Permanent URL: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/qr46r081c
David A. Morse Papers, 1895-1998 (bulk 1942-1990): Finding Aid
MC097

Image from the David A. Morse Papers
These papers were processed with the generous support of Mildred H. Morse, wife of the late David A. Morse, and the John Foster and Janet Avery Dulles Fund.
65 Olden Street
Princeton, New Jersey 08540 USA
Phone: 609-258-6345
Fax: 609-258-3385
mudd@princeton.edu
http://www.princeton.edu/~mudd
Published in 1998
©2006 Princeton University Library
Summary Information
- Creator:
- Morse, David A. (David Abner), 1907-
- Title and dates:
- David A. Morse Papers, 1895-1998 (bulk 1942-1990)
- Abstract:
- The David A. Morse Papers document the life and times of David Abner Morse (1907-1990), American lawyer, soldier, and public official. While he distinguished himself in legal, military, and governmental circles, the most fruitful years of his life were spent at the helm of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the oldest member of the United Nations' family of specialized agencies. As Director-General of the International Labour Office in Geneva from 1948 to 1970, Morse guided the increasingly complex activities of this tripartite organization, which unites in one body the representatives of workers, governments, and employers. No one has had a longer tenure as its head, and no one has presided over such far-reaching changes in its composition and orientation. Drawing on a variety of experiences in the field of domestic and international labor, including appointments as Assistant, Under, and Acting Secretary of Labor in the Truman administration, Morse gave practical meaning in a postwar context to the ILO's underlying philosophy, namely, that “universal and lasting peace can be established only if it is based upon social justice.” The pursuit of this object won for the ILO the Nobel Peace Prize in 1969. The David Morse Papers contain correspondence, reports, memoranda, photographs, and newspaper clippings that document this long, productive career.
- Size:
- 68.78 linear feet (94 archival boxes, 28 oversize boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Call number:
- MC097
- Location:
- Princeton University Library. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library.
Public Policy Papers.
Princeton, New Jersey 08540 USA - Language(s) of material:
- English.
- Storage note:
- This collection is stored onsite at the Mudd Manuscript Library.
Biography of David Abner Morse
The legacy of David Abner Morse, who died on December 1, 1990 at the age of 83, was global. As Director-General of the ILO, a specialized agency of the United Nations, for an unprecedented 22 years, he dedicated himself to improving the lot of workers throughout the world. A man of high ideals and exceptional acumen, he upheld the universality of workers' socioeconomic rights amid the conflicting claims of communist and noncommunist systems and have and have-not nations. In 1969 he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the ILO, a recognition of the organization's contribution to international harmony and prosperity under his leadership.
For Javier Perez de Cuellar, Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1982 to 1991, “Flair for leadership and diplomacy, dynamism, charm, dignity -- these were among his many radiant qualities. But above them all was the compassion and the care for the vulnerable of the earth, and the love of social justice which inspired all his endeavours.” For George Shultz, Secretary of Labor in the Nixon administration and Secretary of State in the Reagan administration, Morse possessed an innate, instinctive understanding of the need for standards of behavior. “He saw the human side of enterprise…. He stood, it seemed to me, always for a blend of power and principle, not simply interest and power, but principle and power.”
Morse, the son of immigrants Morris Moscovitz and Sara Werblin, was born in New York on May 31, 1907. He grew up in Somerville, New Jersey and attended Rutgers University, graduating in 1929. Deciding on a legal career, he studied law at Harvard University and was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1933. In 1937 he married Mildred E. Hockstader, daughter of Leonard Hockstader and Aline Straus and granddaughter of Oscar Straus, Secretary of Commerce and Labor in Theodore Roosevelt's cabinet. The union, which spanned 53 years, could not have been happier.
Morse's interest in and commitment to the public welfare in general and labor concerns in particular were evidenced by his involvement in the New Deal of the Roosevelt administration. Between 1933 and 1939 he held a number of governmental posts, including Chief Counsel for the Petroleum Labor Policy Board of the Department of Interior, Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, and Regional Attorney for the Second Region of the National Labor Relations Board. The objectivity he would be called on to exhibit as head of the ILO was apparent in his appointment in 1941 as Impartial Chairman of the milk industry of metropolitan New York. On leaving the public service, Morse became a named partner in the law firm of Coult, Satz, Tomlinson, and Morse. He also found time to lecture on labor relations, labor law, and administrative law at various educational institutions.
Shortly after the United States entered the Second World War, Morse joined the Army. From 1943 to 1944 he served as head of the Labor Division of the Allied Military Government in Sicily and Italy, where he formulated and implemented labor policies and programs for the American and British liberators. He filled a similar role from 1944 to 1945 as head of the Manpower Division of the United States Group Control Council for Germany. One of his tasks was to work with representatives of Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States to harmonize their approach to labor matters in occupied Germany, an involvement which undoubtedly helped to prepare him for his work at the ILO. At the war's end, he held the rank of lieutenant-colonel and, in 1946, was awarded the Legion of Merit.
On his return to the United States, Morse re-entered civilian life as General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, a post he held from 1945 to 1946 when President Harry Truman named him Assistant Secretary of Labor. In this capacity, he focused his attention on the creation of the Department's Program of International Affairs. Named Under Secretary of Labor in 1947, he briefly filled the position of Acting Secretary on the death of Lewis Schwellenbach in 1948.
It was in this year, too, that Morse embarked on the most significant phase of his career, that of Director-General of the ILO. He was no stranger to this organization, having represented the government of the United States as a member of its Governing Body and as a delegate to its annual International Labor Conference. His election to the post of Director-General, which entailed a move to Geneva, brought with it many challenges. It is a measure of his success in facing them that the ILO changed the regulations which would have limited his tenure to a single ten-year term, renewable for three years, to allow for his re-election, which occurred in 1957, 1962, and 1967. (In 1961, he resigned but was persuaded to reconsider.)
Morse brought to his new position a broad and vigorous vision of the potentiality of his office and the ILO as a whole. He exercised a leadership which was at once impartial and engaged and which incorporated three fundamental principles: the need for socioeconomic reform, the importance of the rule of law, and integrity. Integrity was a quality he demanded of everyone who worked with him, and he was equally protective of the integrity of the ILO, deftly resisting political pressure, whether it stemmed from the rivalries of the superpowers or the process of decolonization. As an American, he was particularly vulnerable to the animus of McCarthyism, but he weathered this storm with firmness and dignity.
According to Gullmar Bergenstrom, Vice Chairman of the Governing Body from 1969 to 1979, “Morse was both Director and General. As Director [he was] a most skillful administrator. He appointed the right people to the various top posts in the Office, which was, of course, a policy decision of highest importance. As General he aggressively defended the ILO's sphere of competence against various young mushrooming and sometimes self-propelling agencies with ambitions to encroach on the ILO field.” There was a manifest need for each of these functions. The organization Morse inherited was a product of the Treaty of Versailles, and, amid the burgeoning international bodies of the time, its relevance was under threat. He immediately set out to revitalize the ILO along three lines.
First, Morse believed that the ILO could not be a static entity but, rather, would have to adapt to new circumstances if it was to be an effective force for good in the world. He therefore expanded its sights and its reach beyond its traditional role as a setter of international labor standards. Under his leadership, sweeping organizational changes took place. The membership of the ILO grew from 52 to 121 nations, giving it a universal character. Its staff increased fivefold, from some 600 to some 3000 men and women of diverse nationality. Its annual budget rose from about $4,000,000 to about $60,000,000. Morse laid the foundation for a new headquarters and established an extensive network of field offices. The educational activities of the ILO were given a new impetus with the establishment of the International Institute for Labour Studies in Geneva and the International Centre for Advanced Technical and Vocational Training in Turin.
Second, Morse believed that the ILO had a global commitment to build peace, and that orderly socioeconomic change within countries was a prerequisite for peace between countries. Whether the issue was a labor dispute in the ILO itself, the credibility of the labor movement in the Soviet Union, or apartheid in South Africa, Morse maintained that the best way to achieve change was to effect it through existing socioeconomic institutions within the rule of law. He insisted, too, that the ILO's contribution to peace building be truly tripartite, involving workers, governments, and employers in a common quest for a more just world. Morse's commitment to this principle was nowhere more evident than in his position on the 1969 Nobel Peace Prize, a personal tribute as much as an organizational one. Francis Wolf, Legal Advisor of the ILO from 1963 to 1987, was instructed to contact the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament to request that the award be given solely to the ILO lest individual accomplishments overshadow tripartite ones. Accordingly, on December 10, 1969, Morse accepted the Nobel Peace Prize “On behalf of all our constituents, governments as well as employers and workers of our 121 member States, on behalf of all my staff, and in tribute to all those who in the past have faithfully served our Organisation.”
Third, Morse believed that symbolism, however potent, was no substitute for action. He won a reputation as a “practical idealist” as he initiated new forms of technical assistance to enable countries to meet the standards and abide by the principles espoused by the ILO. Underdevelopment and the poverty which betokened it became a major preoccupation for him, though in focusing on the myriad needs of the developing world, he did not neglect the problems confronting industrialized societies. Among the issues Morse addressed through new programs and emphases were labor-management relations, workers' education, management development, supervisory training, manpower planning and employment creation, rural development, and promotion of small-scale industries. The World Employment Programme, launched in 1969, was one of Morse's principal legacies. It sought to raise the employment level and, thus, the quality of life of millions of marginalized men and women through such measures as stemming the migration of populations from rural to urban areas. When Morse relinquished his post as Director-General in 1970, the ILO, once a frail survivor of the discredited League of Nations, could take satisfaction in a new vitality and a new prominence.
Morse did not rest on his laurels upon his return to the United States. He took up the practice of international law in New York and Washington, D. C., assuming a leading role in his firm, which grew considerably in the years which followed. His concern for the welfare of the global community did not abate. He served as an advisor to the United Nations Development Programme, chairing its Advisory Panel on Programme Policy, and was active in such organizations as the World Rehabilitation Fund, the United Nations Association of the United States of America, and the Council on Foreign Relations. His contribution to these and other bodies was highly valued. As David Rockefeller, Honorary Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, noted in 1994, “He was a man of extraordinary quality and distinction who devoted the major part of his life to public service…. David was an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations for some 30 years, and to many here and around the world, he was a staunch and trusted friend.”
Morse's life was crowned with many achievements, and the list of honors he acquired is long. In addition to holding a number of honorary doctorates, he was decorated by countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. France made him a Grand Officer of the French Legion of Honor, the highest decoration a foreign national can receive. He also received the Meritorious Public Service Award of the Sidney Hillman Foundation and the Human Rights Award of the International League for the Rights of Man.
What Morse did in life was very much a reflection of whom he was, and it is perhaps in the realm of intangibles that he left his most enduring mark. According to Francis Blanchard, Director-General of the ILO from 1974 to 1989, “David Morse was such a remarkably successful leader because he was such a remarkable human being. His warm personality and great personal charm had an almost magic effect on all with whom he came into contact…. Those of us who worked with him in the International Labour Office remember with admiration, respect and affection how deeply he influenced our work and our lives.”
Description
The Morse Papers consists of textual, microform, audiovisual, and photographic material. The preponderance, though by no means all, of this material relates to the ILO. While its focus is inevitably more personal than organizational, it reveals the varied facets of Morse's work and that of his staff, the delegates to the International Labour Conference, and the members of the Governing Body. Other phases of Morse's life are well-represented, too, including his years in the Army (1942-1945), the Department of Labor (1946-1948), and the United Nations Development Programme (1970-1972). Material of a private nature is also present, the most notable elements being a collection of wartime correspondence between Morse and his wife, Mildred, and a variety of mementos, such as photographs, newspaper clippings, and documents, from the couple's youth and family. While the Morse Papers are not without lacunae, particularly with regard to Morse's prewar career, they shed ample light on his activities, the concerns which animated them, and the relationships in which they were centered. Researchers can expect to encounter both the large and the small in Morse's life -- from his views on internationalism to his views on small-town New Jersey -- and, in the process, construct a rounded picture of an influential public figure in the last half of the twentieth century.
Throughout his life, Morse met and corresponded with many individuals of national and international significance concerning labor issues. This collection contains correspondence or records of discussion with Dean Acheson, Leonid Brezhnev, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dag Hammarskjold, Averell Harriman, Paul G. Hoffman, C. Wilfred Jenks, David Lilienthal, George Marshall, Leopold Senghor, and U Thant.
Arrangement
The David A. Morse Papers are divided into eight series (two of which have been further divided into five subseries) and are arranged as follows:
- Series 1, International Labour Organisation Files, 1934-1991
- Subseries 1, Director-General's Papers, 1934-1991
- Subseries 2, Microfilm, 1938-1973
- Subseries 3, Reports of Director-General, 1949-1970
- Subseries 4, Missions of Director-General, 1948-1969
- Subseries 5, Proceedings of International Labour Conference, 1946-1970
- Series 2, Subject Files, 1895-1998
- Subseries 1, General, 1895-1998
- Subseries 2, Allied Military Government, 1940-1947
- Subseries 3, Department of Labor, 1945-1954
- Subseries 4, Mildred H. Morse, 1900-1974
- Subseries 5, United Nations Development Programme, 1961-1973
- Series 3, Addresses, Writings, and Interviews, 1939-1990
- Series 4, Appointment Books, 1949-1970
- Series 5, Scrapbooks, 1922-1962
- Series 6, Memorabilia, 1946-1993
- Series 7, Audiovisual Material, 1958-1991
- Series 8, Photographs, 1920-1990
Access and Use
Access
Collection is open for research use.
Restrictions on Use and Copyright Information
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Curator of the Public Policy Papers. Researchers are responsible for determining any copyright questions.
Acquisition and Appraisal
Provenance and Acquisition
The Morse Papers were donated to Princeton University in multiple installments, beginning in 1972, by David Morse and, following his death, by his wife, Mildred. Included in this material are eight reels of microfilm donated to Princeton University in 1976 by Leon Gordenker, a member of its faculty. Designed to supplement Morse's donations, this microfilm consists for the most part of records generated or acquired by the Office of the Director-General of the ILO during Morse's tenure.
Related Materials
Location of Copies or Alternate Formats
Portions of the Morse Papers are available on microfilm and may be borrowed through interlibrary loan. These are Series 1 (Subseries 1), Series 2 (Subseries 1 to 5), and Series 3.
Processing and Other Information
Processing Information
This collection was arranged and described by John S. Weeren with the able assistance of Fifi Chan and Tina Wang in 1995. Mildred Morse provided invaluable help in identifying photographs and contextualizing portions of this material. Additions received since 1995 were integrated into the collection by Adriane Hanson in 2008. Finding aid written by John S. Weeren in 1995.
Descriptive Rules Used
Finding aid content adheres to that prescribed by Describing Archives: A Content Standard.
Encoding
Machine-readable finding aid encoded in EAD 2002 by Techbooks and Cristela García-Spitz on October 13, 2006.
Finding aid written in English.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); David A. Morse Papers, Box and Folder Number; Public Policy Papers, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Subject Headings
These materials have been indexed in the Princeton University Library online catalog using the following terms. Those seeking related materials should search under these terms.
- Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971 -- Correspondence.
- Blanchard, Francis -- Correspondence.
- Brezhnev, Leonid Ilich, 1906-1982.
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.
- Hammarskjold, Dag, 1905-1961 -- Correspondence.
- Harriman, W. Averell, 1891-1986 -- Correspondence.
- Hoffman, Paul G. (Paul Gray), 1891-1974 -- Correspondence.
- Jenks, C. Wilfred (Clarence Wilfred), 1900-1973 -- Correspondence.
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1980-1973.
- Krushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1893-1971.
- Lilienthal, David E. (David Eli), 1899-1981 -- Correspondence.
- Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880-1959 -- Correspondence.
- Meaney, George, 1894-1980 -- Correspondence.
- Morse, David A. (David Abner), 1907-1990 -- Governmental investigations.
- Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978.
- Senghor, Leopold Sedar, 1906- -- Correspondence.
- Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965.
- Thant, U, 1909-1974.
- Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.
- Council on Foreign Relations.
- International Labour Organisation.
- Rutgers University.
- United Nations Association of the United States of America.
- United Nations Development Programme.
- United Nations -- Technical assistance.
- United States. Army -- 20th century.
- United States. Dept. of Labor -- 20th century.
- United States. Freedom of Information Act.
- United States. National Labor Relations Board.
- World Rehabilitation Fund.
- Anti-Communist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- International labor activities -- 20th century.
- International officials and employees -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
- Lawyers -- United States -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
- Labor laws and legislation, International -- 20th century.
- Labor movement -- United States -- 20th century.
- Labor policy -- United States -- 20th century.
- Nobel prizes.
- Public officers -- United States -- United States -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
- Soldiers -- United States -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Labor policy.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives.
- Clippings.
- Correspondence.
- Photographs.
- Scrapbooks.
Browse other finding aids related to the following terms:
Contents List
Series 1, International Labour Organisation Files, 1934-1991
Series Description
Series 1: International Labour Organization Files (1934-1991) documents Morse's involvement with the ILO, predominantly concerned with his tenure as Director-General and also including material that both predates and postdates that period. Included are materials on the conferences, reports, travels, and issues faced by Morse and the organization. Please see the subseries descriptions in the contents list for additional information about individual subseries.
