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BIOGRAPHICAL FILE 1934-1981

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, legal documents, clippings and printed matter, relating to Eugene Lyons' career, financial matters, health, and family.
box 1, folder 1

Addresses, calling cards

box 1, folder 2

Awards, certificates

box 1, folder 3

Biographical notes

box 1, folder 4-5

Clippings

box 1, folder 6

Insurance on personal possessions 1970

box 1, folder 7

Lease on Moscow apartment 1934

box 1, folder 8

Lyons, Yetta, medical history 1968-1973

 

CORRESPONDENCE 1938-1981

Scope and Contents note

Letters, including attached reports, memoranda, printed material, notes and clippings. Arranged alphabetically.
 

General

box 1, folder 9-12

Miscellaneous

box 1, folder 13

Russian refugees in Carinthia, Austria 1949

box 1, folder 14

Unidentified

box 1, folder 15

Adler, Julius 1950

box 1, folder 16

Allilueva, Svetlana 1967, 1969

box 1, folder 17

Alsop, Joseph 1953

box 1, folder 18

American Committee for Liberation 1959

box 1, folder 19

Antin, Anthony 1976

box 1, folder 20

Arlington House Publishers 1976

box 1, folder 21

Aronina, Ida 1977

box 1, folder 22

Ball, George W. 1972

box 1, folder 23

Berger, Ira M. 1976

box 1, folder 24

Bergman, B. A. 1967

box 1, folder 25

Blagowidow, George 1976

box 1, folder 26

Brock, Irene 1978

box 1, folder 27

Brownell, William 1976-77

box 1, folder 28

Buckley, William F. 1968-69, 1976, 1978

box 1, folder 29

Burnham, James 1969

box 1, folder 30

Callaway, Lew L. ( Newsweek) 1967

box 1, folder 31

Canby, Vincent 1971

box 1, folder 32

Center for the Survival of Western Democracies 1979

box 1, folder 33

Chellson, Elizabeth 1978

box 1, folder 34

Colebrook, Joan 1974

box 1, folder 35

Conquest, Robert 1968-69

box 1, folder 36

Corletti, Lawrence A. 1975

box 1, folder 37

Cowles, Gardner 1967

box 1, folder 38

Davis, Jerome 1950

box 1, folder 39

Deal Lake Motel, Asbury Park, New Jersey 1976

box 1, folder 40

Dodd, Thomas J. 1964

box 1, folder 41

Dodds, Harold W. 1964

box 1, folder 42

Dutch Treat Club 1978

box 1, folder 43

Eastman, Max 1953, 1965

box 1, folder 44

Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1964

box 1, folder 45

Elez, Andrew 1981

box 1, folder 46

Ellender, Allen J. 1958-59

box 1, folder 47

Estabrook, Howard 1969

box 1, folder 48

Forster, Mr. 1962

box 1, folder 49

Geltman, Max 1979

box 1, folder 50

Glenny, Michael 1969

box 1, folder 51

Gotlieb, Howard B. 1965

box 1, folder 52

Granfar, Moosa 1959

box 1, folder 53

Greenwood Press 1977

box 1, folder 54

Grunblatt, David 1979

box 1, folder 55

Hansen, Clifford P. 1967

box 1, folder 56

Harriman, W. Averell 1963

box 1, folder 57

Hatfield, Mark 1979

box 1, folder 58

Henderson, Loy 1974

box 1, folder 59

Hillman, Rita K. 1975

box 1, folder 60

Hook, Sidney 1968

box 1, folder 61

Hoover, Herbert 1959

