text of President's Report on Yalta"--Clipping, 1945 March1-May 19, 1945

Box 1 "'Inviolability" of Enemy Private Property" by Seymour Rubin--Article, 1945

Box 1 Possible New Appointment to Succeed Lubin--Clippings, 1945 April 14-May 1, 1945

Box 1 Appointment of Pauley to Succeed Lubin and Other Appointments to Reparations Commission--Clippings, 1945 May 11-15, 1945

Box 1 Scandrett to Edward J. Flynn--Correspondence, 1945 May 18, 1945

Box 1 General--Clippings, 1945 May 19-June, 1945

Box 1 Frank C. Waldrop Quoting Congressman Luce--Clipping, 1945 June 16, 1945

Box 1 Staff Memorandum No. 1, United States Mission, Allied Reparations Commission, 1945 May 19, 1945

Box 1 "Memorandum Regarding the Status of Property in Germany Belonging to Citizens of the United States and Other Nations,", undated

Box 1 Itinerary of Ambassador Pauley's Party, 1945 May 31-June 4, 1945

Box 1 Report of Team Four--Robert G. Sproul, Richard Scandrett, George H. Johnson, and R. F. Brander, 1945 May, 1945

Box 1 Assignment of Staff--Memo by Edwin W. Pauley to Staff, 1945 June 8, 1945

Box 1 "Secret Studies of the German Economy Currently Available," United States Delegation, Allied Reparations Commission, 1945 June 8, 1945

Box 1 Pauley to Lucius D. Clay and Dwight D. Eisenhower--Correspondence, 1945 June 10, 1945

Box 1 Scandrett on Conversations with Clay, Donald McLean, and Douglas--Memo, 1945 June 9-20, 1945

Box 1 "Germany Occupation Period: Treatment of Foreign Property and Contracts in Germany"--Report, CAG-285 Preliminary, 1944 September 2, 1944

Box 1 "Planning the Economic Control of Germany"--Report by James A. Perkins, 1945 March3, 1945

Box 1 Memoranda Regarding American Delegation Committees: Committee I: German Ability to Pay; Committee II: Foreign Assets; Committee III: Claims and Procedures; Committee IV: Interim Reparations, War Booty, Restitution, Accounts, and Permanent Agency--J. A. Parten to Luther Gulick, Sproul, McLaren, and Scandrett, 1945 June 26-July 7, 1945

Box 1 Correspondence among Walter Monckton, A. Sokirkin, and Gulick, 1945 June 26-July 5, 1945

Box 1 Status Report on Problems Facing War Reparations Commission, undated

Box 1 Paraphrase of Telegram--Secretary of State (Grew Acting) to American Embassy Moscow, 1945 July 17, 1945

Box 1 Unknown to A. Ya. Vyshinski--Correspondence, 1945 July 19, 1945

Box 1 Report of the Tripartite Conference of Berlin, 1945 August 3, 1945

Box 1 "The Fate of the World Rests with the United States and Russia"--Scandrett Typescript, 1945 September 20, 1945

Box 1 Potsdam Conference and Establishment of a Council of Foreign Ministers--Clippings, 1945

Box 1 Photograph of Richard Scandrett, 1954 June 2, 1954

Volume 19B

Box 1 Scandrett to Lloyd M. Clark--Correspondence, 1945 October 1, 1945

Box 1 General--Clippings, 1945 November 3-December 20, 1945

Box 1 Pauley Nomination as Under-Secretary of the Navy--Clippings, 1945-1956

Correspondence, 1945

Box 1 Bondy, William

Box 1 Johnson, Louis A.

Box 1 Davidson, Maurice

Box 1 Van Alstyne, David

Box 1 Manthley-Zorn, Otto

Box 1 Lancaster, W.W.

Box 1 Voss, Carl

Box 1 American Christian Committee for Refugees

Box 1 Milam, Robert

Box 1 Jordon, C.C.

