Per Jacobsson

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Per Jacobsson Papers

OMD Meetings and Speeches

Date(s): 1957-1963
Level of description: Series
Extent and medium: 1 linear feet of textual records. — 1 photograph

Content and structure

Scope and content: Series consists of files related to the duties of Managing Director Per Jacobsson in fulfilling his public relations role for the IMF. Records include incoming and outgoing correspondence regarding requests for copies of speeches given by the Managing Director. Records also include invitations to speak at dinners or deliver addresses to relevant external groups, seminars and conferences (including extensive information related to the American Bankers Association Conferences, 1957-1962), and occasionally include the remarks or speeches made by other attendees of the event attended by the Managing Director.

Series also includes correspondence regarding the possible publication of speeches or articles by the Managing Director. These files will occasionally contain handwritten and typed draft copies of articles and speeches, with memoranda attached asking for comment, and these will sometimes include commentary and annotations by the Managing Director, Deputy Managing Directors, Department heads or other staff. Topics covered by these speeches include monetary stability, the gold standard, the role of the IMF, taxation and economic growth, the common market, meetings with the Bank for International Settlements, Bilderberg Meetings, and convertibility. This series also includes correspondence regarding travel, accommodation and other related expenses incurred by the Managing Director when attending external meetings or delivering speeches.

Files are arranged in alphabetical order under the name of the external location or group to which a speech was delivered.

Associated Materials

Related units of description: See also Correspondence Series for incoming correspondence. Many files with related information can also be found under the Subject Files series.


File 1/1

Advertising Club of Metropolitan Washington. — August - September 1962

Scope and content: File contains correspondence and notes regarding a speech by Jacobsson given to the organization, though no copy of the speech is found in the folder.


File 1/2

Agence Internationale de Documentation Contemporaine. — 1959-1962

Scope and content: File contains correspondence, memos, notes and introductory article by Jacobsson to precede an Agence article on the IMF. Article for Agence Internationale de Documentation Contemporaire / P. Jacobsson. - Washington DC : IMF, January 30.1962. - Edited typescript, in English, 11p. - Distribution copy, in French, 14p. - Numerous drafts. Informal speech [...] at Annual Legislative Conference of Chamber Committees of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. - Washington DC : IMF, January 28, 1959. - Distribution copy. - 5p.

Language: Predominantly English. French.


File 1/3

American Bankers Association Conference, 1963. — January-March 1963

Scope and content: File contains correspondence with enclosed pre-conference materials.


File 1/4

American Bankers Association Conferences. — 1957-1962

Scope and content: File contains correspondence with enclosed pre-conference materials.


File 1/5

American Bankers Association Literature. — 1957-1960

Scope and content: File contains incoming letters, distribution copy from ABA News Bureau, Statement on the President's Tax Message, 24 January, 1963. Publications: The Adequacy of Bank Earnings, Bank Capital and Liquidity Positions.


File 1/6

American Bankers Association Symposium on Economic Growth. — February-March 1963

Scope and content: File contains correspondence with enclosed transcripts. Address. Western European growth experience / P. Jacobsson. - Washington DC : February 1963. - Forms part of transcript of proceedings of The American Bankers Association : a symposium on Economic Growth, Mayflower Hotel, Washington DC, 25 February, 1963. - pp.68 to 96.

General note: 1 of 2 folders.


File 1/7

American Bankers Association Symposium on Economic Growth. — 1962-1963

Scope and content: File contains correspondence, memo, program, drafts and notes for speech. Western European growth experience with more particular reference to recent developments [and replies to specific questions] : paper presented at Symposium on Economic Growth [...] American Bankers Association [...] 25 February, 1963. - Washington DC : IMF. - Distribution copy, 12p. - Copy of typescript. - 21p.


