Institute of Pacific Relations fonds Compiled by Kate McCandless, Philip Holden, and Laurenda Daniells (1981) Revised by Jane Turner (1990), Marnie Burnham (1996), and Erwin Wodarczak (2004, 2012) Last revised February 2012 University of British Columbia Archives Table of Contents Fonds Description o Title / Dates of Creation / Physical Description o Administrative History o Custodial History o Scope and Content o Notes Series Descriptions o Publications series o Correspondence series o Annual Reports series o Financial series o IPR Conferences series o Senate Investigation series o Tax Evasion Court Case series o Miscellaneous series File List Catalogue entry (UBC Library catalogue) Fonds Description Institute of Pacific Relations fonds. – 1925-1989; predominant 1950-1960. 12.95 m of textual records. ca. 150 photographs: b&w ; 21 x 29 cm. or smaller. 1 album. Administrative History The Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR) was established in 1925 as a private non-partisan forum for the promotion of mutual understanding amongst nations of the Pacific Rim through discussion, research, and education. The IPR's programmes of conferences, research projects, publications, and its quarterly journal Pacific Affairs contributed to the interchange of information in the field of Asian Studies. The Institute conducted its affairs through autonomous national councils, each represented on the Pacific Council, the international governing body which directed the IPR's programmes. The International Secretariat, the Pacific Council's administrative organ, was based in Hawaii until it moved to New York in 1933. The American IPR was of particular importance to the organization due in part to its substantial financial contributions; it also carried out its own programmes of research, conferences, and publishing, the latter including Far Eastern Survey. The non-partisan status of the IPR was challenged in the early 1950's when the United States Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws (the McCarran Subcommittee) alleged that it was open to communist influences. In addition, in 1952 former Pacific Affairs editor Owen Lattimore was later indicted for perjury before the subcommittee. Although neither charge could be substantiated, the charges resulted in a loss of credibility which seriously impaired the operation of the Institute. Finally, the IPR lost its tax-exempt status as an educational body in 1955 and was forced to wage a five-year battle to have it restored. The final judgement in 1959 affirmed that, contrary to the allegation of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in 1955, the Institute had not engaged in the dissemination of controversial and partisan propaganda, and had not attempted to influence the policies or opinions of any government or government officials. The various legal battles, despite their favourable outcomes for the IPR, left the Institute completely depleted of funds and it dissolved in 1960. William L. Holland, who served as Secretary-General of the IPR, came to the University of British Columbia later that year to serve as head of the newly-created Department of Asian Studies. Custodial History Materials held in the University Archives consist of records processed during three separate accruals. The first, processed in 1981, consists of records gathered for use by William L. Holland by the IPR staff when the New York office was dismantled, as it was his task to wind up the affairs of the organization and transfer the publication of Pacific Affairs to UBC. The second accrual was processed in 1990 and the third in 1996. The exact provenance of the materials in Boxes 59-64 was lost in the process of their selection and removal by William Holland from New York to UBC. Scope and Content The fonds consists of correspondence, minutes of meetings, manuscripts, annual reports and financial records relating to the activities of the Institute of Pacific Relations, in particular William Holland's varied roles as IPR Research Secretary, AIPR Executive Secretary, IPR Secretary-General, and Editor of Pacific Affairs. Also included are court documents, transcripts, reports and publications relating to the investigations of the IPR and its staff completed by the United States government, including photocopies of F.B.I. files, reports of the McCarran Subcommittee, and publications of the Special Committee to Investigate Tax Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations. Arranged in eight series: Publications, Correspondence, Annual Reports, Financial, IPR Conferences, Senate Investigation, Tax Evasion Court Case, and Miscellaneous. Idiosyncracies in the assignment of series between accruals have not been corrected. Notes File list available Selected