IMF Archives: Finding Aids - Bretton Woods Conference Collection

Bretton Woods Conference Collection

Overview:

Richard B. Brenner Papers

Ansel F. Luxford Papers

Edward M. Bernstein Papers

Bretton Woods Conference Files

Photographs

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Bretton Woods Conference Collection:
Bretton Woods Conference Files

Date(s): 1940-1947
Level of description: Series
Extent and medium: 7 linear feet of textual records

Context

Creator: Bretton Woods Conference

Administrative/Biographical history: During World War II, some governments were preparing post-war monetary plans — primarily through the efforts of the United Kingdom and the United States. The British Plan made public by Lord Keynes in early 1943, called for an "International Stabilization Fund" to help international economies. Harry Dexter White, deputy secretary of the U.S. Treasury, was called upon to formulate an American response to the British plan.

By March 1943, White was able to report to President Roosevelt on the progress on a "Stabilization Fund for the United and Associated Nations and an International Bank for Reconstruction and Development", a Treasury joint effort with the Department of State, the Board of Economic Warfare and the Export-Import Bank. By then, a draft had been prepared by representatives of the United States and United Kingdom and shared with technical experts from Russia and China. In June1943, White hosted a "Technical Experts Meeting" to discuss the Stabilization Plan. The meeting, attended by representatives of twelve nations — Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Ecuador, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the United States , brought about the underlying plans for the Bretton Woods Conference, which would convene a year later, in July 1944. By the spring of 1944, the "Joint Statement of Experts on the International Monetary Fund" was published simultaneously in eight consulting countries, reporting the views of experts for a more detailed plan.

The United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference opened on July 1, 1944 in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. Forty-four governments accepted the invitation of President Roosevelt to come together for the purposes of promoting international economic stability. U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau was elected president of the Conference. Three commissions were established to conduct the work of the Conference: Commission I was charged with formulating the Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund, Commission II assumed the same responsibility with respect to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and Commission III was to consider other means on international financial cooperation. The commissions were chaired respectively by Harry D. White (United States), Lord Keynes (United Kingdom) and Dr. Eduardo Suarez (Mexico). In addition, several subcommittees were created to handle more technical and controversial problems. By the end of the Conference, the Articles of Agreement of the IMF and the Articles of Agreement of the IBRD were ready for ratification by member governments. The Articles of Agreement for both organizations entered into force on December 27, 1945. The Inaugural Meeting of the Boards of Governors of the Fund and the Bank took place on Wilmington Island, Georgia, near Savannah, in March 1946. Many of the same individuals who had been involved in the planning and formation of the Fund and the Bank, who now held positions in the Fund and the Bank, or served as Governors for their respective countries attended this meeting.

Content and structure

Scope and content: The Bretton Woods Conference Files (boxes 26-39, 47-65) were assembled in the IMF Archives from a set of records from the Bretton Woods Conference Secretariat and files maintained by former staff members of the U.S. Treasury or Federal Reserve Board who, as members of the U.S. delegation or the Conference Secretariat participated in the drafting of the Bretton Woods Agreements and the establishment of the International Monetary Fund. Material includes: files of Research Department Director Edward M. Bernstein, former Assistant Director of the U.S. Treasury's Monetary Research Division and Executive Secretary of the U.S. Delegation at Bretton Woods; files of Raymond Mikesell, also a former member of Monetary Research Division; and files of Alice Bourneuf, who served as part of the Conference Secretariat, and was an Associate Economist in the Federal Reserve's Research and Statistics Division before joining the IMF. Documents consist of annotated internal memoranda, external correspondence, minutes of meetings, drafts, notes, working sheets and printed material — often duplicate documents held elsewhere. Creators' original file organization is lost and over time, files have been re-arranged alphabetically by subject or type of document. A second set of alphabetical files follows the main set; it contains mostly printed material or documents concerning material pertaining to the Bretton Woods Conference (Files 37/353 to 39/374). Documents filed under the "Joint Statement" files include the successive drafts of the "Joint Statement of Principles" by U.S. and U.K. experts to discuss the Harry Dexter White and Lord Keynes Plans (September- April 1944). The Atlantic City files are generally Alice Bourneuf's files. They include heavily annotated drafts used during the preliminary Conference of Atlantic City and minutes of meetings held by the U.S. Delegation. The Bank Proposals files and Fund Proposals files contain sets documenting the drafting of the Bretton Woods Agreements. Documents, numbered respectively B1 - B41 and F2 - F100 consist of copies of correspondence, minutes, drafts, press releases or printed material. Each country's role at the Conference, the composition of its delegation and the status of the ratification of the Agreements are documented in the Country files and the Cables files. The Correspondence files consist of correspondence exchanged by E.M. Bernstein with scholars and economists (1942-1945). The Memoranda files include sets on meeting minutes from both the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve (1942-1945). The rest of the files contain U.S. Treasury internal and external memoranda dealing with the interpretation, ratification, or implementation of the Bretton Woods Agreements. Other U.S. Treasury sets of meeting minutes can be found under the Meeting files. Many of the published articles, reports, and statements indicate they were sent to Edward M. Bernstein, who may have kept the files as a reference set of published articles about the Conference and the Agreements.

Conditions of Access and Use

Language/script of material: English, French.

File 26/238

Articles of Agreement - Annotations. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains interpretations of IMF Articles of Agreement drafted by the U.S. Treasury Department.

File 26/239

Atlantic City Conference - Alternatives, Atlantic City Draft. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains preliminary draft of suggested "Articles of Agreement for the Establishment of an International Monetary Fund, June 27, 1944" (Doc. F-1), discussed at the Atlantic City Meeting.

File 26/240

Atlantic City Conference - Articles of Agreement for the Establishment of an International Monetary Fund (Draft). — June 23, 1944

Scope and content: File contains draft of the Articles of Agreement for an International Monetary Fund.

File 26/241

Atlantic City Conference - Attendance, Assignments, and Organization [of the Bretton Woods Conference]. — June-July 1944

File 26/242

Atlantic City Conference - Bank Memoranda. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains drafts of memoranda on the establishment of a Bank for Reconstruction.

File 26/243

Atlantic City Conference - Bourneuf Memos. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains memoranda prepared by Alice Bourneuf.

