Joseph P. Chamberlain
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Brief Description: Correspondence, memoranda, reports and printed matter relating to Chamberlain's work with the following organizations:  American Christian Committee for Refugees; Fort Ontario Refugee Shelter, Oswego, N.Y.; German Jewish Children's Aid; Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees; National Coordinating Committee; National Refugee Service; President's Advisory Committee on Political Refugees; War Refugee Board.  Topics include Chamberlain's involvement with individual cases, visas, sponsorship, German-Jewish scholars, Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees at Evian, Bermuda Conference, Capital Transfer Plan for German-Austrian Refugees.  Of particular interest are the minutes of the President's Advisory Committee, 1938-1943. Materials on settlement projects relating to Alaska, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, British Guiana, California, China, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Venezuela. Correspondents include Dean Acheson, Paul Baerwald, Joseph Beck, Francis K. Biddle, Bernard Dubin, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Felix Frankfurter, Cordell Hull, James Houghteling, Joseph C. Hyman, Ruth Learned, James G. McDonald, Clarence E. Pickett, Leland Robinson, William Rosenwald, Joseph F. Rummel, E.J. Shaughnessy, Felix Warburg, George L. Warren.
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Record Series Number: RG 278 /RG 278 
Created by: Chamberlain, Joseph P (1873-1951)
Volume: 0.0
Arrangement: This collection is arranged in folder numerical sequence
Subject Index
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
China
Colombia
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Germany
Guyana
Refugees
Survivors, Holocaust
United States
Venezuela
Genres/Forms of Material
Documents - Papers
Other Formats: MKM 4 (4)
Finding Aid Revisions: 1994/10/10 ; 1903/01/23 ; GMB
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