Part 1 (Mss 2, Micro 48, DC 774, DC 775): Original Collection, 1918-1966
Physical Description: 36.4 cubic feet (91 archives boxes), 7 reels of microfilm (35 mm), and 2 films 
Scope and Content Note

The Original Collection includes three formats: microfilm records, paper records, and films. Official records which the Foreign Policy Association did not wish to release, were microfilmed in 1966 at the New York Public Library on behalf of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. These are organized in five series: Board and Executive Committee Minutes, Executive Committee and Annual Meeting Reports, Correspondence and Reports Concerning Special Conferences, Office Reports, and Miscellaneous Items. Related material can be found in the paper records' Internal Organization Materials series.

By far the greatest amount of material is on paper and covers the period from 1948 to 1962. The paper records are organized in five additional series: Community Files, 1938-1962; National Organization Files, 1920-1960; Internal Organization Materials, 1927-1963; National Programs, 1933-1962; and Reports, Press Releases, and Publications, 1943-1966.

COMMUNITY FILES, 1938-1962, consists of files concerning the local world affairs councils. There are three types of materials: (1) correspondence between the FPA and the local groups, (2) field reports made by FPA staff members concerning the local groups, and (3) printed matter from the local groups.

Most is routine correspondence, with much about speaker arrangements. The field reports, however, are much more pointed and informational. The files are most complete from about 1950 to 1958, and those for which there is more material than average concern groups based in Los Angeles, Chicago, Cleveland, and Providence. The final two folders in this series are labeled “Foreign.”

This series is arranged alphabetically by state, and by city within each state. Internally, the folders are arranged chronologically.

NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FILES, 1920-1960, consists of materials kept by the national FPA concerning other groups of national importance, of which most are independent organizations although a few are government agencies or businesses. Correspondence between the FPA and these groups predominates. There is information about joint programs, as well as some printed materials relevant to the groups.

The files are arranged alphabetically by name of the organization concerned. The internal order of each folder is chronological.

INTERNAL ORGANIZATION MATERIALS, 1927-1963, consists of correspondence, financial records, office memoranda and reports, meeting agendas, etc. of the Foreign Policy Association, and concerns the internal operation of the national office, and its relation to regional and branch offices. The material is divided into four subgroups: FPA Departments and Committees, FPA Officers and Directors, FPA Sub-Divisions, and Miscellaneous.

NATIONAL PROGRAMS, 1933-1962, is divided into the following subgroups: New York - Speeches, which consists of Minutes and transcripts of both luncheon discussions and annual meetings from 1927 to 1946, often featuring a prominent speaker (materials are bound in notebooks and arranged chronologically); Town Hall Missions, which deals with three tours of the United States by representatives of foreign countries who lectured, gave interviews, and “created good will,” 1949-1956 (the tours were co-sponsored by the FPA and Town Hall, Inc.); Community Awards, in which chronologically arranged material, 1954-1957, consists of correspondence, memoranda, clippings, announcements, and applications, concerning cash prizes given to local councils for outstanding or unique programs; “Decisions”; and “Great Decisions”. Materials in these last two subgroups concern a program, begun in 1955, centering on approximately eight topics of current interest and controversy. Information and kits relating to these topics were provided by the FPA to discussion leaders of groups, including schools.

REPORTS, PRESS RELEASES, AND PUBLICATIONS, 1943-1966, consists of clipsheets, newsletters, annual reports, and other publicity-related materials.

The two FILMS comprise the final series. They contain a David Brinkley TV broadcast about “Great Decisions,” and an interview with former Congressman Frank Coffin.

