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

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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