box 1, folder 62

Hoover, Herbert Jr. 1960, 1963

box 1, folder 63

Human Events 1959

box 1, folder 64

Internal Revenue Service 1979

box 2, folder 1

Johnson, Allen 1979

box 2, folder 2

Johnson, Lyndon B. 1962

box 2, folder 3

Kaganski, Zakhary 1934

box 2, folder 4

Kastner, Alton 1960

box 2, folder 5

Kaufman, Bel 1964, 1966

box 2, folder 6

Kohler, Foy D. 1976

box 2, folder 7

Labin, Suzanne 1970

box 2, folder 8

Lamont, Corliss 1964

box 2, folder 9

Lewis, Hobart 1973

box 2, folder 10

Lewis, Marx 1967

box 2, folder 11

Linville, Dr. 1938

box 2, folder 12

Litante, Judith 1979

box 2, folder 13

Lodge, John Davis 1967

box 2, folder 14

Lofton, John D. 1964

box 2, folder 15

Lovestone, Jay 1967

box 2, folder 16

Lyons, Dan 1976, 1979

box 2, folder 17

Lyons, Gretchen n.d.

box 2, folder 18

Marin, Luis Munoz 1960

box 2, folder 19

Matthews, Ruth I. 1979

box 2, folder 20

May, Ronald W. 1959

box 2, folder 21

Methvin, Gene 1967

box 2, folder 22

Montgomery, Robert H. 1958

box 2, folder 23

Munson, Lyle H. 1963

box 2, folder 24

Muntzel, R. J. 1963

box 2, folder 25

Navrozov, Lev 1974

box 2, folder 26

New York Times Magazine 1959

box 2, folder 27

Nixon, Richard M. 1961, 1963, 1968

box 2, folder 28

Norwood, James E. 1968, 1975

box 2, folder 29

Overseas Press Club of America 1979

box 2, folder 30

Possony, Stefan 1975

box 2, folder 31

Raynes, Julius 1971

box 2, folder 32

Reagan, Ronald 1966

box 2, folder 33

Reid, Helen 1953

box 2, folder 34

Robinson, Ione 1976

box 2, folder 35

Roche, John P. 1968

box 2, folder 36

Russell, Mr. 1961

box 2, folder 37

Samuel French, Inc. 1980

box 2, folder 38

Sargent, Wyn 1968

box 2, folder 39

Sarnoff, David 1952, 1965

box 2, folder 40

Scott, John 1976

box 2, folder 41

Seversky Electronatom Corporation 1975

box 2, folder 42

Smith, Harrison 1952

box 2, folder 43

Sourwine, J. G. 1974

box 2, folder 44

Spivak, Lawrence 1977

box 2, folder 45

Sulzberger, Mr. 1950

box 2, folder 46

Sutton, Anthony 1968

box 2, folder 47

Thayer, Peter J. 1978

box 2, folder 48

Thomas, Lowell 1967

box 2, folder 49

Truman, Harry S. 1964

box 2, folder 50

Tyrmand, Mr. 1968

box 2, folder 51

U.S. Information Agency 1966-67

box 2, folder 52

University of Oregon Library 1966, 1980

box 2, folder 53

Voice Publishing Company (Seoul, Korea) 1971

box 2, folder 54

Wallace, De Witt 1959, 1971, 1976

box 2, folder 55

Welch, Robert 1959

box 2, folder 56

Whitehill, F. S. n.d.

box 2, folder 57

Wick, James L. 1964

box 2, folder 58

Wiley, Charles 1960

box 2, folder 59

Wolfe, Bertram D. 1973

box 2, folder 60

Yoken, Mel B. 1976

 

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS 1919-1976

Scope and Contents note

Typescript and printed copies, with related notes and source materials, reviews, memoranda, press releases, clippings, correspondence, and miscellany. Arranged chronologically.
 