Box 1 Bennet, August us

Box 1 Bowers, Thomas

Box 1 Baily, Harold

Box 1 Unidentified

Box 1 Moffat, Douglas

Box 1 Simpson, Jean

Box 1 Golden, Gullie B.

Box 1 Billikopf, Jacob

Box 1 Cadman, F.L.

Box 1 Eastman, Eva

Box 1 Poore, John G.

Box 1 Callman, H. W.

Box 1 Unidentified

Box 1 Bell, Ulric

Box 1 Clark, L.M.

Box 1 Oppenheim, Lamont

Box 1 Latham, Wales

Box 1 Clayburgh, Alma

Box 1 Shumway, Lowell

Box 1 Cronan, Richard

Box 1 Thomas, Edmond

Box 1 Nordlinger, Harry

Box 1 Cobb, Bill

Box 1 Heydt, Charles

Box 1 Voorhees, Fred

Box 1 Cogswell, William

Box 1 Voss, Carl

Box 1 Trimble, Rufus

Box 1 Simpson, John W. II

Box 1 Unknown

Box 1 Hermanos, Maxime

Box 1 Unknown

Box 1 Weedon, Charles

Box 1 Lindburg, Otto

Box 1 Woodruff, D.W.

Box 1 Lay, Frank

Box 1 Hoffler, R

Box 1 Kellor, Frances

Box 1 Meyers, Robert

Box 1 Woone, John

Box 1 Moscow, Warren

Box 1 Nicholson, Harold

Series II: UNRRA, 1945-1949

This series contains two folders and two letter books of documents providing extensive and detailed information on UNRRA Mission to Byelorussia, as well as some discussion of other missions and of UNRRA in general. The folders contain an incomplete document from Herbert Lehman formally designating Scandrett as the chief of the Mission to Byelorussia and outlining the mission's goals and his duties, as well as a copy of Scandrett's article "Byelorussians: Barefoot and Barehanded." The first letter book, Volume 20-A, includes Scandrett's summary of his experience as mission chief, photographs of headquarters, interviews, clippings, and a mission history, among other documents. Volume 20-B is also concerned primarily with the Mission to Byelorussia and contains additional correspondence and clippings, observations and reports by several of the mission staff, and photographs of the region. The letter book also contains a smaller amount of general information about UNRRA, including pamphlets and the proceedings of council meetings, and a history of the organization, as well as material on the Mission to the Ukraine. Of note is correspondence between Scandrett, Marshall MacDuffie (chief of the UNRRA Mission to the Ukraine), and others regarding controversy over "The Scared Man in the Kremlin," a book about the Ukraine mission by John Fischer.


Box 2 Folder 1 General Directive and Delegation of Authority to Chief of UNRRA Mission to the Byelorussian SSR, 1946

Box 2 Folder 2 Scandrett, Richard--Byelorussians: Barefoot and Barehanded, 1946

Volume 20A

Box 2 Folder 2 UNRRA Mission to Byelorussia--Summary, undated

Box 2 Folder 2 Formal Acknowledgements to Fiorello H. La Guardia, D. G. Rooks, Herbert H. Lehman, H. M. Burnett, Robert G. A. Jackson, undated

Box 2 Folder 2 Henry A. Wallace and Scandrett on Robert Frase--Correspondence, 1946 February25-April 25, 1946

Box 2 Folder 2 Organization Chart of UNRRA Mission to Byelorussia, 1946 July 7, 1946

Box 2 Folder 2 Agreement between UNRRA and Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, undated

Box 2 Folder 2 Department of State, UNRRA Operations Branch--Requisition Processing Procedure, undated

Box 2 Folder 2 Bartlett to Scandrett on Day's Schedule--Memo, 1946 March27, 1946

Box 2 Folder 2 Photographs of Byelorussian Mission, undated

Box 2 Folder 2 UNRRA News Release No. 342: Mission Arrival in Minsk, 1946 April 24, 1946

