Finding Aid of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Records LSC.1041

Finding aid prepared by Saundra Taylor, February 1969; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
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Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration records
Creator: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1041
Physical Description: 8.5 Linear Feet (17 boxes and 1 oversize box)
Date (inclusive): 1945-1948
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.

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[Identification of item], United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Records (Collection 1041). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

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UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9942339033606533 

Scope and Content

Collection consists of research materials, pamphlets, newspapers, press releases, books, news bulletins, art prints, and ephemera distributed by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (UNRRA) and collected by David N. Leff while on assignment with the UNRRA Mission in Yugoslavia. Many of the pamphlets and periodicals are in Russian, Serbo-Croation, French, and other languages.

Expanded Scope and Content Note

This collection consists largely of research materials collected by David Leff while on assignment with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (UNRRA) in Yugoslavia. The bulk of the collection is composed of pamphlets, newspapers, press releases, and news bulletins distributed by UNRRA, covering the years 1945-1948. Though much of the material is in English, many of the pamphlets and periodicals are in Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and various other languages.
  • London, Jack. Iron heel (Penguin, paperback copy).
  • The Communist: Organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (1 copy of each issue in collection). Placed in the Extremist Collection (Collection 50). Available in Library Special Collections, UCLA.
  • Fast, Howard. The Incredible Tito (1 copy).
  • Borba. Organ Komunisticke Partije Jugoslavije (incomplete). Belgrade, May 1, 1947-February 2, 1948 (A complete bound copy of Borba, 1945-1962, is available in the Young Research Library, newspaper stacks).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Yugoslavia -- History, 1945-1980 -- Archives.
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration -- Archives

 

Book Materials

box 1

Research materials for a book, arranged in folders by planned chapter.

Scope and Contents note

Materials include newspapers, excerpts from the Jugoslavia Basic Handbook, photographs, pamphlets, bulletins, some manuscript material, letters, periodicals, clippings, excerpts from articles and reports, and news bulletins.
Chapter headings are:
  • 1) "Old Jugoslavia"
  • 2) "Axis Onslaught"
  • 3) "Occupation"
  • 4) "Partisan Resistance"
  • 5) "Mihailovic -- Hoax or Hero?"
  • 6) "Chronicle of War"
  • 7) "People's Authority"
  • 8) "Old Order Changeth"
  • 9) "Federated People's Republic"
  • 10) "Gentle Revolution"
  • 11) "New Democracy"
  • 12) "Lifeboat of State"
  • 13) "UNRRA"
  • 14) "New Deal, South Slav Style"
  • 15) "Plan and People"
  • 16) "Russian Question"
  • 17) "Neighbors"
  • 18) "Clouds in the West"
box 2

Notes on index cards -- probably arranged for the book.

General Physical Description note: (3 bundles)
box 2

Notebook, March 10-23, 1945.

box 2

Bibliography of The Gentle Revolution, by David N. Leff. n.p., n.d.

General Physical Description note: (Typescript, 13 leaves)

Scope and Contents note

Also a carbon copy.
box 2

Key to bibliography, n.p., n.d.

General Physical Description note: (Typescript, 1 leaf)

Scope and Contents note

Also 3 carbon copies.
box 2

Letter from Thomas A. Bailey to David N. Leff. Stanford, January 3, 1941.

General Physical Description note: (Holograph, 1 leaf)

Scope and Contents note

Including enclosure.
box 2

Orders and passes, 1944-1945.

General Physical Description note: (8 items)
box 2

Miscellaneous ephemera.

General Physical Description note: (8 items)
box 2

Metal signs, saying "Dangerous to lean out" in various languages.

General Physical Description note: (5 items)
 

Documents and Reports

box 2

The Progress of Reconstruction in Jugoslavia. UNRRA Jugoslav Mission, Economic Reporting Division, January-June 1946.

Scope and Contents note

Press releases on Economic Subjects issued by the Ministry of Information, F.P.R. of Jugoslavia:
  • Report no.1, January 1946.
  • Report no.2, February 1946.
  • Report no.3, March/April 1946.
  • Report no.4, May/June 1946.
box 3

Monthly Mission Report. UNRRA Jugoslav Mission, Belgrade. Office of Public Information, May 1945-June 1946; August-November 1946.

