Decentralized Office or "Lot Files" -- Records of Under Secretary Dean Acheson -- General Records of the Department of State (RG 59) [CIVILIAN AGENCY RECORDS -- Department of State and Foreign Affairs Records ]


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Dean Acheson served as Assistant Secretary of State from 1941 to 1945 and Under Secretary of State from 1945 to 1947. He was a member of various departmental and interdepartmental committees engaged in the economic aspects of the war effort and in postwar planning. {Note 1}

Records Pertaining to Economic Warfare 1941-44 (Entry 670)
   
                Boxes 1-5 location: 250/46/35/04
        Box #  File Title
        1  Administration of EO, EA, and EA/C
                        Argentina
            Belgium
            EOB Matters-Agenda and Minutes of Meetings (Board of Economic  Operations)
            Board of Economic Operations-Organization and functions
            Board of Economic Warfare-Administration
            Board of Economic Warfare-Clarification and Interpretation of  Executive Order No. 9128
        2  Genesis of OEW [Office of Economic Warfare], BEW [Board of Economic  Warfare], EDB[Economic Defense Board], and FEA [Foreign  Economic Administration].
            Board of Economic Warfare-Minutes of Meetings, beginning 1-1-43
            Board of Economic Warfare-Minutes of Meetings of EDB and BEW,  Reports, etc. filed at meetings.
        3  Bolivia
            Brazil
        Caribbean Office
            China
            China-Freezing of Funds
            Combined Boards
            Cuba
            Dominican Republic
            Egypt
        Eire
            Ethiopia
        France and French West and North Africa
Greece
Iberian Peninsula Oil programs
Iceland
Iran
  Iraq
            Mexico
            Middle East Supply Center
        4   Other American Republics
            Policy and Post-War Programs Committees
            Portugal
            "Present Status of Economic Warfare Activities and Recommendations for  the Future," By John E. Russell
            Russia
            Russia (Since outbreak of Russia-German war)
            Spain
        5  Sweden
            Switzerland
            Uruguay
            (the remainder of box 5 contains records relating to wartime  relief, postwar rehabilitation, and international monetary  stabilization, 1941-1945)

Records Pertaining to Accounts of Blocked Nationals 1941-1944 (Entry 672)

        Box #  File Titles
        9  Argentina
            Bolivia
            Jose Dibos Valeavellano
            Ericsson Putnam Matter
            Honduras
            Japan
            Mexico
            Paraguay
            Phillips, N.V
            Pirelli do Brasil
            Policy Committee-Minutes & Agenda
            Proclaimed List-Confidential List
            Standard-Vacuum Co.
            Sterling Products
            Sweden
            Von Rath case
            Wilkie Matter location: 250/46/35/05


Footnotes

{1}Return to text Researchers should find interesting Dean Acheson, Present At The Creation: My Years in the State Department (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1969), especially the two chapters on economic warfare.


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