Register of the Robert Allen Griffin papers

Finding aid prepared by Grace M. Hawes
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Title: Robert Allen Griffin papers
Date (inclusive): 1942-1971
Collection Number: 75027
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 13 manuscript boxes, 3 envelopes (5.7 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, memoranda, speeches and writings, photographs, and printed matter, relating to American technical and economic assistance missions to China and Southeast Asia.
Creator: Griffin, R. Allen (Robert Allen), 1893-1981
Creator: Lapham, Roger D. (Roger Dearborn), 1883-1966

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1975.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Robert Allen Griffin papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical List

1893, September 27 Born, Kansas City, Missouri
1917 B. A., Stanford University
1917-1919 Military service
1919 Reporter, Portland Oregonian and Portland Journal, Portland, Oregon
1919-1920 Secretary to First Polish Minister to U.S., Prince Lubormirski
1920-1921 Director, Polish Bureau of Information
1921 Manager, American Polish Chamber of Commerce
1922 Founder and publisher, Monterey Peninsula Herald, Monterey, California
1935 Founder of radio station, KDON, Del Monte, California
1941-1945 Military service
1942 Co-author, The School of the Citizen Soldier
1948-1949 Deputy Chief, U.S. Economic Cooperation Administration, China
1950 Chief, U.S. Department of State Economic Mission to Southeast Asia
1950-1951 Director, U.S. Economic Cooperation Admnistration, Far East Program Division
1951-1952 Special Representative of the Far East, U.S. Economic Cooperation Administration and Mutual Security Agency

Subjects and Indexing Terms

China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949
Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- China
Vietnam -- History
Economic assistance, American -- China
Economic assistance, American -- Southeast Asia
Technical assistance, American -- Southeast Asia
Technical assistance, American -- China
Indochina -- History
United States. Department of State
United States. Economic Cooperation Administration

 

CORRESPONDENCE 1942-1971

Arrangement Statement

Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
box 1

Unidentified 1949-1951

box 1

Badger, Vice Admiral Oscar 1949

box 1

Baker, John Earl 1949

box 1

Bissell, Richard M., Jr. 1951

box 1

Bolling, Major General A. R. 1948

box 1

Bramblett, Ernest K. 1951

box 1

Butterworth, W. Walton 1950

box 1

Caldwell, J. Alexander 1971

box 1

Chang, C. C. 1949

box 1

Chennault, Major General Claire E. 1948

box 1

Chiang Mon-lin 1949

box 1

Clay, Eugene H. 1952

box 1

Cleveland, Harlan 1948-1949

box 1

Cline, Howard M. 1952

box 1

Cochran, Ambassador H. Merle 1950

box 1

Coombe, Reginald G. 1949

box 1

Cooney, P. S. n.d.

