06819cpcaa2200973 4500 mm 90079561 DLC 20260227111723.0 cr ||||||||||| 900301|||||||||||| eng mm 90079561 DLC dacs DLC DLC R lcmd Kowalski, Frank, 1907-1974. Frank Kowalski papers, 1925-1976 (bulk 1948-1963). 7,500 items. 21 containers plus 1 classified and 1 oversize. 11 linear feet. Arranged in 6 series. Series 1: Military Files, 1925-1971; Series 2: Congressional Files, 1940-1970; Series 3: Speeches and Writings, 1937-1974; Series 4: Miscellany, 1926-1976; Series 5: Oversize, 1930-1963; and Series 5: Classified, 1949-1959. Open to research. Classified, in part. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, reports, military orders, patents, newspaper clippings, printed matter, scrapbooks, drawings, photographs, and other papers pertaining primarily to Kowalski's career in the U.S. Army (1925-1958) and in the U.S. House of Representatives (1959-1963). Military files document his directorship of the Disarmament School, U.S. Army Forces in the European Theater, London, England (1944-1945) and the school's training of Allied and American officers for the demobilization and disarmament of Germany; his various assignments during the U.S. occupation of Japan (1948-1952), particularly as chief of staff of the American advisory group overseeing the establishment of the Japanese National Police Reserve (Keisatsu Yobitai) at the outbreak of the Korean War; and his directorship of the Army Command Management School, Fort Belvoir, Va. (1954-1958). Congressional files document his work relating to several labor disputes in Connecticut, his interest in military reform as a member of the House Committee on Armed Services and its Special Subcommittee on the Utilization of Military Manpower, and his opposition to the Vietnam War. Postcongressional files relate to his membership on the Subversive Activities Control Board (1963-1966). Includes manuscripts describing the economic, political, and social conditions in Poland (1945); a report (1944) based on interviews of Polish-born soldiers who served in the German army; and fragments of Kowalski's manuscript examining U.S. occupation and rearmament of Japan titled, Grace of Heaven, and published as Niho Saisumbi (Tokyo, 1969); and an unpublished manuscript titled, Worms in Charter Oak, concerning Kowalski's political career and his relations with the Democratic state chairman of Connecticut, John M. Bailey. Correspondents include Bunzō Akama, William Benton, Chester Bowles, Wilber Marion Brucker, Arleigh A. Burke, Chester R. Davis, Keizo Hayashi, William Bradford Huie, Robert F. Kennedy, Hiroo Konda, Keikichi Masuhara, Wilbur D. Mills, Hirokichi Nishioka, Adam Clayton Powell, Sam Rayburn, Abraham Ribicoff, Yoshizo Takeda, and Maxwell D. Taylor. Motion picture films and sound recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. U.S. Army officer and U.S. representative from Connecticut. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011061 Akama, Bunzō, 1898- Correspondence. Bailey, John M. (John Moran), 1904-1975. Benton, William, 1900-1973 Correspondence. Bowles, Chester, 1901-1986 Correspondence. Brucker, Wilber Marion, 1894-1968 Correspondence. Burke, Arleigh A., 1901- Correspondence. Davis, Chester R., 1896-1966 Correspondence. Hayashi, Keizo, 1907- Correspondence. Huie, William Bradford, 1910-1986 Correspondence. Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968 Correspondence. Konda, Hiroo Correspondence. Masuhara, Keikichi, 1903- Correspondence. Mills, Wilbur D. (Wilbur Daigh), 1909- Correspondence. Nishioka, Hirokichi, 1893- Correspondence. Powell, Adam Clayton, 1908-1972 Correspondence. Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961 Correspondence. Ribicoff, Abraham, 1910-1998 Correspondence. Takeda, Yoshizō, 1885- Correspondence. Taylor, Maxwell D. (Maxwell Davenport), 1901-1987 Correspondence. Japan. Keisatsu Yobitai. United States. Army Management. United States. Army Officers. United States. Army. Forces in the European Theater. Disarmament School. United States. Congress. House. United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Subcommittee on the Utilization of Manpower in the Military. United States. Subversive Activities Control Board. United States Army Command Management School. Labor disputes Connecticut. Manpower planning United States. Military government Japan. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Protest movements United States. World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, Polish. Connecticut Politics and government. Fort Belvoir (Va.) Germany Armed Forces Demobilization. Japan Defenses. Japan Foreign relations United States. Japan History Allied occupation, 1945-1952. Poland Economic conditions 1945-1981. Poland Politics and government 1945-1980. Poland Social conditions 1945- United States Foreign relations 1945- United States Foreign relations Japan. United States Politics and government 1945- Army officers. itoamc Representatives, U.S. Congress Connecticut. itoamc Kowalski, Frank, 1907-1974. Niho Saisumbi (1969) Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011061 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011061.3 44236 44236