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| Title: | Committee to Frame a World Constitution. Records |
|---|---|
| Dates: | 1945-1951 |
| Size: | 28 linear feet (56 boxes) |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | The Committee to Frame a World Constitution was first convened in the fall of 1945 as part of the post-World War II World Federalist movement. The Records contain correspondence and miscellaneous material reflecting the close relations between the Committee and other organizations advocating some form of world government. The papers are comprised of the files of the Committee secretariat, which was also the editorial staff for the journalCommon Cause. |
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The Committee to Frame a World Constitution was first convened in the fall of 1945 as part of the post-World War II World Federalist movement. Following a Chicago Round Table radio discussion on 12 August 1945 in which University of Chicago Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins emphasized the need for world government, Richard P. McKeon and G. A. Borgese wrote, to Hutchins asking him for financial and moral support for an institute to formulate a world constitution. On 16 September 1945. Hutchins gave his support and by November 1945 the first document was presented for consideration by the Committee. In 1947 The Preliminary Draft of a World Constitution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948) was published. From June 1947 through June 1951 the Committee published a journal, Common Cause.
The members of the Committee at the time of the publication of the Draft were: Robert M. Hutchins, G. A. Borgese, Mortimer J. Adler, Stringfellow Barr, Albert Guérard, Harold A. Innis, Erich Kahler, Wilber G. Katz, Charles H. McIlwain, Robert Redfield, and Rexford G. Tugwell. Additionally, Elisabeth Mann Borgese worked as a research assistant for the Committee and later editor of the journal Common Cause.
The Committee to Frame a World Constitution Records contains correspondence and miscellaneous material. This collection reflects the close relations between the Committee and other organizations advocating some form of world government. Specifically, the papers are comprised of the files of the Committee secretariat, which was also the editorial staff for Common Cause. They include the 150 documents used as the basis for the discussions in the thirteen meetings of the Committee; the stenographic transcriptions of the meetings; a complete set of Common Cause and a single copy of The Draft. The Records also include correspondence concerning Committee administrative matters, publication, and business arrangements, comments on Common Cause and the preliminary draft of the Constitution, and miscellaneous manuscript materials.
The Committee to Frame a World Constitution Records are divided into six series.
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Series I: Administrative and Financial Papers |
This series includes inter-office memoranda to the Committee staff; inter-University memoranda concerning housekeeping matters; some subscription matters; correspondence with authors concerning copies of articles; intra-Committee correspondence; magazine exchange arrangements; and correspondence relating to lay-out and publication of Common Cause. (This material is often supplemented in Series II: Correspondence.)
| Box 1 Folder 1 | "A" Administration |
| Box 1 Folder 2 | "B" Administration |
| Box 1 Folder 3 | Budget, July 1948--June 1949 |
| Box 1 Folder 4 | Business |
| Box 1 Folder 5 | Buildings and Grounds |
| Box 1 Folder 6 | "C" Administration |
| Box 1 Folder 7 | Central Administration (Inter-office memoranda) |
| Box 1 Folder 8 | Copyright |
| Box 1 Folder 9 | "D" Administration |
| Box 1 Folder 10 | "E" Administration |
| Box 1 Folder 11 | "F" Administration |
| Box 1 Folder 12 | "H" Administration |
| Box 1 Folder 13 | "K" Administration |
| Box 1 Folder 14 | "L" Administration |
| Box 1 Folder 15 | Office-Expenditures |
| Box 2 Folder 1 | Office-Requisitions and Receipts |
| Box 2 Folder 2 | Office-Personnel (Letters requesting positions; personnel records of employees) |
| Box 2 Folder 3 | Office-Personnel (Correspondence relating to personnel) |
| Box 3 Folder 1 | Office Personnel (Memoranda to employees of Committee; Phoenix Correspondence, November-December 1947) |
| Box 3 Folder 2 | "P" Administration |
| Box 3 Folder 3 | "S" Administration |
| Box 3 Folder 4 | General Accounts |
Series II: Correspondence |
This series consists of the correspondence to Common Cause requesting copies, information, and subscriptions; correspondence with authors; concerning dissemination of the journal; personal-official letters with various leaders and organizations in the World Federation Movement; business arrangements of the Committee and its Journal with other organizations; publishing and printing matters; letters of transmittal of Preliminary Draft and copies of Journal; a few letters including individual plans for world government. This material is arranged alphabetically and in the order in which it was received from the Committee.