Arrangement
Divided into five subseries: Director-General's Papers, Microfilm, Reports of Director-General, Missions of Director-General, and Proceedings of International Labor Conference.
Subseries 1, Director-General's Papers, 1934-1991
Subseries Description
Series 1: International Labour Organisation Files, Subseries 1: Director-General's Papers (1934-1991) consists of a variety of material, including letters, memoranda, articles, booklets, and reports, relating to the ILO. Though this material both predates and postdates Morse's tenure as Director-General, illustrating his long association with the ILO, it is primarily concerned with his years in office. The material in this subseries represents only a fraction of the documentation which passed through Morse's hands in the course of his long sojourn in Geneva, but its selectiveness imbues it with a distinctly personal quality. Much of this material consists of items which were highly important to Morse, though in many cases, matters of policy were not involved. There are numerous messages of congratulation on the occasions of his multiple elections to the post of Director-General. Also Pope Paul VI's visit to the headquarters of the ILO and the conferral on the ILO of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1969 are well-documented, for both were of great symbolic significance to Morse.
Also preserved, though not for celebratory purposes, are a number of revealing memoranda of meetings between Morse and prominent figures of his day. These include a discussion with Vincent Auriol in 1948 in which the President of France took exception to the American media's calls for “a strong man” in the Elysee Palace, a heated discussion with George Meany in 1963 in which the head of the AFL-CIO accused Morse of being soft on communism, and a discussion with Adlai Stevenson within a week of his death in 1965 in which the two-time Democratic presidential candidate voiced his dissatisfaction with the Johnson administration's policies in Vietnam and the Dominican Republic. Of particular interest, too, are a pair of memoranda recording Morse's discussions with representatives of the Soviet Union and the United States in 1970 on the contentious matter of the appointment of a Soviet Assistant Director-General. Morse's diplomatic skills are evident and, in particular, his ability to prolong a process whose resolution could (and ultimately did) have negative consequences for the ILO. Other insights offered by these documents relate to the international “jockeying and politicking” (to use Morse's words), which can precede the election of the head of an organization such as the ILO; the implications of domestic politics and, specifically, McCarthyism, for international civil servants of American nationality; and Morse's relationship with his staff as manifested in his correspondence with two pivotal subordinates: Jef Rens, his second in command in Geneva, and Thacher Winslow, head of the ILO's office in Washington, D.C.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent or topic.
“Action of the ILO: Problems and Prospects”, 1974
Box 1, Folder 1 “Activities of the ILO: 1970”, 1971
Box 1, Folder 2 “Albert Thomas: 1878-1978”, 1978
Box 1, Folder 3 Algeria, 1966
Box 1, Folder 4 “The Amazing I.L.O.”, 1948
Box 1, Folder 5 American Arbitration Association - International Labour Organisation Collaboration, 1970
Box 1, Folder 6 Andean Indian Project, 1954
Box 1, Folder 7 Argentina, 1948
Box 1, Folder 8 Auriol, Vincent, 1948
Box 1, Folder 9 Bevin, Ernest, 1948
Box 1, Folder 10 Biography of Morse, 1948
Box 1, Folder 11 Blamont, Philippe, 1962
Box 1, Folder 12 Bolivia, 1948
Box 1, Folder 13 Brazil, 1966
Box 1, Folder 14 Budget for 1965, 1964
Box 1, Folder 15 Bulgaria, 1948
Box 1, Folder 16 Bustamante, Jose L., 1962
Box 1, Folder 17 Castberg, Johan, 1969
Box 1, Folder 18 Ceylon, 1948
Box 1, Folder 19 China, 1948
Box 1, Folder 20 Colombia, 1970
Box 1, Folder 21 Congo, 1961-1962
Box 1, Folder 22 Constitution, 1958
Box 1, Folder 23 Constitutional Issues, 1956
Box 1, Folder 24 Cox, Robert W., 1956-1957, 1961, 1963-1966, 1969
Box 1, Folder 25 Criticism of International Labour Organisation, 1948-1952
Box 1, Folder 26 Curtis, Thomas B., 1967
Box 1, Folder 27 “David Morse and His Global Skill-Building Program”, 1960
Box 1, Folder 28 “David Morse et l'Art”, 1991
Box 1, Folder 29 DesRochers, Hermance, 1988
Box 1, Folder 30 “Development of the I.L.O. during Mr. Morse's Terms of Office as Director-General”, 1967
Box 2, Folder 1 Discrimination in Employment, 1958
Box 2, Folder 2 Drug Abuse, 1969-1970, 1985-1987, 1989
Box 2, Folder 3 Eastern European Staff, 1949, 1960
Box 2, Folder 4 Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, 1948-1949
Box 2, Folder 5 Egypt, 1949, 1954
Box 2, Folder 6 Election of Morse as Director-General: Congratulations, 1948-1949
Box 2, Folder 7-8 Election of Morse as Director-General: Congratulations, 1957
Box 2, Folder 9 Election of Morse as Director-General: Congratulations, 1962
Box 2, Folder 10 Election of Morse as Director-General: Congratulations, 1967
Box 2, Folder 11 Election of Morse as Director-General: Governing Body, 1948
Box 2, Folder 12 Election of Morse as Director-General: Governing Body, 1957
Box 2, Folder 13 Election of Morse as Director-General: Governing Body, 1962
Box 3, Folder 1 Election of Morse as Director-General: Governing Body, 1967
Box 3, Folder 2 Election of Morse as Director-General: News Clippings, 1957
Box 3, Folder 3 Election of Morse as Director-General: News Clippings, 1962
Box 3, Folder 4 Election of Morse as Director-General: News Clippings, 1967
Box 3, Folder 5 Election of Morse as Director-General: Pre-Election Correspondence, 1947-1948
Box 3, Folder 6 Election of Morse as Director-General: Pre-Election Correspondence, 1956-1957
Box 3, Folder 7 Election of Morse as Director-General: Pre-Election Correspondence, 1961-1962
Box 3, Folder 8 Election of Morse as Director-General: Pre-Election Correspondence, 1962
Box 3, Folder 9 Election of Morse as Director-General: Pre-Election Correspondence, 1965-1967
Box 3, Folder 10 Entry of United States into International Labour Organisation, 1934
Box 3, Folder 11 European Economic Community, 1962
Box 3, Folder 12 50th Anniversary of International Labour Organisation, 1967-1969
Box 3, Folder 13-15 50th Anniversary of International Labour Organisation, 1969
Box 4, Folder 1 Forced Labor, 1954, 1969
Box 4, Folder 2 40th Anniversary of International Labour Organisation, 1959
Box 4, Folder 3 France, 1960, 1963, 1966, 1970
Box 4, Folder 4 Gabon, 1967
Box 4, Folder 5 Germany, 1948-1949
Box 4, Folder 6 Governing Body: Finance Committee, 1949
Box 4, Folder 7 Governing Body: Illness of Morse, 1950
Box 4, Folder 8 Hildebrandt, George H., 1969
Box 4, Folder 9 Hungary, 1960, 1962
Box 4, Folder 10 Index to ILO Panorama, 1970
Box 4, Folder 11 International Centre for Advanced Technical and Vocational Training, 1963, 1965, 1970
Box 4, Folder 12 International Centre for Advanced Technical and Vocational Training, 1970
Box 5, Folder 1-2 International Centre for Advanced Technical and Vocational Training, 1985
Box 6, Folder 1 International Institute for Labour Studies, 1962, 1965-1966
Box 6, Folder 2 International Labour Conference (29th Session): Constitutional Questions, 1946
Box 6, Folder 3 International Labour Conference (29th Session): News Clippings, 1946
Box 6, Folder 4 International Labour Conference (30th Session): News Clippings, 1947
Box 6, Folder 5 International Labour Conference (31st Session): Reports Thereon, 1948
Box 6, Folder 6 International Labour Conference (31st Session): United States Delegation, 1948
Box 6, Folder 7 International Labour Conference (32nd Session): Report Thereon, 1949
Box 6, Folder 8 International Labour Conference (35th Session): News Clippings, 1952
Box 6, Folder 9 International Labour Conference (36th Session): Report Thereon, 1954
Box 6, Folder 10 International Labour Conference (40th Session): Press Releases, 1957
Box 6, Folder 11 International Labour Conference (43rd Session): Report Thereon, 1959
Box 6, Folder 12 International Labour Conference (49th Session): News Clipping, 1965
Box 6, Folder 13 International Labour Conference (53rd Session): News Clippings, 1969
Box 6, Folder 14 International Labour Conference (54th Session): Report Thereon, 1970
Box 6, Folder 15 “International Labor in Crisis”, 1971
Box 6, Folder 16 Israel, 1959
Box 6, Folder 17 Kelley, Augustine B., 1948
Box 6, Folder 18 Kennedy, John F.: Death, 1963
Box 6, Folder 19 Lebanon, 1948, 1958
Box 6, Folder 20 Loyalty Proceedings, 1951, 1953
Box 6, Folder 21 Loyalty Proceedings, 1954-1956
Box 6, Folder 22 Marshall, George C., 1948
Box 6, Folder 23 Meany, George, 1961-1963, 1965, 1969-1970
Box 6, Folder 24 “Minister of Labor for the World”, 1956
Box 6, Folder 25 Myrddin-Evans, Guildhaume, 1948-1950
Box 6, Folder 26 National Association of Manufacturers, 1947
Box 6, Folder 27 New Headquarters, 1966, 1970, 1974, 1977
Box 6, Folder 28 News Clippings Concerning Morse, 1949-1990
Box 6, Folder 29 Nigeria, 1976
Box 6, Folder 30 Nobel Peace Prize: Commemorative Booklet, 1970
Box 6, Folder 31 Nobel Peace Prize: Correspondence Regarding Nomination, 1949-1969
Box 6, Folder 32 Nobel Peace Prize: “The ILO Receives the Nobel Peace Prize”, 1970
Box 6, Folder 33 Nobel Peace Prize: Messages, 1969
Box 7, Folder 1-2 Nobel Peace Prize: News Clippings, 1969-1970
Box 7, Folder 3 Nobel Peace Prize: “20 Years Ago, the Nobel Peace Prize for the ILO”, 1989
Box 7, Folder 4 North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1952
Box 7, Folder 5 Norway, 1948
Box 7, Folder 6 Oath of Office, 1948
Box 7, Folder 7 “L'Opinion de M. David A. Morse”, 1976
Box 7, Folder 8 Organization for European Economic Cooperation, 1949-1950
Box 7, Folder 9 Peru, 1960, 1966, 1969
Box 7, Folder 10 Phelan, Edward J., 1946-1948, 1951
Box 7, Folder 11 Pope Paul VI's Visit to Geneva, 1969
Box 8, Folder 1-3 Portugal, 1960, 1963
Box 8, Folder 4 Post-Retirement Correspondence, 1970-1975
Box 8, Folder 5-10 Post-Retirement Correspondence, 1976-1990
Box 9, Folder 1-13 Presentation of Portrait to International Labour Office, 1979
Box 9, Folder 14 Press Releases, 1972-1973
Box 9, Folder 15 “A Programme for Strengthening the International Labour Organisation”, 1963
Box 9, Folder 16 Rao, Raghunath, 1948
Box 9, Folder 17 Raza, S. Hashim, 1969
Box 9, Folder 18 Rens, Jef, 1948-1953, 1955-1959
Box 9, Folder 19 Resignation of Morse as Director-General, 1961-1963
Box 10, Folder 1-2 Retirement of Morse as Director-General: Announcement, 1970
Box 10, Folder 3 Retirement of Morse as Director-General: Farewells, 1970
Box 10, Folder 4-6 Retirement of Morse as Director-General: Governing Body, 1970
Box 10, Folder 7 Retirement of Morse as Director-General: News Clippings, 1970
Box 10, Folder 8 Retirement of Morse as Director-General: Signatures of Colleagues, 1970
Box 11, Folder 1 “Review of the Administrative and Management Procedures Concerning the Programme and Budget of the ILO”, 1970
Box 11, Folder 2 Rusk, Dean, 1948
Box 11, Folder 3 70th Anniversary of International Labour Organisation, 1989
Box 11, Folder 4 Simultaneous Interpretation System, 1964
Box 11, Folder 5 “The ‘Socialistic’ ILO”, 1953
Box 11, Folder 6 South Africa, 1963-1964
Box 11, Folder 7 Soviet Union, 1954, 1958, 1961, 1967, 1970
Box 11, Folder 8 Spain, 1965-1969
Box 11, Folder 9-10 State of World Labor, 1957
Box 12, Folder 1 Stevenson, Adlai, 1965
Box 12, Folder 2 Sudan, 1948
Box 12, Folder 3 Syria, 1949
Box 12, Folder 4 Technical Assistance, 1948-1949, 1957, 1962
Box 12, Folder 5 Thomas, Elbert D., 1948
Box 12, Folder 6 “Le Tribunal Administratif de l'Organisation Internationale du Travail”, 1954
Box 12, Folder 7 United States, 1956, 1977
Box 12, Folder 8 “The United States and the International Labor Organization: Background Paper”, 1979
Box 12, Folder 9 “The United States Assaults the I.L.O.”, 1971
Box 12, Folder 10 United States Association of the International Labor Organization, 1990
Box 12, Folder 11 “United States' Participation in the ILO: Redefining the Role”, 1989
Box 12, Folder 12 Venezuela, 1957
Box 12, Folder 13 Vietnam, 1966-1967
Box 12, Folder 14 Villot, Jean Cardinal, 1969-1970
Box 12, Folder 15 Winslow, Thacher, 1948, 1950-1954
Box 12, Folder 16-18 Working Party on Structure, 1970
Box 12, Folder 19 World Employment, 1970-1973
Box 13, Folder 1-2 “World Labor is Jerseyan's Task”, 1964
Box 13, Folder 3 “World Traveler: ILO's David A. Morse Directs a Far-Flung Program”, 1960
Box 13, Folder 4 Wou-Saofong, 1948-1949
Box 13, Folder 5 Wou-Saofong, 1950-1958
Box 14, Folder 1-2 Wright, Ralph, 1970
Box 14, Folder 3 Zempel, Arnold, 1949
Box 14, Folder 4 Subseries 2, Microfilm, 1938-1973
Subseries Description
Series 1: International Labour Organisation Files, Subseries 2: Microfilm (1938-1973) consists of material contained in the “cabinet files,” that is, in the files of the Office of the Director-General of the ILO. The lion's share of this material was created during Morse's tenure, while the rest dates from the time of his predecessors, John Winant and Edward Phelan, and his successor, Wilfred Jenks. There are two sets of microfilm in this subseries, reflecting its twofold provenance. Set One, which Morse supplied, comprises eleven 16mm reels of microfilm spanning the period between 1938 and 1961. Set Two, which Professor Gordenker supplied, comprises eight 35mm reels of microfilm spanning the period between 1948 and 1973. Both sets consist for the most part of correspondence, official and personal; records of meetings; and reports by Morse and his staff.
The official correspondence is chiefly composed of letters or memoranda between Morse, officials of the ILO, and representatives of various countries and business and trade union organizations. The personal correspondence generally takes the form of thank you notes of various kinds, congratulatory messages, and letters concerning travel plans. The records of meetings, for their part, detail who attended, what issues were raised, and what conclusions or decisions were reached. A wide range of reports are represented, including reports on missions carried out by Morse or his staff, documents which frequently include a schedule and abbreviated summary of the trip; reports submitted to Morse on various subjects, providing him with the background, analysis, and projections essential to informed decision-making; and reports presented by Morse at various meetings and assemblies. Interspersed throughout this subseries are newspaper clippings on various issues of interest to the ILO; excerpts from or copies of publications, including serials such as the Congressional Record and booklets such as “Labor's Role in Newly Developing Countries;” and mementos from Morse's travels, among which can be found the business cards of individuals with whom he met and the programs of events at which he spoke.
Neither set of microfilm possesses a discernible structure, but an index is available which lists the subjects, together with their respective date spans, on a reel by reel basis. A number has been assigned to each subject, denoting its incorporation in a formal filing system. What this subseries lacks in orderliness, it more than makes up for in diversity. Topics covered in Set One range from the re-entry of Paraguay into the ILO to the use of the Swiss diplomatic pouch and cipher to the appointment of an Assistant Director-General from the Near and Middle East. Topics covered in Set Two range from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees to the ILO's relations with Bulgaria to the Nobel Peace Prize. Set Two is less sweeping than Set One, but the quality of its reproductions is much higher. Much of the fourth reel in Set One, for instance, is illegible, and other reels impose a heavy burden on the eyes. A further challenge stems from the multinational character of the ILO. English-speaking scholars can expect to encounter a variety of foreign languages. While French predominates, there is also a smattering of Spanish, German, Arabic, and Chinese.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by year.
