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Beckman mss., 1940-1966

Papers, 1940-1966, of Fredrik Woods Beckman at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Electronic finding aid encoded by Beth Benda.

Summary Information

Repository
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452
Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly

Creator
Beckman, Fredrik Woods, 1886?-1978.

Title
Beckman mss.,1940-1966

Collection no:
LMC 1078

Extent
858 items

Language
Materials are in English.

Abstract
Consists of the correspondence of Fredrik Woods Beckman, chiefly concerned with Beckman's activities in the United World Federalists; a few letters from his son Gunnar and daughter Marit Woods (Beckman) Thomson; and printed materials ranging from 1934 to 1975, many related to the United World Federalists.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Acquisition Information
Gift, 1981.
Usage Restrictions
Prior arrangements are not necessary before coming to the Library, however, patrons from out of town are encouraged to communicate with the Library in advance of their visits to ascertain availability of materials.

Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly Library.

Preferred Citation
[Item], Beckman mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Biographical Note
Fredrik Beckman, born in Stockholm, Sweden, was a Yale graduate of 1909 in forestry, worked in real estate in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and in 1934 joined the personnel staff of the Tennessee Valley Authority from which he retired in 1953. He served as National Executive Council member of the United World Federalists organization and was president of the Tennessee State Branch. In 1953 he attended the Copenhagen Conference of the World Movement for World Federal Government.

Scope and Content Note

Consists of the correspondence of Fredrik Woods Beckman, chiefly concerned with Beckman's activities in the United World Federalists; a few letters from his son Gunnar and daughter Marit Woods (Beckman) Thomson; and printed materials ranging from 1934 to 1975, many related to the United World Federalists.

The correspondence also includes some periodicals of the Tennessee Voter addressed to his wife, Frieda, who died in 1968 and other materials such as a photograph of a float for UN Day, Oct. 24, 1950; an UWF auto insignia with a letter of Feb. 28, 1953; an early copy of Blueprint for Achievement with the Washington Conference papers of June 18-20, 1954; and some “doodlings” by Beckman in 1955.

Among the many correspondents are the following: Fredrik Woods Beckman, Gunnar Beckman, Marshall Bertram, Cloide Everett Brehm, Herman Haupt Chapman, George William Greene, Philip Gibbon Hammer, Donald Szantho Harrington, Helga Johansson, James Avery Joyce, Estes Kefauver, Rudolph Alvin Light, Edward Winton McVitty, Edbridge Woodman Palmer, Aletta (stout) Gellaty Root, Helen A. Shuford, Claude Maxwell Stanley, Marit Woods (Beckman) Thorson, Harry S Truman, Theodore Waller, Harold Louis Weissberg, Sydna White. Letters from the several officers of the Tennessee Chapter of the United World Federalists, and Robert perrigo Conger, Alan Cranston, and Samuel R. Levering, may be found throughout the collection.

Printed matter which ranges from 1934 to 1975 includes a marked copy of Joe Kamp, We Must Abolish America (1950); the writings of Marion (Hazard) Etcheverry McVitty and memorial statements for her and her husband Edward Winton McVitty; sheet music entitled Federal Hymn; the publication series One World Or None; and stamps of the UWF: Help Stamp out War.

Arrangement/Organization

Arranged into two series: Correspondence and Printed materials.

Series: Correspondence and papers, 1940-1966 
Box 1 Biographical folder
Correspondence and papers, 1940-1952 
Box 2 Correspondence and papers, 1953-1966 
Series: Printed materials
Subseries: A-Peltason, Jack
Box 2 About the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Abrams, Charles
Academy of World Studies
Action for World Community
Action Pack on World Development
American Forum
The American Freedom Association
American Friends Service Committee
Anti-Defamation League
Antioch college
Association for Education in World Government
Barr, Stringfellow
Baruch Report
Better World Fund
Bheda, Naren
The Bonn Constitution
Cadbury, Paul S.
Campaign for World Government
The Case for World Government
The CBS Map of the Changing World
The Christophers
The Church Peace Union
Citizen’s Conference on School Recovery in Pennsylvania (1934) 
Clark, Grenville
Commission to Study the Organization of Peace
The Commission on the Just and Durable Peace
Conference on United Nations Procedures
Conscience Compels Them
Cranston, Alan
The Declaration of the Federation of the World
Defense Now Needs Union Now
Do People Need a UN Vote?
Dumbaration Oaks
Dulles, John Foster
Economic Impacts of Disarmament
Editorials
Election in Germany, 1953 
Enforcement – The Key to Disarmament
Evans, Luther H.
Exchange of Professors... Specialists and Distinguished leaders
Fenner, Frances
Fonseca, Claudia
Franck, Dorothea Seelye
Friends Committee on National Legislation
Friends of the Land
The Fund for Education in World Order
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Green, Alan
Gulick, Luther
Hall, Gordon D.
Harrington, Donald
Hersey, John
Hilton, Conrad N.
Institute for International Government
Institute for International Year Order
Intercom
International Women’s Year 1975 
International Year for Human Rights, 1968 
Introduction a Financing Federalist
Journal of Calendar Reform 1949 
Kamp, Joe. We Must Abolish the United States, 1950 

