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Oral history interview with Ernest Gross, 1968

Creator: Gross, Ernest A. 1906-1999
Project: Eisenhower administration project.
(see all project interviews)
Phys. Desc. :Transcript: 984 pages sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit)
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Biographical Note

Lawyer, government executive

Scope and Contents

Family background; Harvard, Oxford, Harvard Law School; counsel to various government agencies, 1933-47; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied Areas, 1946; State Department legal adviser and Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, 1947-49; Deputy representative to United Nations, 1949; drafting of Marshall Plan and Economic Cooperation Act; full account of United Nations and other activities, including North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Military Assistance Program, India-Pakistan dispute, 1965; Korea; reminiscences of Dean Rusk, John Foster Dulles, Trygve Lie, and others. There is only audio for the session on November 9, 1967

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Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1972

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