Box 2 Folder 2 Director-General's Tour--Memos, 1945 August, 1945

Box 2 Folder 2 Scandrett and James Mead--Correspondence, 1946

Box 2 Folder 2 Unidentified Document in Russian and English, undated

Box 2 Folder 2 Correspondence--Scandrett to Semeon Pavlovich Portnov, Nicholai Petrovich Pokrovski, Ignaty Alekseeich Yermoshenko, Konstanin L. Lastovsky in English and Russian and Memorandum on First Visits in Byelorussia, 1946

Box 2 Folder 2 Scandrett Interview in Minsk--Transcript in English, 1946 August 27, 1946

Box 2 Folder 2 Scandrett, Robert Frase, and Lostovsky--Correspondence, 1946 September 13-December 6, 1946

Box 2 Folder 2 "Byelorussians: Barefoot and Barehanded" by Richard Scandrett

Box 2 Folder 2 Scandrett to Jackson--Correspondence, 1946 November 25, 1946

Box 2 Folder 2 Scandrett Press Conference, London--General, 1946 September 5, 1946

Box 2 Folder 2 Paul Kellogg to Scandrett--Correspondence, 1946 October 7, 1946

Box 2 Folder 2 Clippings, 1947

Box 2 Folder 2 Scandrett and Robert A. Taft--Correspondence, 1946 October 9-November 4, 1946

Box 2 Folder 2 Scandrett, Rhys Williams, Beta Iota Chapter at Amherst College, Mikhail Burinski, Lucy Jennings Dickinson (Mrs. LaFell Dickinson), W. B. Smith, Farnsworth Fowley, and Andrew J. Steiger--Correspondence, 1946 March11-July 30, 1946

Box 2 Folder 2 Clippings on Byelorussia from Information Bulletin of the Embassy of the USSR, 1946 January 22, 1946

Box 2 Folder 2 Correspondence between Scandrett and Charles Drury on Medical Equipment in Poland and Related Correspondence with Beekman J. Delatour, Stephen Simmons, Russell Cecil, E. H. L. Corwin, & Cyril E. Paquin, 1946

Box 2 Folder 2 Correspondence between Scandrett and Theodore Waller and Memo--Jackson to Scandrett about Waller, 1946-1947

Box 2 Folder 2 Correspondence, Memorandum, Clippings between Scandrett and Gladwin Young, 1946 August 13-1949 January 1, 1946

Box 2 Folder 2 Correspondence between Robert Frase and Scandrett and Frase Correspondence with LaGuardia and Waller, 1946 September, 1946

Box 2 Folder 2 Correspondence between Rene C. Peer and Scandrett, 1946-1948

Box 2 Folder 2 Correspondence and Clippings between Leslie Falk and Scandrett, 1947

Box 2 Folder 2 Correspondence between Davis McEntire and Scandrett, 1947 September 19-November 18, 1947

Box 2 Folder 2 Correspondence between Scandrett and Former UNRRA Mission Colleagues Marion L. Dillon, Ethel Wykman, Eda Glaser, Julian W. Vogt, and Arthur C. Hagen, 1947-1948

Box 2 Folder 2 Correspondence--R. R. Livingstone to Scandrett, 1946 July 12-18, 1946

Box 2 Folder 2 Correspondence--Scandrett to James Stevens Simons, 1947

Box 2 Folder 2 Correspondence Leslie M. Falk to Charles Cole, Otto Manthley-Zorn and James Stevens Simons, 1947

Box 2 Folder 2 Correspondence and Clippings from Jacques A. Gerard to Scandrett, 1947 July 23, 1947

Box 2 Folder 2 Documents Relating to Scandrett's Return from Byelorussia Mission, 1946 August -1947 January, 1946

Box 2 Folder 2 Correspondence on Waller Draft of History of UNRRA Mission to Byelorussia. Correspondents include: Scandrett, Waller, Frase, Jackson, Marshall MacDuffie, Richard R. Brown, 1947 July 24-October 10, 1947

