Sol Stein papers, 1943-2004, bulk 1950-2004

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Series III: Organizations, 1951-1962


Sub-series III.1: Voice of America, 1951-1953


Sub-subseries 1: Transcripts



Box 48 Folder 4 Kevin David Commentaries, circa, 1950s


Box 48 Folder 5 "Whose Funeral is Next?", circa, 1950s


Box 48 Folder 6 "Russio-Polish Relations and the Murders in the Katyn Forest",, 1951 April 25


Box 48 Folder 7 "Political Geography", 1951 September 20


Box 48 Folder 8 "Life Behind the Curtain", 1952 January 30


Box 48 Folder 9 " 'Geronimo', Cried the Louse", 1952 February 27


Box 48 Folder 10 "Totalitarianism", 1952 December 11


Box 48 Folder 11 "The Freeing of Slaves", 1952 December 24


Box 48 Folder 12 "A New Year's Message to Communists", 1952 December 29


Box 48 Folder 13 "What does America Stand For?, 1953 January 2


Box 48 Folder 14 Where will you Hide?", 1953 January 19


Box 48 Folder 15 "The Declaration of Independence", 1953 January 19


Box 48 Folder 16 "The Lost Meaning of Freedom", 1953 January 26


Box 48 Folder 17 "A Symbol of Unity", 1953 January 27


Box 48 Folder 18 "This is our Answer to the Communist Purges", 1953 January 30


Box 48 Folder 19 "Five Steps for Evaluating your Society", 1953 February 4


Box 48 Folder 20 "Communist Leaders Prefer US Jail to Soviet Freedom", 1953 February 4


Box 48 Folder 21 "The Meaning of Brotherhood", 1953 February 12


Box 48 Folder 22 "Stalin and the Ten Commandments", 1953 March 9


Box 48 Folder 23 "Nobody Envies Georgi Malenkov", 1953 March 12


Box 48 Folder 24 "The Bear who Saw Red", 1953 March 19


Box 48 Folder 25 "The Trojan Dove", 1953 April 8


Box 48 Folder 26 "The World is Waiting", with Rejection Letter from the Theatre Guild,, 1953 April 16


Box 48 Folder 27 "The Rosenberg Case Nears its Conclusion", 1953 May 26


Box 48 Folder 28 "Rumanian-American Refuses to Collaborate with Communism",, 1953 May 27


Box 48 Folder 29 "Nothing but our Dead", 1953 May 27


Box 48 Folder 30 "660 Seconds to Freedom", 1953 May 28


Box 48 Folder 31 "Secretary Dulfs Reports on US Near East Relations", 1953 June 1


Box 48 Folder 32 "The Ninth Anniversary of D-Day", 1953 June 5


Box 48 Folder 33 "Worse than Murder, The Rosenberg's Crime", 1953 June 9


Box 48 Folder 34 "Rosenberg Furore, a Typical Communist Tactic", 1953 June 11



Box 49 Folder 1 "Enigma for the Communists: Government by Law", 1953 June 16


Box 49 Folder 2 "On the Horizon: European Unity", 1953 June 17


Box 49 Folder 3 "Wasting Human Lives: The Red Offensive in Korea", 1953 June 18


Box 49 Folder 4 "The Unfinished Story of Willi Gortling", 1953 June 23


Box 49 Folder 5 "Please do not Visit Our Concentration Camps", 1953 June 25


Box 49 Folder 6 "The Most Monstrous Crime of All", 1953 June 26


Box 49 Folder 7 "The Basic Issues of the Cold War", 1953 July 3


Box 49 Folder 8 "From the Communist Memory-Hole: the Ups and Downs of Thomas Masaryk",, 1953 July 9


Box 49 Folder 9 "First Report from Three-Power Foreign Ministers' Conference",, 1953 July 11


Box 49 Folder 10 "Second Report from Three-Power Foreign Ministers' Conference",, 1953 July 11


Box 49 Folder 11 "A Warning to Communists", 1953 July 14


Box 49 Folder 12 "Please Don't Leave our Soviet Paradise", 1953 July 22


Box 49 Folder 13 "Are there 800,000 Fascists Behind the Iron Curtain?", 1953 July 23


Box 49 Folder 14 "The Road to Independence and the Road to Slavery", 1953 July 24


