Register of the U.S. Civil Affairs Training School, Stanford University Records, 1942-1945
Processed by David Jacobs; machine-readable finding aid created by
Michael C. Conkin
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-6010
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Fax: (650) 725-3445
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Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved.
Register of the U.S. Civil Affairs Training School, Stanford University Records, 1942-1945
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California
Contact Information
- Hoover Institution Archives
- Stanford University
- Stanford, California 94305-6010
- Phone: (650) 723-3563
- Fax: (650) 725-3445
- Email: archives@hoover.stanford.edu
- Processed by:
- David Jacobs
- Date Completed:
- 1998
- Encoded by:
- Michael C. Conkin
© 1998 Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: U.S. Civil Affairs Training School, Stanford University records
Date (inclusive): 1942-1945
Collection number: XX413
Creator:
United States. Civil Affairs Training School, Stanford University.
Physical Description: 59 manuscript boxes, 1 card file box, 3 phonorecords
(25 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, financial and personnel records, handbooks, syllabi,
and instructional materials, relating to the politics, governments, economies and
cultures of Japan, other areas in the Pacific, and various countries in Europe; and
intelligence assessments of the war in the Pacific.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
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Also available on microfilm (65 reels).
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], U.S. Civil Affairs Training School, Stanford University
Records, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Access Points
Military government.
Universities and colleges--United States.
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Ocean.
World War, 1939-1945--Europe.
World War, 1939-1945--Japan.
World War, 1939-1945--Occupied territories.
Europe.
Japan.
Oceania.
United States--Foreign relations.
United States--Armed Forces.
Education.
Phonorecords.
Historical Note
As United States involvement in the Second World War deepened, the American military
began to make contingency plans based on the likelihood of an eventual Allied victory and
the need for qualified personnel to administer the occupation of liberated countries in
Europe and Asia. In 1943, a training program for such personnel was established at
Stanford and other universities (including Harvard and the Universities of Chicago and
Michigan) under the authority of the Office of the Provost Marshal General of the United
States Army. This program, known as the United States Civil Affairs Training School (or
CATS) program, drew upon military personnel with experience in civil affairs or with
special language abilities. The schools' curricula involved intensive courses in the
languages, history, sociology, and culture of the various countries which were considered
likely to be occupied by Allied forces. Particular emphasis was placed on the study of
the economies of these countries, and exercises were conducted which simulated the kinds
of problems likely to be encountered by occupation authorities.
The CATS program drew extensively upon the resources of the universities with which it
was associated. At Stanford, university officials and faculty were recruited for the CATS
program, and both the staff and the research materials of the Hoover Library played an
important role in the program. Because of the need for Japanese language instructors, the
CATS program also recruited among the Nisei population in the various relocation camps
established after the American entry into the war. These Nisei instructors had to receive
special permission from the American military in order to participate in the CATS
program.
The CATS program operated at Stanford University from late 1943 until the middle of 1945.
Throughout most of this time, its director was Harold Fisher, a Hoover Library official.
Scope and Content Note
The U.S. Civil Affairs Training School, Stanford University collection in the Hoover
Archives consists largely of the school's academic and adminstrative records. There is a
large amount of the course material used in classroom instruction (see ACADEMIC FILE),
extensive personnel records (see ADMINISTRATIVE FILE), as well as numerous reports and
intelligence estimates used for research by students (see RESEARCH MATERIAL). Much of
this material gives insights into the concerns of American military planners regarding
postwar occupation regimes, as well as indicating the military's perceptions of enemy
countries, both as military powers and as socio-cultural formations.
There is material in the collection which discusses the origins of the school, its role
within the administrative hierarchy of the Office of the Provost Marshal General, and its
relations with other CATS programs (see ADMINISTRATIVE FILE, CORRESPONDENCE, and SUBJECT
FILE). The question of the use of Nisei instructors is documented in the personnel
records of the school.
Container List
Box 1-13
ACADEMIC FILE, 1943-1945
Scope and Content Note
Assignments, correspondence, dispatches, drills, examinations, exercises, homework,
invoices, lectures, memoranda, messages, notes, outlines, printed matter, reports, and
syllabi, arranged alphabetically by physical form
Box 1-10
Course material, 1943-1945. Assignments, drills, examinations, exercises, homework, lectures, outlines, and syllabi
Subject file, 1943-1945. Correspondence, dispatches, invoices, memoranda, messages, notes, reports, and printed matter
Civil Affairs Training School, Actual Demonstration Exercise (CATSADE). Material relating to exercises simulating the military
occupation of German and Japanese cities
Box 13-29
ADMINISTRATIVE FILE, 1943-1947
Scope and Content Note
Announcements, balance sheets, budgets, bulletins, charts, clippings, contract,
correspondence, directories, forms, memoranda, personnel records, printed matter,
purchase orders, receipts, regulations, reports, requisitions, rules, and schedules,
arranged alphabetically by physical form
Box 13, Folder 4-5
General. Notes and miscellany, 1943-1945
Folder 6
Announcements and bulletins, 1943-1944
Folder 1-2
Accounts, 1943-1946. Balance sheets and ledger books
Folder 3-4
Budgets, 1943-1945. Includes some correspondence
Requisitions. Includes purchase orders and receipts
Personnel records. Correspondence, forms, and memoranda
Folder 5
Staff. Includes administrators, secretaries, and technical assistants
Folder 3
Rules and regulations, 1943-1944
Subject file, 1943-1945. Correspondence, memoranda, notes, printed matter, and reports
Folder 2
Complaints and suggestions
Folder 3
United States. Army. Western Defense Command
Folder 4
United States. Army Service Forces. Army Specialized Training Division, 9-L
United States. War Relocation Authority
Folder 7
Telephone bills. Includes correspondence
Folder 8
Yearbook. Three printed copies
Box 29-31
CORRESPONDENCE, 1942-1945.