File 26/244

Atlantic City Conference - Bourneuf Summary of Comments on Individual Bank Provisions. — June 24, 1944

File 26/245

Atlantic City Conference - Committee Meetings with Other Countries [Minutes and Reports]. — 1944

File 26/246

Atlantic City Conference - "Fund Documents" Given out at Meeting with Other Countries. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains documents prepared by U.S. Treasury Department: Committee 1, Depositories and Form of Currency Holdings; Committee 2, Capital Movements; Committee 3, Withdrawal and Suspension of Member Countries, Liquidation of the Fund; Committee 4, Transition Arrangements.

File 26/247

Atlantic City Conference - "Fund Documents" Given to the American Technical Group. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains copies of documents regarding the establishment of an International Monetary Fund.

File 26/248

Atlantic City Conference - Fund Memoranda. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains drafts of reports and notes.

File 26/249

Atlantic City Conference - General Meetings with Other Countries. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains meeting minutes.

File 26/250

Atlantic City Conference - International Monetary Conference, Atlantic City. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains documents regarding the status of drafting; annotated drafts of the Articles of Agreement; schedules for the Bretton Woods Conference.

File 26/251

Atlantic City Conference - List of Delegates, Committees, etc. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains typewritten lists of U.S. Delegation and Committee members.

File 26/252

Atlantic City Conference - Material Submitted by British on Fund and Bank. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains memorandum by Harry Dexter White with reports from the British Delegation with suggested modifications to proposals on the IMF and the Bank.

File 26/253

Atlantic City Conference - Notes on Meeting of American Technical Group. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains typescript meeting minutes of the U.S. delegation.

File 26/254

Atlantic City Conference - Preliminary Draft and Alternative Proposals (Doc. F-1). — 1944

Scope and content: File contains Alice Bourneuf's annotated copy of the preliminary draft of suggested Articles of Agreement for the establishment of the International Monetary Fund.

File 26/255

Atlantic City Conference - Work of U.S. Technicians. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains copies of memoranda on work undertaken at Atlantic City.

File 27/256

[Bank Plan] Comparison of Alternative Proposals for Articles of Agreement. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains draft Articles of Agreement, with suggested changes and revisions.

File 27/257

[Bank Plan] Correspondence. — 1943-1944

Scope and content: File contains U.S. Treasury correspondence (primarily with the British government) on the proposed Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

File 27/258

[Bank Plan] Memoranda. — 1943-1944

Scope and content: File contains memoranda drafted by E. M. Bernstein on the Bank proposals.

File 27/259

[Bank Plan] [Correspondence, Memoranda, Minutes and Speeches]. — 1943-1944

File 27/260

Bank Proposals, December 1942-September 4, 1943. — 1942-1943

Scope and content: File contains Doc. B-1 to B-8 - Draft proposals, correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes.

File 27/261

Bank Proposals, September 4-28, 1943. — 1943

Scope and content: File contains Doc. B-9 to B16 - Draft proposals, correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes.

File 27/262

Bank Proposals, October 1-November 24, 1943. — 1943

Scope and content: File contains Doc. B-17 to B-24 - Draft proposals, correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes.

File 27/263

Bank Proposals, February 24, 1944. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains Doc. B-25 - "Question and Answers on the Bank for Reconstruction and Development".

File 27/264

Bank Proposals, March 9-May 9, 1944. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains Doc. B-26 to B-36 - Draft proposals, correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes.

File 28/265

Bank Proposals, March 9-May 9, 1944. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains Doc. B-37 to B-41 - Draft proposals, correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes.

File 28/266

Bibliography of Bretton Woods Pamphlets. — 1946-1949

Scope and content: File contains lists prepared by the Library of the Federal Reserve System and the IMF Records Division.

File 28/267

Bretton Woods Signature - Country Action. — 1945-1946

Scope and content: File contains correspondence, memoranda, and notes on ratification of the Bretton Woods Agreements.

File 28/268

British Plan. — 1940-1947

Scope and content: File contains copy of British government report on the "Proposals for an International Clearing Union".

File 28/269

British Questions and Answers. — 1940-1947

Scope and content: File contains questions raised by the British delegation on specific IMF issues.

File 28/270

Cables - Fund and Bank Cables (Post-Conference), Australia - Luxembourg. — 1944-1946

Scope and content: File contains copies of cables on status of ratification of Bretton Woods Agreements.

File 28/271

Cables - Fund and Bank Cables (Post-Conference), Mexico-Yugoslavia. — 1944-1946

Scope and content: File contains copies of cables on status of ratification of Bretton Woods Agreements.

File 28/272

Cables - Fund and Bank Cables (Post-Conference), London. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains copies of U.S. State Department cables on status of the United Kingdom's ratification of the Bretton Woods Agreements.

File 28/273

Cables - Monetary Conference - London Cables. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains copies of U.S. State Department cables on British press coverage of the Bretton Woods Conference.

File 28/274

Calendar of Documents. — [1946-1952]

Scope and content: File contains lists of documents and bibliographies. Includes "Documents and Memoranda relating to the proposals for the establishment of the International Monetary Fund' and "Preliminary Inventory of Records in the Fund Archives Relating to the Establishment of the IMF and IBRD".

File 28/275

Commission I. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains second "Report of the Drafting Committee, Commission I, Annex I" with drafts of selected sections of the Articles of Agreement for the International Monetary Fund (C1/DC6).

File 29/276

Comparison of Alternative Proposals for Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund. — 1944

File 29/277

[Bretton Woods] Conference Draft Material [June-July 1944]. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains drafts with annotations.

File 29/278

Correspondence, 1942, 1943, 1944 (January-June). — 1942-1944

Scope and content: Files contain correspondence maintained by E.M. Bernstein arranged according to correspondent. Correspondents include economists and academics.

File 29/279

Correspondence, 1944 (August-December) (A-K). — 1944

Scope and content: See also similar materials in box 29, file 278.

File 29/280

Correspondence, 1944 (August-December) (L-Z). — 1944

Scope and content: See also similar materials in box 29, file 278.

File 29/281

Correspondence, Post-Bretton Woods (U.S. Treasury). — 1945

File 29/282

Country Files, Argentina-Brazil. — 1943-1945

Scope and content: Files contain correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, reports on individual countries and their involvement in the proposals and membership in the IMF and the Bank.

File 29/283

Country Files, Canada-Colombia. — 1943-1945

Scope and content: See also similar materials in box 29, file 282.