Series: Board and Executive Committee Minutes

1918 April-1921 December

1922 January-1926 December

1927 January-1928 December

1929 January-1931 June

1931 October-1934 December

1935 January-1936 May, 1937 December

1938 January-1942 December

1943 January-1944 December

1945 January-1946 December

1947 January-1948 December

1949 January-1953 November

1952-1953, 1953-1954

1954-1955

1954-1955, 1955-1956

1956 January-December

1956-1957

1958 February-1959 May

, 1960-1961 (Board and Executive Committee minutes)

Series: Executive Committee and Annual Meeting Reports

1926 April-1938 December

1939 October-1949 October

1950 December-1956 October

1953 February-1957 June

1957 January 1-December 30

1958 January 1-1959 May 31

1958-1959

Series: Correspondence and Reports on Special Conferences

National Peace Conference Correspondence, etc., 1933 May-July

Conference office minutes, research, education, 1939-1943

Special Meetings, Nominating, Finance, etc.

1923-1929

1930-1945

1946-1954

Reports, National Program--Councils of Branches and Affiliates

1948 March-1951 September

1954-1955

Series: Office Reports

1925 April-1927 December

1928 January-1929 June

1929 October-1931 June

1931 October-1932 May

1932 October-1933 December

1934 January-December

1935 January-1937 December

1938 January-1939 June

1939 September-1940 December

1941 January-1943 December

, 1944 January-1945 May (Agendas and Reports)

, 1945 September-1947 December (Agendas and Reports)

1948 January-September

1948 September-1950 December

1951 January-1953 June

1953 March-1954 November

Series: Miscellaneous Items

World Affairs Center Advisory Council minutes, New York

1956-1957

, 1956-1957 (Executive Committee)

1958

1959-1960

Study of fundraising by efficiency experts, New York, 1957 July

Doctoral dissertations relating to the Foreign Policy Association

White, D.S.: “Report on the Foreign Policy Association,” Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1948

Sussman, E.K.: “The Foreign Policy Association Fact Sheet,” New York, 1958

White, B.: “American Liberals and the Wilsonian Peace,” 1962 January

Request to the Ford Foundation, 1956 January 23, 1964 June 1

Program fund for Adult Education, 1953 December

Improving Organization and Procedures of the National Headquarters of the Foreign Policy Association, Inc., 1949 July

Mathewson, R.D.: Survey and Analyses for New Programme of Community World Affairs Education, 1952 August 9-September 7

