Oral history interview with Eleanor Lansing Dulles, 1967.

Biographical Note

Economist, government official

Scope and Contents

Family background; childhood in New York State; Bryn Mawr; refugee work, Paris, 1917-19; graduate training, industrial management; factory employment manager; London School of Economics, 1921-22; Radcliffe and Harvard; European study and travel; teaching, Bryn Mawr, 1932-36; University of Pennsylvania; Social Security Board; Board of Economic Warfare, 1942; State Department, 1942-62: UNRRA, Morgenthau Plan, displaced persons, Bretton Woods Conference, security investigations, occupation of Austria and treaty negotiations, currency reform and monetary conversion. Impressions of Robert Lansing, John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and many others

Subjects

• Austria--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1955.
• Bryn Mawr College.
• Dulles, Eleanor Lansing, 1895-1996--Interviews.
• Economists--Interviews.
• Germany--History--1945-1955.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• International economic relations.
• International finance.
• Interviews.
• Mason, John T., 1909-1998, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Political refugees.
• United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
• United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
• United States. Board of Economic Warfare.
• United States. Department of State.
• United States. Social Security Board.
• Women in the civil service--Interviews.
• World War, 1939-1945--Civilian relief.
• World War, 1939-1945.

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