Preliminary Inventory to the Edward Taborsky papers

Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Library and Archives

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Title: Edward Taborsky papers

Date (inclusive): 1938-1956

Collection Number: 82087

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: Mainly in Czech

Physical Description: 11 manuscript boxes (4.6 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Diaries, speeches and writings, reports, memoranda, and correspondence, relating to Edvard Benes and to Czechoslovak politics and foreign relations, 1938-1948, especially during World War II.

Creator: Taborsky, Edward

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1982.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Edward Taborsky Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical / Historical

Czechoslovak diplomat; personal aide to President Edvard Beneš, 1939-1945; minister to Sweden, 1945-1948.

Scope and Contents

Diaries, speeches and writings, reports, memoranda, and correspondence, relating to Edvard Beneš and to Czechoslovak politics and foreign relations, 1938-1948, especially during World War II.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1938-1945

World War, 1939-1945 -- Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia -- History -- Coup d'état, 1948

Czechoslovakia -- Foreign relations -- Sweden

Sweden -- Foreign relations -- Czechoslovakia

Beneš, Edvard, 1884-1948

FOLDER, unrestricted as of April 1983

box 1

Folder

DIARIES, 1938-1949

box 1

1938-1940 (published)

1941 (unpublished; photocopies)

box 2

1942-1945 (unpublished; photocopies)

1945-1949 (Sweden and United States; unpublished; originals)

CHRONOLOGICAL FILE, 1938-1956. Assorted documents

box 3

1938

1939-1944, excerpts compiled by Edward Taborsky

1939-1945, exact dates uncertain

1939

1940

1941

1942

box 11, folder 5

1942, continued

box 4

1943

1944

1945

1945-1956

SUBJECT FILE

box 4

Benes, Edward

Contacts with Holy See

Mackenzie (Compton) biography. Materials for, 1944

box 5

Messages to Czechoslovakia from Benes, 1939-1944

Speeches and articles by Benes, 1939-1944

Czechoslovakia

Government-in-exile. Official gazette, 1940-1944

Relations with France

box 6, folder 1-5

Relations with Great Britain and British dominions, 1939-1945

box 11, folder 3-4

Reviews of the British press

box 6, folder 6

Relations with Poland

box 11, folder 1-2

Relations with Poland

box 7

Relations with the Soviet Union

Relations with the United States, 1939-1945

Reorganization after liberation

box 8

State Council

Hodza, Milan

Jaksch, Wenzel

Osusky, Stefan

Population transfers. Study by Edward Taborsky

Slovak affairs

REPORTS

box 9

From Czechoslovakia, 1939-1944, by Czechoslovak underground groups

From Germany, 1939-1944, mainly by Czechoslovak intelligence agents

From Turkey, Sweden, Switzerland, Hungary, and elsewhere, 1939-1944

box 10

Material not yet described