Series: Community Files, 1938-1962

Alabama

General, 1954-1959

Birmingham, 1957-1959

Dothan, 1958-1959

Mobile, 1958-1959

Alaska, Anchorage WAC, 1958-1959

Arizona, general, 1954-1959

Arkansas, general, 1954 and 1958

California

General

1952-1957

1958-1959

Los Angeles

1953

1954

1955-1960

San Diego, 1954-1958

San Francisco

1948-1954

1955

1956-1960

Colorado

General, 1953-1960

Boulder, 1958-1960

Denver, 1957-1960

Connecticut

General

1953-1955

1956-1957

1958-1962

Bridgeport, 1953-1954, 1959

Hartford

1953-1955

1956-1961

Milford, 1959-1960

New Haven, 1955-1960

Norwich, Stamford, Storrs, Waterbury, and Westport, 1950-1960

Delaware, general, 1953-1960

District of Columbia

1948-1951

1952-1954

1955-1962

Florida, general, 1949-1960

Georgia

General, 1953-1960

Atlanta, 1958-1960

Macon, 1958-1960

Hawaii, general, 1954, 1960

Idaho, general, 1954-1960

Illinois

General, 1954-1960

Chicago

1949-1953

1954

1955

1956-1960

Quincy, 1950-1952

Indiana

General, 1953-1960

Indianapolis, 1957-1960

Iowa, general, 1951-1960

Kansas, general, 1952-1959

Kentucky

General, 1954-1958

Louisville, 1957-1960

Louisiana

General, 1953-1954, 1958-1959

New Orleans

1938-1944

1948-1954

1955-1960

Shreveport, 1953-1954, 1957 November

Maine

General, 1955-1962

Portland, 1955-1958

Waterville, 1953-1958

Maryland

General, 1953-1955, 1958-1961

Baltimore

1953-1955

1956-1957

1958 January-April

1958 May-1959 July

1959 August-1962

Massachusetts

General

1953-1955

1956-1961

Amherst, 1955-1961

Boston

1953 October, 1954

1955

1956-1957

1958-1959

1960-1961

Springfield

1953-1957

1958-1962

Worcester

1950-1953

1954-1955

1956-1961

Michigan

General, 1954-1960

Detroit

1944, 1949-1951 August

1951 September-1956, 1960 January

Grand Rapids, 1953-1960

Holland, 1958-1960

Lansing, 1951, 1953, 1957, 1960

Minnesota

General, 1953-1960

Minneapolis

1949-1952

1953

1954

1955

1956-1960

St. Paul, 1949-1952, 1957 April

Mississippi, general, 1958-1959

Missouri

General, 1954, 1957-1959

Kansas City, 1952-1960

St. Louis

1949-1952

1953

1954

1955-1960 January

Montana, general, 1957-1958, 1960 March

Nebraska, general, 1954-1958

Nevada, general, 1958

New Hampshire

General

1953-1954

1955

1956 January-October

1956 November-1962

Durham

1957-1958

1959-1961

New Jersey

General

1953-1954

1955

1956-1958 June

1958 July-1962

Montclair, Newark, Princeton, and Trenton, 1954-1960

New Mexico, general, 1955-1959

New York

General

1950-1954

1955-1957 April

1957 May-December

1958 January-August

1958 September-December

1959 January-March

1959 April-1961

Albany

1951-1953

1954

1955

1956-1958

1959-1962

Alfred, 1959-1961

Binghamton

1953-1955

1956-1957

1958-1961

Buffalo

1953-1954

1955 January-September

1955 October-December

1956

1957

1958-1961

Elmira

1939 September, 1952-1954 April

1954 May-1955

1956-1957

Hamburg, 1954-1956

Ithaca, 1958

Long Island, 1955-1957, 1960

Monroe County, 1952-1955

Nassau County, 1956-1960

New York City

1951-1955

1956-1958 June

1958 July-December

1959-1962

Niagara Falls, 1954-1959

Poughkeepsie

1952-1954

1955-1960

Rochester, 1952, 1955-1961

St. Lawrence Seaway, 1956

Schenectady

1953-1954 June

1954 July-1956, 1960

Syracuse

1948-1955 April

1955 May-December

1956 January-March

1956 April-1961

Syracuse University, 1958-1959

Utica, 1941, 1950-1952, 1955-1959

Watertown, 1955-1956

Westchester County, 1955, 1957

Wilson, 1954-1957

North Carolina, general, 1954-1960

Ohio

General, 1953-1960

Akron, 1947-1955, 1959

Cincinnati

1948-1951

1952-1954

1955-1956

1957-1958

1959-1960

Cleveland

1942-1952

1953-1954 May

1954 June-1955 April

1955 May-December

1956

1957

1958-1960

Columbus, 1953-1957

Dayton

1947-1952

1953-1955

1956-1959

Toledo, 1953-1960

Oklahoma, general, 1955-1960

Oregon

General, 1954-1960

Portland

1953-1954

1955-1959

Pennsylvania

General

1953-1957

1958-1962

Eastern Pennsylvania, 1954-1956

Allentown, 1956-1960

Bethlehem

