Atlantic Union Committee records, 1940-1968 (bulk 1949-1952). - 39,500 items. 136 containers. 54 linear feet. - Arranged in 4 parts. Part I arranged in 5 series. Series 1: General Office File, 1949-1960; Series 2: Correspondence and Related Material, 1943-1960; Series 3: Chapter File, 1949-1954; Series 4: Atlantic Union Resolution: Congressional Comment, 1949-1952; and Series 5: Miscellany, 1948-1960. Part II : Henry William Nugent Head Papers, 1940-1955. Part III arranged in 4 series. Series 1: General Correspondence, 1949-1968; Series 2: Subject File, 1947-1968; Series 3: Speeches and Statements, 1948-1967; and Series 4: Miscellany, 1949-1967 Part IV : Subject File, 1946-1960.

Open to research.

Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, financial records, office administrative files, chapter files, clippings, printed materials, and other records relating primarily to the organization and activities of the committee, chapter activities, and resolutions submitted to the U.S. Congress. Includes the papers of Henry William Nugent Head pertaining chiefly to his role in the committee's efforts to establish an overseas base. Correspondents include Herbert Agar, Robert J. Bishop, Justin Blackwelder, Will Clayton, Lionel Curtis, Donald P. Dennis, C.A. Edson, Henry C. Flower, Ellen Garwood, Guy M. Gillette, Livingston Hartley, Gerald B. Henry, Hubert H. Humphrey, Irving McNeil Ives, Lyndon B. Johnson, Estes Kefauver, Edward J. Meeman, Hugh Moore, Walden Moore, Edmund Orgill, Stellanova Osborn, Lithgow Osborne, Robert Porter Patterson, Owen J. Roberts, Elmo Roper, and Clarence K. Streit.


Organization promoting the establishment of a federal union of European and North American democracies. Formed in 1949; dissolved in 1961.


Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009031

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Agar, Herbert, 1897-1980 --Correspondence.
Bishop, Robert J. 1913- --Correspondence.
Blackwelder, Justin--Correspondence.
Clayton, Will, 1880-1966 --Correspondence.
Curtis, Lionel, 1872-1955 --Correspondence.
Dennis, Donald P. 1916- --Correspondence.
Edson, C. A.--Correspondence.
Flower, Henry C.--Correspondence.
Garwood, Ellen, 1903- --Correspondence.
Gillette, Guy M. 1879-1973 --Correspondence.
Hartley, Livingston, 1900- --Correspondence.
Henry, Gerald B.--Correspondence.
Humphrey, Hubert H. 1911-1978 --Correspondence.
Ives, Irving McNeil, 1896-1962 --Correspondence.
Johnson, Lyndon B. 1908-1973 --Correspondence.
Kefauver, Estes, 1903-1963 --Correspondence.
Meeman, Edward J. 1889-1966 --Correspondence.
Moore, Hugh, 1887-1972 --Correspondence.
Moore, Walden--Correspondence.
Orgill, Edmund--Correspondence.
Osborn, Stellanova, 1894-1988 --Correspondence.
Osborne, Lithgow, 1892-1980 --Correspondence.
Patterson, Robert Porter, 1891-1952 --Correspondence.
Roberts, Owen J. 1875-1955 --Correspondence.
Roper, Elmo, 1900-1971 --Correspondence.
Streit, Clarence K. 1896-1986 --Correspondence.


United States. Congress --Resolutions.


International organization.
Internationalism--Societies, etc.