photographs have been digitized and included in UBC Archives’ Historical Photograph Database (UBC 95.1). The bulk of the Institute's files (1925-1955) were given to Columbia University in 1961 and are housed in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Division of Columbia University Library. IPR records are also held by the University of Hawaii, the Hoover Institution Library at Stanford, and the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. The provenance of materials in Boxes 59-64 was lost in the process of selection and removal from New York to Vancouver B.C. Three publications in Box 100 were donated to the University Archives by Paul Hooper in 2011. Series Descriptions Publications series. -- 1940-1960. 4.4 m of textual records. Series consists of records documenting the production of the Institute's publications, including Pacific Affairs and the Inquiry series, as well as copies of publications of the Institute and its related organizations. Records include correspondence with authors and publishers, manuscripts, galley proofs, published materials, contracts and other agreements, and distribution records. The series is arranged in the following sub-series: General I.P.R. Publications Records, Inquiry Records, Miscellaneous Business Records, Book Reviews, Pacific Affairs, and General (the last consisting of both manuscripts and published items). Three publications in Box 100 were donated to the University Archives by Paul Hooper in 2011. Boxes 1-21, 67(2-15), 80(3)-93, 100(14-16). Correspondence series. -- 1938-1961. 3.23 m of textual records. Series consists of W.L. Holland's incoming and outgoing correspondence, arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Also contains publication records files of Holland's Asian Nationalism and the West and Far Eastern Survey. Also included is correspondence from the 1930's and 1940's that had been "lent to F.B.I. by I.P.R. and returned 1952-53". Boxes 22-45(3), 64(22-32), 68(4)-69(1), 97-98(4). Annual Reports series. -- 1930-1960. 19.5 cm of textual records. Series consists of annual reports of the American IPR, the International Secretariat, and some national councils. Box 45(4-12), 68(1-3). Financial series. -- 1934-1959. 46 cm of textual records. Series consists of financial records from the Pacific Council and the AIPR, and includes auditor's reports, financial statements, worksheets, inventories, vouchers and deposits, witholding tax records, payroll registers, and correspondence. Boxes 46-49(7). IPR Conferences series. -- 1925-1958. 1.93 m of textual records. ca. 150 photographs: b&w ; 21 x 29 cm. or smaller. 1 album. Series consists of records documenting IPR and AIPR conferences, and includes correspondence, reports, published materials, an album containing photographs, and individual photographs. The images are of various individuals and groups who attended I.P.R. conferences as well as three portraits of Edward C. Carter, first secretary-general of IPR. The series is arranged in the following sub-series: Conference Papers, Minutes and Reports, and Photographs. Selected photographs have been digitized and included in UBC Archives’ Historical Photograph Database (UBC 95.1). Boxes 49(8)-58, 73(19)-76(2), 100. Senate Investigation series. -- 1941-1954. 1.0 m of textual records. Series consists of records and other selected materials relating to the hearings of the McCarran Subcommittee and the Owen Lattimore trial, as well as files used by the FBI, and reports dealing with these proceedings. Materials include clippings, magazine articles, correspondence (in particular Lattimore's Pacific Affairs correspondence and other correspondence subpoenaed as evidence), testimonials, court transcripts, and notes prepared for Lattimore by Derk Bodde. Boxes 59-62, 65-67(1), 67(16-22), 73(2-18). Tax Exemption Court Case series. -- 1950-1961. 71 cm of textual records. Series consists of records relating to the court case "Institute of Pacific Relations vs the United States", a five year fight by the I.P.R. to obtain a court ruling on its tax exempt status as an educational body. Materials include court documents, correspondence (including that which was subpoenaed as evidence), clippings and articles, and stenographer's minutes. Boxes 63-64(21), 76(7)-80. Miscellaneous series. -- 1927-1989. 1.03 m of textual records. Series consists of records and other materials which document the activities of the Institute of Pacific Relations, much of which was collected and brought together from both outside sources and other IPR records by William Holland in order to compile a history of the Institute. Also included are reference works from the IPR office. Materials include publications, clippings, minutes, reports, and correspondence, and are arranged in