File 30/284

Country Files, Costa Rica-Great Britain. — 1943-1945

Scope and content: See also similar materials in box 29, file 282.

File 30/285

Country Files, Greece-Netherlands. — 1943-1945

Scope and content: See also similar materials in box 29, file 282.

File 30/286

Country Files, Neutrals-Philippines. — 1943-1945

Scope and content: See also similar materials in box 29, file 282.

File 30/287

Country Files, Poland-Yugoslavia. — 1943-1945

Scope and content: See also similar material in box 29, file 282.

File 30/288

Country Files, Cables (London). — 1943-1944

Scope and content: Folders contain copies of telegrams between U.S. Treasury officials and the British government on the Bretton Woods Meetings.

Files
30/289-290

Country Files, Post Conference Country Files, Australia-Yugoslavia. — 1944-1945

Scope and content: Folders contain correspondence on the ratification of the Bretton Woods Agreements.

File 31/291

Federal Reserve Board - Bourneuf Memos. — 1943-1946

Scope and content: File contains copies of memoranda prepared by Alice Bourneuf on various IMF issues; copies of published materials promoting the IMF.

Files
31/292-293

Federal Reserve Board - Bretton Woods Legislation. — 1945

Scope and content: File contains indexed collection of U.S. Congressional Record of Hearings on the Bretton Woods Agreements.

File 31/294

Federal Reserve Bank - Comments on Fund Plan [August-September 1943]. — 1943

Scope and content: File contains reports from researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on plans for an international monetary fund.

File 31/295

[Fund] Brenner File. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains meeting minutes, statements and part of a list of documents issued by the Bretton Woods Conference.

See also Brenner series.

File 31/296

Fund and Bank Quota Calculations. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains handwritten tabulation sheets showing early quota suggestions for member nations, drafted by Alice Bourneuf and others; memoranda on how to best determine quotas.

File 31/297

Fund Plan, Draft. — 1943

Scope and content: File contains June 26 preliminary draft outline for the establishment of an international monetary fund prepared by the U.S. Treasury Department.

File 31/298

Fund Plan, Draft. — July 1943

Scope and content: File contains published preliminary draft outline prepared by the U.S. Treasury Department.

File 31/299

Fund Plan, Draft. — July 1943

Scope and content: File contains preliminary draft outline prepared by the U.S. Treasury.

File 31/300

Fund Plan Highlights. — 1940-1947

Scope and content: File contains memoranda detailing the highlights of the proposal for an international monetary fund.

File 31/301

Fund Plan, Interdepartmental Meetings. — 1942-1944

Scope and content: File contains memoranda to the files with meeting notes from U.S. Treasury meetings on the proposal for an international monetary fund.

File 31/302

Fund Plan [Speeches, Statements, Resolutions, Proposal Drafts]. — 1942-1944

Scope and content: File contains speech drafts; U.S. Congress legislation (Bretton Woods Agreements Act); draft proposal with notes and revisions; copies of internal memoranda on IMF issues.

File 31/303

Fund Plan, Press Release, Aug, 20, 1943. — 1943

Scope and content: File contains press release announcing new preliminary draft outline of the tentative proposal for an International Stabilization Fund of the United and Associated Nations.

File 32/304

Fund Plan Questions. — 1940-1947

Scope and content: File contains typescript notes on remaining issues to be discussed on the Fund proposals, including quotas and gold subscription.

File 32/305

Fund Plan, Suggested Quota Formulas. — 1943

Scope and content: File contains U.S. Treasury memoranda on a "Suggested Formula for the Determination of Member Country Quotas".

File 32/306

Fund Plan, Summary of Provisions. — 1943

Scope and content: File contains U.S. Treasury memoranda summarizing the principal provisions of the current draft proposal for an international monetary fund.

File 32/307

Fund Proposals, April 1942. — 1942

Scope and content: File contains Doc. F-2 - the British proposal for an International Clearing Union.

File 32/308

Fund Proposals, April 30-December 3, 1942. — 1942

Scope and content: File contains Doc. F-3 to F-10 - drafts, correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, copies of statements, press releases, and printed materials.

File 32/309

Fund Proposals, December 4, 1942-January 1943. — 1942-1943

Scope and content: File contains Doc. F-11 to F14 - drafts, correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, copies of statements, press releases, and printed materials.

File 32/310

Fund Proposals, January-June, 1943. — 1943

Scope and content: File contains Doc. F-15 to F-24 - drafts, correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, copies of statements, press releases, and printed materials.

File 32/311

Fund Proposals, June 9-June 15, 1943. — 1943

Scope and content: File contains Doc. F-25 and F-26 - "Draft Proposal of Canadian Experts for an International Exchange Union" (F-25); "Preliminary Draft Outline of a Proposal for an United and Associated Nations Stabilization Fund" (F-26).

File 32/312

Fund Proposals, June 23-July 12, 1943. — 1943

Scope and content: File contains Doc. F-27 to F-31 - drafts, correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, copies of statements, press releases, and printed materials.

File 32/313

Fund Proposals, August-October 5, 1943. — 1943

Scope and content: File contains Doc. F-32 to F-38 - drafts, correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, copies of statements, press releases, and printed materials.

File 33/314

Fund Proposals, October 7-11, 1943. — 1943

Scope and content: File contains Doc. F-39 to F-46 - drafts, correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, copies of statements, press releases, and printed materials.

File 33/315

Fund Proposals, October-December 1943. — 1943

Scope and content: File contains Doc. F-47 to F-56 - drafts, correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, copies of statements, press releases, and printed materials. Drafts include the "Preliminary Draft of the Joint Statement of Experts of the United and Associated Nations on the Establishment of an International Stabilization Fund" (December 1943).

File 33/316

Fund Proposals, January-March, 1944. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains Doc. F-57 to F-70 - drafts, correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, copies of statements, press releases, and printed materials.

File 33/317

Fund Proposals, March 30-June 4, 1944. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains Doc. F-71 to F-97 - drafts, correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, copies of statements, press releases, and printed materials.

File 33/318

Fund Proposals, June 10-June 23, 1944. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains Doc. F-98 and F-99 - drafts, correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, copies of statements, press releases, and printed materials. Includes "Questions and Answers on the International Monetary Fund" (F-98).

File 33/319

Fund Proposals, U.S. Treasury Document, June 26, 1943. — 1943

Scope and content: File contains U.S. Treasury Department "Preliminary Draft Outline of a Proposal for a United and Associated Nations Stabilization Fund".