| Box 4 Folder 1 | "A" General Correspondence (old) |
| Box 4 Folder 2 | Aa-Ak General Correspondence |
| Box 4 Folder 3 | A-Az General Correspondence |
| Box 4 Folder 4 | Advertising and Sales |
| Box 5 Folder 1 | Advertisements (From c. June 1950) |
| Box 5 Folder 2 | Advertisements, Common Cause (To c. June 1950) |
| Box 5 Folder 3 | Altrocchi, Rudolph |
| Box 5 Folder 4 | All Members (Correspondence to) |
| Box 6 Folder 1 | "B" General Correspondence (old) |
| Box 6 Folder 2 | Ba-Bh General Correspondence |
| Box 6 Folder 3 | Bi-Bz General Correspondence |
| Box 6 Folder 4 | Baldanzi, George |
| Box 7 Folder 1 | Barr, Stringfellow |
| Box 7 Folder 2 | Bellanca, August |
| Box 7 Folder 3 | Benitez, Jaime |
| Box 7 Folder 4 | Bibliography: World Government |
| Box 7 Folder 5 | Biography: Common Cause |
| Box 7 Folder 6 | Brown, Harrison |
| Box 7 Folder 7 | Brünning, Heinrich |
| Box 7 Folder 8 | "C" General Correspondence (old) |
| Box 8 Folder 1 | Ca-Ci General Correspondence |
| Box 8 Folder 2 | Ck-Cz General Correspondence |
| Box 8 Folder 3 | Common Cause, Vol. 1, No. 9 (March 1949) |
| Box 8 Folder 4 | Common Cause |
| Box 9 Folder 1 | Exchange Publication |
| Box 9 Folder 2 | Common Cause (Magazine Exchanges) |
| Box 9 Folder 3 | Common Cause (Letters on expiration) |
| Box 9 Folder 4 | Constitution, Preliminary Draft (Amendments to) |
| Box 9 Folder 5 | Constitutional Conventions |
| Box 9 Folder 6 | Cousins, Norman |
| Box 9 Folder 7 | Cranston, Alan |
| Box 10 Folder 1 | "D" General Correspondence (old) |
| Box 10 Folder 2 | "D" General Correspondence |
| Box 10 Folder 3 | Davis, Garry |
| Box 10 Folder 4 | Distributors of Common Cause |
| Box 10 Folder 5 | Distributors of Common Cause (Foreign Agencies) |
| Box 10 Folder 6 | Documents |
| Box 10 Folder 7 | Dunham, Vera Sandomirsky |
| Box 10 Folder 8 | Duke University Cooperative Project |
| Box 11 Folder 1 | "E" General Correspondence (old) |
| Box 11 Folder 2 | "E General Correspondence |
| Box 11 Folder 3 | "F" General Correspondence (old) |
| Box 11 Folder 4 | "F" General Correspondence |
| Box 11 Folder 5 | Faculty News Bulletin |
| Box 12 Folder 1 | Farmer Fyke |
| Box 12 Folder 2 | Federalist Press |
| Box 12 Folder 3 | Foundation Book |
| Box 12 Folder 4 | Fund Raising |
| Box 12 Folder 5 | "G" General Correspondence (old) |
| Box 12 Folder 6 | "G" General Correspondence |
| Box 13 Folder 1 | Goethe Bicentennial |
| Box 13 Folder 2 | Guérard, Albert (old) |
| Box 13 Folder 3 | Guérard, Albert (new) |
| Box 13 Folder 4 | "H" General Correspondence (old) |
| Box 14 Folder 1 | Ha-Hm General Correspondence |
| Box 14 Folder 2 | Hn-Hz General Correspondence |
| Box 14 Folder 3 | Hansson, Johan |
| Box 14 Folder 4 | Hart, Hornell |
| Box 14 Folder 5 | Hotels |
| Box 14 Folder 6 | "I" General Correspondence (old) |
| Box 15 Folder 1 | "I" General Correspondence |
| Box 15 Folder 2 | Inagaki, Morikatsu |
| Box 15 Folder 3 | Ingalls, Jeremy |
| Box 15 Folder 4 | Information Letters (concerning Common Cause or the Committee) |
