Preliminary Inventory to the Alonzo Bland Calder papers

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Title: Alonzo Bland Calder papers
Date (inclusive): 1911-1956
Collection Number: 75007
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 46 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box (19.2 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Memoranda, reports, correspondence, clippings, photographs, and pamphlets, relating to American foreign and economic relations with China in the interwar period and immediately after World War II, and to American foreign and trade relations with the Soviet Union, Egypt and Malaya.
Creator: Calder, Alonzo Bland, 1892-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

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Biographical Note

1892 Born, Iowa
1915 Secretary to Jeremiah Smith, Jr. on relief mission to Turkey, Rockefeller Foundation
1916 Clerk, American Legation, Berne, and American Embassy, Petrograd
1917-1920 Petrograd, New York City and Shanghai in various capacities for W.R. Grace & Co.
1920-1922 Department of Commerce clerk, Peking; later, Trade Commissioner and Assistant Commercial Attache under Julean Arnold
1923-1926 Assistant Trade Commissioner, Tokyo
1926-1928 Trade Commissioner, Shanghai
1928-1930 Assistant Commercial Attache, Peking
1930-1939 Assistant Commercial Attache, Shanghai
1939-1941 Consul, Shanghai
1940 (?) Held in diplomatic custody by the Japanese until June 1942
1942 Repatriated and assigned to Moscow as First Secretary in charge of economic studies
1942-1943 Second Secretary and Consul, American Embassy, Moscow
1943-1945 First Secretary and Consul, Moscow
1945 First Secretary, American Embassy, Cairo
1945 First Secretary, American Embassy, Chungking
1945-1949 Commercial Attache, Shanghai
1952 Retired

Subjects and Indexing Terms

China -- Foreign relations -- United States
United States -- Foreign relations -- China
Diplomats -- United States
Soviet Union -- Commerce -- United States
United States -- Commerce -- Soviet Union
China -- Commerce -- United States
United States -- Commerce -- China
Egypt -- Commerce -- United States
Malaya -- Commerce -- United States
United States -- Commerce -- Egypt
United States -- Commerce -- Malaysia -- Malaya
United States. Department of State

box 1

Correspondence, family 1930-1940

 

Biography

 

Shanghai Rotary Club handbook

box 47

Pamphlets and reports on China

box 2

Correspondence, family 1940's

box 2

The Shanghai Times, issues and clippings

box 2

Pamphlet by J. Stalin, Moscow 1943

 

bank statements 1940's

box 3

Issues of Monthly Trade Report-China 1939

 

Correspondence, family 1930's

 

"A Study of China's Financial Situation," submitted by Calder, Assistant Commercial Attache, and approved by Julean Arnold, Commercial Attache

 

Private file, scrap and clipping book, Japan. Binder

box 4

Correspondence 1940-1950

 

Clippings

 

Storijec case

 

Memoranda 1940

 

Foreign Service Journal (article about John S. Service) January 1952

 

Items for scrapbook

box 5

Material for scrapbook

 

Correspondence 1940-1950

 

Clippings

box 6

Rotary Club of Shanghai talks

 

Formosa, reports

 

Calder's weekly reports as Assistant Commercial Attache 1920's

 

Reports on railways and aviation 1920's

 

Mantell's General Report and Recommendation on Chinese Railways 1930

 

Speeches

box 7

Correspondence 1945-1954

 

Calder's personnel files 1943-

 

Foreign Service Office Class 4 certificates

 

USSR identification card 1945

 

Family photographs

 

Clippings 1948-1955

box 8

Correspondence, family and professional 1944-1954

 

Moscow apartment rent receipts 1943-1944

 

Intelligence Digest, produced by Kenneth de Courcy. Also December 1948, June 1951 and July 1953

 

Bulletins, Diplomatic and Consular Officers Retired, Inc. (DACOR)

 

Clippings 1951

 

Articles, bulletins, memoranda on China and commerce

box 9

U.S. Department of Commerce Bulletins 1925

 

Monthly trade and economic reports on Japan 1924, 1925

 

American Chamber of Commerce reports and bulletins 1927

 

1925, incident propaganda May 30,

 

Correspondence 1925-1929

 

Issues: The Shanghai Evening Post, 1930; Shanghai News, ; others 1951

box 10

Textile Procurement in the Military Services, USGPO 1955,

 

Charges and Countercharges Involving...Senator Jose McCarthy...USGPO

 

Salient Facts About China, by Julean Arnold, Pamphlet 1926.