box 1

Davis, Ritchie G. 1948

box 1

Eldridge, Fred L. 1948-1949

box 1

Fishel, Wesley R. 1966

box 1

Flegel, Austin 1952

box 1

Foster, William C. undated

box 1

Gould, Dorothy, (Mrs. Randall) 1948

box 1

Gould, Randall 1948

box 1

Hayes, Samuel P. 1968

box 1

Hoffman, Paul G. 1949

box 1

Hopkins, Paul S. 1949

box 1

Hopkins, Peter S. 1949

box 1

Jessup, Ambassador at Large, Philip C. 1949

box 1

Josselyn, Windsor 1948

box 1

Keswick, John 1949

box 1

Knowland, Senator William F. 1948-1949

box 1

Lapham, Roger D. 1948-1950

box 1

Lear, Lieutenant General Ben 1942-1945

box 1

Li Ming 1949-1956

box 1

Little, L. K. 1948-1950

box 1

McAfee, William undated

box 1

McCune, Shannon 1952-1955

box 1

Mack, Harold L. 1948

box 1

Meiklejohn, Norman 1949

box 1

Merchant, Livingston T. 1949-1961

box 1

Morin, Relman 1948

box 1

Morris, Frances 1952

box 1

Moyer, Raymond T. 1953-1960

box 1

O'Donnell, William 1948-1949

box 1

Price, Harry B. 1954-1955

box 1

Rusk, Dean 1961

box 1

Sae Woon Chang 1952

box 1

St. Louis, George 1950

box 1

Samson, Henry T. 1948-1949

box 1

Savoy, Willard W. 1952

box 1

Shen, H. J. 1949

box 1

Simpson, Roy 1952

box 1

Spruance, Admiral Raymond A. 1952

box 1

Stuart, Ambassador J. Leighton 1949

box 1

Sumner, John D. 1949

box 1

Symington, Charles J. 1951

box 1

Throp, Colonel Elliot W. 1949-1952

box 2

Topping, Seymour 1952

box 2

Watkins, Frank T. 1948

box 2

Webb, James E. 1950-1951

box 2

Wedemeyer, Lieutenant General Albert C. 1949-1950

box 2

Wood, C. Tyler 1952

box 2

Wu, K. C. 1949-1952

box 2

Yen Hsi-shan 1948

box 2

Miscellaneous 1948-1952

 

SUBJECT FILE 1945-1970

Scope and Contents

Memoranda, reports, printed material, correspondence, etc., arranged alphabetically by title or subject
box 2

Ambasade de France

box 2

American Firms in Shanghai

box 2

Asia

box 2

China

box 2

China Relief Mission

box 2

China Weekly Review

box 2

Collected memoranda and letters 1945-1951

 

Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA)

 

China 1948-1949

box 2

Aid Program

box 2

Background material

box 2

Chiang Kai-shek

box 2

Cleveland, Harlan

box 2

Committee meeting notes

box 3

Correspondence

box 3

Doughty, C. J., Jr., Briefs and analyses of newspapers 1948-1949

box 3

Financial documents

box 3

Greene, George M.

box 3

Griffin, R. Allen - Trip to Washington, D.C. January 1949

box 3

Hoffman, Paul G.

box 3

Japan - Exports and imports

box 3

Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction

 

Lapham, Roger D.

box 3

Correspondence, press conference, speech

box 3

Daily schedule, (incomplete) 1948-1949

box 3

Li Tsung-jen

box 4

Office memoranda 1948-1949

 

Office reports 1948-1949

box 4

China Textile Review

box 4

Chronological Highlights of the ECA Supply Situation During the North China Crisis

box 4

Final Report - Cotton Program - Tientsin

box 4

First Report for the Public Advisory Committee

box 4

Future China Aid

box 4

General Situation Report - Tientsin

box 4

Miscellaneous

box 4

Monthly Report, Number 1 September 1948

box 4

Monthly Report, Number 2 October 1948

box 5

Monthly Report, Number 3 November 1948

box 5

Monthly Report, Number 5 January 1949

box 5

Monthly Report, Number 6 February 1949

box 5

Monthly Report, Number 7 March 1949

box 5

Monthly Graphic Report December 1948

box 5

Monthly Personnel Report December 1948

box 5

Monthly Status Report February 1949

box 6

Northwest China

 

Port Operations in China

box 6

December 1948

box 6

February 1949

box 6

March 1949

box 6

Provincial governments

box 6

Report from the Northwest March 1949

box 6

Status of ECA Operations in Shanghai

box 6

Suggested Major Points for Aid-To-China Legislation

box 6

Summary of ECA China Aid Program January 1949

box 6

Summary Statement - Extension of China Aid Program April -December 1949

box 6

Supplemental Estimate April 1948 -April 1949

box 6

Telephone Directory December 1948

box 6

Travel orders, itineraries, etc.

box 6

Trip report, Nanking December 14, 15, 1948

box 6

Trip report, Taiwan May 1949

box 6

West China and the ECA Program

box 6

Personnel

box 6

Price, Harry B.

