Reminiscences of Kenneth Claiborne Royall, 1963.

Biographical Note

Government executive, lawyer

Scope and Contents

Education; Harvard Law School and LAW REVIEW; German saboteurs case, 1942; head legal department, Fiscal Division of Army Service Forces, 1942-1943; Special Assistant to Secretary of War, 1944-1945; postwar congressional relations and investigating committees; Under Secretary of War, Secretaary of War, Secretary of Army, 1945-1949; unification of armed forces; 1948 Democratic presidential nomination; postwar crises: Turkey, Greece, Berlin blockade, Korea, Japan and Douglas MacArthur; integration efforts in Army; rejection of suggested appointment, Nuremberg trials. Impressions of Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, Generals. George Marshall and James Van Fleet, Secretaries James Forrestal and Stuart Symington, others

Subjects

• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Ingersoll, William T., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Korean War, 1950-1953.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Presidents--United States--Election--1948.
• Rounds, Frank W., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Royall, Kenneth C. (Kenneth Claiborne), 1894-1971--Interviews.
• United States--Armed Forces--African Americans.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
• United States. Department of Defense.
• United States. War Department.
• World War, 1939-1945.

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