1953-1956

1957-1961

Easton

1951-1955

1956-1960

Erie, 1953-1960

Harrisburg, 1951-1960

Haverford, 1958

Lancaster, 1953-1955

Levittown, 1953-1954

Philadelphia

1951-1953

1954 January-May

1954 June-December

1955

1956 January-June

1956 July-December

1957

1958

1959

1960-1962

Pittsburgh

1952-1954

1955-1956

1957-1962

Pottsville, 1954-1957

University Park, 1955-1958

Wilkes-Barre, 1953-1955

Wynnewood, 1957-1960

York, 1953-1957

Rhode Island

General, 1954-1960

Providence

1952-1953

1954

1955

1956

1957-1960

South Carolina, 1953-1958

Tennessee

General, 1952-1959

Chattanooga

1952-1953

1954 January-April

1954 May-December

1955-1959

Memphis, 1957-1958

Texas

General, 1954-1959

Dallas

1951-1954

1955-1960

Laredo, 1958, 1960

Utah

General, 1954-1955

University of, 1956-1959

Vermont

General

1947-1953

1954-1962

Burlington

1950-1953 July

1953 August-December

1954 January-July

1954 August-December

1955

1957-1962

Derby Line, 1953-1955

Washington County and Windham County, 1957-1962

Virginia

General, 1950-1960

Charlottesville, 1953-1955

Danville, 1953

Lynchburg, 1953-1956, 1960

Norfolk, 1952-1955

Orange, 1955

Richmond, 1953-1955

Roanoke, 1953-1955

Southwest, 1954-1955

University of--Extension Division, 1957-1959

Vienna, 1953-1955

Williamsburg, 1952-1954

Washington

General, 1951-1959

Seattle, 1953-1960

Tacoma, 1954-1960

Washington, D.C., 1956, 1958-1962

West Virginia, general, 1954-1959

Wisconsin

General, 1953-1960

Milwaukee

1948-1951

1952

1953-1960

Wyoming

General, 1954, 1956-1958

University of, 1958-1959

Foreign community organizations, 1957-1960

Series: National Organization Files, 1920-1960

Active Citizens' opinion poll, 1956-1957

Adult Education Association of the United States

1952-1954 July

1954 August-1957

Adult Leadership, 1953, 1955-1956

African seminars, 1950

American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1950-1956

American Assembly, 1956-1957

American Association of University Women, 1955-1958

American Association for the United Nations

1948-1952

1953

1954-1955

1956-1957

American Christian Palestine Commission, 1954-1957

American Civil Liberties Union, 1952-1956

(The) American Committee on Africa, 1956-1957, 1960

American Committee on United Europe, 1949-1957, 1960

(The) American Council for the Community, 1952-1953

American Council of Voluntary Agencies for Foreign Service, Inc., 1952-1957

American Council on Education, 1957

American Council on NATO, 1953, 1957

American Foundation for Political Education, 1952-1957

American Friends Service Committee, 1953-1957

(The) American Heritage Foundation, 1953-1956

American Institute of Pacific Relations, 1953-1954

American Jewish Committee, 1956-1957

American Jewish Congress, 1953-1955

American Labor Education Service, 1954-1957

American Library Association, 1953, 1955-1957

American Zionist Council, 1955-1957

Americans for Democratic Action, 1953-1955, 1957

Asia Foundation, 1954-1957

Association for World Travel Exchange, 1953-1955, 1957

A - Miscellaneous

1948-1955 August

1955 September-1960

Bi-Partisan Council on Foreign Policy, 1957

B - Miscellaneous, 1953-1957

Canadian Institute of International Affairs, 1956-1957

Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1953-1957

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

1948-1954

1955-1956

Carnegie Endowment, “Problems of Public Information about the UN”

1953

1954-1956

Carrie Chapman Catt Memorial Fund, 1954-1957

Center for Information on America, 1953-1957

Chamber of Commerce of the U.S., 1953-1957

Church Peace Union, 1953-1957, 1960

Collegiate Council for the UN, 1952-1954

Committee for Economic Development, 1949-1955

Committee for Free Asia, 1952-1954

Committee for International Trade Organization, 1948-1950

(The) Committee for World Development and World Disarmament, 1956-1957

Committee on Foreign Trade Education, 1956-1957

Committee to Defend the Constitution by Preserving the Treaty-Making Power, 1952-1954

