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When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: World Movement for World Federal Government. Records[Box #, Folder #] Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
In 1947, the Committee to Frame a World Constitution became a member of the World Movement for World Federal Government (WMWFG); at this time Mrs. Borgese, a member of the CFWC secretariat, was elected one of the Committee's delegates to the WMWFG. From the fall of 1947 to the fall of 1948 she was a member of the WMWFG Council. From the fall of 1948 to the winter of 1950 she was the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Council of the WMWFG. Until June 1951, Mr. G. A. Borgese was Co-Chairman of the Commission Constitutionelle Mondiale, "a group of scholars mandated by the Congress [of the WMWFG] with the task of preparing some research material" for world congresses of the WMWFG in the future for their consideration. [The papers come to an end on June 30, 1951 with the dissolution of the Committee to Frame a World Constitution and the cessation of its publication, Common Cause.]
Included in the papers are the general correspondence of the movement relative to the executive position held by Mrs. E. M. Borgese, arranged alphabetically by proper name; her "Information and Correspondence File," includes much near-print material that concerned the annual world congresses of the movement, reports and minutes of meetings, and correspondence with constituent, subsidiary, affiliated, observer status world federation organizations, arranged by subject matter, alphabetically.
The "Correspondence" and "Subject" files of the Commission Constitutionelle Mondiale includes letters of invitation to join the Commission, manuscripts by Hutchins, Quincy Wright, Borgese, and others; reports of the Commission; and correspondence relating to the Commission's work.
The arrangement of the material as established by the Committee's secretariat has not been changed.
The following related resources are located in the Department of Special Collections:
This series is correspondence, filed alphabetically by proper name, concerning World Federation and specifically The World Movement for World Federal Government (WMWFG); business arrangements of WMWFG; plans of action in regard to popularizing and propagandizing the movement; letters of transmittal to various world leaders as Ali Kahn of Parkistan, in Africa, Asia, and Europe; intra-Federation correspondence of leaders like Stringfellow Barr, Lord Boyd-Orr, Farmer Fyke, and Henry Usborne.
This series is arranged by subject matter, material consists of same general type as in GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE; with some additions: near-print material concerning WMWFG Congresses in Geneva, Luxembourg, Rome, and Stockholm; mimeographed reports and minutes of various meetings and commissions, with exception of Commission Constitutionelle Mondiale which is separately organized; Correspondence with constituent, subsidiary, affiliated, or observer status World Federation Organizations.
This series includes letters of invitation to join the Commission; manuscripts by Hutchins, Quincy Wright, Borgese, and others; reports of the Commission; and correspondence relative to the Commission’s work.
This series includes oversize materials removed from previous series and folders. It includes a number of newspaper articles and some letter correspondence.