Reminiscences of James W. Barco : oral history, 1963.

Biographical Note

Lawyer

Scope and Contents

Family background, education in Michigan; Harvard Law School; Home Owners Loan Corporation, 1941-42; United States Navy, World War II; wartime London, preparations for D-Day; United States State Dept. posts, from 1946; United Nations Good Offices, Commission for Indonesia, 1948; United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, 1948-49; United States mission to United Nations, 1949-61; various international problems and crises; Indonesian question, 1947-51; Middle East, Arab nationalism; Suez and Hungary, 1956; India; Congo; Cuba; United States foreign relations; United Nations diplomacy; United Nation policies. Impressions of many international figures, including John Foster Dulles, Warren Austin, Philip Jessup, Jawaharlal Nehru, Achmed Sukarno, Nikita Khruschev, Patrice Lumumba, Fidel Castro, Dag Hammarskjold

Subjects

• Arab countries.
• Barco, James W.--Interviews.
• Diplomacy.
• Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes.
• Gold, Neil, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Greenberg, Paul, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Home Owners' Loan Corporation.
• Indonesia--Politics and government--1942-1949.
• Interviews.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Palestine--International status.
• Panarabism.
• United Nations--Commissions.
• United Nations--Palestine.
• United Nations.
• United States--Foreign relations--1945-1953.
• United States--Foreign relations--1953-1961.
• United States. Department of State.
• World War, 1939-1945.