File 33/320

Fund Proposals, Memoranda, 1943-1944. — 1943-1944

Scope and content: File contains original U.S. Treasury Department memoranda and drafts.

File 33/321

History of the IMF. — 1943-1946

Scope and content: File contains memoranda, press releases, early draft proposals for the Fund, notes covering the early activities of the IMF.

File 34/322

IMF and Bank Discussions with [John] Laylin. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains drafts of Articles of Agreement that were discussed with New York banker John Laylin, who represented the interests of the U.S. banking community at a meeting with Luxford and Brenner.

See also box 6, files 65-66; box 15, files 153-155 for additional Laylin material.

File 34/323

IMF - Doc F-1. — June 1944

Scope and content: File contains draft Articles of Agreement with handwritten notations and revisions.

File 34/324

IMF - Drafting Material. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains drafts of sections of Articles of Agreement and other official documents of the IMF.

File 34/325

Joint Statement [by Experts on the Establishment of an International Monetary Fund], Correspondence, April 1944. — 1943-1944

Scope and content: File contains memoranda and correspondence regarding the final draft of the Joint Statement of Principles prepared by U.S. and U.K. Technical Experts on an international monetary fund. Also contains memoranda regarding the Conference and draft Articles of Agreement for an international monetary fund.

File 34/326

Joint Statements, Country Cables (Australia-Egypt). — April-June 1944

Scope and content: File contains copies of U.S. State Department cables concerning foreign delegations to the Bretton Woods Conference.

File 34/327

Joint Statements, Country Cables (El Salvador-New Zealand). — April-June 1944

Scope and content: See also similar material in box 34, file 326.

File 34/328

Joint Statements, Country Cables (Nicaragua-Venezuela). — April-June 1944

Scope and content: See also similar material in box 34, file 326.

File 34/329

Experts Joint Statement. — October 1943-April 1944

Scope and content: File contains a set of twelve drafts of the Joint Statement, correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes and cables.

File 35/330

Joint Statement, Fund Statement (British Draft). — 1943

Scope and content: File contains U.K. drafts of Joint Statement (with and without UNITAS versions).

File 35/331

Joint Statement, Fund Statement (British Draft). — 1943

File 35/332

Joint Statement, London Cables. — 1943

Scope and content: File contains copies of U.S. State Department cables from the U.S. Embassy in London on issues presented in the Joint Statement.

File 35/333

List of Documents. — October 1943

Scope and content: File contains indexed list of U.S. Treasury material on issues being discussed regarding the proposals for an international monetary fund.

File 35/334

Meetings, Group on Monetary Plans. — 1943

Scope and content: File contains notes from meetings; agendas; memoranda on meetings held on the various proposals for the IMF and the Bank.

File 35/335

Meetings, in Mr. White's Office on the Bank. — 1943-1944

Scope and content: File contains questions and answers on the Bank; notes from meetings.

File 35/336

Meetings, with Allied Governments on the Bank. — 1943

Scope and content: File contains one memorandum from U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau from Harry Dexter White on the representatives of foreign governments with whom he met.

File 35/337

Meetings, with the British. — 1943

Scope and content: File contains drafts of proposals; minutes of meetings.

File 35/338

Meetings, with Other Countries on the Bank. — 1943-1944

Scope and content: File contains minutes of meetings.

File 35/339

Meetings, with the Russian Delegation. — January-May 1944

Scope and content: File contains press releases; meeting minutes; proposals, questions and answers.

File 35/340

Memoranda, Bretton Woods Internal Memoranda, Prior to Conference. — 1943

Scope and content: File contains U.S. Treasury Department correspondence and memoranda on proposed quota calculations; other proposal issues.

File 35/341

Memoranda, Bretton Woods Internal Memoranda, Post Conference. — 1946-1947

Scope and content: File contains U.S. Treasury Department notes, reports, correspondence, and memoranda on financing and other issues of the IMF following the Bretton Woods Conference.

File 35/342

Memoranda, Bretton Woods Organization. — 1945-1946

Scope and content: File contains U.S. Treasury Department correspondence and memoranda on organizational issues for the IMF, including creation of a Counsel and a "Fund Bulletin".

File 36/343

Memoranda, Federal Reserve Board Memos. — 1942-1944

Scope and content: File contains meeting minutes from meetings held at the U.S. Treasury between Treasury officials and representatives of the Federal Reserve Board.

File 36/344

Memoranda, Post Conference. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains U.S. Treasury Department internal and external memoranda on IMF issues following the Bretton Woods Conference.

File 36/345

Memoranda, Post Conference. — 1945

Scope and content: See similar material in box 36, file 344.

Files
36/346-347

Memoranda, R. L. Horne Memoranda. — 1944-1945

Scope and content: File contains draft statements of public officials on the Bretton Woods Conference, reports and meeting minutes from the Conference; memoranda for the files on IMF issues.

File 36/348

Memoranda, [U.S.] Treasury Meetings, Fund & Bank. — 1942-1944

Scope and content: File contains bound volume of copies of meeting minutes.

File 37/349

Press Clippings. — May 1943 to June 1944

Scope and content: Four folders of press clippings (mostly cut from newspapers and stapled to paper) relating to the Bretton Woods Conference. All of these clippings are from the "Commercial and Financial Chronicle".

File 37/350

Press Clippings, July to December 1944. — 1943-1944

File 37/351

Press Clippings, January to March 1945. — 1945

File 37/352

Press Clippings, April to June 1945. — 1945

File 37/353

American Technical Mission to Cuba. — April 22, 1942

Scope and content: File contains two bound volumes of the Report to the Cuban Government on the Establishment of a Central Bank and Stabilization Fund; the report is in both English and Spanish. Personnel on the mission included: G.A. Eddy, A.T. Esgate, W.R. Gardner, F.A. Southard, Jr., H.R. Spiegel, G.B. Vest, and H.D. White.

General note: The file contains a note to Head of IMF Records Division G. Long, dated 1988, explaining the provenance of the items. This material is extremely fragile.

File 37/354

Articles of Agreement (IMF). — 1944

Scope and content: File contains published version of the IMF Articles of Agreement, adopted at the Bretton Woods Conference.

File 37/355

Articles of Agreement (IMF). — 1944

Scope and content: File contains complete copy of the IMF Articles of Agreement, with alternatives inserted into document.

