Reminiscences of Sir Robert G.A. Jackson, 1978

Biographical Note

International administrator

Scope and Contents

British Royal Navy, coordination defense of Malta, 1937-1941; Middle East Supply Center, 1941-1944: maximum efficiency of resources; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration: assistant to Director General Herbert Lehman, 1944, organizational and financial problems, personalities, Lehman's resignation, 1946; Dean Acheson, Will Clayton and the end of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 1947; relationship with Herbert and Edith Lehman; impressions of many British and American World War II figures

Subjects

• International officials and employees--Interviews.
• International relief.
• Interviews.
• Jackson, R. G. A.--(Robert Gillman Allen)--Interviews.
• Lehman, Herbert H. (Herbert Henry), 1878-1963.
• Liebmann, William B., interviewer.
• Middle East--History--20th century.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
• United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
• World War, 1939-1945.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1984