Reminiscences of Philip Caryl Jessup : oral history, 1958.

Biographical Note

Judge, diplomat

Scope and Contents

Early years and education; teaching international law at Columbia University; State Department; research on neutrality; setting up Naval School of Military Government and Administration at Columbia; work with Herbert Lehman organizing Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations and later United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, international conferences (UNRRA, Bretton Woods, San Francisco), United States delegation to the United Nations; impressions of personalities in American government; Joseph McCarthy charges and Senate investigations

Subjects

• Columbia University.
• Congresses and conventions.
• Diplomats--Interviews.
• Internal security--United States.
• International law.
• International relief.
• Interviews.
• Jessup, Philip C. (Philip Caryl), 1897-1986.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Starr, Louis Morris, 1917-1980, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• United Nations.
• United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
• United States. Department of State.