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Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions and Boards: Records of the President's Advisory Commission on Universal Training (Record Group 220)

1939-1947

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Size: 6 linear feet, 2 linear inches.
Access: Open.
Copyright: Documents created by U.S. government officials in the course of their official duties are in the public domain. Copyright interest in other documents presumably belongs to the creators of those documents, or their heirs.
Processed by: Erwin J. Mueller (1983); David Clark (2023).


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AGENCY HISTORY NOTE

The President’s Advisory Commission on Universal Training was established by Presidential announcement on December 19, 1946, to conduct a feasibility study of universal training, including, but not limited to, universal military training. The Commission was chaired by Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Karl T. Compton. The Commission was terminated upon submission of its final report, which was published as A Program for National Security, on May 29, 1947.

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

This collection contains correspondence, meeting minutes, memorandums, newspaper clippings, printed materials, reports, and other items relating to the activities of the President’s Advisory Commission on Universal Training. The collection is arranged alphabetically by subject.

The collection contains charts, correspondence, graphs, meeting minutes, memorandums, printed materials, reports, and other items relating to Dean Acheson, atomic bombs, Wilbur Cohen (Director of Research), Karl Compton (Chairman), Congressional bills and hearings, conscientious objectors, cost estimates, education, foreign countries, government agencies, Raymond McLain, medical issues, meetings, military affairs, John Ohly (Executive Secretary), polls, radio coverage, religion, Eleanor Roosevelt, teenage youth organizations, and Harry S. Truman.

Related collections include the President’s Secretary’s Files, Confidential File, Official File, John H. Ohly Papers, George M. Elsey Papers, Frank McNaughton Papers, Samuel I. Rosenman Papers, RG130: White House Office Records Relating to Accounts, Purchases and Personnel; and RG220: President’s Committee on Welfare and Religion in the Armed Forces.

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SERIES DESCRIPTIONS

Container Nos.

  

Series

1-14

   SUBJECT FILE, 1939-1947
Correspondence, meeting minutes, memorandums, newspaper clippings, printed materials, reports, and other items. Arranged alphabetically.
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FOLDER TITLE LIST

SUBJECT FILE, 1939-1947

Box 1

  • A Brief Historical Summary of Universal Military Training and Universal Military Training Proposals in the United States
  • Acheson, Dean
  • Adams, James
  • American Council on Education
  • American Legion
  • American Veterans Committee
  • American Youth for Democracy
  • Analysis of the Problems Before the President’s Advisory Commission on Universal Training
  • Appleby, Paul
  • Army
  • Atomic Bomb
  • Australia
  • Boeckman, June
  • Boss, Charles
  • Bradley, Omar
  • Brannan, Charles
  • Bullock, Boyd
  • Byrnes, James
  • Cavert, Samuel

Box 2

  • Charts
  • Clothier, Robert
  • Coast Guard
  • Cohen, Wilburt [1 of 3]
  • Cohen, Wilburt [2 of 3]
  • Cohen, Wilburt [3 of 3]
  • Commission Members
  • Compton, Karl T. [1 of 2]
  • Compton, Karl T. [2 of 2]

Box 3

  • Congressional Bills
  • Congressional Hearings
  • Congressional Record
  • Conscientious Objectors
  • Correspondence Analysis
  • Cost Estimates, 1946
  • Cost Estimates, 1947
  • Crawford, John
  • Dickinson, Mrs. LaFell
  • Dodds, Harold
  • Dulles, John Foster
  • Dyke, H. Gordon

Box 4

  • Education
  • Eisenhower, Dwight
  • England
  • Federal Security Agency
  • Ft. Knox UMT Experimental Unit
  • Future Warfare
  • Gammon, Howard
  • Germany
  • Gibson, Truman
  • Intelligence Research Project
  • Japan
  • Library of Congress

Box 5

  • Marine Corps
  • Marshall, George
  • McLain, Raymond
  • McMahon, Brien
  • Medical
  • Meetings: Index
  • Meetings: 1946, December 20
  • Meetings: 1946, December 28
  • Meetings: 1947, January 3
  • Meetings: 1947, January 10-11
  • Meetings: 1947, January 15-16

Box 6

  • Meetings: 1947, January 24-25
  • Meetings: 1947, January 31-February 1
  • Meetings: 1947, February 7-8
  • Meetings: 1947, February 14-15
  • Meetings: 1947, February 21-22
  • Meetings: 1947, February 28-March 1
  • Meetings: 1947, April 5, 10

Box 7

  • Meetings: 1947, April 11-12
  • Meetings: 1947, April 18-19
  • Meetings: 1947, May 7-9
  • Meetings: 1947, May 16-17
  • Memos
  • Mollenkopf, Milton
  • National Guard
  • National Security
  • Navy
  • Negroes
  • New York Times

Box 8

  • Newspaper Clippings, December 1946 [1 of 3]
  • Newspaper Clippings, December 1946 [2 of 3]
  • Newspaper Clippings, December 1946 [3 of 3]
  • Newspapers Clippings, January 1947 [1 of 4]
  • Newspapers Clippings, January 1947 [2 of 4]

Box 9

  • Newspapers Clippings, January 1947 [3 of 4]
  • Newspapers Clippings, January 1947 [4 of 4]
  • Newspaper Clippings, February 1947 [1 of 6]
  • Newspaper Clippings, February 1947 [2 of 6]
  • Newspaper Clippings, February 1947 [3 of 6]
  • Newspaper Clippings, February 1947 [4 of 6]

Box 10

  • Newspaper Clippings, February 1947 [5 of 6]
  • Newspaper Clippings, February 1947 [6 of 6]
  • Newspaper Clippings, March 1947 [1 of 3]
  • Newspaper Clippings, March 1947 [2 of 3]
  • Newspaper Clippings, March 1947 [3 of 3]

Box 11

  • Newspaper Clippings, April 1947 [1 of 2]
  • Newspaper Clippings, April 1947 [2 of 2]
  • Newspaper Clippings, May 1947 [1 of 3]
  • Newspaper Clippings, May 1947 [2 of 3]
  • Newspaper Clippings, May 1947 [3 of 3]
  • Newspaper Clippings, June 1947 [1 of 4]

Box 12

  • Newspaper Clippings, June 1947 [2 of 4]
  • Newspaper Clippings, June 1947 [3 of 4]
  • Newspaper Clippings, June 1947 [4 of 4]
  • Newspaper Trend Analysis
  • Ohly, John [1 of 4]
  • Ohly, John [2 of 4]

Box 13

  • Ohly, John [3 of 4]
  • Ohly, John [4 of 4]
  • Osborn, Frederick
  • Palmer, John
  • Parran, Thomas
  • Poling, Daniel
  • Poll Results
  • Press Releases
  • Printed Materials
  • Questions About the President’s Advisory Commission on Universal Training
  • Radio Coverage

Box 14

  • Religion
  • Reports
  • Roosevelt, Eleanor
  • Sells, Dorothy
  • State Department
  • Table of Contents
  • Teenage Youth Organizations
  • Tresidder, Donald
  • Truman, Harry S.
  • War Department
  • Wilson, Charles
  • Woodward, Stewart
  • YPCA
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