Common Council for American Unity, 1952-1954

Conference Group of United States National Organizations on the United Nations

1954

1955

1956 January-June

1956 July-December

1957 January-May

1957 June-December

Conference on Asian Affairs, Inc., 1954-1957

Council of National Organizations, 1955-1957, 1960

Council on Christian Social Progress of the American Baptist Convention, 1953

Council on Foreign Relations, 1949-1957

Council on Student Travel

1952-1954

1955 January-September

1955 October-December

1956 January-April

1956 May-December

1957 January-May

1957 June-December, 1960 May

C - Miscellaneous

1950-1954

1955

1956-1960

D - Miscellaneous, 1955-1957

Educational TV and Radio Center, 1954-1957

English Speaking Union, 1953-1957

(The) Experiment in International Living, 1953-1957

E - Miscellaneous, 1954-1960

Farmers and World Affairs, Inc., 1956-1957

Film Council of America, 1953-1954

Ford Foundation, 1952-1957

Foundation for African Education, 1954-1955

Freedom House, 1953-1957

Fund for Adult Education

1952-1954

1954-1959

Bigwin Institute, 1954

Test Cities, 1953-1954

Fund for Asia, 1953-1956

F - Miscellaneous, 1953-1957

Greater New York Council for Foreign Students, 1954-1956

G - Miscellaneous, 1953-1957

H - Miscellaneous, 1954-1959

Institute of International Education

1947-1957

Conference on Exchange of Persons, 1956-1957

“Exchange,” 1954-1955

Institute of Pacific Relations, 1948-1954

Institute of World Affairs, Inc., 1952-1954

International Conference on Asian Problems, 1953-1954

I - Miscellaneous, 1948-1957

Jaycees, Local, 1957

Joint Council on Economic Education, 1953-1954, 1957

J - Miscellaneous, 1952-1955, 1957

K - Miscellaneous, 1957

League of Free Nations Association, 1920

League of Women Voters

1940-1949

1953-1959

New York, 1936-1948

Letters abroad, 1956-1957

L - Miscellaneous, 1953-1957

M - Miscellaneous, 1953-1957

National Association of Public School Adult Educators, 1956

National Congress of Parents and Teachers, 1956-1957

National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, 1956, 1960

National Council of Jewish Women, 1956-1957

National Education Association, 1948-1957, 1959-1960

National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, 1940-1947

National Organizations, progress report, 1952

National Social Welfare Assembly, Inc., 1952-1955

National Student Association, 1949, 1954

National University Extension Association, 1957

New York--State Education Dept., 1948-1954

New York State Citizens' Council, 1947-1954

New York Times, 1953-1957

N - Miscellaneous, 1953-1958

One World Seminar, 1952-1956

Operation Town Affiliations, 1954-1957

Opinion Ballot--Russia, 1954-1966 September

O - Miscellaneous, 1953 November-1955, 1957

P - Miscellaneous, 1953-1954

Q - Miscellaneous, 1954-1955, 1957

Radio and television, 1956-1959

Reader's Digest, 1948, 1955, 1957

Residential seminars on world affairs

1954

1955

1956

1957-1958

Resources for the Future, Inc., 1953-1954

The Rotarian, Rotary International, 1943-1946, 1955, 1957

“Round-the-World” town meeting, World Town Hall seminar, report to the President of the United States, 1949