Eleven 16mm Reels of International Labour Office Records (Index Included), 1938-1961
Box 15 Eight 35mm Reels of International Labour Office Records (Index Included), 1948-1973
Box 16 Subseries 3, Reports of Director-General, 1949-1970
Subseries Description
Series 1: International Labour Organisation Files, Subseries 3: Reports of Director-General (1949-1970) consists of lengthy reports on a variety of matters which Morse placed before the annual International Labour Conference, typically held in Geneva, and periodic regional conferences held in cities as far afield as Montevideo and New Delhi. The latter include the Conference of American States Members, the Asian Regional Conference, the European Regional Conference, and the African Regional Conference. Throughout Morse's tenure, the report of the Director-General, who serves as Secretary-General of the International Labour Conference and, frequently, of the regional conferences, played a central role in the deliberations of these assemblies. Heading, as they did, the agenda of each conference, Morse's reports were designed both to inform and animate debate, and to transcend a simple recitation of the ILO's activities by broaching issues of organizational, regional, and global importance. As Morse noted in his report to the International Labour Conference in 1951, “If these pages stimulate thought and discussion, if they help some to see more clearly than before the spirit which must inspire our work, if they encourage others to intensify their efforts to promote understanding between peoples and to improve the lot of their fellow men, they will have served their purpose.”
Morse's reports to the regional conferences focused on phenomena of regional concern. Thus, in his report to the First African Regional Conference in 1960, “the year of Africa,” he examined Africa's economic background, its patterns of employment, the education of its workers, and the field of action it presented to the ILO, both in terms of problems and solutions. Similarly, in his report to the Fifth Asian Regional Conference in 1962, he explored Asia's economic achievements and shortcomings as well as ways of surmounting the challenges posed by its developmental course, touching on everything from entrepreneurship and balance of payments to manpower planning and agrarian reform. In his reports to the International Labour Conference, Morse employed a larger canvas, offering broad socioeconomic overviews as well as discrete themes for discussion. He also provided an account of the ILO's activities in the preceding year. Among the topics he covered were productivity and welfare, workers' housing, automation and other technological developments, youth and work, labor relations, and the program and structure of the ILO. Morse's later reports are more voluminous, reflecting the introduction of a two-part format, one focusing on a particular issue and the other documenting the activities of the ILO.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by year.
Report to Fourth Conference of American States Members: Montevideo, 1949
Box 17, Folder 1 Report to International Labour Conference: Geneva, 1949
Box 17, Folder 2 Report to Asian Regional Conference: Ceylon, 1950
Box 17, Folder 3 Report to International Labour Conference: Geneva, 1950
Box 17, Folder 4 Report to International Labour Conference: Geneva, 1951
Box 17, Folder 5 Report to Fifth Conference of American States Members:, Rio de Janeiro, 1952
Box 17, Folder 6 Report to International Labour Conference: Geneva, 1952
Box 17, Folder 7 Report to International Labour Conference: Geneva, 1953
Box 18, Folder 1 Report to Asian Regional Conference: Tokyo, 1953
Box 18, Folder 2 Report to International Labour Conference: Geneva, 1954
Box 18, Folder 3 Report to European Regional Conference: Geneva, 1955
Box 18, Folder 4 Report to International Labour Conference: Geneva, 1955
Box 18, Folder 5 Report to International Labour Conference: Geneva, 1956
Box 18, Folder 6 Report to Sixth Conference of American States Members: Havana, 1956
Box 18, Folder 7 Report to International Labour Conference: Geneva, 1957
Box 19, Folder 1 Report to Fourth Asian Regional Conference: New Delhi, 1957
Box 19, Folder 2 Report to International Labour Conference: Geneva, 1958
Box 19, Folder 3-4 Report to International Labour Conference: Geneva, 1959
Box 19, Folder 5 Report to International Labour Conference: Geneva, 1960
Box 19, Folder 6 Report to First African Regional Conference: Lagos, 1960
Box 19, Folder 7 Report to Seventh Conference of American States Members:, Buenos Aires, 1961
Box 19, Folder 8 Report to International Labour Conference: Geneva, 1961
Box 20, Folder 1 Report to International Labour Conference: Geneva, 1962
Box 20, Folder 2 Report to Fifth Asian Regional Conference: Melbourne, 1962
Box 20, Folder 3 Report to International Labour Conference: Geneva, 1963
Box 20, Folder 4 Report to International Labour Conference: Geneva, 1964
Box 20, Folder 5 Report to Second African Regional Conference: Addis Ababa, 1964
Box 20, Folder 6 Report to International Labour Conference: Geneva, 1965
Box 21, Folder 1 Report to International Labour Conference: Geneva, 1966
Box 21, Folder 2 Report to Eighth Conference of American States Members: Ottawa, 1966
Box 21, Folder 3 Report to International Labour Conference: Geneva, 1967
Box 21, Folder 4 Report to International Labour Conference: Geneva, 1968
Box 21, Folder 5 Report to Sixth Asian Regional Conference: Tokyo, 1968
Box 21, Folder 6 Report to International Labour Conference: Geneva, 1969
Box 22, Folder 1 Report to Third African Regional Conference: Accra, 1969
Box 22, Folder 2 Report to Ninth Conference of American States Members: Caracas, 1970
Box 22, Folder 3 Report to International Labour Conference: Geneva, 1970
Box 22, Folder 4 Subseries 4, Missions of Director-General, 1948-1969
Subseries Description
Series 1: International Labour Organisation Files, Subseries 4: Missions of Director-General (1948-1969) consists of material, in the form of discrete volumes, documenting Morse's official visits, as Director-General, to ILO member countries throughout the world. His missions range from his visit to Italy in connection with the then newly established Manpower Programme of the ILO in 1948 to his attendance at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Norway in 1969. In 1967, one of his busiest years, he travelled to Cameroon, the two Congos, Cyprus, Gabon, Ireland, Morocco, the Vatican, and Venezuela. The volumes in this subseries usually contain a detailed report on his mission and a background briefing on the host country. However, for some missions, only the background briefing is present, attributable in certain cases to the fact that the trip was merely a proposal.
The report component of these volumes contains detailed information on Morse's visits in the form of schedules, speeches, records of conversations, brochures, newspaper clippings, and photographs. The records of conversations are especially interesting. For example, during Morse's visit to the Vatican in 1967, Pope Paul VI made three direct and precise requests of the ILO: continue its mission; place an emphasis on education; and pay particular attention to Latin America, a field of obvious importance to the Church. In another conversation, this time with Leonid Brezhnev during Morse's mission to the Soviet Union in 1963, Brezhnev proudly described the various changes which had occurred in Moscow, the industrial sector, energy consumption, transportation, and the agricultural sector since his guest's last visit, noting, however, that the “Bolsheviks” were not content to be earthbound and, indeed, had already travelled millions of kilometers in space. He made it clear that the Soviet Union, though powerful, was pacific and that if the United States grasped this, the storm in which the superpowers found themselves would pass. As to the background briefings in these volumes, they consist of information on various aspects of the host country such as its geographical, social, financial, and political situation, and biographies of its leaders.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by year.
Missions to Italy, 1948, 1950, 1953-1954, 1958-1959
Box 22, Folder 5 Mission to Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay, 1949
Box 22, Folder 6 Mission to Czechoslovakia, 1949
Box 23, Folder 1 Mission to Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, 1949
Box 23, Folder 2 Mission to India, 1949-1950
Box 23, Folder 3 Mission to Poland, 1949
Box 23, Folder 4 Mission to the Netherlands, 1950
Box 23, Folder 5 Mission to Yugoslavia, 1952
Box 23, Folder 6 Mission to Egypt, 1953-1954
Box 23, Folder 7 Mission to Federal Republic of Germany, 1953
Box 23, Folder 8 Mission to Israel, 1954
Box 24, Folder 1 Mission to Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Israel, 1955
Box 24, Folder 2 Mission to Spain, 1956
Box 24, Folder 3 Mission to India, Burma, Thailand, Pakistan, and Lebanon, 1957
Box 24, Folder 4 Mission to U.S.S.R., Poland, Austria, and Czechoslovakia, 1958
Box 25, Folder 1 Mission to United States and Canada, 1958
Box 25, Folder 2 Missions to Vatican, 1958, 1962, 1967
Box 25, Folder 3 Mission to Federal Republic of Germany, 1959
Box 25, Folder 4 Mission to Israel, 1959
Box 26, Folder 1 Mission to Morocco, 1959
Box 26, Folder 2 Proposed Mission to Tunisia, 1959
Box 26, Folder 3 Mission to United Kingdom, 1959
Box 26, Folder 4 Mission to United States, 1959
Box 26, Folder 5 Mission to Yugoslavia, 1959
Box 27, Folder 1 Mission to Greece, 1960
Box 27, Folder 2 Mission to Nigeria, 1960
Box 27, Folder 3 Mission to Paris, 1960
Box 27, Folder 4 Mission to Portugal, 1960
Box 27, Folder 5 Mission to Rumania, 1960
Box 27, Folder 6 Mission to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay, 1961
Box 28, Folder 1 Mission to Bulgaria, 1961
Box 28, Folder 2 Mission to Norway, 1961
Box 28, Folder 3 Mission to Venezuela, 1961
Box 28, Folder 4 Proposed Mission to Ghana, 1962
Box 28, Folder 5 Mission to Tunisia, 1962
Box 28, Folder 6 Mission to Morocco, 1963
Box 28, Folder 7 Mission to Poland, 1963
Box 29, Folder 1 Mission to U.S.S.R., 1963
Box 29, Folder 2 Mission to United Arab Republic, 1963
Box 30, Folder 1 Mission to Washington, D.C., 1963
Box 30, Folder 2 Mission to Czechoslovakia, 1964
Box 31, Folder 1 Mission to Ethiopia, 1964
Box 31, Folder 2 Mission to Libya, 1964
Box 31, Folder 3 Mission to Hungary, 1965
Box 32, Folder 1 Mission to Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria, 1965
Box 32, Folder 2 Mission to Spain, 1965
Box 33, Folder 1 Mission to Algeria, 1966
Box 33, Folder 2 Mission to Mali, 1966
Box 33, Folder 3 Mission to Senegal, 1966
Box 34, Folder 1 Mission to Sweden, 1966
Box 34, Folder 2 Mission to Cameroon, 1967
Box 34, Folder 3 Mission to Congo (Brazzaville), 1967
Box 34, Folder 4 Mission to Congo (Kinshasa), 1967
Box 35, Folder 1 Mission to Cyprus, 1967
Box 35, Folder 2 Mission to Gabon, 1967
Box 35, Folder 3 Mission to Ireland, 1967
Box 35, Folder 4 Mission to Morocco, 1967
Box 36, Folder 1 Mission to Venezuela, 1967
Box 36, Folder 2 Mission to Cairo, Kuwait, and Beirut, 1968
Box 36, Folder 3 Mission to Ethiopia, 1968
Box 36, Folder 4 Mission to India, 1968
Box 37, Folder 1 Mission to Japan, 1968
Box 37, Folder 2 Mission to the Philippines, 1968
Box 37, Folder 3 Mission to Republic of China, 1968
Box 38, Folder 1 Mission to Rumania, 1968
Box 38, Folder 2 Mission to Thailand, 1968
Box 38, Folder 3 Mission to Scandinavia, 1969
Box 38, Folder 4 Subseries 5, Proceedings of International Labour Conference, 1946-1970
Subseries Description
Series 1: International Labour Organisation Files, Subseries 5: Proceedings of International Labour Conference (1946-1970) consists of the Record of Proceedings of the 30th through the 54th session of the International Labour Conference, the ILO's supreme legislative body, as well as its 28th maritime session. These annual assemblies serve as an international meeting place for the representatives of the three constituents of the ILO: workers, governments, and employers. Each member country is entitled to send four delegates to the International Labour Conference, two representing government and one each from the ranks of workers and employers, as well as a finite number of advisors. A principal object of the International Labour Conference is to set forth tentative international standards in the form of recommendations and conventions governing everything from ships' medicine chests to workmen's compensation. These are subsequently submitted to member countries for consideration and ratification. Other functions of the International Labour Conference include the triennial election of members of the Governing Body and the annual adoption of the budget. The International Labour Conference is also a forum for debate, which over the years has encompassed issues ranging from maternity protection to the protection of workers' health in their places of employment to the employment of young persons in underground coal mines.
Each Record of Proceedings has an identical format and consists of three parts: a list of participants, including members of the International Labour Conference's delegations, committees, and secretariat; a verbatim report of its plenary proceedings, with English interpretations where appropriate; and appendices, including the documents and reports of its committees and the conventions, recommendations, and resolutions adopted by its delegates. A significant part of the verbatim report consists of discussions of the report of the Director-General (copies of which can be found in Series 1, Subseries 3). The work of the International Labour Conference is recorded in great detail, offering insights into the dynamics and structures of the ILO as a whole. Morse's hand may be detected behind the scenes and, overtly, in his reply to the discussion of his report, but for the most part the stage belongs to others. While this subseries presents the public rather than the private face of the ILO, it represents an important reference point in any treatment of the internal workings of this organization.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by year.
28th Maritime Session: Seattle, 1946
Box 38, Folder 5 30th Session: Geneva, 1947
Box 39, Folder 1 31st Session: San Francisco, 1948
Box 39, Folder 2 32nd Session: Geneva, 1949
Box 39, Folder 3 33rd Session: Geneva, 1950
Box 40, Folder 1 34th Session: Geneva, 1951
Box 40, Folder 2 35th Session: Geneva, 1952
Box 40, Folder 3 36th Session: Geneva, 1953
Box 40, Folder 4 37th Session: Geneva, 1954
Box 41, Folder 1 38th Session: Geneva, 1955
Box 41, Folder 2 39th Session: Geneva, 1956
Box 41, Folder 3 40th Session: Geneva, 1957
Box 42, Folder 1 41st Session: Geneva, 1958
Box 42, Folder 2 42nd Session: Geneva, 1958
Box 42, Folder 3 43rd Session: Geneva, 1959
Box 42, Folder 4 44th Session: Geneva, 1960
Box 43, Folder 1 45th Session: Geneva, 1961
Box 43, Folder 2 46th Session: Geneva, 1962
Box 43, Folder 3 47th Session: Geneva, 1963
Box 44, Folder 1 48th Session: Geneva, 1964
Box 44, Folder 2 49th Session: Geneva, 1965
Box 44, Folder 3 50th Session: Geneva, 1966
Box 45, Folder 1 51st Session: Geneva, 1967
Box 45, Folder 2 52nd Session: Geneva, 1968
Box 45, Folder 3 53rd Session: Geneva, 1969
Box 46, Folder 1 54th Session: Geneva, 1970
Box 46, Folder 2 Series 2, Subject Files, 1895-1998
Series Description
Series 2: Subject Files (1895-1998) is composed of material related to the career of Morse outside of the ILO, as well as his personal life and family. Periods of his career covered by the series include his Army service, positions within the Department of Labor, and his work with the United Nations Development Programme. Please see the subseries descriptions in the contents list for additional information about individual subseries.
Arrangement
Divided into five subseries: General, Allied Military Government, Department of Labor, Mildred H. Morse, and United Nations Development Programme.
Subseries 1, General, 1895-1998
Subseries Description
Series 2: Subject Files, Subseries 1: General (1895-1998) is the most diverse component of the Morse Papers, ranging from highly personal matters to relatively inconsequential ones and touching on innumerable aspects of Morse's life. The material in this subseries is also the broadest of any in terms of time span, for while most of it postdates the Second World War, it includes documents held by Morse's family prior to his birth. The bulk of its folders are identified by the name of the individual or organization to whom or to which their contents relate, but a number are constituted on a broader basis, as in Morse's Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts requests or in the obituaries and tributes which followed his death. Much of the material in this subseries, be it personal correspondence or organizational documents, is routine, though at various junctures an issue of particular moment manifests itself. Considered collectively, this material provides a multidimensional picture of Morse's interests and involvements. For a fuller treatment of the different phases of his life, the subseries which precede and follow this one should be consulted.
That Morse was seldom idle, even after his departure from the ILO, is readily apparent on the basis of this material. His close association with institutions and organizations such as Rutgers University, the World Rehabilitation Fund, and the Council on Foreign Relations is well-documented. So, too, are his relationships with individuals the world over. Millard Cass' folder attests to the sometimes troubled nature of Morse's ties with George Meany, the pugnacious head of the AFL-CIO, and to the broader issue underlying this tension, namely, “whether,” in Morse's words, “the U. S. Government and other governments want to continue to maintain the I.L.O. as a universal organization within the framework of the United Nations family, or to reduce it to a small, tightly knit group of countries which have the objective of carrying on political warfare with the Communists.”
The prevailing sentiment in this subseries, however, reflecting the tenor of Morse's life, is one of mutual respect and, frequently, affection. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's folder, for instance, contains a note in her hand to Morse which can only be described as heartfelt. Morse's relationship with Francis Blanchard, the second man to succeed him as Director-General, is another case in point. Blanchard's folder demonstrates that Morse fulfilled the role of an eminence grise, ever ready with words of counsel and comfort. Perhaps the most arresting example of Morse's concern for others, even at one step's remove, can be found in Alain Rens's folder. Rens, the son of Morse's deputy, Jef Rens, joined the French Foreign Legion, an entanglement which he soon came to regret and which Morse went to great lengths to undo. That all was not irenic in Morse's life is evidenced by such folders as Herman Cooper's, Westbrook Pegler's, and George Shaw Wheeler's. They relate in one way or another to the anticommunist fears, sometimes justifiable and sometimes not, which gripped the United States at the height of the Cold War. Also, this subseries contains the censored photocopies of the Morse files collected by such government organizations as the FBI and CIA.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent or topic.