| Box 15 Folder 5 | Inquiries and Contributions |
| Box 15 Folder 6 | "J" General Correspondence (old) |
| Box 15 Folder 7 | "J" General Correspondence |
| Box 16 Folder 1 | Japan, World Federal Government |
| Box 16 Folder 2 | "K" General Correspondence (old) |
| Box 16 Folder 3 | Ka-Kl General Correspondence |
| Box 16 Folder 4 | Km-Kz General Correspondence |
| Box 17 Folder 1 | "L" General Correspondence (old) |
| Box 17 Folder 2 | La-Lh General Correspondence |
| Box 17 Folder 3 | Li-Lz General Correspondence |
| Box 17 Folder 4 | Lang, Reginald D. |
| Box 18 Folder 1 | Library, the Committee |
| Box 18 Folder 2 | Letters to the Editor |
| Box 18 Folder 3 | Library of International Relations |
| Box 18 Folder 4 | "Mc" General Correspondence (old) |
| Box 18 Folder 5 | "Mc" General Correspondence |
| Box 18 Folder 6 | McIlwain, Charles |
| Box 18 Folder 7 | McCormick, Ada P. "Letter" Magazine |
| Box 18 Folder 8 | McKeon, Richard P. |
| Box 19 Folder 1 | "M" General Correspondence (old) |
| Box 19 Folder 2 | Ma-Me General Correspondence |
| Box 19 Folder 3 | Mf-Mz General Correspondence |
| Box 19 Folder 4 | Mann, Thomas |
| Box 20 Folder 1 | Marzullo, Sal Gene |
| Box 20 Folder 2 | Mayer, Milton |
| Box 20 Folder 3 | Meyer, Cord |
| Box 20 Folder 4 | Miscellaneous, Common Cause |
| Box 20 Folder 5 | Miscellaneous, General Correspondence (1Dec. 1948-14 Sept. 1949) I |
| Box 20 Folder 6 | Miscellaneous, General Correspondence (1 Dec. 1948-14 Sept. 1949) II |
| Box 21 Folder 1 | Momdadori |
| Box 21 Folder 2 | Mumford, Lewis |
| Box 21 Folder 3 | "N" General Correspondence (old) |
| Box 21 Folder 4 | "N" General Correspondence |
| Box 21 Folder 5 | Nagel, Louis-Editions |
| Box 21 Folder 6 | Nation, The |
| Box 21 Folder 7 | Nef, John U, |
| Box 22 Folder 1 | "O" General Correspondence (old) |
| Box 22 Folder 2 | "O" General Correspondence |
| Box 22 Folder 3 | Office |
| Box 22 Folder 4 | Office Memoranda |
| Box 22 Folder 5 | Ogilvy, Stewart |
| Box 22 Folder 6 | Oliver, Stauffer |
| Box 23 Folder 1 | Orders, for Pamphlets, etc. |
| Box 23 Folder 2 | Orders for Documents |
| Box 23 Folder 3 | "P" General Correspondence (old) |
| Box 23 Folder 4 | Pa-Pe General Correspondence |
| Box 23 Folder 5 | Pf-Pz General Correspondence |
| Box 24 Folder 1 | Parallel Organization, National Peace Council (London) |
| Box 24 Folder 2 | Parallel Organization, Students for Federal World Government (Student Federalists) |
| Box 24 Folder 3 | Parallel Organization, The United World Federalists |
| Box 24 Folder 4 | Parallel Organization, Wereld Federalisten Beweging Nederland |
| Box 24 Folder 5 | Parallel Organization, Miscellaneous-Declarations, etc. |
| Box 24 Folder 6 | Peck, George T. |
| Box 24 Folder 7 | Pocono Conference |
| Box 25 Folder 1 | Poole Brothers |
| Box 25 Folder 2 | Posin, D. Q. |
| Box 25 Folder 3 | Press Releases |
| Box 25 Folder 4 | Publicity Material, N.B. Press, University of Chicago: see University of Chicago Press. |