R - Miscellaneous, 1952-1957

Seminars for international understanding, 1956-1957

Service Bureau for Women's Organizations, 1953-1955

S - Miscellaneous, 1953-1957

Town hall, 1955, 1957, 1959

T - Miscellaneous, 1948-1957, 1960

United Church Women, 1954-1957

United Nations

1948-1955

Department of Public Information, 1957, 1960

Local associations and committee, 1957

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

1948-1953

1954-1957

United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, 1953-1957

United Nations Citizens League, 1949

United States

Commerce, Department of, 1954

Congress, 1957

Delegation to the United Nations, 1950-1957

Federal Civil Defense Administration, 1957

Information Agency, 1953-1957, 1960

State, Department of, 1952-1957

Miscellaneous, 1956-1960

United States Committee for the United Nations

1952-1954 May

1954 June-1955 April

1955 May-December

1956-1959

United States Junior Chamber of Commerce, 1956-1957

United World Federalists, 1947-1957

U - Miscellaneous, 1953-1957, 1960

Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 1948-1957

World Neighbors Inc., 1954, 1957

World Peace Foundation, 1956-1957, 1960

World University Service, 1955-1957

W - Miscellaneous, 1948-1957

Young Adult Council, 1956-1958

YMCA, 1947-1957

YWCA, 1957

Y - Miscellaneous, 1954-1956

Series: Internal Organization Materials, 1927-1963

Speakers Bureau

1956-1958

1959 January-August

1959 September-1960

Special programs

1949 November, 1952-1953

1954

1955-1956

Hoover luncheon

Sukarno meeting, 1956 May 24

Dulles dinner

Mendes-France luncheon, 1954 November 23

Special programs, 1957, 1960, undated

Consultative staff groups, 1955

Editorial Advisory Committee, 1953-1961

Pamphlet Advisory Department, 1956-1957

Public Relations and Promotion Committee, 1951-1961

Publications, 1953-1955

Policy Planning Group

1957

1958

Subscriptions to FPA publications, 1956

Investment Program

Minutes

1952

1953

1953-1956

Work folders

1952 January-March

1952 April-October

General

1952

1952-1955

Community Investment Fund, 1952-1953

Committee on National Program, 1953-1955

Community investment memos and correspondence, 1953-1956

Community Investment Fund, 1955

Community awards--investment programs--Community Investment Fund, 1954-1955

Committees on National Programs, 1955

Investment program, Community Investment Fund, 1955

Budgets and cash statements--FPA and General, 1956-1963

Budgets and Expenditures, All Regions, 1956-1960

Fundraising

1956-1957

1958-1959, 1961

Officers' and Directors' correspondence

Ingersoll-James

Jessup-Johnstone

Kellogg-King-Kirk

Kohlberg-LaMonte-Lancaster, 1939

Lancaster, 1940-Lattimore

Leach-Leet-Lehman-Leivisohn

McCoy, 1939-1942

McCoy, 1943-McCulloch

McDonald

McKay-Merrill-Milliken-Moraivetz-Morrow

Ogden-Peters

Pike-Reid-Rogers

John W. Nason, 1954-1959

Rosenberg Foundation-Rosenthal-Rosinger

Ralph S. Rounds, 1929-1938

Board of Directors

1950-1961

Agenda, working papers, reports, 1957 March

Memoranda, 1955-1957

Minutes, 1956-1958

Notices, announcements, etc., 1957-1958

1937 November 12-13, Branch conference

1941 May 2, Branch meeting (New England)

1942 May 8 and October 2, Branch conferences

1943 May 7 and October 15, Branch conferences

1943 April, July, and November, Branch trips

1944 October 6, Branch conference

1944 April and November, Branch trips

1944-1945, Prospective branches

1945 October 19, Branch conference

1945 March-May, Branch trips

1946 October 19, Branch conference

1946 April, Branch trips

1946-1947, Prospective branches

1947 September 26-27, Branch conference

1947-1950, Branch membership procedure

1948 April, September, and November, Branch conferences

1948, Suburban branches

1949 April and October, Branch conferences

1949, Prospective branches

1950-1952, Prospective branches

Associate records

General memos, 1938-1952

Ledger sheets, 1943-1950

Membership and publication reports, 1948-1952

Officers' lists

1936-1951

1952-1955

Regional records

Cross-regional

1953-1957

1958

Regional Library Service Center, Watertown, New York, 1954

Regional staff meetings, 1957

Region I

1952-1957

1958-1962

Region II

1952-1953 September

1953 October-1954 April

1954 May-October

1954 November-1955

1956-1957

1958-1960

Region III

1953

1954

1955-1957 August

1957 August-December

