Records of the Agency for International Development: Records of Gordon Gray (Record Group 286)

FOLDER TITLE LIST

Box 1

ADMINISTRATIVE FILE: General File

• Biography- Gray, Gordon
• Biographical sketches of prospective interviewees
• Biographical sketches- staff
• Collation of agency comments
• Comments on September draft- Gray Report
• Correspondence- printing, etc.
• Form letters- invitation to discussion meetings
• Inter- office memos
• Letters of Comment- Gray Report
• List of charts and negatives
• Lists of names suggested for survey- originals (folder 1)

Box 2

• Lists of names suggested for survey- originals (folder 2)
• Lists of names suggested for survey- working lists
• Map- "100 Major Labor Market Areas"
• Meetings- agendas, procedures, discussion notes
• Memoranda- Dollar Gap
• Miscellaneous I

Box 3

• Miscellaneous II- Newsclips
• Miscellaneous III- Letters
• Miscellaneous- General
• Organizational plans
• Personnel- Miscellaneous
• "Statement of the Problem"
• Teletype messages

ADMINISTRATIVE FILE: Staff Reports and Discussions

Box 4

• Correspondence- Braun, T.W.
• Correspondence- Hoover, Calvin
• Correspondence- Mikesell, Raymond
• Dollar Gap discussions- notes
• Gray Staff reports (folders 1-3)

Box 5

• Intra-Staff correspondence and memoranda
• Mason, Dr. Edward G.
• Requests for working papers-lists, correspondence
• Trezise, Philip - Area Reports (folders 1-2)
• Voorhees, Hon. Tracy S.

WORKING PAPERS: General File

Box 6

• Balance of Payment Records- U.K., 1948-1949
• Balance of Payment Records- U.K., 1949-1950
• Balance of Payment Records- U.K., 1950-1951
• Balance of Payment Records- U.K., 1951-1952
• General Balance of Payments- U.K., 10/29/1949
• Balance of Current Transactions- U.K., 1949-1950
• Buy American Act
• Canada - economic information
• Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.- "Our World Trade"
• Council on Foreign Relations - Study Groups Reports
• Currency convertibility
• Currency convertibility - sterling area

Box 7

• Diebold, Jr., William - "European Recovery"
• Domar, Evsey D. "Effect of Foreign Investment on Balance of Payments"
• Economic Cooperation Administration, 7/1949, "The Sterling Dollar Exchange Rate"
• ECA, "Trade and Payment Projections For a Post ERP year," March 1950
• ECA, "Objectives in Western Europe," April 1950
• ECA, Series of policy statements
• Economic development area reports
• Estimates of Western European rearmament and U.S. economic aid (folders 1-2)
• Foreign dollar export incentives
• Foreign Trade Zone bill
• Foreign travel
• General import promotions

Box 8

• International Monetary Fund material
• Katz, Samuel I, "Recent Monetary Developments in the United Kingdom"
• Kindleberger, Charles P., "The Dollar Shortage" (folders 1-2)
• Korean Crisis effects
• Knox, William, "The International Story"
• Latin America - area reports
• Latin America - coffee
• Material provided by Assistant Secretary of Commerce
• Menderhausen, Horst "Dollar Shortage - Oil Surplus"
• Middle East and Africa - Economic reports, area papers
• Migration problems re: Dollar Gap

Box 9

• Organization For European Economic Co-Operation - General
• O.E.E.C. - General memoranda
• O.E.E.C. - Reports (folders 1-2)
• Post ERP economic projections
• Post ERP foreign debt service

Box 10

• Potential military contribution of ERP countries
• President's Advisory Committee on Management Improvement
• Private direct investment
• Quantitative projections
• Reports and correspondence (folders 1-2)
• Report on Effect of Federal Quarantine and Related Laws on Agricultural Imports
• Report on General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
• Report on U.S. Direct Investments
• Romm, Maxim, "A Solution of the Dollar Shortage"
• Shipping policies

Box 11

• Stockpiling
• Strategic materials policy
• Synthetic rubber consumption
• United Kingdom - Expansion of exports
• United Kingdom - General
• U.S. trade and balance of payment statistics
• Working Papers - Methods of increasing foreign dollar earnings

WORKING PAPERS: Dollar Gap Correspondence

Box 12

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I-K
• L
• M
• N-P

Box 13

• R
• S
• T
• U-W
• Correspondence on Dollar Gap plan - Dept. of Agriculture (folders 1-3)

Box 14

• Bureau of the Budget
• Dept. of Commerce
• Council of Economic Advisers
• Dept. of Defense
• Dept. of Interior
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• Export-Import Bank of Washington
• Federal Reserve System
• Federal Security Agency
• House of Representatives
• Securities and Exchange Commission
• Dept. of State (folders 1-2)
• Tariff Commission
• Dept. of Treasury
• U.S. Senate
• White House
• Dollar Gap Reports

WORKING PAPERS: International Economic Development

Box 15

• Council on Foreign Relations - Discussion group memorandum
• Dept. of Commerce press releases
• Economic Cooperation Administration Policy Series
• Intelligence and Services Division, Office of International Trade, "Closing Dollar Gap by Import Promotion"
• Marsh, Donald B., "The Export-Import Bank of Washington"
• McManemin, John A., "U.S. Balance of Payments and Point Four"
• National Advisory Council, "Financial Aspects of the Point IV Program"
• Organization for European Economic Co-Operation, "International Investments"
• Point Four Report
• Reports and Correspondence - miscellaneous

