Box 66: 80th and 81st Congresses, General Files: "O" General - Palestine (1947-1951).
F 1: "O" General.
a. Correspondence: re: rent control bill; Loyalty Bill; immigration; atomic bomb; claim for refund; H.R. 7151.
b. Article: Dr. Brock Chisholm: "To Mothers - How To Stop Another War Now."
F 2: Oakland USN Hospital.
Program for the House Armed Services Sub-Committee.
F 3: Oil.
Correspondence: re: reduction in depletion allowance.
F 4: Oil Workers.
a. Correspondence: re: Pacific Coast Oil Workers Strike.
b. Case History.
c. Copies of clippings.
d. Draft of letter.
F 5: Old Age Pension.
Correspondence: re: Uniform Old Age Pension Bill.
F 6: "Pa" General.
a. Correspondence: re: veterans' benefits; Regulation W; loan; surplus material; Universal Military Training; European Recovery Program.
b. News Bulletin: American Youth For World Youth: Vol. 3, No. 3 (1948).
F 7: "Pe" General.
a. Correspondence: re: retirement pay; S. 2917; claims; Tongass Timber Act of 1947.
b. Copies of clippings.
c. Article: re: democracy.
F 8: "Ph - Po" General.
a. Correspondence: re: H. R. 4664; mustering-out pay; veterans' housing; claims; displaced persons.
b. H. R. 4664: Miller - Nebraska: "To provide a National Institute of Industrial Training of Negro Youth." 80th Congress, 1st Session 91947). Committee on Public Works.
c. A Proposal to use Stowe and Carver Halls as a National Institute of Industrial Training Which Shall Constitute a Unit of the Field Services of the Booker T. Washington Birth Place Memorial in its program of Training Workers of Low Educational Status for Service and Industrial Occupations.
d. Flyers: re: an elevator safety device.
e. Music Score: "The Hill of Henri - Chapelle" by Bill H. Post.
F 9: "Po - Pu" General.
a. Correspondence: re: discharge; visas; civil rights; potatoes; S. 1857; H.R. 4659; loans; military secrets; Panama Canal.
b. Copies of clippings.
c. S. 1857: Holland: "to ratify and confirm amendments to certain contracts for the furnishing of petroleum products to the United States." 80th Congress, 1st Session (1947). Committee on Banking and Currency. 2 copies.
d. H. R. 4659: Sikes: "To ratify and confirm amendments to certain contracts for the furnishing of petroleum products to the United States." 80th Congress, 1st Session (1947). Committee on the Judiciary.
F 10: Palestine: Correspondence and data (1946 - March 1948).
a. Correspondence and release: re: displaced persons international police; embargo on shipment of arms.
b. Congressional Record: Lawrence H. Smith - Wisconsin: "America Awake - Communism Threatens Our National Security in Palestine." (December 18, 1947).
c. Release: "AAUN Urges Immediate Establishment of International Police for Palestine." (January 29, 1948).
F 11: Palestine: Correspondence and data (March - July 1948).
a. Correspondence: re: arms embargo; displaced persons; foreign policy.
b. Drafts of speeches.
c. Proposed Statement on Palestine by PCA.
d. Periodical: Palestine: Vol. 5, No. 2 (April - May 1948): "The Birth of Israel." 32 pages.
e. Booklet: "Veterans' parade for Palestine" (April 4, 1948). *removed to outsized*
f. Article: Hannah Arendt: "To Save The Jewish Homeland - There Is Still Time."
g. Statement by Dr. Abba Hillel Silver on Proclamation on Jewish State.
h. Statement by the Honorable Sumner Welles on the Proclamation of Government of the Jewish State in Palestine.
i. Release: "U. S. Government Ashed to Deny Britain Funds Which Aid Arab Aggressors.
j. Periodical: Palestine Affairs: Vol. III, No. 6 (June 1948). "The Syrian Press."
k. Release: "Three Former Members of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry Deplore Announcement that Ambassador Phillips Has Accepted the Vice-Chairmanship of "Committee For Justice and Place in the Holy Land."
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