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Brian Urquhart Collection of Material About Ralph Bunche, Ca http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt409nb02d No online items Finding Aid for the Brian Urquhart Collection of Material about Ralph Bunche, ca. 1932-1972 Processed by Manuscripts Division staff, 1998; Hyung-ju Ahn and Eiichiro Azuma, 2014; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé. UCLA Library Special Collections Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library Box 951575 Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1575 (310) 825-4988 [email protected] ©1998 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 364 1 Title: Brian Urquhart Collection of Material about Ralph Bunche Collection number: 364 Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections Language of Material: English Physical Description: 24.0 linear ft.(48 boxes and 2 oversize boxes) Date: ca. 1932-1972 Abstract: Sir Brian Urquhart (b.1919) was active in the organization and direction of the United Nations (UN) Emergency Force in Middle East (1956) and responsible for the organization and direction of UN peace-keeping operations and special political assignments. Ralph Bunche (1904-1971) was the undersecretary for special political affairs at the UN (1958-67) and undersecretary general (1968). He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950. The collection consists of papers about and collected by Ralph J. Bunche and later used by Brian Urquhart to write Ralph Bunche: an American Life (1993). Items in the collection include manuscripts, notebooks, project files, audiotape recordings, clippings, travel photographs, and memorabilia. Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information. creator: Urquhart, Brian Restrictions on Use and Reproduction Copyright to portions of this collection has been assigned to the UCLA Library Special Collections. The library can grant permission to publish for materials to which it holds the copyright. All requests for permission to publish or quote must be submitted in writing to Library Special Collections. Credit shall be given as follows: ©The Regents of the University of California on behalf of UCLA Library Special Collections. Restrictions on Access Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information. Provenance/Source of Acquisition Gift of Brian Urquhart, 1995. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Brian Urquhart Collection of Material about Ralph Bunche (Collection 364). Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA. Biography With an extensive background with the United Nations, Sir Brian Urquhart became a central figure in debates over the future of the United Nations and the role of UN security forces in the post-Cold War era. Born in England in 1919, he was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford University. After serving in the British army and military intelligence during World War II in North Africa and Europe, he served as a personal assistant to Gladwyn Jebb, who established the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations in London. From 1946 to 1949, he was personal assistant to the Trygve Lie, the first Secretary-General, and subsequently he served in various capacities under Ralph Bunche between 1954 and 1971. Over this period, Sir Brian was centrally involved in the conferences on peaceful uses of atomic energy, the Congo crisis in the early 1960s, and peacekeeping in Cyprus, Kashmir, and the Middle East. In the period after 1972, Brian Urquhart was one of the principal political advisors of the Secretary-General, and served as the Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs, working on Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, and Namibia, among others. He retired from the United Nations Secretariat in 1986. Urquhart has written several books, including biographies of Dag Hammarskjöld and Ralph Bunche; an autobiography, A Life in Peace and War; and books on decolonization and reforming the United Nations system. His continued involvement with the United Nations is also reflected in his pieces on the UN volunteer force and the responsibilities of the UN system published in The New York Review of Books in 1993 and 1994, as well as his involvement with the events surrounding the fiftieth UN anniversary. Ralph J. Bunche (1904-1971) received his undergraduate degree from UCLA and his doctoral degree from Harvard and served as a professor at Howard University and at Harvard. He joined the Permanent Secretariat of the United Nations in 1948, served as the undersecretary for special political affairs from 1958 to 1967, and then became undersecretary general in 1968. In 1950, Bunche was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Scope and Content 364 2 Collection consists of papers about, and collected by Ralph J. Bunche and later used by his colleague and biographer, Brian Urquhart. Includes manuscripts, his notebooks, project files, audiotape recordings, clippings, travel photographs, and memorabilia. The notebooks document more than five decades of Bunche's