File 37/356

Bretton Woods Conference, Final Act. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains official document outlining the Articles of Agreement for both the Bank and IMF, in French.

File 38/357

Bretton Woods Conference, Informal Minutes, Commission I. — 1951

Scope and content: File contains unedited transcripts of meetings of the Bretton Woods Conference (incomplete, 44 of 53 pages); copies of which were distributed to Executive Directors in 1951.

File 38/358

Bretton Woods Conference, Informal Minutes, Commission I. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains unedited transcripts of meetings of the Bretton Woods Conference; copies of which were distributed to Executive Directors in 1951.

File 38/359

Bretton Woods Conference, Proceedings and Documents. — 1944-1945

Scope and content: File contains preliminary table of contents for publication of proceedings of the Bretton Woods Conference prepared by the U.S. State Department.

File 38/360

Documents. — 1943-1944

Scope and content: File contains collection of copies of documents, press releases, printed materials (including): Proposals for the IMF and the Bank; Bretton Woods Final Act and Supplementary Documents.

File 38/361

[Rules and Regulations] Drafting Committee Background Papers. — 1946

Scope and content: File contains suggested changes and revisions to the By-laws for the IMF and the Bank; correspondence, memoranda, draft changes.

File 38/362

Eleanor Lansing Dulles. — 1931, 1942-1943

Scope and content: File contains correspondence and memoranda by or sent to Eleanor Lansing Dulles. Includes letter on Exchange Transfer; memorandum on Exchange Stabilization; report on "Methods of Stabilizing Exchange Rates"; report on "Principles of Action in Monetary Cooperation"; report on the "Monetary Policy of the United States and Plan for Implementation"; memorandum on the "Commercial Policy Implications of the White Plan".

File 38/363

Final Act, Inter-American Conference on Systems of Economic and Financial Control. — 1942

Scope and content: File contains published report of the Conference, held in Washington, D.C. in July 1942.

File 38/364

Fund Proposal (Doc. F-1). — 1942

Scope and content: File contains genus of the plans for the International Stabilization Fund; contains memoranda, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and a report from the "Third Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American Republics, Rio de Janeiro, January 1942".

Files
39/366-367

Index to the Bretton Woods Files by S. Nath

Scope and content: File contains handwritten index sheets for the Bretton Woods materials and typewritten drafts of "Documents and Memoranda Relating to Proposals for the Establishment of the IMF" together with the "IMF Records Division 1952 Preliminary Inventory".

File 39/368

Loose and Miscellaneous Papers. — 1940-1952

Scope and content: File contains IMF organizational charts (with explanations) showing resources, organization and management, exchange stability, operations in foreign exchange, charges by the Fund; "Proposal for Stabilization Fund and Reconstruction Bank"; listing of Bank Proposals, with item number, date, and origin of proposal; Document #287 from the Bretton Woods Conference - "Proposal for a Conference to Promote Stability in the Prices of Primary International Commodities"; schedule for the Inaugural Plenary Session of the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference (Bretton Woods); incomplete set of informal minutes for Commission I for the Bretton Woods Agreements; copies of memoranda, correspondence, and cables on proposals for the IMF and the Bank being discussed between the United States and the United Kingdom; "Preliminary Inventory of Records in the Fund Archives Relating to the Establishment of the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development," prepared by the IMF Records Division.

File 39/369

Questions and Answers on the Bank for Reconstruction and Development. — 1944

Scope and content: File contains U.S. Treasury document outlining issued raised about the proposed Bank.

File 39/370

Records Division, List of Publications and Statutes. — 1951

Scope and content: File contains bibliography of published items on the Bretton Woods Conference and the early days of the IMF.

File 39/371

E. F. Schumacher Proposal for International Clearing Union. — 1942-1943

Scope and content: File contains U.S. Treasury comment on Schumacher's proposal of pool clearing with Schumacher's memoranda, "United States Foreign Trade Policy" and "An Analysis of Tendencies in Theory and Practice".

File 39/372

Timetables Before and During Bretton Woods. — 1941-1944

Scope and content: File contains timeline of important events, proposals, and meetings culminating in the Bretton Woods Conference.

File 39/373

[Various Documents from Preliminary Meetings]. — 1940-1947

Scope and content: File contains variety of papers related to the early organizational meetings of the IMF and the Bank, including: a memorandum on the "Problems of the Savannah Conference," and other Savannah-related documents; report on the preliminary arrangements for the Inaugural Meeting of the Board of Governors; meeting minutes from a meeting between the U.S. and U.K. experts; list of "Atlantic City - Bourneuf memoranda, Federal Reserve Board"; copy of letter to E. M. Bernstein from Belgium on their intention to be a part of the IMF; statement by Managing Director Gutt, issued upon the publication of the Fifth Annual Report of the IMF.

File 39/374

Miscellaneous Files - "Working File" (M. C. Stark). — 1951-1962

Scope and content: File contains file of miscellaneous papers describing the IMF Bretton Woods Collections, including a handwritten list for some of the material.

File 47/447

Organization, Regulations. — July 1944

Scope and content: File contains documents pertaining to the organization of the Bretton Woods Conference, includes agendas and programs, secretariat, lists of delegation chairmen, U.S. and foreign delegations, and regulations. Also includes copies of materials from the U.S. Department of State on the organization of the Bretton Woods Conference and material submitted to the U. S. President for approval.

File 47/448

Bretton Woods Officers of the Conference, Members of Delegations, Officers of the Secretariat. — July 1944

Scope and content: File contains three copies of a booklet listing the names of the Officers of the Conference, Members of Delegations, and Officers of the Secretariat.

File 47/449

Bretton Woods Conference - Welcome from the President, Addresses by Secretary Morgenthau and Chairman, Committee on Quotas. — July 1944

Scope and content: File contains message to the delegates from U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, address by U.S. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, and Fred Vinson, chairman of the Committee on Quotas.

File 47/450

Bretton Woods Conference Commission I - Committee 2 - Bourneuf Notes. — July 1944

Scope and content: File contains Alice Bourneuf notes of the meetings of the Committee on Operations of the Bank.

File 47/451

Bretton Woods Conference Delegations Proposals. — July 1944

Scope and content: File contains memoranda and statements submitted by foreign delegations for amendments to the proposals for the Bretton Woods Agreements.