(marked copy); Joe Kamp, Peddler of Propaganda and Hero of the Pro-Fascists, a report by Friends of Democracy Inc.

Kennedy, John F.
Keys, Donald F.
Larson, Arthur
League of Women Voters
Levering, Sam
Lewis, George, II
Lexington’s ‘One World Bookmobile’
Lloyd, Lola Maverick
The Lobby Proxy
McVitty, Marion (Hazard) Etcheverry, and Edward McVitty.
Mahony, Thomas H.
Members of Congress for Peace through Law
Methodist Church
Meyer, Cord, Jr.
Meyer, Peter
Miller, Fred D.
Morley, Ralph
Mosher, William E.
Music. Federal Hymn
Box 3 Nash, Vernon
National Issues Committee, Inc.
National Planning Association
The National Policy Committee
New Federalists Papers, Nos. 1 and 2
New Federalists Reprint Papers, Nos. 1 and 2
Ocean Management and World Order
One World – One in Christ
The One World Award Committee
Organizing the United Nations
Overseas Development Council
One World or None
Pabst Postwar Employment Awards
Peace and the Elections 1972 
Peace...? Man and Nations in the Changing World Community
Peltason, Jack
Subseries: Periodicals
Box 3 Akron Chapter Newsletter
American Freedom
Association Bulletin
A Bulletin for Federalists
The California Federalist
Central Atlantic Federalist
Federal Union World
Florida World Federalist: Friends of Democracy’s Battle
The Iowa Federalist
The Kingsport World
The Mississippi Valley Federalist
The Missouri Federalist
The National Voter
The New England Federalist
New Jersey Federalist
New York Citizens’ Committee for the Peoples’ World Convention
The Northwest Federalist
Planetary Citizen
The Regional Federalist
Rocky Mountain Federalist
Southern Newsletter
Student Federalist
Toward Freedom
Volunteer Federalist
The Tennessee Voter
UNHCR
United World Federalist of Maine
World Federation – Now
World Frontiers.
Subseries: Periodicals- Oversized
Box 3 The California Federalist
The North Carolina Federalist
World Federal News, Greater St. Louis Chapter
Subseries: Planetary Citizens-United States
Box 3 Planetary Citizens
Planning
Point Four
Pope Pius XII
The Power of One
Portland Evening Express
Precinct Workers
Price, Charles C.
Rankin, E.R.
Rawnsley, Violet & Noel
Roper, Elmo
Rosen, Hy
Ross, Carl A.
Shift of Civilization
Stamps. UWF – Help Stamp Out War
Streit, Clarence K.
Swing, Raymond.
The Tables are Turning
Tennessee Council on Human Relations
Tennessee Legislature
Uhl, Alexander
UN Day
UNICEF Day
USA/200
The United States Committee for the Oceans
The United States Committee for the United Nations
United States National Commission for UNESCO
Subseries: United Nations
Box 3 "Carnegie Endowment for International Peace"
"The Challenge Of our Times"
"Controlling Conflicts in the 1970s"
"Charter and Charter Review I and II"
"Help the UN get it together"
"How to give the United Nations"
"The Limited Power to Prevent War"
"How Peoples Work together"
"How to Find out About the United Nations"
"Human Rights Day"
"Keep it in One Peace"
Kihss, Peter
"Law and Population"
"Man’s Homes Series, Nos. 1-4"
"Now Longer A Dream"
"The Price of Peace"
"Questions and Answers about the UN"
"Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Fifth, Eleventh, and Twenty-Ninth"
"Speakers on the United Nations"
Stassen, Harold E.
"The United Nations...Action agency"
"...Action for Peace"
"...and the Congo"
"…Balance Sheet"
"...a Candid appraisal"
"...in Action"
"...The Peoples of the World"
"...Pocket Reference"
"Visit the United Nations"
"What it is..."
"World Portfolio"
"Your Community United Nations"
"Your United Nations."
Subseries: United World Federalists
Box 3 "Action Report"
"Action for peace"
"Adventures in Travel 1970"
"Agenda in the World Interest"
"As a member of the United World Federalists"
"As a Federalist you have something to say"
"Association of World Federalists, Calcutta"