Box 49 Folder 15 "The Human Cost of the Korean War", 1953 July 31


Box 49 Folder 16 "Red Youth Jamboree in Rumania", 1953 August 4


Box 49 Folder 17 "President Eisenhower Speaks to the Nation", 1953 August 7


Box 49 Folder 18 "The Communist Peace Offensive Takes a New Turn", 1953 August 10


Box 49 Folder 19 "Why do Communists Torture our Prisoners?", 1953 August 13


Box 49 Folder 20 "Mr. Stevenson Returns", 1953 August 21


Box 49 Folder 21 "Totalitarian Semantics", 1953 November 18


Box 49 Folder 22 "A Rose by any Other Name", 1953 December 4


Subject Files, circa 1950s


Box 49 Folder 23 The Death of Stalin, circa 1950s (14), 1950s


Box 49 Folder 24 The East German Revolt, circa 1950s (16), 1950s


Box 49 Folder 25 The Eclipse of Lawrenti Beria, circa 1950s (17), 1950s


Box 49 Folder 26 Germ Warfare, circa, 1950s


Box 49 Folder 27 The Nature of Totalitarianism, circa, 1950s


Box 49 Folder 28 One Way Traffic: The Great Exodus, circa 1950s (10), 1950s


Box 49 Folder 29 The Plot of the Kremlin Doctors, circa 1950s (15), 1950s


Box 49 Folder 30 The Rosenberg Case, A Failure of Nerve, circa 1950s (13), 1950s


Box 49 Folder 31 Satire as a Weapon, circa 1950s (12), 1950s


Box 49 Folder 32 The Soviet Peace Offensive, [undated, 1950s


Box 49 Folder 33 A Specter is Haunting Eastern Europe: Communism, circa 1950s (7), 1950s


Box 49 Folder 34 Soviet Art, circa, 1950s


Box 49 Folder 35 The Struggle for Succession, circa, 1950s



Box 50 Folder 1 US/Soviet Relations, circa, 1950s


Box 50 Folder 2 USA, the Permanent Revolution, a Brief for Democracy, circa 1950s (11), 1950s


Supplementary Materials, 1951-1953


Box 50 Folder 3 McCarthy, the Great Obfuscator, circa, 1950s


Box 50 Folder 4 Semantics: The War of Words--Draft--Incomplete, circa, 1950s


Box 50 Folder 5 Voice Points to Uprisings--Press Clipping, circa, 1950s


Box 50 Folder 6 Voice of America's Comments on Communism--Draft, circa, 1950s


Box 50 Folder 7 Broadcast Highlights--1952 December–1953 April


Box 50 Folder 8 New York Herald Tribune--Press Clipping,, 1953 January 3


Box 50 Folder 9 Policy on Religion, 1951-1953


Box 50 Folder 10 Schedule of Programs, 1953 June 17


Box 50 Folder 11 Schedule of Programs, 1953 August 7


Sub-series III.2: American Committee for Cultural Freedom, 1952-1958


Box 50 Folder 12 The Congress for Cultural Freedom--Information Booklet, circa, 1950s


Box 50 Folder 13 Correspondence, 1952-1993


Box 50 Folder 14 "Is Co-existence Possible?"--Tamiment Institute Forum, 1955 April 4


Box 50 Folder 15 "In Defense of Free Culture"--Conference Promotional Material, circa, 1950s


Box 50 Folder 16 Information Booklet, circa, 1950s


Box 50 Folder 17 Letterheads and Business Card, circa, 1950s


Box 50 Folder 18 Original Invitation to Join, circa, 1950s


Box 50 Folder 19 Press Release Announcing Sol Stein as Executive Director, 1953 August 28


Box 50 Folder 20 Report of Meetings by Sol Stein, 1952 January 4


Box 50 Folder 21 Statement Regarding Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, 1954 March 13


Box 50 Folder 22 Tiro, Hasan Muhammad--Correspondence and Press Clippings, 1955-1958


Box 50 Folder 23 "Working for the CIA and Not Knowing It"-- The New York Times--Draft, undated


Sub-series III.3: New Dramatists Committee, 1954-1962


Box 50 Folder 24 Correspondence, 1954-1962


Box 50 Folder 25 Transcript of Craft Discussion with Elia Kazan, 1955 November 7


Sub-series III.4: Mid-Century Book Society, 1959-1961



Box 51 Folder 4 Contracts, 1959-1961


Box 51 Folder 5 to 6 Correspondence, 1959-1961, (2 Folders)


Box 51 Folder 7 Minutes, 1961 November 21