General

box 2, folder 61-62

Undated articles, drafts, notes

box 3, folder 1-4

Undated articles, drafts, notes

box 3, folder 5

1919-1945

box 3, folder 6

1946-1954

box 3, folder 7

1946-1955

box 3, folder 8

1956-58

box 3, folder 9

1956-1964

box 4, folder 1

1956-1976

box 4, folder 2

1959-1963

box 4, folder 3

1959-1974

box 4, folder 4

1966-1974

box 4, folder 5

Correspondence relating to various articles and books 1937-39

 

Research notes and clippings

box 4, folder 6

Khrushchev, Nikita S., research notes

 

Lenin, Vladimir I. Research notes, clippings.

box 4, folder 7-8

General

box 4, folder 9

After 1905

box 4, folder 10

Armand, Inessa

box 4, folder 11

Character, personality

box 5, folder 1

Chernyshevsky and other influences

box 5, folder 2

Childhood, youth

box 5, folder 3

Death and embalment

box 5, folder 4

German funding

box 5, folder 5

Last years

box 5, folder 6

Petersburg and Siberian exile

box 5, folder 7

Sealed train and arrival in Petrograd

 

Soviet Union. Research notes, clippings.

box 5, folder 8-9

Authors, poets, and the Kremlin

box 5, folder 10-11

Fiftieth anniversary 1967

box 5, folder 12

U.S. foreign relations 1961.

box 5, folder 13

"The Apotheosis of Lenin: Stalin's Revenge," Typescript. n.d.

box 6, folder 1

"Chassidism," Typescript and handwritten draft. n.d.

box 6, folder 2

"A Clinical Study in Political Hypocricy," Typescript. n.d.

box 6, folder 3

"Detente: A Dangerous Western Fantasy," Typescript. n.d.

box 6, folder 4

"Detente: The Great Hoax or the Appeasements That Failed," Typescript. n.d.

box 6, folder 5

"Education a la Carte," Typescript. n.d.

box 6, folder 6

"Epitaph for Anna Louise," Typescript. n.d.

box 6, folder 7

"The Ferments in Soviet Youth," Typewritten draft with annotations. n.d.

box 6, folder 8

"Former People," Typescript. n.d.

box 6, folder 9

"Hard to Take 'Naked Truth'," radio broadcast, "Opinioncasts," Broadcast Editorial Reports (NY), Printed copy. n.d.

box 6, folder 10

"Is Dulles Fit to Be Secretary of State," Typescript. n.d.

box 6, folder 11

"Law," Typescript. n.d.

box 6, folder 12

"The Man Who Quarreled With His Ghosts," Typescript. n.d.

box 6, folder 13

"Peace Symbol - A Kremlin Football," radio broadcast, "Opinioncasts," Broadcast Editorial Reports (NY), Printed copy. n.d.

box 6, folder 14

"The Poet and the Commissars," Typescript. n.d.

box 6, folder 15

"A Ready-Made Reputation," Typescript. n.d.

box 6, folder 16

"The Red Nightmare," speech, Chicago, Typescript with annotations. n.d.

box 6, folder 17

"The Red Sell," Typescript. n.d.

box 6, folder 18

Response to critical article by Moishe Nadir, Typescript. Included is a clipping in Hebrew. n.d.

box 6, folder 19

"Scoreboard of Soviet Promises," Typescript. n.d.

box 6, folder 20

"Soviet Russia: Its Regime and Its People," Typescript. n.d.

box 6, folder 21

Stalin interview, notes on, Typescript. n.d.

box 6, folder 22

"A Strategy Against Communism," Typescript. n.d.

box 6, folder 23

"The Vlasov Movement," Parts I-III, North American Alliance, Typescript. n.d.

box 6, folder 24

"Second Generation Aliens," The Nation, Printed copy. April 25, 1923.

box 6, folder 25

"A Code of Conduct for Soviet Youth," Literary Digest, Printed copy. February 17, 1934.

box 6, folder 26

"Farewell to Moscow," New Outlook, Printed copy. March 1934.

box 6, folder 27

"Moscow Romance," Typescript. June 23, 1934.

box 6, folder 28-29

Assignment in Utopia, 1937. Correspondence relating to 1937-38

box 7, folder 1

Letter to the Editor, Freethinker, Typescript. March 18, 1938.

box 7, folder 2

"The Menace of Totalitarianism," an address before The Catholic League, New York, Printed copy. April 21, 1940.