Scope and Content Note
Letters and memoranda addressed to individuals, organized by name of school official sending or receiving correspondence.
Arranged alphabetically by name of school official
Folder 10
Anderson, Ronald, 1944-1945
Folder 5
Patten, Nathan van, 1943-1945
Folder 6
Sokol, Anthony, 1944-1945
Box 32-34
LIBRARY FILE, 1943-1945.
Scope and Content Note
Acquisition records, bibliographies, circulation records, correspondence, filing index, holdings records, loan records, memoranda,
printed matter, and reports, arranged
alphabetically by physical form. See also CARD FILE
Box 32, Folder 1-2
General, 1943-1945. Correspondence and reports
Acquisition records. Consists largely of lists of materials received
Folder 4
Bibliographies, 1943-1945
Folder 5
Circulation records, 1943-1945
Subject file, 1943-1945. Correspondence, memoranda, and printed matter
Box 34-37
OFFICE OF THE PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL FILE, 1943-1945.
Scope and Content Note
The U.S. Civil Affairs Training School program was under the adminstrative supervision of the Office of the Provost Marshal
General of the U.S. Army, and the Stanford school reported directly to this office. Correspondence, memoranda, organizational
charts, and reports
Folder 9
Gorman, Robert, 1944-1945
Folder 10
Gullion, Allen, 1943-1944
Box 35, Folder 1
Heffner, Hubert, 1943-1944
Folder 5
Moulton, William, 1944-1945
Folder 6
Robison, H. E., 1943-1945
Folder 7
Shoemaker, James, 1943-1944
Folder 9
Van Wagenen, Richard, 1943-1944
Folder 3
Organizational charts, 1943-1945
Subject file, 1943-1945. Correspondence and memoranda
Box 37-42
PUBLICATIONS FILE, 1944-1945.
Scope and Content Note
Material relating to publications produced by the U.S. Civil Affairs Training School, Stanford University. Correspondence,
drafts, outlines, printed matter, and questionnaires, arranged chronologically and by degree of completion
Box 37, Folder 3-4
Special Reports on Germany Prepared by Officer Students of the Civil Affairs Training School at Stanford Unversity, n.d. Printed copies
Civil Affairs Handbook on Japan, 1944. Sections 1, 6, and 16 of this handbook were produced at Stanford
Correspondence, 1944-1945
Box 38, Folder 1-5
Questionnaires, 1944. Includes responses
Civil Affairs Handbook on Japan
Printed copy, 1944 (provisional edition)
Folder 6
Section 1, Geographical and social background
Box 41, Folder 1-2
Section 1, Geographical and social background
Folder 3-5
Section 6, Natural resources
Folder 6
Section 16, Public welfare
Box 42, Folder 1-2
Section 16, Public welfare
Box 42-56
RESEARCH MATERIAL, 1943-1945.
Scope and Content Note
Printed material, much of it orginally classified or otherwise restricted, used by students and faculty of the U.S. Civil
Affairs Training School at Stanford University. Intelligence digests and estimates, reports, and translations, arranged by
physical form
Box 42
Intelligence digests and estimates, 1943-1945
Japan and the Pacific Theater
Folder 3-5
Far East Intelligence Notes. Material prepared by the Office of Strategic Services
Reports, 1943-1946. Includes material prepared by various intelligence agencies
Folder 4-5
Military Government Field Reports. Issued by the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, U.S. Navy Department
Folder 4-5
Iron and steel industries
Box 50
Power industry. Material produced by the Office of Strategic Services (incomplete)
Box 54, Folder 1
Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
Russia. See Japan/Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
Box 55, Folder 1-4
Translations, 1943-1945. Articles translated into English from the Japanese press and government publications
Box 57-59
SUBJECT FILE, 1943-1945.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, instructional material, notes, printed matter, reports, and serial issue
Box 57, Folder 1-2
Captured German documents. Target lists of documents captured or sought by the American military (not the documents themselves)
Folder 4
United States. Army. School of Military Government, Charlottesville, Virginia
Folder 5-7
United States. Civil Affairs Holding and Staging Area, Presidio of Monterey
Box 58, Folder 1
United States. Civil Affairs Holding and Staging Area, Presidio of Monterey
United States. Civil Affairs Training School
Box 60
CARD FILE, 1943-1945.
Scope and Content Note
Card catalog listing holdings in the Hoover Library used by the U.S. Civil Affairs Training School, Stanford University
Box 59 and Record cabinet
box-folder 59 : envelope A
Photograph of class trip to Yosemite National Park
1945
Record cabinet
Colonel Diller's speech at the Civil Affairs Training School
undated
Access Information
Use copy reference number: xx413_a_0005704
Scope and Content Note
Diller speaks to military students about to enter World War II. He begins by explaining to the audience what they can expect
at Casa. He says comparing Charlottesville to Casa is analogous to Athens and Sparta. He also speaks about the war. (3 discs)
Reading room workstation
DECLASSIFIED U.S. GOVERNMENT RECORDS,
1944-1945.
Scope and Content Note
Formerly security-classified records of the U.S. government, released in full or in part. Available as PDF files. The PDF
files are page images, so full-text search is not possible. Arranged chronologically by date of release by Hoover, thereunder
by date of creation.
Reading room workstation
Records released in 2010,
1944-1945