| Box 26 Folder 1 | "R" General Correspondence (old) |
| Box 26 Folder 2 | "R" General Correspondence |
| Box 26 Folder 3 | Railway Express |
| Box 27 Folder 1 | Rawnsley |
| Box 27 Folder 2 | Redfield, Robert |
| Box 27 Folder 3 | Round Table |
| Box 27 Folder 4 | Ruopp, Phillip |
| Box 27 Folder 5 | "S" General Correspondence (old) |
| Box 28 Folder 1 | Sa-Sk General Correspondence |
| Box 28 Folder 2 | Sl-Sz General Correspondence |
| Box 28 Folder 3 | Subscriptions: Periodicals (General); General Material and Subscriptions to Magazines |
| Box 28 Folder 4 | Sohn, Louis B. |
| Box 29 Folder 1 | "T" General Correspondence (old) |
| Box 29 Folder 2 | "T" General Correspondence |
| Box 29 Folder 3 | Taylor, Glen H. |
| Box 29 Folder 4 | Tchou, Thomas |
| Box 29 Folder 5 | Tugwell, R. G. |
| Box 30 Folder 1 | "U" General Correspondence (old) |
| Box 30 Folder 2 | "U" General Correspondence |
| Box 30 Folder 3 | U.N.E.S.C.O. |
| Box 30 Folder 4 | University |
| Box 30 Folder 5 | University of Chicago Press |
| Box 30 Folder 6 | Usborne, Henry |
| Box 31 Folder 1 | "V" General Correspondence (old) |
| Box 31 Folder 2 | "V" General Correspondence |
| Box 31 Folder 3 | "W" General Correspondence (old) |
| Box 32 Folder 1 | Wa-Wk General Correspondence |
| Box 32 Folder 2 | Wl-Wz General Correspondence |
| Box 32 Folder 3 | Wofford, Harris and Clare |
| Box 33 Folder 1 | World Federation |
| Box 33 Folder 2 | World Government News |
| Box 33 Folder 3 | Wright, Quincy |
| Box 33 Folder 4 | Wynner, Edith |
| Box 33 Folder 5 | X,Y,Z General Correspondence |
Series III: Common Cause and the Preliminary Draft Files |
This series includes letters to the Committee and the Journal commenting upon the Draft Constitution and/or the Journal of the Committee, Common Cause, and its articles. Many of the letters are from correspondents who have plans of their own and are bringing them to the attention of the Committee and the Journal.
| Box 34 Folder 1 | General |
| Box 34 Folder 2 | Constitution, Preliminary Draft, Comments on |
| Box 34 Folder 3 | A-F |
| Box 34 Folder 4 | G-M |
| Box 34 Folder 5 | N-Z |
| Box 35 Folder 1 | A |
| Box 35 Folder 2 | B |
| Box 35 Folder 3 | C |
| Box 36 Folder 1 | D |
| Box 36 Folder 2 | E |
| Box 36 Folder 3 | F |
| Box 36 Folder 4 | G |
| Box 36 Folder 5 | H |
| Box 36 Folder 6 | I-J |
| Box 36 Folder 7 | K |
| Box 36 Folder 8 | L |
| Box 37 Folder 1 | M |
| Box 37 Folder 2 | N |
| Box 37 Folder 3 | O-P |
| Box 37 Folder 4 | Q-R |
| Box 37 Folder 5 | S |
| Box 37 Folder 6 | T |
| Box 37 Folder 7 | U-V |
| Box 37 Folder 8 | W |
| Box 37 Folder 9 | X-Z |
Series IV: Manuscript Material |
This series consists of manuscript copies of articles appearing in the Journal, lectures, and speeches by men prominent or connected with the Committee or the Journal relevant to the World Federation Movement, e.g., Borgese, Hutchins, Quincy Wright, and others. The series also includes typescript, holograph, and mimeographed copies of the documents issued by the Committee in the Document Series 1-150.