box 7, folder 3

The Red Decade, Correspondence relating to, 1941. 1941.

box 7, folder 4

"An Open Letter to Vice President Wallace," American Mercury, Printed copy. January 1943.

box 7, folder 5

"Cooperating With Russia," American Mercury, Printed copy. May 1943.

box 7, folder 6

"The Progress of Stalin Worship," American Mercury, Printed copy. June 1943.

box 7, folder 7

"A Letter to American Liberals," American Mercury, Printed copy. May 1944.

box 7, folder 8-11

If This Be Treason: An Autogiography by Victor Kravchenko (As Told to Eugene Lyons), Typescript. 1946.

box 7, folder 12

"Youth Wants to Know," radio broadcast, NBC, Printed copy. March 7, 1954.

box 7, folder 13

"Grandparents," Typescript. April 1954.

box 7, folder 14

"A Call to Anger," American Mercury, Printed copy. December 1954.

box 7, folder 15

"Can We Outlaw War?" radio broadcast discussion, "The American Forum," NBC, Printed copy. May 8, 1955.

box 7, folder 16

"They Chose Freedom, But What Are They Getting?" American Friends of Russian Freedom Bulletin, Printed copy. June 1955.

box 7, folder 17

"Stalin's Ghost As Scapegoat," Human Events, Printed copy. May 12, 1956.

box 7, folder 18

Letter to the Editor, New York Times, Printed copy. June 12, 1957.

box 7, folder 19

"Herbert Hoover: Triumph of Integrity," Human Events, Printed copy. August 3, 1957.

box 7, folder 20

"Khrushchev - The Killer in the Kremlin," The Reader's Digest, Printed copy. September 1957.

box 7, folder 21

"Yugoslav Youth in Revolt," Spokane Review, Printed copy. November 20, 1957.

box 7, folder 22

"Negotiating With the Kremlin," The Reader's Digest, Printed copy. April 1958.

box 7, folder 23

"The Refugee Residue: A Free World Failure," The Reader's Digest, Printed copy. May 1958.

box 7, folder 24

"Soviet Russia: Its Regime and Its People," (?). Typescript with annotations. 1959

box 7, folder 25

Confidential memorandum on the work of Dr. Max Jaccobson, Typescript. January 19, 1959.

box 7, folder 26

"Why the United States Should Stand Fast in Berlin, Quemoy, and the Middle East," an address before the Detroit Economic Club, Typescript. February 16, 1959.

box 7, folder 27

"Folklore of the Right," National Review, Printed copy. April 11, 1959.

box 7, folder 28

"The Crimes of Khrushchev," Part I, testimony before the House of Representatives, Committee on Un-American Activities, Printed copy. September 4, 1959.

box 7, folder 29

"Coming: A Red Renaissance in America," American Legion Magazine, Typescript. October 1959.

box 7, folder 30

Letter to the Editor, Winston-Salem Journal, Printed copy. October 30, 1959.

box 8, folder 1

Remarks at "Know Your America Week," New Bedford, Massachusetts, Typescript. November 28, 1959.

box 8, folder 2

"How the Communists Train Cold Warriors," (?). Typewritten draft. 1960

box 8, folder 3

"Russia's Megaton Poem," Midstream, Autumn Printed copy. 1961.

box 8, folder 4

Remarks on a trip to the Far East and Middle East, Typescript. May 9, 1961.

box 8, folder 5

"Specter of Freedom Over the Kremlin," Typewritten draft with annotations. September 1963.

 

Herbert Hoover: A Biography 1964.

box 8, folder 6

Correspondence relating to 1964-65

box 8, folder 7-9

Source materials

box 8, folder 10

"Russian Labor Camps-1965," Typescript. May 1965.

box 8, folder 11

"Is a New Revolution Brewing in the U.S.S.R.?" The Reader's Digest, Printed copy. October 1965.