WORKING PAPERS: Trade Restrictions

Box 16

• Barriers to Foreign Investment - Working papers
• Cartels
• Copyrights and Patents - Effect on Imports
• Council on Foreign Relations - Study group report
• Customs simplification
• Economic Cooperation Administration - Trade Reports
• Europe - Barriers to business integration
• International House, "Manual For Freight Agents"
• Liepe, Wolfram, "Note on U.S. Import Restrictions"
• National Association of Manufacturers, "Capital Export Potentialities After 1952"
• Organization for European Economic Co-Operation-Trade Committee
• Pierson, John H.G., "Maintaining U.S. Prosperity While Closing the Export-Import Gap"
• Reports and correspondence - Trade restrictions

Box 17

• Strong, L. Corwin, International Trade Promotion Div.
• Tariff reclassification
• Trade Agreements Act (folders 1-2)
• Trade barriers
• Trends in Merchandise trade of third market areas with the U.S., Canada
• World trade and payments, 1953-1954

WORKING PAPERS: Intra-European Adjustment

Box 18

• ABC Conference
• Boecnever, Jr., L.C., "The Significance and Development of East-West Trade"
• Cleveland, Harlan, "Problem of Western Europe's Competitive Position in World Economy"
• Cleveland, H. van B., "Dollar Shortage: Causes and Remedies"
• Dept of Agriculture, "Agricultural and Food Programs by Countries"
• Dept. of Agriculture, "West Europe's Prospective Imports of U.S. Agricultural Products"
• Dickinson, Jr., Edward T., "The Order of Reason in the World of our Time"
• Dickinson, Jr., Edward T., "Strategy and Tactics of European Federation"
• Economic Cooperation Administration, "Patterns in Foreign Trade"
• ECA Policy Series reports
• ECA, "Promotion of Imports from ERP Countries," Preliminary Report, May 6, 1949

Box 19

• Economic Cooperation Administration, "Recovery Guides"
• "The European Recovery Program," Joint Report, 7/1/49 - 9/30/49
• Foreign Agriculture Magazine, June 1950
• Hulley, John, "The Adjustment Problem"
• Intra-European Payments Branch, "Contribution of Intra-European Trade"
• International Monetary Fund reports
• National Advisory Council, "National and International Measures for Full Employment"
• Organization For European Economic Co-Operation, "Report....Intra-European Payments and Compensations for 1949-1950"
• OEEC, "Report on Liberalization of Intra-European Trade"
• OEEC, Reports - miscellaneous
• Reports and correspondence
• Smithies, Arthur, "European Unification and the Dollar Problem"
• Trade liberalization in Europe

WORKING PAPERS: Far East

Box 20

• Andrews, Stanley and West, Robert, "Necessity for Coordination of U.S. Aid Programs in Far East"
• Blaisdell, Jr., Thomas C., "Report on Economic-Commercial Conference, Tokyo and Far East"
• Commonwealth of Australia, "Statement on Foreign Policy"
• Correspondence - Far East
• Council on Foreign Relations, "Southeast Asia in the World Economy"
• Hayes, Jr., Samuel P., "Griffin Mission"
• Liang, C.C. - International Monetary Fund, "Role of Far East Sterling Area Countries

WORKING PAPERS: Executive Departments, Agriculture

Box 21

• Dept. of Agriculture - General
• USDA - Bureau of Animal Industry
• USDA - ARA - Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine
• USDA - PMA - Cotton Branch
• USDA - PMA - Fruit and Vegetable Branch
• USDA - PMA - Grain Branch
• USDA - PMA - Livestock Branch
• USDA - PMA - Tobacco Branch
• USDA - PMA - Transportation and Warehousing Branch

WORKING PAPERS: Executive Departments, Other Departments

• Department of Commerce - General
• Department of Commerce - "Foreign Transactions of the U.S. Government

Box 22

• Department of the Interior - General
• Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service
• Department of Labor
• Department of State (folders 1-3)
• Department of Treasury
• Working Papers - Miscellaneous

WORKING PAPERS: Independent Agencies

Box 23

• Economic Cooperation Administration - General (folders 1-3)
• ECA - Report on Possibilities for Increased Sales of European Products in Western Hemisphere by Wayne C. Taylor (folder 1)

Box 24

• ECA - Report on Possibilities for Increased Sales of European Products in Western Hemisphere by Wayne C. Taylor (folder 2)
• Export-Import Bank
• Federal Reserve System (folders 1-2)
• Federal Security Agency - Food and Drug Administration
• Federal Security Agency - Public Health Service
• Federal Trade Commission
• Griffin Mission reports
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• National Advisory Council
• National Security Resources Board
• U.S. Tariff Commission

REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT ON FOREIGN ECONOMIC POLICIES (DRAFTS)

Box 25

• Correspondence - Cover letters for advance copies of report
• Gray Report, "Problems for United States Foreign Economic Policy"
• Introduction to Report - draft
• Lists used for distribution of Gray Report
• Report to the President on Foreign Economic Policies - first draft
• Report to the President on Foreign Economic Policies - draft
• Requests for comments on revised report

PUBLICATIONS

Box 26

• The Budget In Operation
• Foreign Quarantine, Manual of Operations
• Miscellaneous publications (folders 1-2)
• Quotation cards
• Shipping Policies
• Card File

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