File 1/8

American Chamber of Commerce in London. — March-June 1963

Scope and content: File contains correspondence. Expanding world trade / H. Wilson. - Article in Anglo American Trade News London : American Chamber of Commerce in London, June 1963. - pp. 11-15, 53. Europe's economic growth / P. Jacobsson. - Article in Anglo American Trade News London : American Chamber of Commerce in London, May 1963. - pp.15 - 22, 54.


File 1/9

American Finance Association. — 1957-1962

Scope and content: File contains correspondence, memos, cables, schedule, invoice.


File 1/10

American Re-Insurance Company. — March-May 1962

Scope and content: File contains correspondence and list of members.


File 3/31

Association of Reserve City Bankers. — 1959-1960

Scope and content: File contains correspondence with attachments. The economic function of interest rates in a free economy : Speech [...] before the Association of Reserve City Bankers, Phoenix, Arizona, 4 April, 1960 / P. Jacobsson. - Copy of typescript. - Washington DC : IMF. - l26p.

General note: original file title: Annual Meeting Speech, Vienna.


File 3/32

Association pour l'étude des Problèmes de l'Europe. — October-November 1962

Scope and content: File contains correspondence regarding an upcoming meeting of the French organization and requesting the attendance of the Managing Director. Per Jacobsson sent a representative instead.

General note: Translation of organization = Association for the Study of Europe's Problems.

Language: French.


File 3/34

Austrian Association for the United Nations. — January-August 1961

Scope and content: File contains incoming letter, note. The International Monetary Fund / P. Jacobsson. - Washington DC : IMF, Jan. 1961. - Draft edited typescript copy of article for Austrian Association for the United Nations. - 10p. - The International Monetary Fund / P. Jacobsson. - Washington DC : IMF, Aug. 1961. - Typescript copy of article for Austrian Association for the United Nations. - 7p.


File 3/35

Bankers Association for Foreign Trade. — 1961-1963

Scope and content: File contains correspondence and pre-meeting distributed information.


File 3/37

Bank for International Settlements. — 1957-1963. — 1 folder of textual records. -- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 9 in + 1 identification key

Scope and content: File contains correspondence including draft copies of outgoing letters, attachments to correspondence, cables, notes.

Existence and location of originals: Photograph physically stored in multimedia room.


File 3/38

Bilderberg Meetings. — 1957-1961

Scope and content: File contains correspondence with attachments, a list of participants, copies of proceedings and notes from meetings held for the Bilderberg Conference, held annually to further understanding between Western Europe and North America.

Conditions governing access and reproduction: File contains sensitive documents which have been closed.


File 3/39

Bilderberg Meetings. — 1957-1961

Scope and content: File contains correspondence with attachments, a list of participants, copies of proceedings and notes from meetings held for the Bilderberg Conference, held annually to further understanding between Western Europe and North America.

Conditions governing access and reproduction: File contains sensitive documents which have been closed.


File 3/40

Bilderberg Conference. — 1956-1961

Scope and content: File contains correspondence with attachments, a list of participants, copies of proceedings and notes from the Bilderberg Conference, held annually to further understanding between Western Europe and North America.

Conditions governing access and reproduction: File contains sensitive documents which have been closed.


File 3/41

Bilderberg Conference. — 1957-1961

Scope and content: File contains correspondence with attachments, a list of participants, copies of proceedings and notes from the Bilderberg Conference, held annually to further understanding between Western Europe and North America.

Conditions governing access and reproduction: File contains sensitive documents which have been closed.


File 3/42

Business Council (US). — November 1962

Scope and content: File contains correspondence, memos and attachments, (incl. proceedings).


File 4/46

Calvin Bullock Forum. — 1960-1962

Scope and content: File contains correspondence, copy news clipping, notes, presentation booklet (includes introduction, list of lecturers, supplement). - Approach to Monetary Stability : Speech... before the Calvin Bullock Forum, New York / P. Jacobsson - Distribution copy. - Washington DC : IMF, Feb. 1962. - 5p.


