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FELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION- USA
(FOR-USA)

SECTION II
Series I


INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION (IFOR), 1960-1980s
(Combined files of FOR-USA Staff members)

9 boxes

Arrangement

Boxes 1-3

General correspondence
Releases, reports, etc.

Boxes 4-5

Conferences, Council & Executive Committee Meetings

Boxes 5-6

Committees/studies on philosophy of IFOR
Financial records

Boxes 7-9

Topical files, A - Z (countries, individuals, projects)


These are the combined files of FOR-USA staff members, mainly Alfred Hassler, who was also IFOR General Secretary 1970-1974. The main body of earlier IFOR files up to 1967 is in the papers of John Nevin Sayre. See DG 117, Series C.


Boxes 1-9


Box 1

General correspondence:

1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 (2 folders)
1971 (folder 1)



Box 2

1971 (folder 2)
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976 (2 folders)
1977
1978 (2 folders)
1979-1980s

Releases, reports, etc.:

1962-1964
1965-1968
1969



Box 3

1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979-1980s



Box 4 Conferences, Council & Executive Committee meetings

Conference & Council, Netherlands, 1963: Speeches by Hassler & Lasserre, notes
European Committee, Bückeburg, 1967: Minutes, reports, staff meeting
Council, Bièvres, August 1967: Various papers & reports
Council meeting (on IFOR future), Oslo, 1968:

Preparatory correspondence
Questionnaire on future; responses
Compilation of preparatory papers
Minutes, report, keynote address
Follow-up discussion on IFOR Basis: Lausanne consultation & corres., 1968-1969

European Committee meetings Oct. 1968 & Jan. 1969: Minutes, etc.
North American Committee, 1969: minutes of 3 final meetings; corres.
Council meeting, Nyack, NY, August 1969:

Preparatory papers on Basis; responses
Correspondence about arrangements
Minutes & reports; press accounts

Executive Committee & Staff, 1970: minutes, etc.
Council, Woudschoten, April 1970: minutes, reports, notes
Executive Committee & Staff, London, Feb. 1971: minutes, notes
Executive Committee & Staff, Bièvres, Oct. 1971: minutes, reports, notes


Box 5

Executive Committee & Staff, Cartigny, Feb. 1972; Doorn, Oct. 1972: minutes, reports, etc.
Executive Committee & Staff, Mainz, Feb. 1973; Dragør, Oct. 1973: minutes, reports, etc.
Executive Committee & Staff, London, Feb. 1974; Council papers (Preparatory), March 1974
Council, Stony Point, NY, April 1974:

Correspondence (pre- and post-Council)
Minutes, Council papers/reports; plenary sessions

Executive Committee, Bruxelles, Sept. 1974: Minutes, reports, etc.
Executive Committee, Huy, Belgium, May 1975: Minutes, reports, etc.
Executive Committee, Köln, February 1976: Staff meetings with President, 1976
Executive Committee, Strasbourg, September 1976: Minutes & reports; study papers
Council, Schoorl, Netherlands, April 1977: Minutes, reports, etc.
Staff, Steering & Executive Committees, 1977-1978: Minutes, reports, etc.
Steering & Executive Committees, 1979-1980: Minutes & reports
North American IFOR Committee, 1978 (liaison with United Nations)

Committees/studies on philosophy & structure of IFOR

Background material, 1950s-1960s
Brochures about IFOR & their revision, 1965-1975


Box 6

Commission on the Future, 1963-1965
Correspondence, study papers & reports

Hassler's writings on the Future

National FOR Fellowships: bases; survey, 1966-1970
Philosophy: Basis & purpose discussion, 1966-1970
Philosophy: Pacifism study, purpose & program, 1971-1974
Structure Committee, 1969-1974
Personnel Committee, 1969
Hassler's reports as General Secretary, 1970-1974

Financial records

Finance Committees: minutes, corres., budgets, etc.

1960-1961
1962-1963
1964-1965
1966-1967
1968
1969
1970



Box 7

1971
1972-1975

Appeal letters & donations, 1968-1974
Bank accounts for Vietnam war relief, 1967-1970

Topical files, 1961-1985

Africa: general corres. & releases, 1971-1979
Africa & Malagasay (Nairobi office):

Corres. of Titus Mugavana, 1973-1977
Releases, reports, etc., 1974-1976

Argentina; Bolivia, 1970-1973
Australia, 1969-1981
Brazil, 1970-1976
Brøndum, Jens, 1969-1971, 1974
Chile, 1969-1974
Church and Peace, 1977-1978
Cruse, René (Francophone regional secy.), 1969-1973
De Graaf, Hannes (IFOR chair), 1969-1974
Denmark, 1970-1974
EIRENE, 1968-1974
European FOR Congress, 1974-1976
European Work Group (EWG), 1971-1974
Fiji, 1965-1971
Finland, 1969-1971


Box 8

Germany: corres. of Irmgard Schuchardt, 1969-1977
Goss-Mayr, Hildegard & Jean: reports on European work, 1967-1977
Great Britain: FOR, 1961-1969: corres. of Max Parker, Peter Jenkins, et al.
Great Britain: FOR, 1970-1974: corres. of David Harding, Ronald Beasley, et al.
Historic Peace Churches, 1969-1970
India, 1961-1978
International Collective Resistance, 1974-1976 (Jean Fabre et al.)
International March of Nonviolent Antimilitarists (WRI-IFOR project), 1976
Ireland (Republic) & Northern Ireland, 1971-1976
Italy, 1964-1978
Japan, 1962-1977
Kloppenburg, Heinz (German FOR & IFOR associate secretary), 1971-1978
Mexico, 1969-1975
Namibia campaigns, 1973-1976
Netherlands, 1970-1976
New Zealand: Christian Pacifist Society, 1969-1974
Nigeria, 1964-1974


Box 9

Norway, 1969-1974
Puerto Rico, 1970-1972
Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 1970-1978
Roser, Henri, 1969-1976
South Africa:

General corres. & reports, 1973-1985
FOR corres. & constitution, 1968-1971
Arthur Blaxall case, 1962-1964

South America: Alfred Hassler's trip, 1971
Sweden, 1970-1974
Trocmé, André & Magda, IFOR associate secretaries, 1969-1971
United Nations-IFOR relations:

Consultative status with ECOSOC, 1972-1980
Michael Scott, IFOR representative, 1979-1983; includes some of his writings (2 folders)

War Resisters International-IFOR relations, 1968-1975
World Council of Churches: nonviolence & other issues, 1969-1976
Youth Committee; Joppe conference, 1967-1971




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