Abdel-Rahman, Ibrahim, 1972
Box 46, Folder 3 Abram, Morris, 1976-1977
Box 46, Folder 4 Acheson, Dean, 1949-1950, 1965-1966, 1970
Box 46, Folder 5 Adly, Ibrahim K., 1973
Box 46, Folder 6 Advertising Council: Public Policy Committee, 1973
Box 46, Folder 7 Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid, 1973
Box 46, Folder 8 African-American Institute, 1993
Box 46, Folder 9 African Investment Corporation, 1971
Box 46, Folder 10 Afros, John, 1948
Box 46, Folder 11 Alcock, Antony, 1968, 1970-1972
Box 46, Folder 12 Alexander, Archibald S., 1957, 1961-1963, 1967-1970, 1972, 1988
Box 46, Folder 13 Ali, Syed Wajid, 1971
Box 46, Folder 14 Altschul, Frank, 1970
Box 47, Folder 1 Alvarado, Luis, 1961-1962, 1967-1968, 1972
Box 47, Folder 2 American Arbitration Association, 1939, 1944, 1948, 1970-1971, 1979
Box 47, Folder 3 American Bar Association, 1949, 1967-1968, 1970-1971
Box 47, Folder 4 American Foundation on Automation and Employment, 1963
Box 47, Folder 5 American Geographical Society, 1972
Box 47, Folder 6 American International Club of Geneva, 1970, 1972
Box 47, Folder 7 American Jewish Committee, 1970
Box 47, Folder 8 American Legion, 1948-1952
Box 47, Folder 9 American Nobel Convocation, 1988
Box 47, Folder 10 American Society of International Law, 1971-1972
Box 47, Folder 11 American Trade Union Council for Histadrut Dinner Honoring Morse, 1983
Box 47, Folder 12 Ammar, Abbas, 1961, 1970-1974
Box 47, Folder 13 Anderson Foundation, 1970
Box 47, Folder 14 Apparel Industry, 1977
Box 47, Folder 15 Application for Admission to the Bar: District of Columbia, 1971-1972
Box 47, Folder 16 Application for Admission to the Bar: New York State, 1972
Box 47, Folder 17 Arden, John Re'al, 1972
Box 47, Folder 18 Arms Control Association, 1971-1974
Box 47, Folder 19 Asha, Rafik, 1971-1972
Box 47, Folder 20 Association Internationale des Etudiants en Sciences, Economiques et Commerciales, 1970
Box 47, Folder 21 Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1972, 1974
Box 47, Folder 22 Association of Former International Civil Servants, 1970, 1977
Box 47, Folder 23 Associazione “Insieme per la Pace”, 1989
Box 47, Folder 24 Atkins, C. Clyde, 1972
Box 47, Folder 25 Baldwin, Roger N., 1961-1962, 1967, 1972-1973
Box 47, Folder 26 Bancroft, Harding F., 1967
Box 47, Folder 27 Barbeau, Charles, 1966, 1970-1971, 1974
Box 47, Folder 28 Bar-Niv, Zvi, 1962, 1970, 1972
Box 47, Folder 29 Barto, Harold E., 1973
Box 47, Folder 30 Batt, William Jr., 1946
Box 47, Folder 31 Beal, Edwin F., 1952
Box 48, Folder 1 Beloit College Seminar, undated
Box 48, Folder 2 Benazzeddine, Mahmoud, 1972
Box 48, Folder 3 Benton, William, 1952, 1957, 1970, 1972
Box 48, Folder 4 Best, Winfield, 1971-1972
Box 48, Folder 5 Bilderberg Meetings, 1966, 1969-1970
Box 48, Folder 6 Billikopf, Jacob, 1946
Box 48, Folder 7 Biographies of Morse, 1947-1948, 1957, 1964, 1968-1970, 1972
Box 48, Folder 8 Blamont, Philippe, 1962, 1967, 1970-1972, 1974-1975
Box 48, Folder 9 Blanchard, Francis, 1953, 1971-1976
Box 48, Folder 10 Blum, Eric, 1971
Box 48, Folder 11 Blum, Jeanne Leon, 1950, 1953
Box 48, Folder 12 B'nai B'rith Dinner Honoring Mason Gross, 1971
Box 48, Folder 13 Bohr, Aage, 1979
Box 48, Folder 14 Bolds, Clarence M., 1946, 1949
Box 48, Folder 15 Borlaug, Norman E., 1971
Box 48, Folder 16 Bovier-Maurer, Stefanie, 1973
Box 48, Folder 17 Bowles, Chester, 1951
Box 48, Folder 18 Boy Scouts, 1970-1971
Box 48, Folder 19 Brandeis University: Honorary Degree, 1969-1971
Box 48, Folder 20 Bray, Charles W. III, 1984
Box 48, Folder 21 Bristow, Philip, 1988-1989
Box 48, Folder 22 Britton, Anthony, 1970
Box 48, Folder 23 Brock, William E., 1987
Box 48, Folder 24 Brown, Roland D., 1943
Box 48, Folder 25 Buiter, Harm G., 1971-1973
Box 48, Folder 26 Bunche, Ralph J., 1961
Box 48, Folder 27 Burger, Warren E., 1957, 1977, 1982
Box 48, Folder 28 Burr, Francis H., 1970
Box 48, Folder 29 Busbey, Fred, 1954
Box 48, Folder 30 Bush, George, 1988
Box 48, Folder 31 Bustamante, Jose L., 1967, 1970-1971
Box 48, Folder 32 Cambridge Conference on Development, 1970
Box 48, Folder 33 Candau, M. G., 1973
Box 49, Folder 1 Carey, James B., 1962
Box 49, Folder 2 Carlucci, Frank C., 1987
Box 49, Folder 3 Carneiro, Barboza, 1971-1972
Box 49, Folder 4 Carter, Jimmy, 1977, 1979
Box 49, Folder 5 Case, Clifford P., 1946, 1961-1962
Box 49, Folder 6 Cass, Millard, 1948, 1951, 1957, 1959, 1961-1972
Box 49, Folder 7 Cass, Ronald and Pamela, 1972-1973
Box 49, Folder 8 Cates, John M. Jr., 1971
Box 49, Folder 9 Century Association, 1964, 1970-1972
Box 49, Folder 10 Chandler, Geoffrey, 1971
Box 49, Folder 11 Chapman, Oscar L., 1948
Box 49, Folder 12 Churchill, Winston, 1951
Box 49, Folder 13 Clark, Tom, 1946, 1949
Box 49, Folder 14 Claudel, Francois, undated
Box 49, Folder 15 Cleveland, Harlan, 1962, 1967
Box 49, Folder 16 Clifford, Clark, 1947-1948
Box 49, Folder 17 Coakley, John W., 1972
Box 49, Folder 18 Coat and Suit Industry, 1970-1974
Box 49, Folder 19 Coblentz, Gaston, 1961, 1970
Box 49, Folder 20 Cohen, Myer, 1967-1968, 1971-1972
Box 49, Folder 21 Cohen, Wallace M., 1972
Box 49, Folder 22 Cohn, Sidney Elliott, 1966
Box 49, Folder 23 College du Leman, 1970
Box 49, Folder 24 Commission for International Justice and Peace, 1970
Box 49, Folder 25 Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy, 1973
Box 49, Folder 26 Commission to Study the Organization of Peace, 1972, 1981
Box 49, Folder 27 Communism in Latin America, 1961
Box 49, Folder 28 Condolence Letters to Mildred H. Morse, 1990-1991
Box 49, Folder 29 Conference on Human Survival, 1971-1972
Box 49, Folder 30 Connelly, Matthew J., 1947-1948
Box 49, Folder 31 Cooper, Herman, 1946, 1948, 1962
Box 49, Folder 32 Cooperative League of the USA, 1970
Box 49, Folder 33 Cordier, Andrew W., 1962, 1969-1970, 1972-1973
Box 49, Folder 34 Cortney, Philip, 1957-1959, 1962-1965, 1970
Box 49, Folder 35 Cosmos Club, 1965-1967
Box 50, Folder 1 Coult, Satz & Tomlinson: Correspondence on Morse's Joining Firm, 1939
Box 50, Folder 2 Coult, Satz, Tomlinson & Morse: Partnership Agreement, 1939
Box 50, Folder 3 Council on Foreign Relations: Corporation Service Seminar, 1970
Box 50, Folder 4 Council on Foreign Relations: Correspondenc, 1961-1962, 1970-1971
Box 50, Folder 5 Council on Foreign Relations: David A. Morse Program, 1994
Box 50, Folder 6 Council on Foreign Relations: Field Trip to Military Installations, 1971
Box 50, Folder 7 Council on Foreign Relations: Study Group on U.S. Labor and the International Economy, 1977, 1979-1980
Box 50, Folder 8-9 Cousins, Norman, 1972
Box 50, Folder 10 Cox, Robert W., 1970-1974, 1978
Box 51, Folder 1-2 Crawford, John F., 1970-1972
Box 51, Folder 3 Cuomo, Mario M., 1982
Box 51, Folder 4 D'Angelo, Armand, 1971-1972
Box 51, Folder 5 Davis, William H., 1948
Box 51, Folder 6 de Cuellar, Javier Perez, 1988
Box 51, Folder 7 de Ferron, Olivier, 1960-1961, 1963
Box 51, Folder 8 de Graaff, Peggy, 1971
Box 51, Folder 9 de Seynes, Philippe, 1970
Box 51, Folder 10 de Terra, Rhoda, 1970
Box 51, Folder 11 de Villier, H. N., 1948
Box 51, Folder 12 Debre, Michel, 1962, 1970
Box 51, Folder 13 Delaney, George P., 1950, 1953-1954, 1958-1959, 1971
Box 51, Folder 14 Democratic Party Dinners, 1946, 1948
Box 51, Folder 15 Department of Interior: Appointment of Morse to Solicitor's Staff, 1933
Box 51, Folder 16 Devin, C., 1972
Box 51, Folder 17 Diarra, Oumar Baba, 1972-1973, 1976
Box 51, Folder 18 Diouf, Abdou, 1981, 1985, 1988
Box 51, Folder 19 Dole, Bob, 1984
Box 51, Folder 20 Donato, Joseph, 1970-1973
Box 51, Folder 21 Dondero, George A., undated
Box 51, Folder 22 Dunlop, John T., 1970, 1973
Box 51, Folder 23 Durand, Jean-Pierre, 1972
Box 51, Folder 24 Economic Panel, 1971
Box 51, Folder 25 Eden, Anthony, 1951, 1954, 1957, 1977
Box 51, Folder 26 Eichelberger, Clark M., 1961, 1970
Box 51, Folder 27 80th Birthday of Morse, 1987
Box 51, Folder 28 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 1953, 1955-1956, 1959-1960
Box 51, Folder 29 Elliott, S. Michael, 1972
Box 51, Folder 30 Ernst, Morris L., 1970, 1972
Box 51, Folder 31 Ewing, George M., 1970
Box 51, Folder 32 Fahy, Charles, 1948-1949, 1954-1958, 1961-1963, 1970-1975
Box 51, Folder 33 Fascell, Dante B., 1970
Box 51, Folder 34 Faure, Edgar J., 1972
Box 52, Folder 1 Fenton, Frank P., 1948
Box 52, Folder 2 Fichter, Michael, 1978-1979
Box 52, Folder 3 Fischer, Ben, 1972
Box 52, Folder 4 Fisher, Joe, 1943
Box 52, Folder 5 Fix, Brian D., 1972
Box 52, Folder 6 Ford, Betty, 1986
Box 52, Folder 7 40th Birthday of Morse, 1947
Box 52, Folder 8 Foster, William C., 1950
Box 52, Folder 9 Francis, John J., 1970, 1972
Box 52, Folder 10 Franklin D. Roosevelt Foundation, 1949-1950, 1953-1954
Box 52, Folder 11 Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Foundation, 1970
Box 52, Folder 12 Frazao, Sergio, 1972-1973
Box 52, Folder 13 Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts Request: Correspondence with Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1980-1982
Box 52, Folder 14 Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts Request: Correspondence with National Security Agency, 1984
Box 52, Folder 15 Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts Request: Files Released by Central Intelligence Agency, 1955, 1957-1963, 1984
Box 52, Folder 16 Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts Request: Files Released by Department of State, 1954, 1956-1962, 1984
Box 52, Folder 17 Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts Request: Files Released by Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1946-1947, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1978
Box 52, Folder 18 Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts Request: Files Released by Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1946-1948, 1950-1951
Box 52, Folder 19 Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts Request: Files Released by Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1948
Box 52, Folder 20 Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts Request: Files Released by Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1953-1954
Box 52, Folder 21 Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts Request: Files Released by Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1953-1954
Box 52, Folder 22 Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts Request: Files Released by Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1957, 1961
Box 52, Folder 23 Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts Request: Files Released by Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1978
Box 52, Folder 24 Freund, Paul, 1957
Box 52, Folder 25 Fried, John H. E., 1948
Box 52, Folder 26 Friedman, Elisha M., 1946
Box 52, Folder 27 Fruchtman, Edward J., 1947-1948
Box 52, Folder 28 Fulbright, J. W., 1959
Box 52, Folder 29 Furth, Warren W., 1964, 1966, 1968-1970, 1972-1973
Box 52, Folder 30 Galenson, Walter, 1970, 1972, 1979
Box 53, Folder 1 Gardiner, Rita, 1970
Box 53, Folder 2 Gardner, Richard N., 1962
Box 53, Folder 3 Garrison, Lloyd K., 1946, 1971
Box 53, Folder 4 Gifts to Cultural Institutions, 1976, 1978-1980
Box 53, Folder 5 Gillette, Arthur C., 1970
Box 53, Folder 6 Goekjian, Samuel V., 1970
Box 53, Folder 7 Goldberg, Arthur J., 1957, 1962, 1965-1966, 1970
Box 53, Folder 8 Goodwin, Robert C., 1948
Box 53, Folder 9 Gordenker, Leon, 1978, 1994
(Includes the transcript of an interview with Cordenker about his research and thoughts on Morse's career at I.L.O.)
