Preliminary Inventory to the Frank E. (Earl) Mason papers
| 1893 | Born, Milwaukee, Wis. |
| 1918 | Intelligence officer, 9th Infantry, U.S. Army
Instructor, Army Intelligence School, Langres, France |
| 1919 | Assistant military attaché, American Legation, The Hague; American Embassy, Berlin |
| Military observer, Berlin (March-July) | |
| Chief censor advocate, G.H.Q., Gen. Staff, German occupied area | |
| 1920-1921 | Berlin correspondent, International News Service |
| 1921 | London manager |
| 1922-1926 | Paris manager |
| 1927 | New York, business manager |
| 1928ff. | General manager and president |
| 1931-1945 | Vice-president of NBC |
| 1941-1944 | Special assistant to secretary of the Navy |
| 1946 | Member of the Food Emergency Mission |
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Lusitania story - copies of the log book of the U-including clippings, etc. 20 1915 April 30-May 13
Report on a trip to Moscow in 1930 June, by Otto Tolischus, Berlin correspondent of International News Service, to Barry Farris, General News Manager, International News Service
Telegrams from Tchitcherin to Frank Earl Mason on Russian-Polish relations, etc. 1920
Miscellany: correspondence between Frank Earl Mason and Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower, 1947; report of Baron Rochus Freiherr von Rheinbaben about his experiences in American prison camps in France, ; and clipping of an article about Herbert Hoover by Kaarlo Jarvi from an American-Finnish newspaper, 1954 August 1918-1919
Typed extracts from Essener Nationalzeitung 1932 March-1947 March
Forty-six letters from Karl von Wiegand, American newspaper correspondent (1914 to the mid-1950s) to "Ellen" (Mrs. Frank Earl Mason,) and Frank Earl Mason 1931-1934 1954-1958
Headquarters U.S. Group Control Council (Germany) Public Relations Service, "Action of the Control Council, " 1945 September 11, re transport (neg. and posit.) 1945 September 10
Reminiscences of the German Kaiser's (Wilhelm II) Imperial Pastor, Dr. von Dryander, about the Kaiser's student days at the University of Bonn, 1919.m Also statement by Dr. von Dryander about the intellectual and religious development in Germany's future, (3 items, including translations) 1920 October
Mimeographed order (18 pages) of the U.S. Army High Command, Vienna, giving instructions to the U.S. Army of Occupation authorities on arrest, detention and punishment of mandatory as well as optional classifications of Nazis 1945 August 3
Historical issue of Le Petit Journal, announcing the collapse of U.S. enemy forces, Austro-Hungary's proposal for surrender and a separate peace, and Germany's request for armistice conditions from President Woodrow Wilson 1918 October 29
Six volumes of Berlin correspondent Frank Earl Mason's International News Service dispatches, Included are interview and press articles by Moscow correspondents Louise Bryant and Anna Louise Strong 1919 October-1921 September.
Six volumes of Berlin correspondent Frank Earl Mason's International News Service dispatches, Included are interview and press articles by Moscow correspondents Louise Bryant and Anna Louise Strong 1919 October-1921 September.
Printed invitations, tickets, and memorabilia, relating to party functions of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei 1919-1935,
Das braune Haus, by A. Dresler (pamphlet)
Frank Earl Mason's correspondence file on the plot of four American newspaper people against General Patton, and incident, which occurred in at 3rd Army Headquarters in Bad Tölz, Bavaria, Germany (1 folder) 1945 September
Copy of a letter from Hanz Walz, Stuttgart, Germany, concerning plot to overthrow Hitler, and activities of former mayor Goerdeler of Leipzig, Germany. Included is a list of meditations by Brig. Gen. Carter Clarke on the 34th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, 1975 1950 April 19
Copy (neg.) of press releases, regarding the agreement to place the American line of communication under Russian control and supervision 1945
Letter to John Toland, author of a projected book on the last hundred days of World War I, concerning Frank Earl Mason's service in the 9th Infantry as Intelligence officer in France in 1918
Two pamphlets by John T. Flynn
The Thought Police: An Episode in Radical Bigotry, (2 copies) 1946
Smear Terror 1947
German Union for League of Nations, "Conditions of Peace of the Allied and Associated Powers"; complete reproduction of the official text (Berlin, Germany, H. R. Engelman 1919)
Five original Japanese propaganda leaflets, distributed by air to American troops on the Pacific Islands in 1943
Letter (2 pages) by Col. Albert L. Conger, to Captain Frank Earl Mason, regarding the Viviani (French leader) Mission to the United States 1921 April 10
Interview, entitled "Hitler's Interpreter, Dr. Paul Schmidt, in Conversation with Donald McLachlan" ( The Listener, vol. 83, no. 2142, issued by the British Broadcasting Company)
Photographs
36 post cards and prints of Adolf Hitler undated
8 post cards of Adolf Hitler, Erich Ludendorff and other defendants at the Munich Putsch trial 1923-1924
72 post cards and prints of members of the Nazi party and of Nazi party rallies and parades undated