 

Speeches 1926

 

Correspondence, personal and business, , Includes Julean Arnold 1918-1951

 

The Botanic Garden, The Sun Yat-sen Tomb and Memorial Park, Nanking, China.

 

Address book. Pamphlet with diagram of garden and description

 

Booklet of information, The American Company, Shanghai Volunteer Corps 1917

box 11

Calder family photographs

 

Album of pictures of factories in China

 

Correspondence 1932-1948

box 12

Calder family photographs and pictures of the Calders in China

box 13

Correspondence 1928-1957

 

Speeches 1926, 1928

 

Pamphlets

box 14

Unbreakable China; Coalition Government (Original copy from Yenan), by Mao Tse-tung, (?) 1947

 

Clippings: Washington Post, New York Times, Singapore Standard, others

box 15

Correspondence and memoranda 1930-1955

 

Speech material

 

Weekly reports of activities 1934-1937

 

Clippings 1932-1952

 

The scrapbook of life for Rowland

 

Diary May 6-8, 1946

 

Contacts, Chinese and foreign

 

Chinese American Trade

 

Congressional hearings: Security-Government Printing Office; Subversive Influence in the Educational Process; Transfer of Occupation Currency Plates-Espionage Phase

box 16

Correspondence and memoranda 1925-1955

 

American Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai, correspondence and bulletins 1927

 

China in Chaos, North China Herald, April 1927; Bolshevik Activities in China; Some Documents Seized in the Soviet Military Attache's Office in Peking on April 6, 1927, American Chamber of Commerce Memorandum No. 13; two pamphlets by Chiang Kai-shek, April 1927; Manifesto to the People and Declaration to Kuomingtang Members

 

Weekly Reports 1927-1928

 

Tariff reports

 

Activities/Diary 1926-1929

box 17

Clippings on China-Japan controversy 1931

 

Sino-Japanese conflict clippings, map; Official Documents Relating to Japan's Undeclared War in Shanghai, Lowe Chuan-hua, compiler and editor, published by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai 1932

 

Soviet Russia bibliography; Sino-Soviet relations

 

Speeches 1928, 1931, 1936

 

Weekly Economic Reports, Special Report No. S-52 1937; February 15, 1940

 

Weekly Reports May-July 1935

 

Maps of China, Japan, others

 

Correspondence, memoranda, pamphlets 1927-1941

box 18

Correspondence 1940-1956

 

Correspondence with R. J. Phillips 1926

 

Institute of Pacific Relations hearings in U.S. Senate 1952

 

A Study of China's Financial Situation, by Calder 1937

 

Clippings 1949-1952

box 19

Correspondence 1928-1951

box 20

Pamphlets include: Mutual Security Agency, The Economic cooperation Administration (The Marshal Plan), China's Fate and America's Future, by Julean Arnold Why Not Recognize Red China Now? by Ernest K. Moy, Report of the China-United States Agricultural Mission, Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations, U.S.D.A. 1950-1952; 1940; 1952; May 1947

 

Clippings 1950-1954

 

Congressional hearings: Communist Infiltration Among Army Civilian Workers; Communist Infiltration in the Army

 

Correspondence 1935-1954

box 21

Correspondence 1937-1952

 

Pension data

 

Tobacco (trade)

 

Pamphlets include American Business With East Asia, by Gunther Stein, Institute of Pacific Relations, Intelligence Digest September 1947; January 1951

 

Soviets: Issues of Novosty Dnia, Novaya Zhizn 1945, 1946;

 

Clippings 1945-1951

box 22

Correspondence 1948-1952

 

Road maps

 

United Business Service Reports 1953

box 23

Log book October 23, 1945-September 1947

 

Letters from Nelle and Rowland, (wife and son) 1951

 

