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THE COLD WAR IN THE EARLY FIFTIES: "Open Skies" and the 1955 Geneva Summit Dulles, John Foster: Papers Telephone Conversations Series Box 2 Telephone Memos (Excepting to & From White House) Jan 1 1954 - Feb 1954 (1) Box 4 Telephone Conversation - General May 2, 1955 -- Aug. 31, 1955 (6) Telephone Conv - General Sept. 1, 1955 to December 30, 1955 (4) Box 10 Telephone Conv - White House Mar. 7, 1955 to Aug. 29, 1955 (1)-(3) White House Memoranda Series Box 3 White House Correspondence - General 1955 (1)-(3) Meetings with the President 1955 (1)-(7) Box 8 Security Matters - McLeod, Scott (Security Administration) - Bohlen (1) Draft Presidential Correspondence and Speeches Series Box 1 President’s Opening Statement at Geneva July 18, 1955 Suggestion for Radio-TV Speech 7/15/55 (1)(2) Eisenhower, Dwight D.: Papers as President Ann Whitman Diary Series Box 5 ACW Diary May 1955 (2)(4) Box 6 ACW Diary July 1955 (1)-(4) (6) ACW Diary August 1955 (1)(2) Cabinet Series Box 5 Cabinet Meeting of July 22, 1955 Cabinet Meeting of June 10, 1955 DDE Diary Series Box 11 DDE Diary, July 1955 (1)(2) Dulles-Herter Series Box 5 Dulles, John Foster May 1955 Dulles, John Foster June 1955 Dulles, John Foster July 1955 International Series Box 21 Eden, 4/6/55 - 12/31/55 (1)(2) Box 49 USSR 1953-55 (1)(2) International Meetings Series Box 1 Geneva Conference July 18-23, 1955 (1)-(4) [Folder 1] Box 2 Geneva Conference July 18-23, 1955 (1)-(3) [Folder 2] Geneva Notes - Goodpaster, Major John, ACW State, Department of Geneva - Denver Message Traffic Legislative Meetings Box 1 Legislative Meetings 1955 (2) [March-April] Bipartisan Congressional Luncheon Meeting March 30, 1955 Legislative Meeting 1955 (4) [July-August] Bipartisan Legislative Meeting, July 12, 1955 Bipartisan Legislative Meeting, July 25, 1955 Eisenhower, Dwight D.: Papers as President (cont.) Press Conference Series Box 4 Press Conference 7/6/55 Speech Series Box 13 Departure for Geneva, TV 7/15/55 Disarmament Statement, Geneva 7/21/55 Report to the Nation on Geneva 7/25/55 Eisenhower, Dwight D.: Records as President Confidential File Box 29 Geneva Conference (Big Four Conference, July, 1955) [Entire box] Box 30 Geneva Conference (Big Four Conference, July, 1955) (17 - 27) Official File Box 494 OF 116-H-2 NATO Box 500 OF 116-O Bermuda Conference Box 500 OF 116-Q-2 Foreign Ministers Meeting in Geneva, 1955 Box 502 OF 116-Y Geneva Conference, 1954 Box 502 OF 116-Z Eisenhower-Churchill Meeting-June 1954 Box 503-04 OF 116-GG Geneva Big 5 Summit Conference, 1955 Box 570 OF 133-M Psychological Warfare Box 570 OF 133-M-1 President’s Committee on International Information Activities Box 570 OF 133-M-2 Psychological Operations Coordinating Committee Box 579-80 OF 137 Peace Box 580-81 OF 137-A Disarmament Box 581 OF 137-B Aerial inspection for Peace (“Open Skies”) Box 688 OF 154-P Cold War Box 733-35 OF 225 USSR Box 735 OF 225-A Stalin’s Death Box 735 OF 225-B Bulganin’s Proposal re Friendship Treaty Box 736 OF 225-C Iron Curtain and Iron Curtain Countries General File Box 877-8 GF 122-W 1955 Geneva Big 4 Summit Conference Box 878-80 GF 122-W-1 President’s leadership at Big 4 Conference Box 937 GF 125-T Cold War Hagerty, James C.: Papers Box 12-13 GENEVA CONFERENCE - 1955 (entire boxes) Box 61 Presidential Press Conference Material July 6 & 27, 1955 Jackson, C.D.: Papers Box 25 Baker, Edgar Box 26 Barnett, Frank Box 27-28 Berlin Conference, 1954 (12 folders) Box 38 Disarmament Box 40 Dulles, Allen Dulles, John Foster Box 41 Eisenhower, Dwight D. Correspondence thru 1955 Box 52 Jackson Committee Jackson, William H. Jackson, C.D.: Papers (cont.) Box 56 Log, 1955 (contains lengthy log entry entitled “From Quantico to Geneva” Box 58 Luce, H.R. (1)(2) Box 75 Rostow, Walt W. to ‘56 Box 82 Speech Texts 1954 Box 85 Stalin’s Death-Speech Text & Comment McCardle, Carl: Papers Box 1-3 All on State Department activities Smith, Walter Bedell: Papers Box 6 Speech, National War College White House Office, Office of the Staff Secretary: Records International Trips and Meetings Series Box 1 entire box Box 2 Geneva Conference of the Heads of Government, Chronology July 22, 1955 (1)-(3) U.S. Delegation Record of ... at Geneva Conference, July 18-23, 1955 Geneva - Notes & Observations (1955) Subject Series, Alphabetical Subseries Box 11 Disarmament [Vol. I] (5) (May 1955-March 1956) Disarmament [Vol. I] (6) (May-June 1956) Oral History Transcripts Adams, Sherman (#3) Anderson, Dillon Bowie, Robert Eisenhower, Dwight D. (OH-11) .
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