General Physical Description note: (18 items)
box 4

Monthly Mission Report. UNRRA Jugoslav Mission, Belgrade. Office of Public Information, December 1946-March 1947.

General Physical Description note: (4 items)
box 4

"Survey of Distribution of UNRRA supplies, " UNRRA Jugoslav Mission: Division of field operations and distribution. January-May 1946.

box 4

"Distribution and rationing of supplies in Jugoslavia: Report of the distribution control unit" (n.d., postdates ). December 26, 1946

box 4

"UNRRA Jugoslav Mission: Historical monograph on UNRRA regional office for Bosnia and Hercegovina at Sarajevo." By Barratt-Brown, Michael. Belgrade, April 1947.

General Physical Description note: (132 leaves)
box 4

"60,000 Young Jugoslavs build a railway line." By Leff, David N. UNRRA Jugoslav Mission: Office of Public Information, Belgrade, September 1946.

 

Confidential Material (English)

box 4

The Cetniks, a survey of cetnik activity in Yugoslavia, April 1941-June 1944. G-2 (Pb), A.F.H.Q., September 1944.

General Physical Description note: (2 vol.)
box 4

The National Liberation Movement of Yugoslavia: a survey of the Partisan movement, April 1941-March 1944. P.I.C.M.E., June 1944.

General Physical Description note: (2 copies)
 

Secret Material - Jugoslavia Basic Handbook

box 4

Supplement..., January 1944.

box 4

Population of Jugoslavia, (based on data available June 1946.

box 4

Part 1 - Pre-Invasion, August 1943.

box 4

Part 2 - Post-Invasion, August 1943.

box 4

Map section, August 1943.

 

Division of Operational Analysis, UNRRA European Regional Office

box 4

Transport rehabilitation in Jugoslavia (Operational Analysis papers, no.27), February 1947.

box 4

Distribution of UNRRA supplies in Jugoslavia (Operational Analysis papers, no.29), March 1947.

 

Miscellaneous Documents (Dittoed)

box 4

II. Food, n.d

General Physical Description note: (13 leaves)
box 4

The problem of nationalities in Yugoslavia in the light of the national Liberation struggle, December 1942.

General Physical Description note: (7 leaves)
box 4

Yugoslavia from Versailles to Paris. By Vladimir Dedijer, n.d.

General Physical Description note: (5 leaves)
box 4

An interview with General McLean. Translated from "Nova Jugoslavia" (p.13), n.f.

General Physical Description note: (7 leaves)
box 4

Declaration of Dr. Subasic's Government (p.98), August 7, 1944.

General Physical Description note: (6 leaves)
box 4

Jugoslav commercial agreements with other countries. UNRRA-Jugoslav Mission: Statistics branch. July 8, 1946.

General Physical Description note: (1 leaf, carbon copy)
box 5

Jugoslav War Crimes Commission. Report to the International Tribunal, Nuernberg.

General Physical Description note: (87 leaves)
box 5

Jugoslav War Crimes Commission. Report to the International Tribunal, Nuernberg.

General Physical Description note: ([33] leaves)
box 5

Jugoslav Document Book (miscellaneous documents - translated into English).

box 5

Explanatory Notes on Jugoslav Documents.

General Physical Description note: ([6] leaves)
box 5

"Report on Italian crimes against Yugoslavia and its Peoples." State Commission for the investigation of war crimes. Belgrade, 1946.

General Physical Description note: (199pp.)
box 5

"Les sacrifices de la Yougoslavie en vies humaines et en beins dans l' effort de guerre de " Commission des Réparations de la République Fédérative Populaire de Yougoslavie. 1941-1945.

General Physical Description note: (57pp.)
box 5

"The debate on the budget for 1946." Speeches made by the ministers of the government of the F.P.R.J. Ministry of Information. Belgrade, April 1946.

General Physical Description note: (92pp.)
box 5

"The war effort of Yugoslavia, " The Military-Historical Institute of the Federated People's Republic of Yugoslavia. 1941-1945.