 

David Sarnoff: A Biography 1966.

box 8, folder 12

Correspondence relating to 1964-66

box 9, folder 1

Preliminary drafts

box 9, folder 2

Reviews

box 9, folder 3-5

Typescript

box 9, folder 6

Fifty Years of Soviet Communism, Typescript. 1967.

box 9, folder 7

Operation Suicide, Printed copy. 1967.

 

Workers' Paradise Lost 1967

 

Correspondence, readers' reactions

box 9, folder 8

1967

box 10, folder 1

1967-69

box 10, folder 2

Publicity material

box 10, folder 3

Reader's Digest condensation. Printed copy.

box 10, folder 4-7

Reviews

box 11, folder 1-4

Reviews

box 11, folder 5-6

Source materials

box 12, folder 1

Speech, University of New Mexico, Typescript. November 7, 1967.

box 12, folder 2

Eulogy for Ida Kohlberg, Typewritten draft. February 13, 1968.

box 12, folder 3

Review of Special Counsel by William Rusher, National Review, Printed copy. June 18, 1968.

box 12, folder 4

Interview with Herbert Hoover Oral History Program, Typescript. October 4, 1968.

box 12, folder 5

Radio interview with Dean Manion, Printed transcript. March 21 and 28, 1971.

box 12, folder 6

Response to News Digest International (Australia), Typewritten letter to the editors. June 1973.

box 12, folder 7

Statement of Principles, Committee to Unite America - For America, Typescript. September 1973.

box 12, folder 8

"Detente: A Western Fantasy," Annotated draft typescript copy. 1974.

box 12, folder 9

Untitled article on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, North American Newspaper Alliance, Typescript. January 3, 1974.

box 12, folder 10

"The Gulag Archipelago - Solzhenitsyn May Help West Break Through the Amnesia," North American Newspaper Alliance, Typescript. January 5, 1974.

box 12, folder 11

Remarks at a testimonial for David Martin, Washington Hilton Hotel, Typescript. Newspaper Alliance, Typescript. February 6, 1974. February 15, 1974.

box 12, folder 11A

Untitled article on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, North American

box 12, folder 12

"Solzhenitsyn Defused," North American Newspaper Alliance, Typescript. February 16, 1974.

box 12, folder 13

"Panama Canal," North American Newspaper Alliance, Typescript. March 7, 1974.

box 12, folder 14

"Trade With Russia: U.S. Still Hasn't Learned," North American Newspaper Alliance, Typescript. March 7, 1974.

box 12, folder 15

"Panama Canal," North American Newspaper Alliance, Typescript. March 12, 1974.

box 12, folder 16

"'Instant' China Experts: Wrong From the Beginning," North American Newspaper Alliance, Typescript. April 16, 1974.

box 12, folder 17

"The War's Unmentionable Footnote: Solzhenitsyn Reminds World of Tragic Vlasov Episode," North American Newspaper Alliance, Typescript. April 20-21, 1974.

box 12, folder 18

"Hoover: Achievements Have Withstood the Test of Time," North American Newspaper Alliance, Typescript. August 3/4, 1974.

box 12, folder 19

Remarks on Herbert Hoover Centennial, Typewritten draft. August 10, 1974.

box 12, folder 20

Untitled article on the American Revolution, North American Newspaper Alliance, Typescript. February 14, 1975.

box 12, folder 21

"Modern 'George Washington' Bear," North American Newspaper Alliance, Typescript. February 18, 1975.

box 12, folder 22

"The South Vietnamese Vote With Their Feet," North American Newspaper Alliance, Typescript. March 21, 1975.

box 12, folder 23

Allilueva, Svetlana

box 12, folder 24

American-Chilean Council 1979

box 12, folder 25

Blacklisting and McCarthyism

 

Captive Nations

box 12, folder 26

1959-1971

box 12, folder 27

1963-65

 

China

box 13, folder 1-4

General 1970-76

box 13, folder 1-4

Foreign relations 1971-74

box 14, folder 1

Cold War 1960-62

 