File 4/54

Chicago World Trade Conference. — February 1962

Scope and content: File contains correspondence requesting attendance of the Managing Director at the meeting of the Midwest conference.


File 4/57

Conferences for Corporation Executives. — 1958-1959

Scope and content: File contains correspondence and attachments (incl. biography of Jacobsson), notes (prepared by Research and Statistics Dept.) for Jacobsson's speech [no script].


File 4/58

Conference of Business Economists. — 1958-1962

Scope and content: File contains correspondence, memo, and agenda showing Jacobsson's impromptu speech "The Significance of Recent Monetary Changes" [no script].


File 4/59

Conference of National Organizations. — 1961-1963

Scope and content: File contains correspondence with attachments including proceedings, Atlantic City, NJ, 1962.


File 4/60

Conference of National Organizations. — 1962-1963

Scope and content: File contains correspondence with attachments re March 1963, and November 1962 conferences, biography of Jacobsson in the Who's Who. Reference to The Future Growth of the American Economy, speech [no script].


File 11/235

Grubel Herbert G. (Stanford University). — February 1963

Scope and content: File contains correspondence and translation of speech attached. - The two functions of an international monetary standard, stability and liquidity : English translation / P. Jacobsson [translated from the French] H. Grubel. - Stanford : Stanford University,1963. - Typescript. - 18p.


File 11/236

Gustav Pollak Lecture (Harvard University). — May-November 1960

Scope and content: File contains correspondence with attachments. - Current Monetary Problems in World Perspective / P. Jacobsson. - Typescript of Gustav Pollak Lecture. - Harvard University, Oct. 21, 1960. -11p.


File 11/237

Industrial College of the Armed Forces (U.S.) - [Correspondence]. — 1958-1962

Scope and content: File consists of correspondence, invitations, yearbooks, information and reports on the military facility in Washington, DC. The Managing Director was invited to speak at several War College events.

General note: original file title: National War College.


File 11/238

Industrial College of the Armed Forces (U.S.) - [Dedication Program and Yearbook]. — 1960-1961

Scope and content: File consists of correspondence, invitations, yearbooks, information and reports on the military facility in Washington, DC. The Managing Director was invited to speak at several War College events.

General note: original file title: National War College.


File 11/239

Industrial College of the Armed Forces (U.S.) - [Catalog and Curriculum]. — 1957-1961

Scope and content: File consists of correspondence, invitations, yearbooks, information and reports on the military facility located in Washington, DC. The Managing Director was invited to speak at several War College events.

General note: original file title: National War College.


File 11/244

International Atomic Energy Agency. — April-November 1962

Scope and content: File contains correspondence. Invitation to 6th Regular Session of the General Conference of the Agency.


File 11/250

[International Economic and Social Development (8th National Conference)]. — June 1961

Scope and content: File contains telegram, correspondence inviting Jacobsson to the conference of the International Economic and Social Development Luncheon.

General note: original file title: Conference on International Economic and Social Development.


File 11/254

Investment Bankers' Association of America. — January 1962

Scope and content: File contains correspondence with enclosures. - Speech to the Governmental Securities Committee of the Investment Bankers Association of America : Metropolitan Club, Washington, D.C. / Per Jacobsson. - Edited draft and final typescripts. - Washington DC : IMF, Dec.- Jan. 1962. - Draft 9p., Final 10p.


File 12/261

Life Insurance Association of America. — 1962-1963

Scope and content: File contains correspondence and memoranda with attachments - Speech before the Life Insurance Association of America at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York / P. Jacobsson. Final distribution copy and several drafts in the form of typescript and distribution copies. - Washington DC : IMF, Dec. 1962. - 10p.


File 12/262

[Managing Director Engagements], 1962 - 1963. — November 1962

Scope and content: File contains schedule of speeches. File is not arranged.

General note: Original title was MD Engagements.