Box 2 Folder 2 Correspondence between Scandrett and Phyllis Auty (Mrs. James Grover McBurney), 1947 December 16-1948 October 25, 1947

Box 2 Folder 2 Correspondence between Scandrett and Edgar Ansel Mowrer, 1947

Box 2 Folder 2 Correspondence between Scandrett and Allice W. Ehle, Bryant Smith, Robert A. Taft, James E. Murray, Agnes Morrow Scandrett, Wallace Townsend, Shelby M. Harrison, Jackson Leighter, Eustace Seligman, Helen (Mrs. Ian) MacDonald, 1945-1949

Box 2 Folder 2 Frase to Rooks Davidson Stitt and Daderkin, 1946

Box 2 Folder 2 Correspondence and Memoranda on Scandrett Dinner Includes Correspondence of Herbert H. Lehman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Warren R. Austin, Frank Altschul, 1946 December 11, 1946

Box 2 Folder 2 Correspondence Parties Given by Soviet Embassy, 1946

Box 2 Folder 2 Correspondence and Telegrams, Reservation for Governor House, London, 1945-1946 March25, 1945-1946

Volume 20B


Box 3 "UNRRA in Byelorussia and the Ukraine--Booklet, 1946 June, 1946

Memos and Observations

Box 3 Preliminary Statement by Steiger of his Conception of his Duties as Reports Officer, undated

Box 3 Report on Conference of Mission Representatives with Mrs. Uralova, BSSR Minister of Education on Child Feeding Program, 1946 June 1, 1946

Box 3 Steiger's Summery of Observation Trips to Borisov, Orska, Vitebok, and Polatsk, 1946 June 12, 1946

Box 3 Scandrett Observation Report: Children in German Concentration Camps--Memo, 1946 June 17, 1946

Box 3 Young, Faulk and Peer Discussion with Bogonik about Headquarters and Household Problems, 1946 July 9, 1946

Box 3 Waller's Preliminary Outline of Mission Report to ERO, undated

Box 3 Davis McEntire to Scandrett on Supply Opperations--Memo, undated

Box 3 Agenda for Conference with Lostovsky and Communications to and from Lostovsky, undated

Box 3 Correspondence between La Guardia, the Mission at Minsk, and Scandrett from Warsaw Regarding Supplies Distribution and Censorship of Correspondents, 1946 June 26-July 4, 1946

Box 3 Telegram and Background Memorandum on Disciplinary Action for Day, 1946

Box 3 Mission Cables, 1946

Box 3 Resolutions at the Fourth Session of UNRRA at Atlantic City, 1946 March, 1946

Proceedings at Fifth Session of UNRRA Council at Geneva, 1946 August, 1946

Box 3 Scandrett's Directions and Travel Documents

Box 3 Message from LaGuardia

Box 3 Speech of William L. Clayton

Box 3 UNNRA Journal

Box 3 Marshall MacDuffie Statement of Resignation and LaGuardia's Cable Accepting It, 1946

Box 3 Aid for Minsk Committee Meeting in N.Y.--Kiselev Speech, Correspondence, 1946 December 1, 1946

Box 3 UNRRA Authorizations, 1946

Box 3 Fischer Book Controversy--Correspondence with MacDuffie, Cass Canfield, Harry Scherman, 1947

Box 3 "Proposal for a United Nations Emergency Food Fund"--Address of La Guardia to UN Assembly, 1946 November 11, 1946

Box 3 "The Story of UNRRA"--Pamphlet with Foreword by Director General Rooks, 1948 February, 1948

Box 3 Copy of Constitution of USSR, undated

Box 3 Memoranda on "Mission History" and Final Draft Prepared by Waller, After Revisions Made as a Result of Criticisms by Scandrett of Preliminary Drafts, 1945-1947

Box 3 General Correspondence, 1946-1947

Box 3 Articles in Foreign Policy Bulletin, 1946