Box 53, Folder 10 Gouk, Yuri, 1958
Box 53, Folder 11 Goulding, Valerie, 1987
Box 53, Folder 12 Gray, Gordon, 1950
Box 53, Folder 13 Green, William, 1948-1951
Box 53, Folder 14 Griswold, Erwin N., 1972, 1989
Box 53, Folder 15 Gross, Ernest A., 1946-1949, 1970
Box 53, Folder 16 Gunter, R. J., 1966
Box 53, Folder 17 Gustafson, Charles H., 1972
Box 53, Folder 18 Haas, Ernst B., 1971
Box 53, Folder 19 Hammarskjold, Dag, 1957, 1960
Box 53, Folder 20 Hansenne, Michel, 1989
Box 53, Folder 21 Harbison, Frederick H., 1961-1962, 1972
Box 53, Folder 22 Harriman, Averell, 1948-1950, 1959-1960, 1963-1968, 1981-1982, 1986
Box 53, Folder 23 Harrison, Rex, undated
Box 53, Folder 24 Harvard Law School Association, 1963
Box 53, Folder 25 Harvard University: Gustav Pollak Lecture, 1955
Box 53, Folder 26 Harvard University: Program on Technology and Society, 1971
Box 53, Folder 27 Hassouna, Abdal-Khalef, 1972
Box 53, Folder 28 Hauck, Henri, 1949
Box 53, Folder 29 Hayes, Wendell, 1947-1949
Box 53, Folder 30 Haythorne, George V., 1961, 1972
Box 53, Folder 31 Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York, 1961-1962
Box 53, Folder 32 Heath, Ted, 1970
Box 53, Folder 33 Heilperin, Michael A., 1953
Box 53, Folder 34 Hellman, Ted and Janice, 1971-1972
Box 53, Folder 35 Helsby, Robert D., 1970
Box 53, Folder 36 Henry, Paul Marc, 1972
Box 53, Folder 37 Hepler, Chester W., 1951-1952
Box 53, Folder 38 Herbert H. Lehman College, 1970-1971
Box 53, Folder 39 Herrera, Felipe, 1970
Box 53, Folder 40 Herrick, Elinore and Family, 1946, 1949, 1952, 1961-1970
Box 53, Folder 41 Herter, Christian A., 1966
Box 53, Folder 42 Herzog, Paul M., 1946, 1948-1959, 1961, 1972
Box 53, Folder 43 Heyman, David M., 1962, 1964, 1969-1970
Box 53, Folder 44 Higgins, Rev. George G., 1976
Box 53, Folder 45 Hillpot, William, undated
Box 53, Folder 46 Hindle, S., 1972
Box 53, Folder 47 Hockstader, Leonard A. and Aline S., 1943, 1946-1947, 1961
Box 53, Folder 48 Hodgson, James D., 1970, 1973
Box 53, Folder 49 Hoffman, Paul G. and Anna M., 1946, 1948, 1950, 1966-1967, 1970-1972, 1983
Box 53, Folder 50 Holbrook, Richard, 1989
Box 53, Folder 51 Holland, Tom, 1947
Box 53, Folder 52 Holmes, Allen, 1990
Box 53, Folder 53 Holtzmann, Howard M., 1973
Box 54, Folder 1 Hoveyda, Fereydoun, 1972
Box 54, Folder 2 Humphrey, Hubert H., 1962, 1967
Box 54, Folder 3 Huth, Arno G., 1972-1973
Box 54, Folder 4 Hylander Folk School, 1946
Box 54, Folder 5 Industrial Relations Research Association (New York Chapter), 1970-1971
Box 54, Folder 6 Institute on Man and Science, 1971-1974
Box 54, Folder 7 International Association of Students in Economics and Management, 1972-1974
Box 54, Folder 8 International Committee Against Mental Illness, 1971-1973
Box 54, Folder 9 International Court of Justice Nominations, 1971-1972
Box 54, Folder 10 International Drug Consortium, 1971
Box 54, Folder 11 International Encyclopedia of Labor and Industrial Relations, 1970-1974
Box 54, Folder 12 International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, 1971, 1977
Box 54, Folder 13 International Lawyers' Club, 1979
Box 54, Folder 14 International League for Human Rights Conference, 1977
Box 54, Folder 15 International League for the Rights of Man: Human Rights Award, 1970
Box 54, Folder 16 International League of Societies for the Mentally Handicapped, 1971-1973
Box 54, Folder 17 International Manpower Institute: Executive Seminar on Employment Growth, 1971
Box 54, Folder 18 International Manpower Institute: Executive Seminar on Maximizing Employment, 1973
Box 54, Folder 19 International Planned Parenthood Federation, 1964, 1969
Box 54, Folder 20 International Symposium on Public Employment Labor Relations, 1970-1971
Box 55, Folder 1 Investors Overseas Services, 1970-1971
Box 55, Folder 2 Isaacson, William J., 1972
Box 55, Folder 3 Jackson, C. D., 1953-1954
Box 55, Folder 4 Jankowitsch, Peter, 1973
Box 55, Folder 5 Javits, Jacob K., 1967, 1970, 1972
Box 55, Folder 6 Jenks, C. Wilfred, 1947, 1949, 1962, 1970-1973
Box 55, Folder 7 Jerusalem Film Festival, 1971
Box 55, Folder 8 Jihad, Sami, 1972
Box 55, Folder 9 Jimenez-Veiga, Danilo, 1958
Box 55, Folder 10 Joblin, Rev. Joseph, 1961-1968, 1970-1971, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1988
Box 55, Folder 11 Johansson, Bertram B., 1971
Box 55, Folder 12 Johnson, Edgar A. J., 1972
Box 55, Folder 13 Johnson, Joseph E., 1961, 1970
Box 55, Folder 14 Johnson, Lyndon B., 1963-1966, 1968, 1970
Box 55, Folder 15 Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation: Kennedy International Award Selection Committee, 1971
Box 55, Folder 16 Jouhaux, Leon and Schnucky, 1948-1950, 1954-1956, 1961, 1967, 1972, 1979, 1981
Box 55, Folder 17 The Jury Study System: “A Comparison of Six- and Twelve-Member Juries in New Jersey Superior and County Courts”, circa 1972
Box 55, Folder 18 Kaiser, Philip M., 1946-1949, 1959, 1961, 1989
Box 55, Folder 19 Kalb, Marvin, 1987
Box 55, Folder 20 Kamel, Mahmoud, 1971-1972
Box 56, Folder 1 Kaplansky, Kalmen, 1970, 1972-1973, 1976, 1989
Box 56, Folder 2 Kaufmann, Johan, 1972
Box 56, Folder 3 Kaye, Danny, 1971
Box 56, Folder 4 Keenan, Joseph D., 1946
Box 56, Folder 5 Khan, Sadruddin Aga, 1967, 1970, 1972
Box 56, Folder 6 Kingsley, J. Donald, 1946, 1948-1951
Box 56, Folder 7 Kissinger, Henry A., 1989
Box 56, Folder 8 Klutznick, Philip M., 1946, 1961
Box 56, Folder 9 Koch, Hans Henrik, 1948-1957, 1962, 1964, 1967-1972
Box 56, Folder 10 Koku, Simeon Olujimi, 1970, 1972
Box 56, Folder 11 Konvitz, Milton R., 1946, 1962, 1967, 1971
Box 56, Folder 12 Kosciusko-Morizet, Jacques, 1971-1972
Box 56, Folder 13 Kotschnig, Walter, 1949-1950, 1961, 1965, 1967, 1970
Box 56, Folder 14 Krag, Jens Otto, 1972
Box 56, Folder 15 Kramer, C. Russell, 1972
Box 56, Folder 16 Kreeger, David Lloyd, 1972, 1982
Box 56, Folder 17 Kreisky, Bruno, 1970
Box 56, Folder 18 Krug, Julius A., 1946, 1948
Box 56, Folder 19 La Guardia, Fiorello, 1942
Box 56, Folder 20 Lane, Thomas A., 1948
Box 56, Folder 21 Lane, Tony, 1972
Box 56, Folder 22 Lasker, Mary, 1972
Box 56, Folder 23 Laves, Walter H. C., 1946, 1948-1951, 1962
Box 56, Folder 24 Lawyer, John, 1946-1950, 1968, 1970-1971
Box 56, Folder 25 Le Roy, Rev. A., 1951
Box 56, Folder 26 Legion of Honor, 1970-1971
Box 56, Folder 27 Lehman, Edith, 1962-1964, 1970, 1972
Box 56, Folder 28 Lehman, Herbert H., 1942, 1944, 1946, 1957, 1962-1963
Box 56, Folder 29 Leichter, Otto, 1945
Box 56, Folder 30 Levin, Gerald M., 1972
Box 56, Folder 31 Lilienthal, David E., 1962, 1971-1972, 1977
Box 56, Folder 32 Lindsay, John V., 1970
Box 56, Folder 33 Lodge, Henry Cabot Jr., 1948
Box 56, Folder 34 Lord, Winston, 1986
Box 56, Folder 35 Lovett, Robert A., 1948
Box 56, Folder 36 Lower Eastside Action Project, 1970-1972
Box 56, Folder 37 Loyalty Data, undated
Box 56, Folder 38 Lubin, Isador, 1948-1949, 1957
Box 56, Folder 39 Lynch, John M., 1972
Box 56, Folder 40 McCarthyism, 1952
Box 57, Folder 1 McCormick, Charles P., 1949-1952
Box 57, Folder 2 MacDonald, James E., 1971
Box 57, Folder 3 McGrath, Marcos G., 1970
Box 57, Folder 4 McGrath, W. L., 1951
Box 57, Folder 5 McNamara, Robert S., 1970, 1979
Box 57, Folder 6 Maheu, Rene, 1972, 1975
Box 57, Folder 7 Major, Louis, 1968
Box 57, Folder 8 Marcelletti, Mario, 1971
Box 57, Folder 9 Marks, Herbert, 1935
Box 57, Folder 10 Marshall, George C., 1948, 1950
Box 57, Folder 11 Martin, Edwin M., 1971-1973
Box 57, Folder 12 Martin, Graham, 1972
Box 57, Folder 13 Marx, David, 1972
Box 57, Folder 14 Mathias, Charles McC., Jr., 1985
Box 57, Folder 15 Mathieson, W. A. C., 1972
Box 57, Folder 16 Mboya, Tom, 1970
Box 57, Folder 17 Meacham, Stewart, 1946-1950
Box 57, Folder 18 Meany, George, 1948, 1950, 1964, 1971, 1976
Box 57, Folder 19 Meir, Golda, 1970
Box 57, Folder 20 Menefee, Selden, 1942, 1946-1949
Box 57, Folder 21 Menzies, R. G., 1966
Box 57, Folder 22 Merani, S. T., 1972
Box 57, Folder 23 Metropolitan Club, 1961, 1967-1969
Box 57, Folder 24 Michigan Law Review, 1971
Box 57, Folder 25 Milk Industry, 1941-1942
Box 57, Folder 26 Mitchell, James P., 1957-1958
Box 57, Folder 27 Morellet, Jean, 1961, 1970-1971
Box 57, Folder 28 Mori, Suzanne, 1970
Box 57, Folder 29 Moscovitz Family, 1895, 1902-1906, 1943, 1958, 1971
Box 57, Folder 30 Mouvement Anti-Apartheid de Geneve, Commission de Parrainage Scolaire, 1970
Box 57, Folder 31 Moynihan, Helen, 1972
Box 57, Folder 32 Myrddin-Evans, Guildhaume, 1948-1951, 1957, 1960-1961, 1963
Box 57, Folder 33 Nakayama, Yoshihiro, 1972
Box 57, Folder 34 Narasimham, C. V., 1972
Box 57, Folder 35 National Association for Retarded Children, 1971
Box 57, Folder 36 National Conference of Christians and Jews: Dinner Honoring Morse, 1971
Box 57, Folder 37 National Labor Relations Board, 1939, 1945-1946, 1975, 1995
Box 57, Folder 38 National Lawyers Guild, 1946-1948, 1953
Box 57, Folder 39 National Planning Association, 1971-1973
Box 58, Folder 1 National War College Seminar, 1979
Box 58, Folder 2 Neilan, Edwin P., 1966-1967, 1970-1972
Box 58, Folder 3 New Jersey Bar, 1933
Box 58, Folder 4 New York State Public Employment Relations Board, 1970-1973
Box 58, Folder 5 New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, 1970-1972
Box 58, Folder 6 N'Gaki, Nzo Ekan, 1972
Box 58, Folder 7 Nixon, Richard, 1968-1970
Box 58, Folder 8 North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1952
Box 58, Folder 9 Obituaries and Tributes, 1990-1998
Box 58, Folder 10-14 O'Conor, Herbert R., 1949-1951
Box 58, Folder 15 Olav V of Norway, 1961
Box 58, Folder 16 Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1988-1989, 1992
Box 58, Folder 17 Osmay, Mukdim, 1951, 1972
Box 58, Folder 18 Pachler, William J., 1948
Box 58, Folder 19 Parodi, Alexandre, 1962, 1970
Box 58, Folder 20 Passports, 1952, 1970
Box 58, Folder 21 Pastoriza, Tomas A., 1972
Box 58a, Folder 1 Pate, Maurice, 1961-1962
Box 58a, Folder 2 Pazhwak, R., 1966
Box 58a, Folder 3 Pegler, Westbrook, 1955
Box 58a, Folder 4 Pell, Claiborne, 1982-1983, 1985-1986, 1989-1990
Box 58a, Folder 5 Penrose, E. F., 1949
Box 58a, Folder 6 Perkins, Frances, 1948
Box 58a, Folder 7 Perl, Frederick L., 1969-1970
Box 58a, Folder 8 Personal Documents, 1907-1932
Box 58a, Folder 9 Peurifoy, John E., 1947
Box 58a, Folder 10 Phelan, Edward J., 1949, 1951, 1953, 1956-1958, 1961-1962
Box 58a, Folder 11 Phi Epsilon Pi Award, 1963-1966
Box 58a, Folder 12 Piliero, Daniel J. II, 1972
Box 58a, Folder 13 Plain Talk: Attack on Morse, 1948
Box 58a, Folder 14 Planetary Citizens, 1975
Box 58a, Folder 15 Plaza, Galo, 1972
Box 58a, Folder 16 Politics, 1946-1948
Box 58a, Folder 17 Pope John XXIII, 1961
Box 58a, Folder 18 Pope Paul VI, 1967, 1969-1970
Box 58a, Folder 19 Pope Pius XII, 1954
Box 58a, Folder 20 Potential Book on Morse's Years as Director-General, 1961-1965, 1967, 1970
Box 59, Folder 1 Potofsky, Jacob S., 1948, 1967, 1970, 1972
Box 59, Folder 2 Powers, Susan, 1989
Box 59, Folder 3 Prebisch, Raul, 1972
Box 59, Folder 4 President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, 1970, 1972-1973, 1977, 1980
Box 59, Folder 5 Princeton University Conference, 1976-1978
Box 59, Folder 6 Puig, Emilio Calderon, 1970, 1972
Box 59, Folder 7 Ramos, Fernando Yllanes, 1972-1973
Box 59, Folder 8 Ransom, William L., 1942
Box 59, Folder 9 Rao, Raghunath, 1948, 1950-1951, 1957
Box 59, Folder 10 Reagan, Ronald W., 1981-1982
Box 59, Folder 11 Reed, Charles D., 1942, 1982
Box 59, Folder 12 Rens, Alain, 1954-1955
Box 59, Folder 13 Rens, Ivo, 1957
Box 59, Folder 14 Rens, Jef, 1947-1948, 1951, 1954, 1956, 1961-1962, 1967, 1969-1973
Box 59, Folder 15 Rhyne, Charles S., 1972
Box 59, Folder 16 Ribeiro da Cunha, Alexandre, 1961-1962, 1964-1965, 1967
Box 59, Folder 17 Riesel, Victor, 1946, 1948-1950, 1962
Box 59, Folder 18 Robbins, Clifton, 1949-1950
Box 59, Folder 19 Rockefeller, David, 1965, 1970
Box 59, Folder 20 Roosevelt, James, 1971
Box 59, Folder 21 Ross, Claude and J.P., 1973
Box 59, Folder 22 Rubin, Seymour J., 1970, 1972
Box 59, Folder 23 Rusk, Dean, 1949
Box 59, Folder 24 Rusk, Howard, 1971, 1973
Box 59, Folder 25 Rutgers University, 1940, 1948-1954, 1958-1959, 1966-1970, 1981
Box 59, Folder 26 Rutgers University: Board of Trustees and Advisory Committees, 1971-1975
Box 59, Folder 27 Rutgers University: Foundation, 1972-1973
Box 59, Folder 28 Rutgers University: Foundation, 1974-1977
Box 60, Folder 1 Rutgers University: Honorary Degree, 1956-1957
Box 60, Folder 2 Rutgers University: Memorabilia, 1929
Box 60, Folder 3 Rutgers University: Memorabilia, 1929, 1979, 1981
Box 60, Folder 4 Salomon, Irving, 1972
Box 60, Folder 5 Sanders, Paul H., 1972
Box 60, Folder 6 Satz, David M., 1944-1946
Box 60, Folder 7 Saver, Walter, 1970
Box 60, Folder 8 Schafer, Roger, 1945
Box 60, Folder 9 Scheuer, James H., 1969-1973
Box 60, Folder 10 Schweitzer, Albert: Hospital and Fellowship, 1971-1974
Box 60, Folder 11 Segal, Joseph M., 1970
Box 60, Folder 12 Senghor, Leopold S., 1970-1975
Box 60, Folder 13 Senghor, Leopold S., 1976-1984
Box 61, Folder 1 75th Birthday of Morse, 1982
Box 61, Folder 2 Seward, Ralph, 1947
Box 61, Folder 3 Shallon, Nessim, 1973
Box 61, Folder 4 Shanley, Bernard M., 1948-1950, 1953-1956, 1984
Box 61, Folder 5 Shaw, Charles E., 1948-1953
Box 61, Folder 6 Shaw, Paul F., 1971
Box 61, Folder 7 Shultz, George P., 1982
Box 61, Folder 8 Sidney Hillman Foundation: Lecture, 1966
Box 61, Folder 9 Sidney Hillman Foundation: Meritorious Public Service Award, 1969
Box 61, Folder 10 Sierra, Etienne, 1964
Box 61, Folder 11 Singer, D. S., 1972
Box 61, Folder 12 Singer, H. W., 1972
Box 61, Folder 13 Sketches of Morse, 1950, 1967, 1969
Box 61, Folder 14 Smith, Bob, 1944
Box 61, Folder 15 Snyder, Donald, 1972-1973
Box 61, Folder 16 Society for International Development, 1963, 1968, 1970
Box 61, Folder 17 Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution, 1973
Box 61, Folder 18 Solarz, Stephen, 1984-1985
Box 61, Folder 19 Somerville High School: Class of 1925 40th Reunion, 1965
Box 61, Folder 20 Sorensen, Richard S., 1972
Box 61, Folder 21 Spaak, Paul-Henri, 1956
Box 61, Folder 22 Speaking Engagements, 1946-1948
Box 61, Folder 23 State Department, 1948-1949, 1959-1962, 1965
Box 61, Folder 24 Stauffer, Thomas, 1945, 1949-1950
Box 61, Folder 25 Steelman, John R., 1946, 1948, 1972
Box 61, Folder 26 Stehlin, Mark, 1973
Box 61, Folder 27 Stevenson, Adlai E., 1961
Box 61, Folder 28 Stewart, Potter, 1984
Box 61, Folder 29 Straus, Donald B., 1961-1962, 1972
Box 61, Folder 30 Straus, Nathan, 1965
Box 61, Folder 31 Straus, Oscar S., 1947
Box 61, Folder 32 Straus, Peter and Ellen., 1949-1952, 1955-1961, 1964-1966, 1970
Box 61, Folder 33 Straus, Roger W., Jr. and Gladys, 1970-1972
Box 61, Folder 34 Stryker, Steven, 1972-1973
Box 61, Folder 35 Sugerman, Charles, undated
Box 61, Folder 36 Supreme Court Historical Society, 1975-1979
Box 61, Folder 37 Surrey, Karasik, Greene & Hill: Correspondence on Morse's Joining Firm, 1970
Box 61, Folder 38 Surrey, Karasik & Greene: Activities in Chad and Senegal, 1971, 1973
Box 62, Folder 1 Surrey, Karasik & Morse: Mission of Granges Group to Iran, 1974
Box 62, Folder 2 Surrey, Walter Sterling, 1970-1973
Box 62, Folder 3 Swidler, Joseph C., 1972
Box 62, Folder 4 Taylor, George, 1971
Box 62, Folder 5 Taylor, Telford, 1946
Box 62, Folder 6 Terence, Nsanze, 1971-1972
Box 62, Folder 7 Thant, U, 1962, 1967, 1969-1970, 1972
Box 62, Folder 8 Thomas, Elbert D., 1946, 1948, 1950
Box 62, Folder 9 Thompson, Frank Jr., 1970, 1976
Box 62, Folder 10 Tobin, Maurice, 1948-1951
Box 62, Folder 11 Todd, Joseph A., 1972-1973
Box 62, Folder 12 Travelers Aid International Social Service of America, 1973-1974
Box 62, Folder 13 Trimble, Phillip R., 1973
Box 62, Folder 14 Troclet, Leon-Eli, 1948
Box 62, Folder 15 Truman, Harry S., 1947-1950, 1970, 1972, 1983
Box 62, Folder 16 Truman Library, 1963-1964, 1970, 1979-1980