General Physical Description note: (41pp. and 5 fold-out maps)
box 5

"People's youth of Yugoslavia" (in 3 languages).

box 5

Yugoslavia (vol.1, no.1). Belgrade, October 1947.

box 5

Memorandum of the regional national liberation committee for the Slovene littoral and Trieste.

General Physical Description note: (23 leaves)
box 5

Memorandum of the government of the Federative People's Republic of Yugoslavia on the economic problem of Trieste.

General Physical Description note: (16 leaves)
box 5

Annex to the memorandum of the government of the Federative People's Republic of Yugoslavia on the economic problem of Trieste.

 

Daily News Bulletins

General Physical Description note: (Carbon copies)
box 6

June-December 1945.

General Physical Description note: (6 folders)
box 7

January-June 1946.

box 8

July-November 1946.

General Physical Description note: (Ditto copies)
box 9

December 1946-January 1947.

box 10

January-February 1947.

box 11

February-April 1947.

box 12

April-May 1497.

box 12

News bulletins (no.7-9), Published by TANJUG (Telegraphic Agency New Yugoslavia). April 26, 28, & May 1, 1949.

General Physical Description note: (3 items)
box 12

News clippings (Various papers and periodicals), v.d.

General Physical Description note: (11 folders)

Scope and Contents note

re Communism, Eastern Europe, Yugoslavia, and related subjects.
box 12

"Budget speeches," 1947.

Scope and Contents note

Also 5-year plan. Included are Jugoslav newspapers, (scattered issues), and dittoed material.
 

United Nations Materials

box 12

Charter of the United Nations, together with the Statute of the International Court of Justice. San Francisco, 1945.

box 12

Tomasevich, Jozo. "Postwar Economic Relations." In Yugoslavia: Foreign Economic Relations, 1918-1941. University of California Press, 1949.

General note

(Reprint from United Nations Series)
 

UNRRA Materials

box 12

First session of the Council of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Selected documents: Atlantic City, New Jersey, November 10-December 1, 1943.

box 12

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration: Resolutions adopted by the Council at its second session, held at Montreal, September 16-26, 1944. London, 1944.

box 12

UNRRA at work (no.1-6). London, June 1946.

  • "UNRRA: Structure and operations"
  • "UNRRA in Greece"
  • "UNRRA in Jugoslavia"
  • "UNRRA in Albania"
  • "UNRRA in Poland"
  • "UNRRA in Czechoslovakia"
box 12

A compilation of the resolutions on policy: Fifth session of the UNRRA Council. Geneva, 1946.

box 12

The story of UNRRA. Washington, February 15, 1948.

 

Pamphlets and Books, in English and French

box 13

The British-Yugoslav association, London

box 13

Wallace, Betty. The trial of Dr. Aloysius Stepinac, 1947.

box 13

Youth builds a railway, April 1947.

box 13

Yugoslavia faces the future: The story of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, 1947.

box 13

Yugoslavia today and tomorrow, Summer 1948.

box 13

Kardelj, Edvard. The march of Yugoslavia. United Committee of Yugoslavs, London, 1945.

box 13

Marshal Tito speaks. United South Slav Committee, London, 1944.

box 13

Yugoslav youth fights back. By Captain Slavko Kumar.United South Slav Committee, London, 1944.

box 13

The epic of Yugoslavia. Described by Marshal Tito and his Generals. United South Slav Committee, London.

General Physical Description note: (96pp.)
box 13

Adamic, Louis, ed. Liberation. United Committee of South-Slavic Americans.

box 13

Kardelj, Edvard. Jugoslavia's Claim to Trieste. United Committee of South-Slavic Americans.

box 13

Pirinsky, George. For a free Macedonia. United Committee of South-Slavic Americans.

box 13

Report on New Yugoslavia. By eleven members of the British Parliament. United Committee of South-Slavic Americans.

box 13

Taylor, A.J.P. Trieste. United Committee of South-Slavic Americans.

box 13

Tito, Josip Broz. The Yugoslav People's fight to live. United Committee of South-Slavic Americans.

General Physical Description note: (2 copies)
box 13

Tito, Josip Broz. Yugoslavia's Foreign Policy. United Committee of South-Slavic Americans.

box 13

The Bulletin (incomplete), United Committee of South-Slavic Americans. October 1943-December 1946.

box 13

These are the people.... American Committee for Yugoslav Relief.

