Items placed in acid-free folders
| Accession Number: | SC 17:24 |
| Location: | RB-M |
| Dates: | 1940-1941 |
| Size: | 1 regular Hollinger; 0.3 cubic feet |
| Creator/Collector: | Unknown |
| Acquisition info: | Unknown, found in stacks |
| Accruals: | No accruals expected |
| Custodial history: | Unknown |
| Language: | English |
| Processed by: | Melissa Miller, December 2017 |
| Conservation notes: | Items placed in acid-free folders |
| Scope and Content: | The collection contains correspondence, promotional literature, and newspaper clippings for the WWII group, the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, of which there was a St. Louis chapter. Much of the correspondence belonged to member H. Lorine Pickett. |
| Arrangement: | Collection organized alphabetically by type of document. |
| Restrictions: | No restrictions |
| Remarks: | No remarks |
Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies
1940-1941
1 regular Hollinger; 0.3 cubic feet
| Box/Folder | Description |
| 1/1 | Finding Aid |
| 1/2 | Correspondence, 1940 (152) |
| 1/3 | Correspondence, 1941 (60) |
| 1/4 | Member Lists; 1940 (4) |
| 1/5 | Miscellaneous Items
-Resolution; May 1940 -Action Chart; August 1940 -Conference with Mr. Eichelberger; October 1940 -Financial information; October 1940 -Promotion report; October 1940 -Speech by Clark M. Eichelberger; October 1940 -"All Possible Aid to Britain" -Committee application, blank -Committee application, completed by Mr. and Mrs. EU Cowdry -"Estimate of Supplies Being Sent to Allies" -Lecture fliers (2) -"Letters from London" -Newspaper blank form -Objectives (2) -Order form, blank -Petition, blank -Program and menu -"We Must Join with Other Nations to Build World Organizations" |
| 1/6 | Newspaper Clippings and Periodicals; May 1940-October 1941 (16) |
| 1/7 | Progress Bulletins; 1940 (18) |
| 1/8 | Promotional Literature
-"Hitler’s American Ambitions"; 1940 -"2 + 2 = 4: It’s as Simple as That!"; July 1940 -"Parcels for the Forces"; July 1940 -"Destroyers for Great Britain"; August 1940 -"Labor and the Totalitarian Threat"; August 1940 -"The Latin American Attitude Towards Neutrality"; August 1940 -"Hitler or Britain: What Is Your Choice?"; September 1940 (3) -"In Order to Survive"; 1941 -"You Can Defend America"; 1941 -"Meet the Issues Now!"; May 1941 -"What Hitler’s Victory Would Mean to American Labor!"; June 1941 -"Battle of America: How We Can Avoid It" -"The Battle of America Has Started!" -"Can We Hope to Isolate This Hemisphere?" -Committee handbook for telephone campaign -"The Consequences of an Appeasement Peace" -"Defend America by Aiding the Allies" -"Destroyers for Britain May Mena American Safety" -"Give Congress the Green Light to Defend America" -"If You Want to Help Stop Hitler, Do This Now" -The League of Fair Play information -"Let’s Use Our Borrowed Time" -"Our Peril If Britain Falls" -"Nazi Bombers Blast New York" (3) -"Pershing’s Warning" -"Primer of American Defense" -"Singapore" -Stamps -Stickers -"Suicide Again?" -"Ten Billion Dollars Is Not Enough" -"We Must Deliver the Goods to Britain Now!" |
| 1/9 | Statements
-Statement of Program; July 1940 -Statement of Policy; November 1940-September 1941 (10) -Suggested Statement on Anti-Semitism |
| 1/10 | Telegrams; 1940 (10) |