 

Printed Material

box 6

Chinese News Service, (incomplete) 1948-1949

box 7

Chinese Press Review, (incomplete) 1948-1949

box 7

Daily Translation Service, (incomplete) April -May 1949

box 7

United States Information Service (USIS) - Daily News Bulletin, (incomplete) 1948-1949

box 7

United States Information Service (USIS) - Foreign Service News Digest, (incomplete) 1948-1949

box 8

Maps of China and Japan

box 8

Newspaper clippings

box 8

Newspaper supplements October 10, 1948

box 9

Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury, (incomplete) February -March 1949

box 9

Miscellaneous

box 10

Public Advisory Committee

box 10

Reconstruction and Replacement Program

box 10

St. Louis, George, "Observations on Communist China," June 1950

box 10

Telephone conversation notes

 

Far East Program Division 1950-1951

box 10

Committee directory

box 10

Correspondence

box 10

Office memoranda 1950-1951

 

Office reports 1950-1951

box 10

Cottage Industries, Philippines

box 10

Fiscal status report

box 10

Program operation report

box 10

Taiwan report

box 10

The Technical Assistance Program

box 10

Philippines

box 10

Eller, E. M., "United States Disaster in China," July 1949

box 11

Great Britain

box 11

Griffin, R. Allen - Biographical materials

box 11

Hanna, Willard A., "Bung Karno's Indonesia," September -December 1959

box 11

India

box 11

Indochina

box 11

Indonesia

box 11

International Conference on Agriculture and Cooperative Credit, Berkeley, California 1952

box 11

Japan

box 11

Lear, Lieutenant General Ben

box 11

McCarran, Pat

box 11

Meng, C. Y. W., "A Chinese View of American Aid," and Moy, E. K., "A Chinese-American View of American Aid," March 1949

box 11

Miscellaneous

box 11

Mission to Southeast Asia 1950

box 11

Mok, Poon-Kan, "Asia Today and the Western World," 1959

box 11

Moyer, Raymond T., "The Economic Cooperation Administration Program in Taiwan," Address before the Chinese Association for the United Nations at Taipeh, Taiwan March 17, 1951

box 12

Mutual Security Agency 1951-1952

box 12

South Asia professional roster 1955

box 12

Southeast Asia

box 12

Stillman, Charles L., "Fertilizer Recommendations," July 1948

box 12

Stuart, J. Leighton

box 12

Taiwan

 

United States

box 12

Department of State

box 12

Technical and Economic Assistance Programs

box 12

Vietnam

 

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS 1948-1960

Scope and Contents

Articles and speeches by R. Allen Griffin, arranged alphabetically by title or subject.
box 12

"Challenge of Southeast Asia," 1950

box 12

"China Changes Dynasties," 1949

box 12

"The History of the 13th Infanty Regiment," (possibly written by R. Allen Griffin) 1945

box 12

Memorandum on the Far East prepared for Ambassador at Large, Philip C. Jessup, (with Roger D. Lapham) 1949

box 12

"Must Indo-China Be Lost?" 1952

box 12

Notes on daily activities July -August 1948

box 12

"On the Occasion of the Arrival of the 300th Shipload of Commodities for the China Aid Program," 1949

box 12

Speech for Mr. Richard Bissell on Asian problems, (outline) 1951

box 12

Statement on departure from China 1949

box 12

"United States Policy Problems in Southeast Asia," Claremont, California 1952

box 12

Miscellaneous parts of speeches, notes, etc.

 

PHOTOCOPIES OF DE-CLASSIFIED MATERIAL

box 13

General

 

PHOTOGRAPHS

General note

See photo card catalog.
envelope A

19 prints of R. Allen Griffin; 1 print of R. Allen Griffin with unidentified man; 2 negatives, undated

envelope mB

1 group print of Mr. and Mrs. Roger D. Lapham, Mr. and Mrs. R. Allen Griffin and others during U.S. Economic Cooperation Administration - China Mission, 1948-1949; 3 prints of R. Allen Griffin and others signing contracts related to U.S. Economic Cooperation Administration - China, 1948-1949; 5 prints of Paul G. Hoffman's visit to China, December, 1948, including group prints with Chiang Kai-shek, Li Tsung-jen, J. Leighton Stuart and Roger D. Lapham; 1 group print of R. Allen Griffin, Henry T. Samson, Roger D. Lapham, Dr. Sun of, Lewis Clark, Wu Te-chen; 7 negatives

envelope C

2 miscellaneous prints undated