Box 62, Folder 17 Tubby, Roger W., 1963, 1967
Box 62, Folder 18 Tunney, John V., 1972
Box 62, Folder 19 Twigt, Bernard T., 1970
Box 62, Folder 20 Union Interalliee, 1965, 1973
Box 62, Folder 21 United Nations: 25th Anniversary Commemoration, 1970
Box 62, Folder 22 United Nations Association, 1968-1971
Box 62, Folder 23 United Nations Association, 1972
Box 62, Folder 24 United Nations Association, 1972-1974, 1980, 1983
Box 63, Folder 1-2 United Nations Association: Economic Policy Council, 1990
Box 63, Folder 3 United Nations Association: Report on Foreign Policy Decision-Making, 1972
Box 63, Folder 4 Universite de Geneve: Honorary Degree, 1962
Box 63, Folder 5 Universite de Strasbourg: Honorary Degree, 1968-1969
Box 63, Folder 6 Universite Laval: Honorary Degree, 1969
Box 63, Folder 7 University of Michigan, 1970-1971
Box 63, Folder 8 Urquhart, Brian, 1972
Box 63, Folder 9 Van Dusen, Lewis H. Jr., 1972
Box 63, Folder 10 Vatican, 1967, 1973
Box 63, Folder 11 Velebit, Vladimir, 1970-1972
Box 63, Folder 12 Vincent, Patrick, 1972
Box 63, Folder 13 Vinci, Piero, 1972
Box 63, Folder 14 Vista, 1971-1972
Box 63, Folder 15-16 Vitamin-Erg Company, 1948
Box 63, Folder 17 Wagner, Richard, 1961-1962
Box 63, Folder 18 Wagner, Robert F., 1963-1964
Box 63, Folder 19 Waldheim, Kurt, 1972
Box 63, Folder 20 Waline, Pierre, 1949, 1957-1958, 1962, 1974, 1979
Box 63, Folder 21 Watson, John Forbes, 1948, 1950
Box 63, Folder 22 Watt, Robert, 1948
Box 63, Folder 23 Weaver, George, 1965-1971, 1973-1974
Box 63, Folder 24 Weisl, Edwin L., 1965
Box 64, Folder 1 Werblin, David A., 1946, 1961, 1965-1971
Box 64, Folder 2 Werblin, Jacob S. and Leo, 1955
Box 64, Folder 3 Wheeler, Frederick, 1971
Box 64, Folder 4 Wheeler, George Shaw, 1945-1956
Box 64, Folder 5 Willkie, Wendell L., 1940, 1942
Box 64, Folder 6 Winslow, Thacher, 1946-1947, 1949
Box 64, Folder 7 Wirtz, W. Willard, 1964, 1966-1967
Box 64, Folder 8 Wisner, Frank G., 1984
Box 64, Folder 9 Wolf, Francis, 1970, 1972-1976, 1978-1979, 1986
Box 64, Folder 10 Woll, Matthew, 1948
Box 64, Folder 11 Wood, Richard, 1973
Box 64, Folder 12 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1968-1971
Box 64, Folder 13 Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 1976-1979
Box 64, Folder 14 World Association of World Federalists, 1971-1974
Box 64, Folder 15 World Rehabilitation Fund: Board of Directors, 1968-1970
Box 64, Folder 16-18 World Rehabilitation Fund: Board of Directors, 1970-1972
Box 65, Folder 1-5 World Rehabilitation Fund: Board of Directors, 1972-1974
Box 66, Folder 1-3 World Rehabilitation Fund: Dinner Honoring Morse, 1973-1974
Box 66, Folder 4 World Rehabilitation Fund: Luncheon Honoring U Thant, 1971
Box 66, Folder 5 World Rehabilitation Fund: Vocational Rehabilitation Projects, 1969-1974
Box 66, Folder 6 Wou-Saofong, 1946, 1959, 1961-1962
Box 66, Folder 7 Wright, Ralph, 1953-1954, 1956, 1958, 1961-1962, 1967
Box 66, Folder 8 Young Presidents' Organization Inc., 1972
Box 66, Folder 9 Zellerbach, J. David, 1947-1952
Box 66, Folder 10 Zempel, Arnold L., 1947-1948
Box 66, Folder 11 Zimmerman, William, 1972
Box 66, Folder 12 Zorn, Burton A., 1946, 1956, 1961-1962, 1964-1967
Box 66, Folder 13 Subseries 2, Allied Military Government, 1940-1947
Subseries Description
Series 2: Subject Files, Subseries 2: Allied Military Government (1940-1947) documents Morse's military career during the Second World War in considerable detail. The material in this subseries includes general army records as well as records specifically related to Morse's tenure as head of the Labor Division of the Allied Military Government of Occupied Territory in Sicily and Italy and head of the Manpower Division of the United States Group Control Council for Germany. Material concerning Japan is also present in the form of the final report of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers' Advisory Committee on Labor, entitled “Labor Policies and Programs in Japan.” A revealing account of Morse's wartime experiences, particularly with regards to Sicily and Italy, can be found in a journal recording his activities in various places, including North Africa, Sicily and Italy, England, France, Germany, and Austria. A haunting memento of his military career, which brought him face to face with Hitler's liberated concentration camps, is a yellow Star of David bearing the French word, “Juif.”
Morse's general army records span the period from his request for an interview with the United States Army in March 1942 (subsequently he was accepted as a first lieutenant), to his receipt of the Legion of Merit in June 1946, nine months after his voluntary discharge. This material also includes selective service cards from 1940 and 1941 and the somewhat belated transmittal letter which accompanied his commission as lieutenant colonel in 1947. The general army records are mainly composed of “extracts,” that is, orders and station assignments given to officers. Information issued to officers briefing them on certain codes of conduct, such as confidentiality, and detailing military activities, such as the Allied Military Government of Occupied Territory manual on “plan, proclamations and instructions” are present as well. The last folder in the general army records sequence also contains documents relating to Morse's promotion to lieutenant colonel, his receipt of the Legion of Merit for his conspicuous services, and original copies of the May 8, 1945 editions of the New York Herald Tribune and The Stars and Stripes celebrating the surrender of Germany and the end of the war in Europe. Material relating to Morse's German involvements consists mainly of reports on labor such as “Tentative Labor Plan for Germany” and “Annex XVIII (Manpower) of Basic Preliminary Plan Allied Control and Occupation of Germany (Control Council Period).” Material relating to Morse's work in Sicily and Italy is much more diverse and plentiful. It includes general orders and extracts, minutes, background documentation on Sicily and Italy's labor situations, newspaper clippings, and reports concerning various labor-related issues. The drafts of Morse's labor policy, which dealt with the abolition of the fascist labor system and the establishment free trade unions and labor offices, illustrate the evolution of civil reconstruction amid conditions which were at best unstable.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent or topic.
Army Record, 1940-1942
Box 66, Folder 14-15 Army Record, 1943-1947
Box 67, Folder 1-3 Germany, 1944-1945
Box 67, Folder 4 Japan, 1946
Box 67, Folder 5 Journal, 1943-1945
Box 67, Folder 6 Sicily and Italy, 1943
Box 67, Folder 7-8 Sicily and Italy, 1944, 1946
Box 68, Folder 1 Sicily and Italy, undated
Box 68, Folder 2 Star of David, undated
Box 68, Folder 3 Subseries 3, Department of Labor, 1945-1954
Subseries Description
Series 2: Subject Files, Subseries 3: Department of Labor (1945-1954) consists of material relating to Morse's tenure as Assistant, Under, and Acting Secretary of Labor in the Truman administration between July 1946 and August 1948. For the most part, the contents of this subseries can be divided into three broad categories: intra-departmental material, inter-departmental material, and extra-departmental material. It is important to note that most of this material takes the form of copies of records held in the National Archives rather than papers held in Morse's files. Their character tends to be impersonal, not that the human dimension is entirely absent. Morse's dealings with Secretary Lewis Schwellenbach and the upper echelons of the department convey a clear sense of the style and substance of his administrative role. The topics covered in this subseries are varied, ranging from the contentious Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, to the family budget of urban workers to the equitable participation of minorities in the programs and services of the department.
The bulk of the material in this subseries is intra-departmental, including budget reports, general orders establishing policies and procedures for various activities, draft legislation, statutes describing the purpose of departmental units, and plans for the department's 35th anniversary. This category also contains material relating to programs and services within the jurisdiction of the department such as the United States Employment Service, the Women's Bureau, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and the Veterans Employment Service. The activities of the department itself are documented in large part through reports on the progress of various domestic and international programs and through memoranda between officials suggesting changes within or alternatives to such programs.
The inter-departmental material in this subseries consists of documents exchanged between the department and other governmental offices and officials, including reports on joint programs and issues of departmental concern. For example, the Department of Labor, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of Agriculture were all involved in the Food Conservation Program established by President Truman. The White House, the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Atomic Energy Commission were also among the department's correspondents.
For its part, the extra-departmental material consists of correspondence and associated documents exchanged between Morse or his colleagues and external bodies such as the International Labour Organisation, the Merrill-Stevens Dry Dock and Repair Company, United States Steel, and the University of California's Institute of Industrial Relations. A number of congratulatory letters and telegrams from Morse's friends and relations on the occasion of his appointment as Assistant and Under Secretary of Labor inject an element of personal warmth into this subseries.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent or topic.
Administration, 1946-1948
Box 68, Folder 4 Appointment of Morse as Assistant Secretary: Congratulations, 1946
Box 68, Folder 5 Appointment of Morse as Under Secretary: Congratulations, 1947-1948
Box 68, Folder 6 Atomic Energy Commission, 1946-1947
Box 68, Folder 7 Bailey, Dorothy: Case, 1947-1948
Box 68, Folder 8 Budget, 1946, 1948
Box 68, Folder 9 Cass, Millard, 1946-1948
Box 68, Folder 10 City Workers, 1947
Box 68, Folder 11 Commerce Department, 1946-1947
Box 68, Folder 12 Confirmation of Morse as Assistant Secretary, 1946
Box 68, Folder 13 Congressional Correspondence, 1947-1948
Box 68, Folder 14 Council of Economic Advisors, 1946-1947
Box 68, Folder 15 Economic Cooperation, 1948
Box 69, Folder 1 Equal Rights Amendment, 1948
Box 69, Folder 2 Ewing, Oscar, 1947
Box 69, Folder 3 Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1948
Box 69, Folder 4 Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, 1947-1948
Box 69, Folder 5 Food Program, 1947
Box 69, Folder 6 Ford, Henry II: Address on Steady Employment, 1946
Box 69, Folder 7 Foreign Labor Conditions, 1946-1948
Box 69, Folder 8 General Orders, 1946-1948
Box 69, Folder 9 Gibson, John, 1946-1948
Box 69, Folder 10 Goodwin, Robert C.: Address on Industrial Peace, 1947
Box 69, Folder 11 Information Policy: Fiscal Year 1949, 1947
Box 69, Folder 12 Interdepartmental Committees, 1946-1948
Box 69, Folder 13 International Labor Affairs, 1947-1948
Box 69, Folder 14 International Labour Organisation, 1945-1948
Box 69, Folder 15 Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Article on Morse, 1947
Box 69, Folder 16 Justice Department, 1947
Box 69, Folder 17 Korean Labor Report, 1947
Box 69, Folder 18 Labor Relations, 1946
Box 69, Folder 19 Legislation, 1946-1948
Box 69, Folder 20 Manpower and Management, 1947-1948
Box 69, Folder 21 Marine and Shipbuilding Workers' Strike Vote, 1947
Box 69, Folder 22 Minority Groups and Migratory Labor, 1947-1948
Box 69, Folder 23 National Defense, 1946-1948
Box 69, Folder 24 National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week Committee, 1947
Box 70, Folder 1 National Labor Management Board, 1946
Box 70, Folder 2 National Security Resources Board, 1947-1948
Box 70, Folder 3 Nomenclature in the Executive Branch, 1947
Box 70, Folder 4 Post-Resignation Correspondence, 1949-1954
Box 70, Folder 5 Press Releases, 1947-1948
Box 70, Folder 6 Programs, 1947
Box 70, Folder 7 Racial Discrimination, 1946-1948
Box 70, Folder 8 Schwellenbach, Lewis B., 1947
Box 70, Folder 9 Solicitor's Office, 1947-1948
Box 70, Folder 10 State Department, 1948
Box 70, Folder 11 Statutes, undated
Box 70, Folder 12 Statutory Purpose of Department, 1947
Box 70, Folder 13 Taft-Hartley Act, 1947-1948
Box 70, Folder 14 Telephone Strike, 1948
Box 70, Folder 15 35th Anniversary of Department, 1947-1948
Box 70, Folder 16 Trade Union Advisory Committee, 1946-1948
Box 70, Folder 17 Treasury Department, 1947
Box 70, Folder 18 Truman, Harry S., 1946-1948
Box 70, Folder 19 United States Employment Service, 1947-1948
Box 70, Folder 20 United States Steel, 1947
Box 70, Folder 21 University of California Institute of Industrial Relations, 1947
Box 70, Folder 22 Veterans' Employment Rights, 1947-1948
Box 70, Folder 23 Wage and Price Policy, 1947-1948
Box 70, Folder 24 Women's Bureau, 1947-1948
Box 70, Folder 25 Subseries 4, Mildred H. Morse, 1900-1974
Subseries Description
Series 2: Subject Files, Subseries 4, Mildred H. Morse (1900-1974) consists chiefly of letters written to or from Mildred Morse, Morse's wife of 53 years, between 1919 and 1969. The broad time span of this subseries, which includes correspondence between members of Mrs. Morse's family prior to her birth as well as childhood notes, offers a rich and evolving portrait of Mrs. Morse and her world. Of particular interest in this regard is the folder relating to Mrs. Morse's presentation at the Court of St. James in 1931. She was one of a privileged circle of debutantes to appear before the British King and Queen. Among the items contained in this folder are an exchange of letters between her mother and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nicholas Longworth, who put forward her name, and a number of effusive newspaper clippings.
The majority of the correspondence in this subseries, which is the most intimate of any in the Morse Papers, dates from the time of Morse's overseas service in the Second World War. The couple exchanged hundreds of letters during this period, often using affectionate names such as “angel duck” and “angel pie,” and unique to Mrs. Morse, “Pedie” or “Peter.” As Morse put it in a letter written in England in May 1944, “I've seen lots of things these last months, but never anything or anyone that even starts to resemble the beauty and quality of my adorable sweet wife. And I'm not just saying this to hear myself talk, it comes from awful way down deep.” The Morses' diary-like correspondence took various forms, including postcards, densely written V-Mail, and letters, and, thanks to fairly consistent dating and, in many cases, sequential numbering, scholars can follow the couple's lines of thought and, within the limits imposed by military secrecy, lines of action on both the home and foreign fronts. This correspondence sheds light not only on the mentality of the Morses but on that of American citizens in wartime. In addition to mutual devotion, the emotions which manifest themselves include frustration -- “let's get the damned war over with” (October 1944) -- revulsion at Nazi barbarism -- “one can't afford to be too homesick when such monsters are loose in the world” (October 1944) -- and sorrow over the death of Franklin Roosevelt -- “yesterday was the saddest day that I have known since my father died” (April 1945).
