Summary Information
Paul Ghali News Stories
1940-1969
U.S. Mss 130AF
5.2 c.f. (13 archives boxes)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers of a Chicago Daily News Paris correspondent, consisting almost entirely of press dispatches and clippings. With the exception of stories datelined Vichy, 1940-1942, Bern, 1942-1944, and the United Nations, 1952-1953, the articles were all written in Paris.
English
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Biography/History
Paul Ghali was born in Avignon, France in 1906. No biographical data is available before he joined the staff of the Chicago Daily News in 1939, serving for more than thirty years with the Paris Bureau. When France fell in 1940, Ghali moved from Paris to Vichy, and in 1942, to Bern, Switzerland where he remained through 1944(?). In 1945, Ghali returned to Paris where he wrote daily news stories concerning political, social and other news events until 1969.
Ghali was a witness to the hanging of Benito Mussolini by Italian partisans on 28 April 1945. Shortly thereafter, he obtained from Countess Edda Ciano, Mussolini's daughter, the diaries of her husband, who had been Italy's Foreign Minister during World War II. In 1946, Ghali was sent to Iran when Truman was pressing the U.S.S.R. to comply with its undertaking to withdraw troops from the province of Azerbaijan.
In 1961, Ghali married Bernadette Baume; they had no children. He died on 4 August 1970 in Paris.
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists of Ghali's copy news stories written for the Chicago Daily News from Paris, Vichy and Bern, from 1940 to 1969; news clippings of some of Ghali's news stories, 1940-1942, 1950, 1952-1953, 1958, including one folder of stories in French concerning Yugoslavia in 1943; World War II news stories (in French), 1942-1944, including one folder of undated radio releases; and a folder of lectures delivered by Ghali, ca. 1960-1966. There is also one folder of news stories about the United Nations, 1952-1953.
The news stories (in English) which form the bulk of the collection, are fairly continuous. However, there are gaps in the sequence, most of which can be filled-in by the news clippings file, and the file of World War II news stories in French.
The news stories, in both English and French, the news clippings, and the lectures are arranged in separate chronological files. Within the folders the papers are in a reverse chronological order, as arranged by Ghali.
Administrative/Restriction Information
Presented by Bernadette Ghali, March 17, 1975. Accession Number: MCHC75-24
Processed by M. Wise and Joanne Hohler, August 1, 1975.
Contents List
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Series: News Stories
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Box
1
Folder
1-4
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1940, June-December; 1941, June - 1942, May, Vichy, France.
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Box
1
Folder
5-6
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1944, January - 1945, June, Bern, Switzerland.
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Box
1
Folder
7-8
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1945, June-December, Paris, France.
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Box
2
Folder
1-2
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1946, January - 1947, June.
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Box
2
Folder
3
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1946, August - 1947, June 13, stories by airmail.
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Box
2
Folder
4-5
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1947, June - 1948, June.
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Box
2
Folder
6
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1949, September - 1950, January and October 25.
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Box
3
Folder
1-4
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1952-1953.
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Box
3
Folder
5
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1952, December - 1953, December, United Nations Stories.
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Box
4
Folder
1-5
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1954, January - 1956, May, Paris, France.
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Box
5
Folder
1-5
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1956-1958.
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Box
6
Folder
1-4
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1959-1960.
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Box
7
Folder
1-4
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1961-1962.
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Box
8
Folder
1-4
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1963-1964.
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Box
9
Folder
1-3
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1965, January-May 1, August 25-December 30.
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Box
9
Folder
4-6
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1966, January-February, September-December.
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Box
10
Folder
1-3
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1967, July - 1969, October.
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Series: News Clippings
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Box
11
Folder
1-2
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1940, January-April, October-December.
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Box
11
Folder
3
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1941, Paris, Vichy, France.
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Box
11
Folder
4
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1942, January-August, Bern, Switzerland.
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Box
11
Folder
5
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1943, in French, re: Yugoslavia.
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Box
11
Folder
6
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1950.
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Box
12
Folder
1-4
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1952, 1953, 1958, 1968.
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Series: World War II News Stories (in French)
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Box
13
Folder
1
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1943-1944, re: Yugoslavia.
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Box
13
Folder
2-4
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1944, December - 1945, May.
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Box
13
Folder
5
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Undated radio releases.
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Box
13
Folder
6
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Series: Lectures, ca. 1960-1966.
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