U.S. Senate Hearing, Special Senate Investigation on Charles and Countercharges Involving: Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens, John G. Adams, H. Struve Hensel and Senator Joe McCarthy, Roy M. Cohn, and Francis P. Carr, Par 40-Park 64

 

Arnold, Mrs. Julean, letter about Arnold's suicide

 

Miscellany

box 24

Correspondence and miscellaneous 1947-1953

 

Father's letters

 

Pamphlets

 

Clippings 1948-1951

 

Calder's Desk File, a binder with photographs, issues of China Trade Bulletin, correspondence about products, trade, customs 1918,

box 25

Address books

 

desk calendar 1935

 

Statements of account and correspondence with T. Bone 1951

 

Soviets. Includes Institute for the Study of the History and Culture of the U.S.S.R., Munich 1953

 

Correspondence 1945-1952

 

Pamphlets and miscellaneous

box 26

U.S. Senate Hearing, Special Senate Investigation on Charges and Countercharges Involving: Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens, John G. Adams, H. Struve Hensel and Senator Joe McCarthy, Roy M. Cohn, and Francis P. Carr, Part 13-Part 20; Part 21-Part 39

 

Study Group, U.S.S.R.

 

Alonzo Bland Carter August-October 1954

box 27

Correspondence 1918-1938

 

Biography

 

Miscellaneous notes, addressed, etc.

 

U.S. Department of Commerce, Foreign Commerce Service, China Monthly Trade Report January 1, 1932

box 28

U.S. Department of Commerce, American Commercial Attache, China Monthly Trade Report January 1927-January 1928; November 15, 1938; March 15, 1939

 

Correspondence

 

Clippings

 

American Chamber of Commerce Bulletins, Shanghai 1928

 

Soviet Union

 

Pamphlets and reports, including China Through the American Window, by Julean Arnold 1932

box 29

Private file of A. Bland Calder. Letters of commendation

 

Speeches and writings

 

China Lobby

 

Visitor's (business) cards, Two binders 1927.

 

Personal file of Alonzo Bland Calder Speeches and special articles on China situation

box 30

Congressional hearings on National and International Movements; Harold E. Talbott, Secretary of the Air Force;

 

Subversion and Espionage in Defense Establishments and Industry; Joe McCarthy

 

Diary 1933

 

Correspondence 1940-1955

 

Clippings and pamphlets

 

Study Group, U.S.S.R.

 

Egypt 1944, 1945

 

Miscellany

box 31

Correspondence 1942-1953

 

Miscellany

 

Clippings

 

Speeches and writings

 

Telephone directory of Singapore and Johore Bahru 1950

 

China Annual Economic Report for 1937

 

Monthly Trade Report, China November 15, 1938

 

Correspondence

box 32

1919-1930

box 32

1923-1954

 

Miscellany

 

Clippings

 

Pamphlets include Travel Diary of a Shanghai Editor: 1948, by Randall Gould

box 33

Correspondence 1919-1930

 

Correspondence - Ethel 1919-1923

 

Speeches

 

Lecture on the economy of the Soviet Union

 

Speech, Kiwanis Club, Carmel, California July 8, 1954

 

Kohlberg, Alfred

 

McConaughy, Walter

 

Letters to reference people

 

World Affairs Council, study group on U.S.S.R.

box 34

Calder, personal 1945-1948

 

Miscellany 1946-1947

 

China and other briefings (commerce) 1946-1947

 

Russian individuals and suspects 1945-1949

 

Letters to and from Nelle 1945-1949

 

Economic information on the U.S.S.R.

 

Moscow papers (correspondence 1943-1944)

box 35

Clippings and pamphlets

 

Miscellany

 

Correspondence 1925-1952

 

Egypt

 

World affairs

 

Schwarz, Ernest, Dr. and Dr. Bruce L. Canaga

box 36

Matters to take up in the U.S.

 

Storojev, S.

 

Correspondence 1932-1948

 

Digaut, M.

 

Miscellany

 

House at 593 Amherst Avenue, Shanghai. House No. 11, 1945-1947

 

campaign to ungoof goofs (Chinese communism) 1950

 

M.W. Hudson's affairs (fund in trust)

 

Stamps

 

Meigs & Co.