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Correspondence, 1919-1920, 1927, 1929-1931
Box 70, Folder 26-31 Correspondence, 1932-1934, 1936-1937, 1941, 1943-1944
Box 71, Folder 1-10 Correspondence, 1945, 1948, 1951-1961, 1965-1966, 1968-1969, 1974, undated
Box 72, Folder 1-17 Dependents Pass, South Plains Army Flying School, 1942
Box 72, Folder 18 Employment, 1943-1945
Box 72, Folder 19 Family Correspondence, 1900-1901, 1906, 1910, 1916, undated
Box 72, Folder 20 News Clippings, 1907, 1932, 1942, 1962
Box 72, Folder 21 Presentation at the Court of St. James, 1931
Box 72, Folder 22 Subseries 5, United Nations Development Programme, 1961-1973
Subseries Description
Series 2: Subject Files, Subseries 5: United Nations Development Programme (1961-1973) consists for the most part of material Morse acquired or generated as Chairman of the United Nations Development Programme's Advisory Panel on Programme Policy, a position he held from 1970 to 1972. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is devoted to providing multilateral pre-investment aid to the world's low-income nations in an attempt to alleviate and, ultimately, eradicate global poverty. The scope of its work in Morse's time can be gauged by the number of experts serving under its auspices (8200 in 1968) and the cumulative value of its major completed and uncompleted projects ($2.8 billion by 1970). Under Morse's leadership, the Advisory Panel on Programme Policy was responsible for recommending what the position of the United Nations Development Programme should be on various issues and what policies it should pursue in the fulfillment of its mission. A fair amount of the material in this subseries relates to the internal workings of the Panel and the United Nations Development Programme as a whole. This includes such items as interoffice memoranda concerning meetings and various matters in need of discussion and resolution, reports by Panel members, such as “The Role of UNDP in Education and Training,” monthly management reports, and plans for headquarters restructuring.
Present as well are preparatory documents for each of the Panel's “Sessions” consisting of various reports on “Advisory Panel Questions” to be discussed at these meetings. Topics include “The Role of the UNDP in Promoting Investment Follow-Up,” “The Role of the UNDP in the Development and Adaptation of Science and Technology in Developing Countries,” and “The Time-Lag Between the Identification of UNDP Projects and Their Implementation Under Project and Country Programming.” Other material in this subseries includes information gathered from various seminars that Morse attended and correspondence with a number of United Nations organizations, among them the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research. A variety of nongovernmental organizations outside the United Nations system are also represented, including the AFL-CIO, the Institut Francais du Petrole, and the Society for International Development.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent or topic.
Administrative Committee on Co-ordination, 1971
Box 72, Folder 23 Administrative Committee on Co-ordination: Green Revolution, 1970-1972
Box 72, Folder 24 Administrative Committee on Co-ordination: International Public Service Commission, 1970
Box 72, Folder 25 Administrator's Office, 1972
Box 73, Folder 1 Advisory Committee on the Application of Science and Technology to Development, 1971
Box 73, Folder 2 Advisory Panel on Programme Policy, 1970-1972
Box 73, Folder 3-8 Advisory Panel on Programme Policy: First Session, 1970
Box 74, Folder 1 Advisory Panel on Programme Policy: Second Session, 1970-1971
Box 74, Folder 2 Advisory Panel on Programme Policy: Second Session, 1971
Box 74, Folder 3 Advisory Panel on Programme Policy: Third Session, 1971
Box 74, Folder 4 Africa, 1971-1972
Box 74, Folder 5 African American Labor Center, 1971
Box 74, Folder 6 Agency for International Development: Employment, 1970-1971
Box 74, Folder 7 American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1970-1971
Box 74, Folder 8 American Society for Public Administration Conference, 1972
Box 74, Folder 9 Appointment of Morse as Senior Consultant, 1970
Box 74, Folder 10 Asha, Rafik, 1971-1972
Box 75, Folder 1 Aspen Institute Meeting: Asian Thought Seminar, 1971
Box 75, Folder 2 Bellagio Group, 1970, 1972
Box 75, Folder 3 Brochures, undated
Box 75, Folder 4 Bureau for Policy Planning, 1970-1972
Box 75, Folder 5 Burundi, 1971
Box 75, Folder 6 Canadian International Development Agency, 1970
Box 75, Folder 7 Colombia: Employment Project, 1970
Box 75, Folder 8 Contributions and Country Programming, 1970-1971
Box 75, Folder 9 Correspondence: Private, 1970-1972
Box 76, Folder 1-4 Correspondence: A-Z, 1970-1972
Box 76, Folder 5-6 Development and Resources Corporation, 1970-1972
Box 77, Folder 1 Elliot, Sean M., 1971
Box 77, Folder 2 Employment, 1971-1972
Box 77, Folder 3 Food and Agriculture Organization, 1970-1971
Box 77, Folder 4 General Committee Conference of the Cooperative Programme of Agro-Allied Industries, 1971
Box 77, Folder 5 Global Meeting of Resident Representatives, 1971
Box 77, Folder 6 Housing, 1970-1971
Box 77, Folder 7 Human Environment, 1971
Box 77, Folder 8 Industry Cooperative Program, undated
Box 77, Folder 9 Institut Francais du Petrole, 1970
Box 77, Folder 10 Institute on Man and Science, 1970-1972
Box 77, Folder 11 Inter-Agency Consultative Board, 1971-1972
Box 77, Folder 12 Inter-Country Programming, 1970-1971
Box 77, Folder 13 International Agricultural Research Consultative Group, 1970-1971
Box 78, Folder 1 International Council for Educational Development, 1971
Box 78, Folder 2 International Labour Organisation, 1970-1972
Box 78, Folder 3 International League for the Rights of Man, 1970
Box 78, Folder 4 Jackson Report, 1970-1971
Box 78, Folder 5 Monthly Management Reports, 1970-1971
Box 78, Folder 6 National League of Insured Savings Association, 1971
Box 78, Folder 7 Overseas Development Council, 1971
Box 78, Folder 8 Overseas Development Institute, 1971
Box 78, Folder 9 Personnel Policy Review Panel, 1970-1971
Box 78, Folder 10 Pre-Investment and Investment Follow-Up, 1970-1971
Box 78, Folder 11 Pre-Investment and Investment Follow-Up, 1971
Box 79, Folder 1 Regional Bureau for Latin America, 1971-1972
Box 79, Folder 2 Rehovot Conference, 1970-1971
Box 79, Folder 3 Rotary Club of New York, 1970-1971
Box 79, Folder 4 Society for International Development: Nominating Committee, 1972-1973
Box 79, Folder 5 Society for International Development: 12th World Conference, 1970-1972
Box 79, Folder 6 Staff: Headquarters Restructuring Inter Alia, 1971-1972
Box 79, Folder 7 Stamford Forum for World Affairs, 1970
Box 79, Folder 8 10th Anniversary Brochure, undated
Box 79, Folder 9 Tidewater Meeting, 1971
Box 79, Folder 10 United Nations Children's Fund, 1961, 1970-1971
Box 79, Folder 11 United Nations Division of Narcotic Drugs, 1970-1971
Box 79, Folder 12 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 1971
Box 79, Folder 13 United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1971-1972
Box 79, Folder 14 United Nations Industrial Development Organization/Licensing Executives Society Symposium, 1972
Box 80, Folder 1 United Nations Institute for Training and Research, 1970-1973
Box 80, Folder 2 United Nations Institute for Training and Research: Seminars, 1971-1972
Box 80, Folder 3 United Nations Volunteers, 1970-1972
Box 80, Folder 4 University of California: Visiting Policymakers Program, 1971
Box 80, Folder 5 World Assembly of Youth, 1970
Box 80, Folder 6 World Crafts Council, 1971
Box 80, Folder 7 World Population Institute: Feasibility Study, 1968-1971
Box 80, Folder 8-10 World Population Institute: Feasibility Study, 1971-1972
Box 81, Folder 1-2 World Rehabilitation Fund, 1971-1972
Box 81, Folder 3 Series 3, Addresses, Writings, and Interviews, 1939-1990
Series Description
Series 3, Addresses, Writings, and Interviews (1930-1990), most neatly bound on a chronological basis, offers a remarkably comprehensive record of Morse's perspective on a wide array of subjects, as well as the views of the entities on whose behalf he wrote and spoke, over the course of 60 years. Indeed, if the transcripts of the oral history interviews in which he participated are taken into account, this series can be said to encompass within itself an entire lifetime. Most of the thousands of words recorded here were intended for public consumption, but there are also items of a personal nature, the most notable of which is a volume of intimate reflections which spans the decade between 1956 and 1966 and which touches on such matters as global peace, education, poverty, and international personalities.
The category of addresses consists of Morse's utterances between 1936 and 1990, the majority of which were made in his capacity as Director-General of the ILO. They range from his message to the Scottish Trades Union Congress in 1949 to his speech at a luncheon in honor of the Vice President of Brazil in 1956 to his talk for the Voice of America in 1962 to his lecture on the occasion of the ILO's receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1969. Morse's visibility after his departure from the ILO is borne out by a substantial number of public utterances, the last of which, appropriately, took the form of a contribution to a panel on the organization he had once directed. Presented shortly before his death, his thoughts on the ILO are a revealing encapsulation of the story to which so large a proportion of the Morse Papers is dedicated.
The category of writings, which spans the years between 1930 and 1989, consists primarily of articles and the introductions and conclusions to the reports contained in Series 1: Subseries 3. Morse's articles range from “Industrial Peace -- At What Price?” in 1946 to “The World Situation and the I.L.O.” in 1956 to “World Tragedy: More Workers than Jobs” in 1962 to “Labor in the Public Sector: An International Perspective” in 1978. His words appeared in a variety of publications, both in the United States and overseas, including the International Social Science Bulletin, The Indian Worker, the Ecumenical Review, and the Political Science Quarterly. A partial bibliography is available. In common with other public figures, Morse's writings, like his addresses, were, in many cases, drafted for him, but, as his surviving marginalia attest, he made them his own. Very much his own are the transcripts of two oral history projects to which he was a contributor after his departure from the ILO. One was conducted by Columbia University and the other by the Harry S. Truman Library, and, together, they constitute an autobiography of sorts, notable for its breadth and periodic depth and for its discursive spontaneity. The interviews commissioned by Columbia University were conducted in two stages. The first documents Morse's background, his childhood, student days, and first governmental appointments. The second carries Morse from his work as Chief Counsel for the Petroleum Labor Policy Board of the Department of Interior to his work as Director-General of the ILO, concluding with a discussion of his activities upon his return to the United States. Morse's association with the National Labor Relations Board and the Department of Labor is passed over lightly, in virtue of the extensive treatment it receives in the interviews commissioned by the Harry S. Truman Library, the focus of which, of course, is the Truman administration. Both sets of interviews commissioned by Columbia University are indexed.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Speeches, 1936-1949
Box 81, Folder 4-5 Speeches, 1949-1957
Box 82, Folder 1-3 Speeches, 1957-1962
Box 83, Folder 1-3 Speeches, 1962-1966
Box 84, Folder 1-3 Speeches, 1966-1970
Box 85, Folder 1-3 Speeches, 1970
Box 86, Folder 1 Speech, Unity Club, 1938
Box 86, Folder 2 Speech, National Citizens Committee on Migrant Labor, 1947
Box 86, Folder 3 Press Conference, 1948
Box 86, Folder 4 Press Conference, 1949
Box 86, Folder 5 “Employment and Economic Growth: An International Perspective”, 1969
Box 86, Folder 5a “Arbitration vs. Strike in the Private Sector”, 1971
Box 86, Folder 6 “The Challenges Facing the United Nations and What it Means to You”, 1971
Box 86, Folder 7 Statement on Receipt of Grand Officier de la Legion d'Honneur, 1971
Box 86, Folder 8 Comments, Global Meeting of United Nations Development Programme Resident Representatives, 1971
Box 86, Folder 9 “United Nations Development Programme Activities in Black Africa and the Role of U.S. Business in that Regard”, 1971
Box 86, Folder 10 “Labor Relations in the Public Sector”, 1971
Box 86, Folder 11 Address, 34th Convention of International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, 1971
Box 86, Folder 12 “Employment and Development”, 1971
Box 86, Folder 13 Lehman College Commencement Address, 1971
Box 86, Folder 14 Statement on Receipt of National Conference of Christians and Jews' National Brotherhood Award, 1971
Box 86, Folder 15 Address, Rehovoth Conference on Urbanization and the Development Process, 1971
Box 86, Folder 16 Remarks, 12th Session of United Nations Development Programme Inter-Agency Consultative Board, 1971
Box 86, Folder 17 Talk, International Manpower Institute Executive Seminar on Employment Growth, 1971
Box 86, Folder 18 Statement, Group of High-Level Experts on the Long-Range Strategy of U.N. Industrial Development Organization, 1972
Box 86, Folder 19 Statement, American Society for Public Administration National Conference Panel, 1972
Box 86, Folder 20 “A More Powerful Secretary-General for the United Nations?”, 1972
Box 86, Folder 21 Remarks, Licensing Executives Society/United Nations Industrial Development Organization Symposium, 1972
Box 86, Folder 22 “Poor People Aren't Good Customers”, 1972
Box 86, Folder 23 Notes for Statement, President's Meeting of International Systems and Controls Corporation, 1972
Box 86, Folder 24 “On Returning to the United States After 22 Years Abroad”, 1972
Box 86, Folder 25 Speech, International League of Societies for the Mentally Handicapped 5th International Congress on Mental Retardation, 1972
Box 86, Folder 26 Notes for Statement, Commission on the Reorganization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy, 1973
Box 86, Folder 27 “Development, the Path to Peace and Justice”, 1973
Box 86, Folder 28 Notes for Statement, International Manpower Institute Executive Seminar on Maximizing Employment, 1973
Box 86, Folder 29 Statement, Tribute Dinner in Morse's Honor Benefiting the World Rehabilitation Fund, 1974
Box 86, Folder 30 “World on the Move”, 1974
Box 86, Folder 31 “Legal Aspects of Romanian-U.S. Contracts”, 1974
Box 86, Folder 32 Remarks, Annual Convention of United Steelworkers of America, 1974
Box 86, Folder 33 Notes for Remarks, Meeting of General Partnership, Arthur Andersen & Company, 1975
Box 86, Folder 34 Remarks, 20th Anniversary of World Rehabilitation Fund, 1976
Box 86, Folder 35 “The United Nations Faces World Problems: American Labor's Stake in an Interdependent World”, 1976
Box 86, Folder 36 “Monitoring of Equal Employment Opportunity Provisions of Construction Contracts of Columbia University - NY City”, 1977
Box 86, Folder 37 “Executive Leadership at the International Level”, 1977
Box 86, Folder 38 Address, 36th Convention of International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, 1977
Box 86, Folder 39 Comments, Symposium on the Role of the United States in Specialized International Organizations, 1977
Box 86, Folder 40 “Trade and Cooperation”, 1977
Box 86, Folder 41 “Labor in the Public Sector: An International Perspective”, 1978
Box 86, Folder 42 “Comparison of Dispute Resolution Techniques Between International Relations and Labor Relations”, 1978
Box 87, Folder 1 Eulogy, Services for Mrs. David M. Heyman, 1979
Box 87, Folder 2 Statement, Conference on the Economic Policies of the Truman Administration, 1979
Box 87, Folder 3 Speech, International Association of Personnel in Employment Security, 1979
Box 87, Folder 4 Statement, Dedication of Heyman Center for the Humanities, 1981
Box 87, Folder 5 “Legal Ramifications for Romanian Enterprises of Various Forms of Doing Business in the U.S.”, 1981
Box 87, Folder 6 Remarks, 75th Birthday Party, 1982
Box 87, Folder 7 Remarks, Luncheon in Morse's Honor Tendered by Romanian Ambassador to the United States, 1982
Box 87, Folder 8 Introduction of Congressman Silvio O. Conte on the Occasion of the Second Paul G. Hoffman Lecture, 1983
Box 87, Folder 9 Remarks, Marketing Meeting of Philip Morris International, 1983
Box 87, Folder 10 Draft Notes, Foreign Service Institute Symposium on American Labor Diplomacy, 1986
Box 87, Folder 11 Notes, Talk to Summer Associates in Washington, D.C. Office of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, 1986
Box 87, Folder 12 Comments, ILO Panel Meeting, 1990
Box 87, Folder 13 Opening Remarks on International Dispute-Settlement, undated
Box 87, Folder 14 “The Unique Role of Switzerland in World Peacemaking”, undated
Box 87, Folder 15 Bibliography of Articles, 1948-1970
Box 87, Folder 16 Articles, 1930-1957
Box 87, Folder 17-18 Articles, 1957-1970
Box 88, Folder 1-3 “Ama Reflects”, 1938
Box 89, Folder 1 “War and Peace: The Circle”, 1944
Box 89, Folder 2 Reflections, 1956-1966
Box 89, Folder 3 “The Institute: Its Position and Purpose”, 1966
Box 89, Folder 4 “Unemployment in Developing Countries”, 1970
Box 89, Folder 5 “Man's Vision”, 1970
Box 89, Folder 6 “Shrinking Planet”, 1972
Box 89, Folder 7 “Development: An Enduring Issue”, 1972
Box 89, Folder 8 “Unemployment: Bitter Burden of Millions in South America”, 1973
Box 89, Folder 9 “Joint Investment Opportunities with the Socialist Republic of Romania”, 1973
Box 89, Folder 10 “Labor in the Public Sector: An International Perspective”, 1978
Box 89, Folder 11 “Executive Leadership at the International Level”, 1987
Box 89, Folder 12 “One Global Economy”, 1987
Box 89, Folder 13 “A Rendezvous with History”, 1989
Box 89, Folder 14 Preface, Book on the Role of Women in the International Labour Organisation, undated
Box 89, Folder 15 “We Live in Only One World”, undated
Box 89, Folder 16 Oral History Interviews, Columbia University, 1971
Box 89, Folder 17 Oral History Interviews, Columbia University, 1980-1981
Box 89, Folder 18 Oral History Interviews, Harry S. Truman Library, 1977
Box 89, Folder 19 Series 4, Appointment Books, 1949-1970
Series Description
Series 4, Appointment Books (1949-1970) consists of 22 small, bound, yearly planners in which Morse periodically jotted down his daily schedule as Director-General. Although a large percentage of days are blank slates, the pages on which Morse noted his appointments are informative and provide an insight, albeit skeletal, into what his life as head of the ILO was like. On March 2, 1953, for instance, his day began with a meeting followed by five appointments, including one with Egypt's Under Secretary of Labor, followed by another meeting followed by a dinner. On May 14, 1959, seven appointments are recorded, as well as a meeting, a lunch, a reception, and a dinner. During the annual International Labour Conference his schedule could be more crowded still.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Appointment Books, 1949-1961
Box 90 Appointment Books, 1962-1970
Box 91 Series 5, Scrapbooks, 1922-1962
Series Description
Series 5, Scrapbooks (1922-1962) is largely composed of newspaper clippings, some collected by Morse and other gathered by his staff. There are a number of gaps, and the years which are represented suffer from uneven coverage. In certain cases a large and often repetitive collection of clippings was assembled, while in others there is almost nothing to document Morse's myriad activities. Of particular interest are the first two scrapbooks in this series, for, between them, they cover Morse's youth and prewar adulthood, a period poorly represented elsewhere. Morse's love of football is much in evidence, but so, too, are his oratorical gifts. In 1927 he won a place or, rather, a rostrum at the National Intercollegiate Oratorical Contest in Los Angeles. He finished sixth, and it is interesting to note that, in his address, he argued that “reverence of the law should rightly become the political religion of the nation,” a theme he would return to in the future when far greater issues than collegiate pride would be at stake. The newspaper clippings which document Morse's prewar governmental work range from the “local boy makes good” variety of news to substantial articles, most of which relate to Morse's work as Regional Attorney for the Second Region of the National Labor Relations Board. The highly-charged atmosphere of many of the hearings at which Morse, acting under the aegis of the controversial Wagner-Connery Act, appeared is almost palpable. Later scrapbooks chart Morse's postwar career, often in multilingual form, touching on both the pivotal moments, such as his appointment as Assistant Secretary of Labor and his election as Director-General of the ILO, and the multitude of small events which, together, formed the fabric of his public life: his membership in President Truman's “brain trust,” which met each Monday at the Wardman Park Hotel; his tour of South America, which he found to be in the grip of an “industrialization fever,” in 1949; his plan to facilitate the movement of hundreds of thousands of Europeans to countries in need of manpower; and his inauguration of the United Nations pavilion in Brussels in 1958, to mention a few such moments.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Scrapbook, 1922-1929
Box 92 Scrapbook, 1931-1939
Box 93 Scrapbook, 1945-1948
Box 94 Scrapbook, 1948-1950
Box 95 Scrapbook, 1949-1951
Box 96 Scrapbook, 1951-1952
Box 97 Scrapbook, 1951-1954
Box 98 Scrapbook, 1954-1958
Box 99 Scrapbook, 1961
Box 100 Scrapbook, 1962
Box 101 Series 6, Memorabilia, 1946-1993
Series Description
Series 6, Memorabilia (1946-1993) consists of medals, certificates, plaques, keys to cities, pins, ribbons, coins, and eight oversized documents. The material in this series was given to Morse in commemoration of various significant events in his career from governments and organizations throughout the world. The materials honor Morse for his work with ILO, as well as other aspects of his career, and commemorate his visits to other countries and important anniversaries of organizations. The oversize documents include certificates testifying to Morse's appointment as Assistant and Under Secretary of Labor and his designation as the representative of the government of the United States on the Governing Body of the ILO. Also to be found are welcoming addresses presented to him on a visit to India and Pakistan as well as attractively illuminated messages of appreciation on the occasion of his departure from the ILO. Please note that the oversized documents are housed in the oversized cabinets.