evolution as a political thinker and carefully preserve the origin and genesis of his major published and unpublished speeches, essays, articles, and other writings. Project files include research materials consulted by Bunche, reports generated by him and/or his affiliates, and photocopies of business correspondence. Audiotapes include transcriptions of taped interviews with Bunche, mostly from the 1960s. Clippings and memorabilia include articles by and about Bunche, along with reviews and letters to him. Related Material Ralph J. Bunche Papers (Collection 2051). Available at UCLA Library Special Collections. Processing Information To maintain original order, original material created by Ralph J. Bunche was transferred to the Ralph J. Bunche Papers (Collection 2051) http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf8r29p24k/. UCLA Catalog Record ID UCLA Catalog Record ID: 4233917 Subjects and Indexing Terms Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971. United Nations--Officials and employees. Urquhart, Brian--Archives. Diplomats--Archives. General, Including Myrdal Study. 1932-1945. Physical Description: [Box 1, 7 folders] Box 1, Folder 1 Photocopies and notes. Scope and Content Note Includes: Photograph (photocopy) of R.J. Bunche, n.d. Box 1, Folder 2 R.J. Bunche handwritten notes. 1932, 1940, 1941. Scope and Content Photocopies of transcripts. Box 1, Folder 3 American race relations 1930-1947, Myrdal study. 1930-1947. Scope and Content Note Includes: 1) Typescript (carbon) of letter from R.J. Bunche to Dr. Gunnar Myrdal, September 26, 1941. 2) Photocopied material from Myrdal studies, correspondence. Box 1, Folder 4 Myrdal study. 1939: August-September. Scope and Content Note Includes: 1) Photocopy of R.J. Bunche's handwritten diary of trip to South with Gunnar Myrdal. Box 1, Folder 5 R.J. Bunche biographical information to 1943. 1925-1943. Scope and Content Note Includes: 1) Typescript (carbon) of R.J. Bunche's resumé, 1925-1943. 2) R.J. Bunche's list of professional employment references, 1925-April 1945. 364 3 General, Including Myrdal Study. 1932-1945. Box 1, Folder 6 OSS - MT. Tremblant - Joined State Department January 1944 - Dumbarton Oaks. 1942-1945, 1982. Scope and Content Note Includes: 1) Photocopy of postwar foreign policy preparation, 1939-1945. 2) Photocopy of UN Conference on International Organization, April 26, 1945. Box 1, Folder 7 R.J. Bunche notes September 18-November 10, 1945 - ILO Conference, London and Paris. 1945 March 13-December 27. Scope and Content Note Includes: 1) Photocopy of letters to and from Mrs. Roosevelt. 2) Photocopies of letters to and from R.J. Bunche. 3) Photocopies of UN Conference on International Delegation. London School of Economics; Africa Trip. 1932, 1937-1938. Physical Description: [Boxes 1 and 2, 4 folders] Box 1, Folder 8 Original notes re: which boxes contain correspondence on R.J. Bunche's trip to Africa as well as quotes from those boxes. 1932-1938. Scope and Content Note Also, photograph (photocopy) of R.J. Bunche and Dr. J. Gikonyo Kiano of Kenya. Box 1-2 R.J. Bunche's handwritten diaries. 1937. Physical Description: (Photocopies) Box 1, Folder 9 . 1937: January-July. Box 1, Folder 10 . 1937: August-December. Box 2, Folder 1 . 1938: January-November and 1939. Box 2, Folder 1 Letters to and from R.J. Bunche. November 2, 1938-May 23, 1939. Physical Description: (Photocopies) OSS, State Department. 1941-1946. Physical Description: [Box 2, 5 folders] Box 2, Folder 2 Letters between Brian Urquhart and Larry Finkelstein. 1982: March-April. Physical Description: (1 photocopy and 2 originals) Box 2, Folder 2 Article by Finkelstein entitled, Castles in Spain--UN Arrangements for Postwar Colonial Progress. Box 2, Folder 3 Correspondence between L.S. Finkelstein and Gaby Gervais, secretary of R.J. Bunche. July 11-18, 1969. Physical Description: (Original and photocopied) Box 2, Folder 3 Chapter 5 of L.S. Finkelstein entitled, Trusteeship at San Francisco. 1941-1942. Box 2, Folder 4 Article by Dr. Conyers Read entitled, African Proposals. Box 2, Folder 4 R.J. Bunche's notes on Read's African Proposals. Physical Description: (Typescript [carbon] and photocopy) Box 2, Folder 4 Article by Anson P. Stokes, The Atlantic Charter & Africa. Physical Description: (Photocopy) Box 2, Folder 5 3 letters to and from J.A. Wilson. February 26, 1943-March January 1943. Physical Description: (Photocopies) 364 4 OSS, State Department. 1941-1946. Box 2, Folder 5 R.J. Bunche's notes on Conyers Read. March 6, 1943. Physical Description: (Photocopy) Box 2, Folder 5 R.J. Bunche's Psychological Warfare Roundup. April 1943. Physical Description: (Photocopy) Box 2, Folder 5 Joint articles by R.J. Bunche and Sherman Kent. September 1943. Physical Description: (photocopies) Box 2, Folder 6 Letter to Cordell Hull from Charles W. Taussig. June 2, 1944. Physical Description: Photocopy. Letter to RJB from Anson Phelps-Stokes. Feb 15, 1944. Physical Description: Photocopy. Companion Volume 1. 1940-1949. Physical Description: [Box 2, 7 folders] Box 2, Folder 7 Notes re R.J.
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