 

Christopher's affairs (James Christopher)

 

Packing list

 

Florida

box 37

Formosa

 

European tour papers

 

Representation allowance

 

Rationing, food, consumer goods

 

Scrapbook

 

U.S.S.R. reports, clippings and pamphlet, XXV Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution by J. Stalin, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow 1942

 

Clippings 1951

 

Personal 1942, 1951

box 38

Schrifrin, G. 2 House, 366 Tunsin Road, Shanghai

 

Letters to be answered on vessel

 

Pamphlet, clippings 1945-1946

 

Hong Kong, Calcutta, London

 

Motor car documents

 

Scroll (retirement 1952)

 

Correspondence with Nelle 1922-1923

 

Department of State appointments, leaves, etc.

 

Status - Bureau authorizations, salary, pay-cuts, etc.

 

Inventory of household goods, insurance

box 39

Accounts

 

Assets and liabilities

 

Correspondence

 

General

 

B

 

Blanche

 

Bureau

 

C

 

Calder, A.B. (father)

 

Calder, Wilhelmina (mother)

 

Calder, Willard (brother)

 

H

 

Hall, Joseph

 

Kilham, George

 

M

 

S

 

Miscellany

 

Peking Work

 

Slogan, mottoes, etc.

 

Souvenir documents

 

Switzerland

 

Taxes, income

 

Rugs

 

Family photographs

box 40

Retirement

 

Diet

 

Correspondence 1950-1955

 

Carmel (California) 1952-1954

 

Railways, Chinese

 

Photographs

 

News release material

 

Pertinent sayings

 

Status and salary

 

Private papers

box 41

Correspondence, Personal and miscellaneous 1922-1950

 

Lawrence's letters (Lawrence Tsang) 1950

 

ECAFE (Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East) 1948

 

Speeches and writings

 

Alonzo Bland Calder's salary, etc.

 

Appointment certificates

 

Travel

 

Travel orders for family

 

Miscellany

 

Grace Rowland correspondence 1950

 

Alaska

 

Servants

 

Coke file (Coca Cola)

 

Singapore 1948

 

Travel to Tokyo

 

Home leave 1948

 

Inspector's report, Commercial Section 1948

 

List of reports and dispatches 1946-1947

 

Russian data

 

Clippings 1945

box 42

Congressional committee hearings

 

Reciprocal trade agreements

 

Briefing of VIPs. Includes Albert C. Wedemeyer

 

Wedemeyer, Albert C.

 

Annual report on Soviet Union 1944

box 43

Correspondence 1918

 

Speeches and writings

 

Railways

 

Hong Kong 1947-1948

 

Lawrence Tsang correspondence 1950-1952

 

Scrapbook

 

Travel vouchers

 

Miscellany

 

Shanghai

 

Soviet Union; Albert C. Wedemeyer

box 44

China trade and industry

 

Household accounts 1929-1948

 

Invitations

 

Singapore

box 45

Shanghai; scrapbook

 

Miscellany

 

Special reports, Japan 1935

 

Notes for reports

 

Monthly trade and economic reports, Japan 1926

 

Personal

 

Advertising matter to be dealt with

 

Moore, Letters to

 

Newspaper issues

box 46

China Courier July 13, 1927

box 46

China Mail November 1, 1948

 

China Press

box 46

July 2, 1932

box 46

July 18, 1941

box 46

July 20, 1946

 

Malaya Tribune

box 46

May 27, 1949

box 46

June 30, 1950

box 46

Moscow News May 1, 1943

box 46

The Municipal Gazette July 1, 1932

box 46

The New Leader March 8, 1947

box 46

Our Life. Nasha zhizn: Natsional'nyi nezavisimyi demokratich. Organ evr. (eiskoi) mysli May 1946

 

Shanghai Evening Post

box 46

January 31, 1930

box 46

July 2, 1932

box 46

March 21, 1941

box 46

April 27, 1949

box 46

April 28, 1949

box 46

Shanghai News July 17-22, 1951

box 46

Siberian newspaper, "purchased at a station by me en route from Petrograd to Vladiskvostok by 'get away' express. Trip took 33 days and nights." 1918

box 46

South China Morning Post November 1, 1948