Arrangement
Arranged by form.
Certificates and Addresses, 1946-1970
Box Cabinet 1-1, Folder 7 Honors and Mementos, 1962-1993, undated
Box 102 Honors and Mementos, 1962-1993, undated
Box 102a Honors and Mementos, 1962-1993, undated
Box 103 Series 7, Audiovisual Material, 1958-1991
Series Description
Series 7, Audiovisual Material (1958-1991) consists of phonograph records, audiotapes, including three cassette tapes, and a 16mm film featuring Morse and events of which he was a part or in which he took an interest. While a number of speakers are represented in this material, among them Pope Paul VI in conjunction with his visits to New York and Geneva, Morse's voice is predominant. His words were recorded in a variety of settings and addressed to a variety of audiences, including the International Labour Conference, the Governing Body, and the staff of the International Labour Office. For the most part, the recordings in this series can be found in textual form elsewhere, notably in the proceedings of the International Labour Conference, but, however clear, the printed word lacks the emotional value of the spoken. Herein lies the principal strength of this series. Morse's speech to the International Labour Conference in 1963 in the midst of a furor over South Africa's participation is a case in point. His advocacy of constitutional over arbitrary methods, important though the issue at stake may be, is compelling, as is his declaration that “I need no lessons on racial discrimination. Revealing too, is his speech to the Governing Body in 1961 in which he announced his short-lived resignation as Director-General. The internal struggle which this decision entailed is apparent.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
“Capitol Cloakroom” , 1958
Box 104, Folder 1 “Declaration en Francais de M.D. Morse” , 1959
Box 104, Folder 1a International Labour Conference (43rd Session): Morse's Reply to Discussion of His Report , 1959
Box 104, Folder 2 International Labour Conference (43rd Session): Morse's Reply to Discussion of His Report , 1959
Box 104, Folder 3 40th Anniversary of International Labour Organisation: Celebratory Dinner, Washington, D.C. , 1959
Box 104, Folder 4 40th Anniversary of International Labour Organisation: Celebratory Dinner, Washington, D.C. , 1959
Box 104, Folder 5 40th Anniversary of International Labour Organisation: Celebratory Dinner, Washington, D.C. , 1959
Box 104, Folder 6 International Labour Conference (44th Session): Morse's Reply to Discussion of His Report , 1960
Box 104, Folder 7 International Labour Conference (45th Session): Morse's Reply to Discussion of His Report , 1961
Box 104, Folder 8 International Labour Conference (45th Session): Morse's Reply to Discussion of His Report , 1961
Box 104, Folder 9 Resignation of Morse as Director-General: Meeting of Governing Body , 1961
Box 104, Folder 10 International Labour Conference (46th Session): Morse's Reply to Discussion of His Report , 1962
Box 104, Folder 11 International Labour Conference (46th Session): Morse's Reply to Discussion of His Report , 1962
Box 104, Folder 12 Talk to the Staff of the International Labour Office , 1963
Box 104, Folder 13 International Labour Conference (47th Session): Speech on South African Question , 1963
Box 104, Folder 14 Talk to the Staff of the International Labour Office , 1964
Box 104, Folder 15 Pope Paul VI's Visit to New York: Excerpts (Including Address to United Nations) , 1965
Box 104, Folder 16 Pope Paul VI's Visit to Geneva: Excerpts (Including Address to International Labour Organisation) , 1969
Box 104, Folder 17 “Work and Peace: The International Labour Organisation Begins its Second Half-Century” , undated
Box 104, Folder 18 Election of Morse as Director-General: Meeting of Governing Body , 1962
Box 105, Folder 1 Retirement of Morse as Director-General: Press Conference , 1970
Box 105, Folder 2 Speech to World Assembly of Youth , 1970
Box 105, Folder 3 Retirement of Morse as Director-General: Staff Farewell , 1970
Box 105, Folder 4 Retirement of Morse as Director-General: Governing Body Farewell , 1970
Box 105, Folder 5 Presentation of Portrait to International Labour Office , 1979
Box 105, Folder 6 Funeral Service for Morse , 1990
Box 106, Folder 1 Memorial Service for Morse , 1991
Box 106, Folder 2 Miscellaneous Addresses , 1959-1961
Box 106, Folder 3 Miscellaneous Addresses , 1961-1964
Box 106, Folder 4 Series 8, Photographs, 1920-1990
Series Description
Series 8, Photographs (1920-1990, undated) consists of hundreds of predominantly black and white photographs of varying size which chronicle both private and public aspects of the lives of David and Mildred Morse. The former category includes many photographs of the couple's families and is weighted towards the period of their youth. Mrs. Morse's early years are far better documented than her husband's, though Morse's passion for football in school and in university is captured in several photographs. The gracious life of a debutante is illustrated in a number of Mrs. Morse's photographs, the most notable of which are those which were taken on the occasion of her presentation at the Court of St. James in 1931. The harsh realities of war intrude as well, however. In a particularly evocative photograph, Mrs. Morse can be seen pointing to a map of Europe, her husband's theater of operations. This category also includes a number of photographs taken in the Morses' mature years, which underscore their enduring attachment to one another.
The great majority of photographs in this series relate to the Morses' public activities, of which there were many. In this instance, Morse is a more ubiquitous presence than his wife, though her active interest in his work, to say nothing of the demands of protocol, are evidenced by her recurring appearance. This category encompasses each phase of Morse's career with the exception of his prewar activities, which are virtually unrepresented. Morse's stint at the South Plains Army Flying School in Lubbock, Texas accounts for most of his wartime photographs; there is a sizeable sampling of photographs dating from his years in the Department of Labor, including an autographed portrait of Secretary of Labor Lewis Schwellenbach; and the active life he led on leaving the ILO is well-documented. Among the latter photographs are a number featuring Morse and various statesmen, including Javier Perez de Cuellar, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Presidents Jimmy Carter and George Bush, President Carlos Menem of Argentina, President Mario Soares of Portugal, and Prime Minister Turgut Ozal of Turkey.
Not unexpectedly, Morse's years at the ILO yielded a large body of photographs. They offer glimpses into the multifaceted duties of a Director-General, including the endless round of meetings, receptions, assemblies, and ceremonies in which the incumbent is expected to take part. Two events of an uncommon nature are abundantly represented: Pope Paul VI's visit to the headquarters of the ILO and the conferral on the ILO of the Nobel Peace Prize. International travel is another duty of Directors-General, and, as the photographs relating to the ILO attest, Morse logged countless miles. Photographs taken in the course of his numerous missions are subdivided on the basis of country and, in the case of the superpowers, on the basis of leader as well. Indeed, these photographs constitute something of a visual who's who of the world's politicians between 1948 and 1970. While there are many gaps, the gallery includes Presidents Truman through Johnson as well as such men as Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev of the Soviet Union, Arturo Frondizi of Argentina, Antonin Novotny of Czechoslovakia, Gamal Nasser of Egypt, Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, Jawaharlal Nehru of India, and Josip Tito of Yugoslavia. It should be noted in closing that a significant number of the photographs in this series are undated and, in many instances, are at least partly unidentified.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by topic.
Missions of Director-General: Algeria, 1966
Box 107, Folder 1 Missions of Director-General: Argentina, 1961
Box 107, Folder 2 Missions of Director-General: Brazil, 1949
Box 107, Folder 3 Missions of Director-General: Bulgaria, 1961
Box 107, Folder 4 Missions of Director-General: Burma, 1957
Box 107, Folder 5 Missions of Director-General: Cameroon, 1967
Box 107, Folder 6 Missions of Director-General: Chile, 1961
Box 107, Folder 7 Missions of Director-General: Congo (Kinshasa), 1967
Box 107, Folder 8 Missions of Director-General: Cyprus, 1967
Box 107, Folder 9 Missions of Director-General: Czechoslovakia, 1949
Box 107, Folder 10 Missions of Director-General: Czechoslovakia, 1958
Box 107, Folder 11 Missions of Director-General: Czechoslovakia, 1964
Box 107, Folder 12 Missions of Director-General: Egypt, 1953-1954
Box 107, Folder 13 Missions of Director-General: Egypt, 1963
Box 107, Folder 14 Missions of Director-General: Egypt, 1968
Box 107, Folder 15 Missions of Director-General: Ethiopia, 1964
Box 107, Folder 16 Missions of Director-General: Ethiopia, 1968
Box 107, Folder 17 Missions of Director-General: Gabon, 1967
Box 107, Folder 18 Missions of Director-General: Greece, 1960
Box 107, Folder 19 Missions of Director-General: India, 1949-1950
Box 107, Folder 20 Missions of Director-General: India, 1957
Box 107, Folder 21 Missions of Director-General: India, 1968
Box 107, Folder 22 Missions of Director-General: Iraq, 1965
Box 107, Folder 23 Missions of Director-General: Israel, 1954
Box 107, Folder 24 Missions of Director-General: Israel, 1959
Box 107, Folder 25 Missions of Director-General: Israel, 1965
Box 107, Folder 26 Missions of Director-General: Italy, 1959
Box 107, Folder 27 Missions of Director-General: Japan, 1968
Box 107, Folder 28 Missions of Director-General: Kuwait, 1968
Box 107, Folder 29 Missions of Director-General: Mali, 1966
Box 107, Folder 30 Missions of Director-General: Morocco, 1959
Box 107, Folder 31 Missions of Director-General: The Netherlands, 1950
Box 107, Folder 32 Missions of Director-General: Nigeria, 1960
Box 107, Folder 33 Missions of Director-General: Norway, 1949
Box 108, Folder 1 Missions of Director-General: Pakistan, 1957
Box 108, Folder 2 Missions of Director-General: The Philippines, 1968
Box 108, Folder 3 Missions of Director-General: Poland, 1963
Box 108, Folder 4 Missions of Director-General: Portugal, 1960
Box 108, Folder 5 Missions of Director-General: Republic of China, 1968
Box 108, Folder 6 Missions of Director-General: Soviet Union, 1958
Box 108, Folder 7 Missions of Director-General: Soviet Union, 1963
Box 108, Folder 8 Missions of Director-General: Spain, 1956
Box 108, Folder 9 Missions of Director-General: Spain, 1965
Box 108, Folder 10 Missions of Director-General: Sweden, 1949
Box 108, Folder 11 Missions of Director-General: Thailand, 1968
Box 108, Folder 12 Missions of Director-General: Turkey, 1955
Box 108, Folder 13 Missions of Director-General: Venezuela, 1967
Box 108, Folder 14 Missions of Director-General: Yugoslavia, 1952
Box 108, Folder 15 Missions of Director-General: Yugoslavia, 1959
Box 108, Folder 16 Missions of Director-General: Meeting with Leonid Brezhnev, 1963
Box 108, Folder 17 Missions of Director-General: Meeting with Dwight Eisenhower, 1957
Box 108, Folder 18 Missions of Director-General: Meeting with Lyndon Johnson, 1966
Box 108, Folder 19 Missions of Director-General: Meeting with John Kennedy, 1963
Box 108, Folder 20 Missions of Director-General: Meeting with Nikita Khrushchev, 1958
Box 108, Folder 21 Missions of Director-General: Meeting with Harry Truman, 1949
Box 108, Folder 22 Panoramas, 1932, 1948, undated
Box 109 Private Life: David Morse, 1934, 1944, 1964-1965, 1968, undated
Box 110 Private Life: Mildred Morse, 1920, 1928-1931, 1939-1940, 1952, 1965, undated
Box 111 Private Life: David and Mildred Morse, 1938, 1940-1950, 1953, 1960-1961, 1965, 1969, undated
Box 112 Public Life: Pre-International Labour Office, c. 1939, 1942-1943, 1946-1947, undated
Box 113 Public Life: International Labour Office, 1948-1955, 1958-1962
Box 114 Public Life: International Labour Office, 1963-1970
Box 115 Public Life: International Labour Office, undated
Box 116 Public Life: International Labour Office, undated
Box 117 Public Life: Post-International Labour Office, 1970-1973, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1983, 1985-1990, undated
Box 118 Oversize: Private Life: David Morse , 1922, 1929, undated
Box 119, Folder 1 Oversize: Private Life: Mildred Morse , 1942, undated
Box 119, Folder 2 Oversize: Private Life: David and Mildred Morse , 1942
Box 119, Folder 3 Oversize: Public Life: Pre-International Labour Office , 1937, 1942, 1945-1948, undated
Box 119, Folder 4 Oversize: Public Life: International Labour Office , 1948-1949, 1953, 1958-1960, 1963, 1965-1969, undated
Box 119, Folder 5 Oversize: Public Life: Post-International Labour Office , 1971-1974, undated
Box 119, Folder 6
Permanent URL: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/qr46r081c