Conditions governing access and reproduction: Some records from the following countries and institutions bear classification markings: Egypt, Mexico, Colombia, Australia, United Kingdom, India, Cuba, Bolivia, Brazil, Chili, El Salvador, Czechoslovakia, and the UN Interim Commission on Food and Agriculture.

File 47/452

Bretton Woods Conference Journal, Nos. 1-23 / Press Releases, Nos. 1-71. — July 1944

File 47/453

[Bretton Woods Conference] Bank - Preliminary Draft of Proposals (Doc SA/3 - Doc. 245). — July 1944

Scope and content: File contains preliminary drafts of the Bank proposals agreed to at the Bretton Woods Conference.

File 47/454

[Bretton Woods Conference] Fund Agreement - Working Draft CI/DC/5 - Doc. 413, July 16, 1944. — July 16, 1944

Scope and content: File contains a working draft of the Articles of Agreement for the Fund.

File 47/455

Bretton Woods Conference Stenographic Minutes for Commission I and Commission I, Committee 2 - July 3-5, 1944. — July 1944

Scope and content: File contains typescript of meeting minutes of two of the Fund Commission Committees.

File 47/456

Bretton Woods Conference Index to Documents, Master Files. — July 1944

Scope and content: File contains an index to the documents issued at the Bretton Woods Conference, arranged by subject, country, Articles of Agreements, and Commissions.

File 47/457

Bretton Woods Conference - Articles of Agreement - IMF - Draft [Doc F-10 (SA/1)]. — July 1944

Scope and content: File contains preliminary draft of suggested articles of agreement for the establishment of an International Monetary Fund.

See also box 37 file 354 and box 37 file 355.

File 48/458

Bretton Woods Conference Summary Draft of Document SA/1 with Alternative Proposals. — July 1944

Scope and content: File contains preliminary drafts and amendments to the Joint Statement issued on the Articles of Agreement for the IMF.

File 48/459

Bretton Woods Conference Final Act - GD48 - Doc. 492. — July 22, 1944

Scope and content: File contains the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference Final Act agreed to with the Articles of Agreement of the IMF and the Bank.

File 48/460

United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference - Bretton Woods - Volumes 1-3. — July 1944

Scope and content: File contains regulations of the Bretton Woods Conference, addresses, reports, agendas, resolutions and meeting minutes of the Commissions; the proceedings of Commission I on the International Monetary Fund, including reports, memoranda, delegation proposals, minutes of meetings, and reports of the committees; and proceedings of Commission II on the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, including opening remarks of Lord Keynes, reports, memoranda, minutes of meetings, and reports of the committees.

File 49/461

Bretton Woods Conference Index to Documents [Master Files]. — July 1944

Scope and content: File contains the Index to the documents produced by the Bretton Woods Conference.

File 49/462

Bretton Woods Conference Documents [Master Files]. — July 1944

Scope and content: File contains Bretton Woods Conference documents numbered 1 to 123. First page of volume indicates the following documents are missing: 2-7, 9-10, 13-14, 25, 30-31, 33, 35, 39, 40, 45-46, 54, 62, 64, 66-68, 70-99, 114-115, 119, 123.

File 49/463

Bretton Woods Conference Documents [Master Files]. — July 1944

Scope and content: File contains Bretton Woods Conference documents numbered 124 to 196. First page of volume indicates the following documents are missing: 130, 133, 134, 154, 156, 158-160, 163, 165, 176, 184, 193.

File 49/464

Bretton Woods Conference Documents [Master Files]. — July 1944

Scope and content: File contains Bretton Woods Conference documents numbered 197 to 233. First page of volume indicates the following documents are missing: 197, 212, 213, 222, 229-231.

File 49/465

Bretton Woods Conference Documents [Master Files]. — July 1944

Scope and content: File contains Bretton Woods Conference documents numbered 234 to 254. First page of volume indicates the following documents are missing: 243, 244, 246-248, 253.

File 50/466

Bretton Woods Conference Documents [Master Files]. — July 1944

Scope and content: File contains Bretton Woods Conference documents numbered 255 to 333. First page of volume indicates the following documents are missing: 261, 263, 269-271, 282, 291-293, 301, 305, 308-310, 312, 318, 321, 322.

File 50/467

Bretton Woods Conference Documents [Master Files]. — July 1944

Scope and content: File contains Bretton Woods Conference documents numbered 337 to 428. First page of volume indicates the following documents are missing: 339, 354-358, 360, 373, 375, 379, 382, 390, 392, 396-398, 400-402, 404, 406, 408, 411, 418, 422, 424, 425, 427.

File 50/468

Bretton Woods Conference Documents [Master Files]. — July 1944

Scope and content: File contains Bretton Woods Conference documents numbered 429 to 480. First page of volume indicates the following documents are missing: 435-436, 438-439, 441-442, 444-446, 451, 453, 457-458, 460-461, 463-464, 471, 474-476, 478.

File 51/469

Bretton Woods Conference Documents [Master Files]. — July 1944

Scope and content: File contains Bretton Woods Conference documents numbered 481 to 508. First page of volume indicates the following documents are missing: 481, 486, 488-492, 494, 498-500, 503, 506.

File 51/470

Bretton Woods Conference Documents [Master Files]. — July 1944

Scope and content: File contains Bretton Woods Conference documents numbered 509 to 547. First page of volume indicates the following documents are missing: 512, 518, 526, 528-530, 537, 543.

File 51/471

Bretton Woods Historical File - Bank: Treasury Questions and Answers. — June 10, 1944

Scope and content: File contains U.S. Treasury document on "Questions and Answers on the Bank for Reconstruction and Development," June 10, 1944.

File 51/472

Bretton Woods Historical File - Drafts of Proposal for Bank. — 1942-1944

Scope and content: File contains multiple, amended versions of proposals for an International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

File 51/473

Bretton Woods Historical File - Bourneuf Memos, Federal Reserve Board. — 1946

Scope and content: File contains memoranda written by Alice Bourneuf, from the Federal Reserve Board, on various issues regarding the formation of the IMF and the Bank.

File 52/474

Documents Issued by United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, Index. — July 1-22, 1944

Scope and content: Index to the official documents issued by the Bretton Woods Conference. Index is arranged by Commission (I-IMF; II-IBRD; III-other), general index, and by country and organization. Index entries correspond to a document number, found in one of the five volumes. Frontispiece of each volume is inscribed with Harry Dexter White's name.