File 12/264

Merrill Center for Economics. — 1957-1961

Scope and content: File contains correspondence regarding involvement by IMF staff, including the Managing Director at a symposium organized by the Amherst College (US) research center.


File 12/267

Fund Board, Afternoon Briefing. — 1960-1963

Scope and content: File contains correspondence and memos with attachments. Speeches - drafts, amendments, translation.

Language: English (incl. a translation from Spanish).


File 12/270

National Foreign Trade Council. — 1961-1963

Scope and content: File contains correspondence and memos with attachments, programs, news clipping, transcript of discussion following address, draft and final versions of speeches. Liquidity and Foreign Trade : Speech... before the forty-ninth National Foreign Trade Convention , Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, October 29, 1962 / P Jacobsson. - Two drafts, one a distribution copy and one a typescript. - Washington DC : IMF, October 1962. - 10p. and 14p.- Speech... to Woman's National Democratic Club, Washington, DC., October 15, 1962 / P. Jacobsson. - Distribution copy including answers to two questions - Washington DC : IMF, October 1962. - 9p.


File 13/283

Public Relations. — 1958-1960

Scope and content: File contains memos, reports, correspondence regarding press releases, speeches by the Managing Director, other public issues.


File 13/285

Rotary Club of New York. — May 1958

Scope and content: File contains correspondence and newsletters (Spokes : Rotary Club of New York Vol. XLV, Nos. 42 and 43) containing a notice preceding, and coverage on P. Jacobsson's talk at a meeting of Rotary Club of New York : "Financial Aspect of Europe today". No script of the talk.


File 15/320

Society for International Development. — March-July 1961

Scope and content: File contains correspondence and memos, programs. Monetary Problems in a World of Convertible Currencies : speech, Society for International Development / P. Jacobsson. - One unedited full 64p. (entire proceedings) and one edited version (p.13 - 33p. speech only) of transcript. - Washington, DC : The Society, Apr. 1961.


File 15/323

Speeches/Presentations/Articles/Invitations. — December 1956 - December 1959

Language: Swedish, Norwegian, German.


File 15/324

Speeches/Presentations/Articles/Invitations. — January 1960 - December 1961

Language: Swedish, German.


File 15/325

Speeches/Presentations/Articles/Invitations. — January-December 1962

File 15/326

Speeches/Presentations/Articles/Invitations. — January-April 1963

File 16/327

[Speeches, Indexed]. — 1955-1960

Scope and content: File contains news clipping, press releases, copies of speeches (some annotated), lectures, statements and articles, memos with attachments booklet by Per Jacobsson, Stamp Memorial Lecture, "Towards a Modern Monetary Standard", 31pp., 1959, University of London, London, England.

General note: original file title: Mr. Jacobsson's Speeches.


File 16/328

[Speeches, Indexed]. — 1960-1963

General note: original file title: Mr. Jacobsson's Speeches.


File 16/329

Mailing List for Speeches. — 1956-1963

Scope and content: File contains correspondence and attachments, mailing lists.


File 16/330

Bank of Japan. — April 1960

Scope and content: File contains notes, memoranda on speech delivered during the Annual Meeting held in Tokyo.


File 16/331

Swiss Speech. — 1.15.1963-2.8.1963

Scope and content: File contains memos with attachments including typescript and tables. Draft of section for Swiss speech / J. J. Polak. - Washington DC : IMF, Jan. 1963. - Typescript. - 10p.


File 18/360

World Community Association - Yale University. — 1961-1962

Scope and content: File contains correspondence, memos, itinerary, program, pre-conference information. The Monetary Background of International Finance : Speech to the Conference on Legal Aspects of International Financing Yale Law School March 1, 1962 / P. Jacobsson. - Washington DC : IMF. - Edited distribution copy. - 11p. - The monetary background of international finance / P. Jacobsson. - Washington DC : IMF, Jul. 1962. - Final typescript for publication as part of Yale Law School book. - 17p.


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