"Beat attack on UN"
"Blueprint for Achievement," 1954?,   1956-1957,   1957-1958 
"Blueprint for Year 14"
"Can You Afford War?"
"Can We Stop War"
"The Case For Restoring U.S. Compliance with UN Sanctions against Rhodesia, HR8005 and S1868"
"The Case for Continued U.S. Participation in the International Development Association, HR15331 and S3665"
"Chapter Chairmen, Chapter Membership Chairmen"
"A Communist looks at World Government"
"Congress rated on "World Interest" voting"
"Congress of the United States (Robt. F. Drinan, Bob Packwood)"
"Creed"
"Do You Want the U.N. to Have Power to Prevent War"
"Don’t give up your Sovereignty"
"Excuses and Rebuttals"
"Fact(s) Opinions & Personalities"
"5 Things you can do right now..."
"Florida Federalist Fruit"
"Focus ’67"
"Global Agenda 1975"
"Hammerstein, Oscar, II: More Than A Dream"
"Headlines of 1958!"
"Here is what we must do"
"History is looking for you"
"House Meetings"
"How can the United Nations achieve World Peace Through World Law?"
"How Much Should I Give?"
"How to Have a finger...maybe even a real hand"
"I’m with you!"
"In the World Interest"
"It’s up to you!"
"Key chains – Lapel pins - Bracelet charms"
"Land, Admiral Emory S."
"Legislation in the World Interest"
"The Montachsett Federalist"
"More Power to the United Nations"
"Now America Must be Told"
"Our work is peace..."
"Policy of the United World Federalists, 1949-1971"
"A Practical Plan for Peace"
"Problem or Opportunity"
"Program and Positions on Current Issues," 1968 
"Proposals for United Nations Reform, " 1974 
"The Purposes of the United World Federalists are..."
"Questions and Answers on World Government and U.W.F."
"The Real Problem"
"Report(s)"
"Reprint in the World Interest"
"Resolutions"
"Seventeen important projects urgently in need of funding"
"So What Can you do about it"
"Speakers Bureau"
"Student Federalist to Free Mankind"
"Summer Conference on World peace"
"Supposes you had no cop on the corner..."
"Take me along"
"There is a Part for you in the UWF"
"This or This"
"Toward a Genuine World Security System, an annotated bibliography For layman and scholar by Stillman P. Williams, " 1964 
"Toward One World; a progress report," 1953 
"36 million Americans are on record for..." ca. 1951 
"UWF’s project contact"
"UWF’s strength is in you..."
"Vietnam: an object lesson," 1966 
"War, Economic Strife..."
"We...Believe..."
"We Reaffirm..."
"We’re in the middle..."
"With firmness in the right..."
"What 51 U.S. National Organizations say about world law..."
"What is UWF?"
"What World Federalists are Doing"
Box 4 "World Association of World Federalists"
"A World Citizen"
"World Federalists USA"
"World Government"
"World Government and World Crisis"
"World Government...or World War III?"
"World Peace"
"You can prevent the “On the Beach” prophecy from coming true"
"Your action is needed"
Van Kirk-Z
Van Kirk, Walter W.
Van Wagener, Richard W.
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Waldo, Selden F.
Warburg, James P.
Whitman, Howard
What the United Nations means to the United States by Henry Cabot Lodge, 1954 
What’s the UN...to US? By Beatrice Pitney Lamb, 1953 
Why Aid Britain
Why the Communists oppose Limited World Government
Wigmore, John H.
Wofford, Harris, Jr.
World Assistance, Inc.
World Community Resource Center
World Student Federalists
World Association of Parliamentarians for World Government, Report of the Second London Conference, 1953 
World Movement for World Federal Government
Wyler, Samuel S. Pamphlets: [unlettered, Jan. 1949],  B., D., G., Oct. 1949 
Yates, Sidney R.
Yerkes, Arnold P.
You and the World
Your pen can write History
Youth Speaks
Zocca, Marie and Louis
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