Communism

box 14, folder 2

Cuba

box 14, folder 3

Poland

box 14, folder 4

Vietnam

box 14, folder 5

Farkas, Zoltan, Farkas, Richard, Jeff-Craig Associates 1975-76

box 14, folder 6

Lazo, Mario

box 14, folder 7

"Liberal Papers," 1959-1960

box 14, folder 8

Mano, Keith

box 14, folder 9

Moore, Fred H.

box 14, folder 10

Overseas Press Club of America, membership directories 1956-57, 1966, 1980

box 14, folder 11

Perwicz, Daniel

box 14, folder 12

Rosenberg, Ethel and Julius

box 14, folder 13

Sacco-Vanzetti Case

box 14, folder 14

Seversky, Alexander P. de

box 15, folder 1

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

box 15, folder 2

Sonnenfeldt, Helmut

 

Soviet Union

box 15, folder 3

General 1964-1974

box 15, folder 4

Anti-Semitism

box 15, folder 5

Dissent

box 15, folder 6

Famine 1932-34

box 15, folder 7

Forced labor camps

box 15, folder 8

Jewish emigration

box 15, folder 9

Politics and government 1967-69

box 15, folder 10

Psychiatry abuse for political repression 1972-74

box 15, folder 11

Religion 1971

box 15, folder 12

U.S. foreign relations with communist countries 1959-1973

 

U.S. - Soviet relations

 

General

box 15, folder 13

1955-1964

box 16, folder 1

1959-1973

box 16, folder 2

Exchange of technology and trade 1966-1963

box 16, folder 3

Trade 1967-1974

box 16, folder 4

Witkin, Zara

 

Miscellaneous

box 16, folder 5

General

box 16, folder 6-7

Kataev, Valentin, Squaring the Circle, Includes correspondence 1931. 1935-37

box 16, folder 8

Navrozov, Lev, "The Invisible War," 1975

box 16, folder 9

Zoffer, Gerald, "It's Everybody's Business," n.d.

 

PAMPHLET FILE 1929-1976

Scope and Contents note

Pamphlets arranged alphabetically by author or issuing agency.
 

General

 

America's Future, Inc.

box 16, folder 10

"Communism - A Plan for World Conquest," 1976

box 16, folder 11

"Readings for Liberty," 1976

box 16, folder 12

American-Asian Educational Exchange, "Mao - War or Peace," 1970

box 16, folder 13

Bales, James D., "Senator Fulbright's Secret Memorandum," 1962

box 16, folder 14

"Bob Considine," 1975

box 17, folder 1

Flynn, John T., "While You Slept - Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It," Devin-Adair Company, New York 1958

 

National Strategy Information Center

box 17, folder 2

"Problems of Strategy in the Pacific and Indian Oceans," 1970

box 17, folder 3

Soviet Policy Warfare Techniques 1972

box 17, folder 4

Reader's Digest The Eisenhower Essays 1969

box 17, folder 5

Redemption! Jewish Freedom Letters From Russia, American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry 1972

box 17, folder 6

Truth About Cuba Committee, "Cuba Disproves the Myth That Poverty is the Cause of Communism," January 1963

box 17, folder 7

Young, Patricia, The Death Peddlers: Communist China's Opium War on the West 1969

 

Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA)

box 17, folder 8

The Communist Position on the Negro Question n.d.

box 17, folder 9

Foster, William Z., Questions and Answers on the Piatakov-Radek Trial, Workers Library Publishers, New York 1937

box 17, folder 10

Olgin, M. J., Trotskyism: Counter-Revolution in Disguise, World Library Publishers, New York 1935

box 17, folder 11

Piatnitsky, O., The World Economic Crisis, World Library Publishers, New York n.d.