Files
52-53/475

Documents Issued by United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, Volumes I-V. — July 1-22, 1944

Scope and content: Volume 1 contains the official documents issued by the Bretton Woods Conference, documents 1-169, inclusive. Volume II contains the official documents 170-280, inclusive. Volume III contains the official documents 281-420, inclusive. Volume IV contains the official documents 421-480, inclusive. Volume V contains the official documents 481-547, inclusive. Frontispiece of each volume is inscribed with Harry Dexter White's name.

Files
54-55/476

[Documents Issued by] United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, Volumes I-VI. — July 1-22, 1944

Scope and content: Bound volumes of documents relating to the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference (Bretton Woods Conference). Volume 1 contains documents 1-99. Volume II contains documents 100-199. Volume III contains documents 200-299. Volume IV contains documents 300-399. Volume V contains documents 400-469. Volume VI contains documents 470-547. Frontispiece of each volume contains E. M. Bernstein's name.

File 56/477

Transcript of Minutes of Meetings of United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, [Commission I (Volumes 1-3)]. — July 1-22, 1944

Scope and content: Bound volumes contains the minutes of the meetings of the full Commission I (IMF), including Committees 1, 2, 3, and 4. Frontispiece of each volume is inscribed with E. M. Bernstein's name.

File 56/478

Transcript of Minutes of Meetings of United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, [Commission II and III]. — July 1-22, 1944

Scope and content: Bound volume contains the minutes of the meetings of Commission II (IBRD) and Commission III (other). Frontispiece is inscribed with E. M. Bernstein's name.

File 57/479

Informal Minutes, Commission I, United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference at Bretton Woods, July 1944. — 1951

Scope and content: Bound volume of informal minutes of the Bretton Woods Commission charged with the formation of the IMF reproduced in 1951 with the permission of the U.S. government for reference by the IMF Executive Board.

File 57/480

Annales de L'Assemble Nationale Constituante. — October-December 1945

Scope and content: Volume contains minutes of the December 26, 1945 debate in the French Assembly on the Bretton Woods Agreements, securing France's involvement in the IMF and the Bank.

Language: French.

File 57/481

United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference Final Act and Related Documents - U.S. Department of State. — July 1-22, 1944

Scope and content: Bound volume of the Final Act from the Bretton Woods Conference and associated documents, including statements by U.S. President Roosevelt; addresses at the Conference by U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau; statements by selected delegations on the Articles of Agreement of the IMF and the Bank; the Articles of Agreement; and the Commission Reports to the Executive Plenary Session. One copy bears the name of Henry E. Edmunds and one copy bears the name "Mr. Mikesell".

File 57/482

United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference Extracts from Final Act and Related Documents - IBRD. — September 1946

Scope and content: Booklet includes excerpts of the Final Act and the Commission Reports to the Executive Plenary Session.

File 57/483

La Conference de Bretton Woods Elabore des Projets Portant sur la Finance Internationale / John Parke Young - U.S. Department of State. — [1944]

Scope and content: Booklet written by John Park Young (U.S. Department of State), member of the Secretariat of the Bretton Woods Conference, on the Conference, the proposed roles and articles of agreements for the IMF and the IBRD. The introduction was written by Young. The item was printed by the U.S. Department of State.

Language: French.

File 57/484

Articles of Agreement, International Monetary Fund and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference - U.S. Treasury. — July 1-22, 1944

Scope and content: Booklet of the Articles of Agreement adopted at the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference.

File 58/485

Inaugural Meeting World Fund and Bank, Savannah (Volumes 1-3). — March 8-18, 1946

Scope and content: Bound volumes contain official documents issued at the First Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Frontispiece of each volume is inscribed with E. M. Bernstein's name.

File 58/486

Proceedings and Documents of United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, Volumes I and II. — 1948

Scope and content: Bound volumes of the proceedings and documents of the Bretton Woods Conference published by the U.S. Department of State.

File 59/487

Questions and Answers on the International Monetary Fund. — June 10, 1944

Scope and content: Booklet of questions and answers on five aspects of the future role of the IMF: international economic cooperation, gold and the operations of the IMF, exchange rates, the operations of the IMF, and the policies of the IMF.

File 59/488

The Bretton Woods Proposals - Questions and Answers on the Fund and the Bank - U.S. Treasury. — March 15, 1945

Scope and content: Booklet on the IMF and the Bank published during the Congressional debates on the Bretton Woods Agreements.

File 59/489

Joint Statement by Experts on the Establishment of an International Monetary Fund of the United and Associated Nations - U.S. Treasury. — April 21, 1944

Scope and content: Booklet of the Joint Statement issued by more than 30 technical experts of the United and Associated Nations. The item lays out the foundations and the need for an International Monetary Fund.

File 59/490

The President's Message to Congress on Bretton Woods - U.S. Treasury. — February 20, 1945

Scope and content: Booklet conveys the U.S. President's Franklin D. Roosevelt's Special Message to Congress urging adoption of the Bretton Woods Proposals for an International Monetary Fund and an International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

File 59/491

Selected Documents, Board of Governors Inaugural Meeting, Savannah, GA, March 8-18, 1946. — April 1946

Scope and content: Booklet of the more significant documents and actions that were issued at the Inaugural Meeting in March 1946.

File 59/492

The Bretton Woods Proposals - U.S. Treasury. — February 15, 1945

Scope and content: Booklet explaining the Bretton Woods Proposals and how the Bank and the IMF would work if the Agreements were adopted.

File 59/493

Bretton Woods Agreements. — September 1944

Scope and content: Booklet is a reprint from article written by E. A. Goldenweiser and Alice Bourneuf and published in the Federal Reserve Bulletin in September 1944.

File 59/494

Practical International Financial Organization Through Amendments to the Bretton Woods Proposals - American Bankers Association. — February 1, 1945

Scope and content: Report based on studies by the Committee on Fiscal Policy of the Association of Reserve City bankers, of the Advisory Committee on Special Activities and the Economic Policy Commission of the American Bankers Association, and of the Study Committee on Post-War Problems of the bankers Association for Foreign Trade. The report advocates changes in the Bretton Woods Proposals, recommending that the IMF not be created and the loan provisions be incorporated into the Bank responsibilities.

File 59/495

Preliminary Draft Outline of a Proposal for an International Stabilization Fund of the United and Associated Nations - U.S. Treasury. — July 10, 1943

Scope and content: Booklet sent by the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to finance ministers of the United Nations and the countries associated with them with a request that it be studied by their technical experts in preparation for the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference.

