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  <titleInfo>
    <title>William Smith Culbertson papers, 1897-1965</title>
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    <namePart>Culbertson, William Smith</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1884-1966</namePart>
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    <extent>194 2</extent>
    <extent>78</extent>
    <extent>Arranged in 7 series.  Series 1: Diaries, 1897-1958; Series 2: Correspondence, 1897-1960; Series 3: Book, Article, and Speech File; Series 4: Subject File; Series 5: Miscellany; Series 6: Addition, 1900-1965; and Series 7: Classified, 1922-1953.</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, lecture notes, writings including Culbertson's unpublished memoirs titled "Ventures in Time and Space," public documents, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to his career as a diplomat, professor of law, and lawyer.  Documents Culbertson's work as member and vice chairman of the U.S. Tariff Commission, U.S. minister to Romania, and U.S. ambassador to Chile.  Also documents his World War II service as chief of the Geopolitical Section, U.S. War Dept. Military Intelligence Service; member of the Planning Group of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services; chairman of the U.S. Special Economic Mission to the Middle East in 1944; and member of a technological mission to Germany in 1945.  Subjects include commercial policy, tariff, and the Tacna-Arica border dispute between Chile and Peru.  Includes material pertaining to Culbertson's career as a lawyer in Washington, D.C.; professor and executive faculty member of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Washington, D.C.; and member of the Presbyterian Church especially his involvement in establishing a national Presbyterian church and center in Washington, D.C.</abstract>
  <abstract>Correspondents include Calvin Coolidge, Henry Crosby Emery, John H. Finley, Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, Charles Evans Hughes, Cordell Hull, Edward N. Hurley, Charles Foster Kent, Robert M. La Follette, Theodore Roosevelt, H. G. Wells, William Allen White, and members of the Culbertson family.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Classified, in part.</note>
  <note>Phonographic disc transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.</note>
  <note>Diplomat, lawyer, and educator.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Coolidge, Calvin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1872-1933</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Emery, Henry Crosby</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1872-1924</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Finley, John H. (John Huston)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1863-1940</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1865-1923</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hoover, Herbert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-1964</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hughes, Charles Evans</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1862-1948</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hull, Cordell</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1871-1955</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hurley, Edward N. (Edward Nash)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1864-1933</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Kent, Charles Foster</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1867-1925</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1855-1925</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roosevelt, Theodore</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1858-1919</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1866-1946</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>White, William Allen</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1868-1944</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Culbertson family</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Office of Strategic Services.</namePart>
      <namePart>Planning Group.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Special Economic Mission to the Middle East.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>War Department.</namePart>
      <namePart>Military Intelligence Service.</namePart>
      <namePart>Geopolitical Section.</namePart>
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      <namePart>Georgetown University.</namePart>
      <namePart>School of Foreign Service.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States Tariff Commission.</namePart>
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    <topic>Commercial policy</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Diplomatic and consular service, American</topic>
    <geographic>Chile</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Diplomatic and consular service, American</topic>
    <geographic>Romania</geographic>
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    <topic>Geopolitics</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Practice of law</topic>
    <geographic>Washington (D.C.)</geographic>
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    <topic>Presbyterian Church</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Presbyterian Church</topic>
    <geographic>Washington (D.C.)</geographic>
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    <topic>Tacna-Arica question</topic>
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    <topic>Tariff</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Technology</topic>
    <geographic>Germany</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Universities and colleges</topic>
    <geographic>Washington (D.C.)</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
    <topic>Political aspects</topic>
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    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
    <topic>Secret service</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
    <topic>Technology</topic>
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    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
    <geographic>Middle East</geographic>
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    <geographic>Chile</geographic>
    <topic>Boundaries</topic>
    <geographic>Peru</geographic>
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    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
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    <occupation>Educators</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
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