 

Stalin, Joseph

box 17, folder 12

Foundations of Leninism, International Publishers, New York 1932

box 17, folder 13

Mastering Bolshevism, Workers Library Publishers, New York 1937

box 17, folder 14

The Stakhanov Movement in the Soviet Union, Workers Library Publishers, New York 1935

box 17, folder 15

Stalin's Speeches on the American Communist Party, Central Committee of the CPUSA, New York 1929

box 17, folder 16

The World Situation, The Internal and International Position of the Soviet Union, International Publishers, New York 1934

 

OVERSIZE FILE 1928-1967

Scope and Contents note

Scrapbooks, clippings, album, relating to E. Lyons' career, the Soviet Union, and the Spanish Civil War in 1936.
box 18

Look, issue for with series of articles on the Soviet Union. Includes annotations and notes by Eugene Lyons. October 3, 1967,

box 18

Scrapbook on Eugene Lyons' career, Clippings. 1937-38.

box 19

Estampas de la Revolucion Espanola, 19 Julio de 1936, Barcelona, Spain n.d.

 

Scrapbooks on Eugene Lyons' career. Clippings and letters.

box 19

1928-1938

box 19

1930-1951

 

MEMORABILIA

Scope and Contents note

Two plaques and two other items from E. Lyons' career as author and journalist.
 

Plaques

box 20

Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge plaque 1971

box 20

Hungarian Freedom Fighters Federation plaque 1966

box 20

Horseshoe from the blacksmith shop at the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, West Branch, Iowa

box 20

Nameplate

 

SOUND RECORDINGS (PHONORECORDS)

Scope and Contents note

13 phonorecords of speeches by E. Lyons and Daniel Lyons relating to conditions and events in the Soviet Union, 1917-1975. Included is a Radio Liberty program on Boris Pasternak.
 

13 sound recordings of speeches by E. Lyons and Daniel Lyons relating to conditions and events in the Soviet Union Included is a Radio Liberty program on Boris Pasternak. 1917-1975.

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Speak Up, America! sound recording undated

Scope and Contents note

Lyons asks Americans to see if they are "one of Stalin's suckers," too tolerate of communist "infiltration" in their society. He says the communists make lies noble means of recruitment, quoting Lenin. He is particularly critical of innocence clubs, such as the American Youth Congress, and other benign-seeming organizations to appeal to "liberals" and "idealists." Use copy reference number: 85006_a_0002251
 

"Radio Liberation Presents Boris Pasternak: Selections from Broadcasts to the Soviet Union," October 1958 October 1958.

Scope and Contents

Exerpts of Radio Liberation broadcasts from October 23-29, 1958. Includes readings from the diary of Alexander Afinogenov, Boris Pasternak's recollections of Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Mayakovsky, a review of Pasternak's literary career, and passages from 'Doctor Zhivago'. Radio Liberation's name was changed to Radio Liberty in 1959.

Access

Use copy reference number: 85006_a_0012375
box 17, folder 17

Letter from Howland H. Sargeant, 9 April 1959 9 April 1959.

box 17, folder 18

"Radio Liberation Presents Boris Pasternak," transcript, October 1958 October 1958.

onsite digital

A Radio Liberation Production

Scope and Contents

50th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution of 1905

Access

Use copy reference number: 85006_a_0012377
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Sound recording of American Broadcasting Company radio program 1956 February 19

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Lyons speaks about how communist countries are attempting to reacquire expatriates in the free world and the reaction of Europeans when familiar with both freedom and communism. Use copy reference number: 85006_a_0002253
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Sound recording of Eugene Lyons speaking about communism in Hollywood undated

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Eugene Lyons speaks about communist influence in the Hollywood and America. He explains how communists use subversive organizations with liberal names to convert Americans. He further describes how American communists are under the control of Moscow, citing how the words of chants changed during World War II depending on how German-Soviet relations were doing. Use copy reference number: 85006_a_0002254
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Sound recording of American Broadcasting Company radio program 1956 March 11

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Use copy reference number: 85006_a_0002255
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Sound recording of Eugene Lyons speaking about communism in Hollywood undated

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Content sounds very similar to other sound recording bearing this title. Nola Recording Studios inner label. Use copy reference number: 85006_a_0002256
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Sound recording of Air Mail Personal interview with Marjorie Silver undated