File 59/496

Charts Relating to the Bretton Woods Proposals - U.S. Treasury. — April 30, 1945

Scope and content: Promotional booklet to help explain the organization and operation of the proposed IMF and the Bank being debated in the U.S. Congress and by governments all over the world.

File 59/497

Hearings before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session on H. R. Joint Resolution 226. — April-May 1944

Scope and content: Bound volume of hearings on House Joint Resolution 226, to provide for a central reconstruction fund to be used in Joint Account with Foreign governments for rehabilitation, stabilization of currencies, and for other purposes.

File 59/498

Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session, on H. R. 2211, Volumes 1 and 2. — March 1945

Scope and content: Bound volume of the hearings on House Resolution 2211, to provide for the participation of the United States in the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

File 59/499

Report from the Committee on Banking and Currency to Accompany H. R. 3314, House Report No. 629. — May 30, 1945

Scope and content: Report on House Resolution 3314, to provide for the participation of the United States in the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

File 59/500

Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session, on H. R. 3314. — June 1945

Scope and content: Bound volume of the hearings on House Resolution 3314, to provide for the participation of the United States in the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

File 60/501

Report from the Committee on Banking and Currency to Accompany H. R. 3314, Senate Report No. 452. — July 6, 1945

File 60/502

Public Law 171-79th Congress, Chapter 339 - 1st Session, H.R. 3314, An Act to Provide for the Participation of the United States in the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. — July 31, 1945

Scope and content: Printed copy of the legislation by which the U.S. Congress authorized the President to accept membership for the United States in the IMF and IBRD.

File 60/503

Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, Seventy-ninth Congress, Second Session, on H. J. R. 311 and S. J. R. 138]. — May-June 1946

Scope and content: Bound volume of the hearings on House Joint Resolution 311 and Senate Joint Resolution 138, to implement further the purposes of the Bretton Woods Agreements Act by authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out an agreement with the United Kingdom, and for other purposes.

File 60/504

Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventy-Ninth Congress, Second Session, on S. J. R. 138. — March 1946

Scope and content: Bound volume of the hearings on Senate Joint Resolution 138, to implement further the purposes of the Bretton Woods Agreements Act by authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out an agreement with the United Kingdom, and for other purposes.

File 60/505

Congressional Record, Proceedings and Debates of the 79th Congress, 1st Session. — June-July 1945

Scope and content: Bound volume of the Congressional Record when the Bretton Woods Agreements were debated in the United States Congress.

File 60/506

Amendment to the Anglo-American Financial Agreement of 1945, House of Representatives Document No. 111. — March 6, 1957

Scope and content: Message from the President of the United States to Congress, offering an amendment to the 1945 agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom.

File 60/507

Hearings before the Subcommittee No. 1 of the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, Eighty-Sixth Congress, First Session, on H. R. 4452]. — March 1959

Scope and content: Booklet of the hearings on House Resolution 4452, a bill to amend the Bretton Woods Agreements Act, changing the amount of the United States quota for the IMF.

File 60/508

Hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session, on S. 1094. — March 1959

Scope and content: Booklet of the hearings on a bill to amend the Bretton Woods Agreements Act, changing the amount of the United States quota for the IMF.

File 60/509

Report of the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session, on H. R. 4452. — March 18, 1959

Scope and content: Report on House Resolution 4452, a bill to amend the Bretton Woods Agreements Act to change the amount of the United States quota for the IMF.

File 60/510

Report of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on S. 1094, to Amend the Bretton Woods Agreements Act, Senate Report No. 109. — March 18, 1959

Scope and content: Report of the Committee on Foreign Relations on a bill to change the amount of the United States quota for the IMF.

File 61/511

Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session, on H. R. 10162. — February 1962

Scope and content: Booklet of the hearings on House Resolution 10162, a bill to amend the Bretton Woods Agreements Act, to authorize the United States to participate in loans to the International Monetary Fund to strengthen the international monetary system.

File 61/512

Report from the Committee on Currency and Banking to Accompany H. R. 10162, House of Representatives Report No. 1464. — March 22, 1962

Scope and content: Report on House Resolution 10162 to amend the Bretton Woods Agreements Act.

File 61/513

Hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session, on H. R. 10162. — March-April 1962

Scope and content: Booklet of the hearing on House Resolution 10162 to amend the Bretton Woods Agreements Act, to authorize the United States to participate in loans to the International Monetary Fund to strengthen the international monetary system.

File 61/514

Amendment to the Bretton Woods Agreement Act, Report to Accompany H. R. 10162, Senate Report No. 1477. — May 9, 1962

Scope and content: Report submitted by the Committee on Foreign Relations on House Resolution 10162.

File 61/515

Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, First Session, on H. R. 6497. — March 1965

Scope and content: Booklet of the hearing on House Resolution 6497 to authorize an increase in the United States quota.

File 61/516

Hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety-Fourth Congress, Second Session, on S. R. 3454. — June-August 1976

Scope and content: Booklet of the hearings on Senate Resolution 3454 to authorize changes in the United States quota and SDR.

File 61/517

Hearings before the Subcommittee on International Finance of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-Fourth Congress, Second Session, on H. R. 13955. — August 1976

Scope and content: Booklet of the hearings on House Resolution 13955 authorizing changes in the United States quota and SDR.

File 61/518

Hearings before the Subcommittee on International Trade, Investment and Monetary Policy of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session, on H. R. 9214. — September 1977

Scope and content: Booklet of hearings on House Resolution 9214 authorizing the United States to participate in the Supplementary Financing Facility of the International Monetary Fund.

File 61/519

Hearings before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, on S. R. 2152. — October 1977

Scope and content: Booklet of the hearings on Senate Resolution 2152 authorizing the United States to participate in the Supplementary Financing Facility of the International Monetary Fund.

File 61/520

Published Articles, Reports, Statements - "A". — 1940-1948

Scope and content: File contains published articles and background information on the Bretton Woods Conference and Agreements. Articles are arranged alphabetically by author, or in some cases by the country in which the article was published. Several of the articles are authored by Bretton Woods delegates, including U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Harry Dexter White, John Maynard Keynes, Edward M. Bernstein, and others.

General note: Many of the materials indicate they were sent to Edward M. Bernstein, who may have kept the files as a reference set of published articles about the Conference and the Agreements.

File 61/521

Published Articles, Reports, Statements - "B". — 1944-1951