1958-1959

Region IV

1953

1954 January-September

1954 October-1957

1958-1960

Region V

1954-1957 March

1957 April-1960

Miscellaneous

Annual Conference of FPA Associates, 1952 October 16-18

Conference-United Nations Training for Community Leaders, 1954 August 30

Conference of Community Organizations, 1954

Conference outlines and plans, Region I, 1952-1955

FPA Conference

1954 February 4

1955 December 2-5

General, 1952, 1957-1958, undated

National Conference of World Affairs Councils, 1962 May 31-June 1

Regional Consultative Conference, 1956 Spring

United Nations Training Conference for Community Leaders, 1953 August

Operations information, 1956

Personnel, 1956-1958

Election roundtable, 1952

Series: National Programs, 1933-1962

New York speeches

1927-1928 November

1928 December

1930-1932

1933 January

1933 February-March 11

1933 March 25-30

1933 April-October

1933 November-1934 January

1934 February

1934 March-April

1935-1936

Work folder, 1943 October 16

1938-1946

Town Hall

Miscellaneous, 1949-1952

Egyptian mission, 1951

Asian mission, 1955

Correspondence and planning, 1954-1956

Printed matter

Schedules and evaluations, Atlanta-Yankton

Official report

Clippings and photos

Israeli mission, 1956

Clippings

Printed matter

Correspondence and statistics, 1955-1956 January

Community awards

1954-1955

1956-1957

“Decisions”

Basic issues, 1954-1955

Correspondence, 1957

Programs data

Region II

Cities and states, “Decisions...1957”

Iowa

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

Wyoming

“Decisions...1957,” Region I

“Decisions...1958,” Region I

“Decisions...1957,” Region IV

“Decisions...1958,” Region IV

“Decisions...1957,” Region V

“Decisions...1958,” Region V

“Great Decisions”

National office

Community reports, 1957

Distribution of FPA materials

FPA conference on “Decisions,” 1956 and 1957

“Great Decisions...1959”

“Great Decisions Evaluation...1958”

Guide for schools

Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) Conference, 1956 December

Plans for “Decisions...1958” (1957 outlook)

Statistics, 1958

Regions

“Great Decisions...1958” Region I material

“Great Decisions...1959”

Region I

Region II

Region III

Region IV

Region V

Program information--Region V

“Great Decisions...1958” Region V material

Program information--Region IV

Cities and states

Atlanta program, 1959

Boston, Massachusetts, 1958

Denver, Colorado, “Great Decisions...1959” program

Macon, Georgia, “Great Decisions...1958”

Macon program, 1959

Michigan school project, 1958

New Orleans program, 1959

Oregon, 1955

Oregon, “Great Decisions...1958”

St. Petersburg, Florida, “Great Decisions...1959” program

San Francisco, “Great Decisions...1958,”

Syracuse, 1956

Washington, D.C., 1962

“Decisions,” 1957

1958 Community Handbook and Community Public Relations Kit

Series: Reports, Press Releases, and Publications, 1943-1966

Clipsheets, 1957

Newsletters, 1954-1955

Opinion poll, 1957; Hearings--House of Representatives

Annual reports, 1953-1966

Press releases, 1951, 1954-1955

FPA Reporter, 1953-1956

Foreign Policy Reports (broken dates), 1943-1951

Study guide for “Let's Talk It Over”

Brochures and publications regarding the Foreign Policy Association study kits

Series: Films

David Brinkley's Journal, NBC News, 1963 May 20
Physical Description: 1 reel; 877 feet; sound; b/w; 16 mm archival positive 
Scope and Content Note: NBC News commentator David Brinkley gives a brief history of the “Great Decisions” groups sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association and introduces film footage of groups in three communities who are discussing foreign policy, in particular the situations in Laos and Vietnam. He also gives a background of the communities (Klamath Falls, Oregon; Montrose, Colorado; Little Rock, Arkansas) with filmed highlights and a summation of their economic and social backgrounds. Opening credits are missing.

The Third World and the U.S. National Interest [Foreign Policy Association?], circa 1960
Physical Description: 1 reel; 969 feet; sound; b/w; 16 mm archival positive 
Scope and Content Note: Roger G. Mastrude, vice-president of the Foreign Policy Association, interviews author and former Congressman Frank Coffin regarding the national interest of the U.S. regarding providing aid to underdeveloped countries.