| Box 38 Folder 1 | Banfield-Bradley |
| Box 38 Folder 2 | Brockway-Holt |
| Box 38 Folder 3 | Hutchins-Jackson |
| Box 39 Folder 1 | Joyce-Odne |
| Box 39 Folder 2 | Papanek-Teller |
| Box 39 Folder 3 | Tugwell |
| Box 39 Folder 4 | Usborne-Wood-Unsigned |
| Box 40 Folder 1 | Original and unmimeographed copies of Documents 1-19 |
| Box 40 Folder 2 | Document 7 |
| Box 40 Folder 3 | Original and unmimeographed copies of Documents 20-53 |
| Box 41 Folder 1 | Original copies of Documents 54- 4 |
| Box 41 Folder 2 | Original copies of Documents 75-90 |
| Box 41 Folder 3 | Original copies of Documents 91-110 |
| Box 42 Folder 1 | Original copies of Document 111 |
| Box 42 Folder 2 | Document 111 |
| Box 42 Folder 3 | Original copies of Documents 112-113 |
| Box 43 Folder 1 | Draft II-Third Edition (Original) |
| Box 43 Folder 2 | Document 113 |
| Box 43 Folder 3 | Original copies of Document 114 |
| Box 43 Folder 4 | Original Documents 128-134 |
| Box 43 Folder 5 | Original Documents 135-140 |
| Box 44 Folder 1 | Original Document 141 |
| Box 44 Folder 2 | Miscellaneous |
| Box 44 Folder 3 | Drafts of the Constitution |
| Box 44 Folder 4 | Original Manuscript of Document 127 |
| Box 45 Folder 1 | Document 147, Constitutional Drafts basis for Document 147 |
| Box 45 Folder 2 | Original copies of Document 148 and 149, includes detailed comment upon various segments of the Constitution by individuals whose opinions had been solicited. |
Series V: Documents |
This series is made up of mimeographed copies of Committee Documents 1--150. These documents consist of the original proposals and plans for the Committee, and the various papers submitted by its members to be used as a basis for discussion and the eventual formation of a Preliminary Draft Constitution.
| Box 46 | Index and Documents 1-20 |
| Box 47 | Documents 21-42 |
| Box 48 Folder 1 | Documents 43-58 |
| Box 48 Folder 2 | Documents 59-73 |
| Box 48 Folder 3 | Documents 74-86 |
| Box 49 Folder 1 | Documents 87-98 |
| Box 49 Folder 2 | Documents 99-109 |
| Box 49 Folder 3 | Documents 110-114 |
| Box 50 Folder 1 | Documents 115-128 (Document 122 missing) |
| Box 50 Folder 2 | Documents 129-141 (Documents 129 and 133 missing) |
| Box 50 Folder 3 | Documents 142-150 (Document 145 missing) |
Series VI: Meeting Minutes |
This series includes the stenographic transcripts of the Committee Meetings, mimeographed.
| Box 51 Folder 1 | Proceedings, New York, 17:18 Dec., 1945 |
| Box 51 Folder 2 | Proceedings, Chicago, 4-5 Feb. 1946, revised |
| Box 51 Folder 3 | Proceedings, Chicago, 4-5 Feb. 1946, typewritten copy |
| Box 52 Folder 1 | Proceedings, New York, 29-30 March 1946 |
| Box 52 Folder 2 | Proceedings, Chicago, 15-16 April 1946 |
| Box 52 Folder 3 | Proceedings, New York, 17-18 May 1946 |
| Box 53 Folder 1 | Proceedings, Chicago, 18-19 June 1946 |
| Box 53 Folder 2 | Proceedings, New York, 19-20 July 1946 |
| Box 53 Folder 3 | Proceedings, New York, 16-17 August 1946 |
| Box 54 Folder 1 | Proceedings, Chicago, 24-25 Oct. 1946 |
| Box 54 Folder 2 | Proceedings, Chicago, 6 Feb. 1947 |
| Box 54 Folder 3 | Proceedings, Chicago, 7 Feb. 1947 |
| Box 55 Folder 1 | Proceedings, Chicago, 31 March, 1947 |
| Box 55 Folder 2 | Proceedings, Chicago, 1 April 1947 |
| Box 55 Folder 3 | Proceedings, Chicago, 2 April 1947 |
| Box 56 Folder 1 | Proceedings, Chicago, 14 July 1947 |
| Box 56 Folder 2 | Proceedings, Chicago, 15 July 1947 |