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Marjorie Silver interviews Eugene Lyons for Air Mail Personal. They speak about Lyons' history as well as his work with refugee camps in Europe. Use copy reference number: 85006_a_0002257
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Sound recording of Eugene Lyons speaking about communism 1948 July 31

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Lyons recounts the actions of communists in America, including political parties and spying. He believes communists and their unknowing sympathizers hide behind the freedoms of speech and press. Use copy reference number: 85006_a_0002805
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Letter to a Young American Pole sound recording undated

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Lyons addresses a young Pole, Michael, on what a Polish ethnicity means to an American citizen, and how oppressions in both countries are related. 2 discs. Use copy reference number: 85006_a_0004366
 

SOUND RECORDING (CASSETTE TAPE)

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1 cassette tape of speech by Colonel James E. Norwood entitled "Victory Over Communism: What You Can Do to Make It Happen," March 18, 1971.
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Sound recording of Colonel James E. Norwood speech: Victory Over Communism: What You Can Do to Make It Happen March 18, 1971

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Audio cassette 1. Use copy reference number: 85006_a_0007847
 

SOUND RECORDINGS (PHONOTAPES) 1963-1968

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5 phonotapes of E. Lyons' speeches.
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Sound recording of Eugene Lyons speech to the Milwaukee Forum undated

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Lyons delivers a speech highly critical of the Soviet Union and communism. He looks at conditions in the nation, why its people are not supportive of it, and why Americans look up to it or apologize for it. Tape 1. Use copy reference number: 85006_a_0007835
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Sound recording of Eugene Lyons speech: Appropriate Attitudes to Allies and Dr. Schwarz speech: The Communist Appeal to the Intellectual October 28 1963 October 28 1963

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Part 1: Lyons "Appropriate Attitudes to Allies and Enemies," Indianapolis. In a prepared speech, Lyons reviews America's relationship with the Soviet Union and communism. He is harshly critical of detente and appeasement, believing that America cannot coexist with the Soviet Union. He believes communism is inherently evil.
Part 2: Schwarz "The Communist Appeal to the Intellectual." Schwarz analyzes who is a communist and how they got that way. In doing so, he looks at why communism has an appeal to students. Tape 2. Use copy reference number: 85006_a_0007836
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Sound recording of Herbert Hoover: Biography in Sound June 8, 1964

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This is a non-English-language biography of U.S. President Herbert Hoover. Tape 3. Use copy reference number: 85006_a_0007840
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Sound recording of the Big Lie radio program April 29, 1967

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The Mutual Broadcasting System produced this program about Svetlana Alliluyeva. It includes clips of a Svetlana press conference and commentary by Eugene Lyons. It was recorded on 27 April 1967 and broadcast two days later. Tape 4. Use copy reference number: 85006_a_0007841
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Sound recording of the Winter Park University Club pow wow meeting March 8, 1968

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Eugene Lyons delivers a speech, "Worker's Paradise Lost," to the Winter Park University Club in Winter Park, Florida. Tape 5. Use copy reference number: 85006_a_0007842
 

PHOTOGRAPHS

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641 prints / 10 envelopes / 2 albums
envelope A-C

91 prints depicting E. Lyons at various stages of his life undated

envelope D

6 prints of E. Lyons and his wife, Billy undated

envelope E

30 prints of the Lyons family and friends undated

envelope F

12 prints depicting E. Lyons at various speaking engagements undated

envelope G

14 prints depicting E. Lyons with individuals and groups undated

envelope H

6 prints of E. Lyons' books on display undated

envelope I

10 prints of various individuals and groups undated

envelope J

6 prints of David Sarnoff undated

album fK

118 prints of E. Lyons with the Zellerbach Commission on the European Refugee Situation tour of Europe October 15 - November 1, 1957

album fL

348 prints of E. Lyons, his wife and family, and others 1920-1980