General Physical Description note: (2 copies)
box 13

6 untitled flyers. American Committee for Yugoslav Relief.

box 13

Extracts from field trip report of Philip E. Nelbach, United Yugoslav Relief Fund of America. 1948.

box 13

The Slavic American; a quarterly, United Yugoslav Relief Fund of America. Summer 1948 and Fall 1948.

box 13

Crimea Conference Report, Woodrow Wilson Foundation. March 1945.

box 13

How will the United Nations Work? Woodrow Wilson Foundation. July 1945.

box 13

Official documents issued during the two world wars, Woodrow Wilson Foundation. May 1945.

box 13

Pamphlets on Tito

box 13

Fast, Howard. The incredible Tito; man of the hour, 1944.

General Physical Description note: (2 copies)
box 13

Fast, Howard. Tito and his people, 1944.

box 13

Pamphlets on Yugoslavia

box 13

Cok, Ivan M. The first to resist; story of the first underground movement in this war. London, 1945.

box 13

Constitution of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. Washington, D.C., 1946.

box 13

Religion in Yugoslavia.... By seven American Protestant clergymen and editors of religious journals who visited Yugoslavia in the summer of 1947 .

box 13

Statuts de la jeunesse populaire Yougoslavie, 1946.

box 13

Trieste. Embassy of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, Washington D.C., 1946.

General Physical Description note: (2 copies)
box 13

Trivanovitch, Vaso. Mihailovich's treason: documentary evidence. Acorn: Ridgefield, Connecticut, 1946.

box 13

Yugoslavia: the people's revolution and education (N.E.F. Monograph no.8). London: New Education Fellowship, 1947.

 

Miscellaneous Pamphlets - Various Subjects

box 13

Brown, Harold Chapman. What is philosophy? Published by California Labor school.

box 13

Constitution (fundamental law) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Moscow, 1944.

box 13

Statement of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. Beograd, 1948.

box 13

United Nations Charter - with explanatory notes.... (International Conciliation, no.413). New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1945.

box 13

Weatherwax, John M. Peace key. Los Angeles, 1946.

 

Books

box 13

Ilin, M. New Russia's primer: the story of the 5-Year Plan. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931.

box 13

La ligne des jeunes; oeuvre de la Jeunesse Populaire de Yougoslavie.

 

Periodicals

box 14

Trideset Dana, November 1945-May 1947.

General Physical Description note: (14 items)
box 14

The Modern Quarterly. London, 1947-1948.

  • vol.2, no.3 (Summer 1947)
  • vol.3, no.1 (Winter 1947-1948)
  • vol.3, no.2 (Spring 1948)
box 14

Changing Epoch Series (no.1-4). London.

Scope and Contents note

"Studies on the new economic, social, and cultural developments that are taking place in the world today."
box 14

The Communist: organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

Scope and Contents note

no.1, October 1946(2 copies, 1 bound).
no.2, January 1947 (2 copies, 1 bound).
box 14

"How should we meet the threat of the New Comintern?" In Town Meeting, vol.13, no.28 (). [Bulletin of America's Town Meeting of the Air, broadcast by stations of the American Broadcasting Company]. November 4, 1947

box 14

Viesnik Rada: le messager du travail, November 1946-May 1947.

box 15

Jež (weekly periodical, incomplete), October 13, 1945-April 24, 1948.

box 14

Kerempuh. Zagreb, 1947.

General Physical Description note: (2 issues)
 

Miscellaneous Books and Pamphlets

box 16

Miscellaneous books and pamphlets in Serbo-Croatian and Russian.

Scope and Contents note

Includes Dnevnik, by Vladimir Dedijer, with copious notes in English.
box 17

Miscellaneous books and pamphlets in various languages -- not English or French.

 

Oversize Materials

box 18

Group of loose-leaf art prints, apparently in Russian, 1947.

General Physical Description note: (25 leaves, accompanied by 2 leaves of text)
box 18

For a lasting peace, for a People's Democracy! Organ of the Information Bureau of the Communist Parties. Belgrade, March 1, 1948-April 1, 1949.

General Physical Description note: (9 issues)