William W. Lockwood papers, 1919-1977 (bulk 1938-1961) | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Consists of correspondence, minutes, conference reports, records of research projects, and publications documenting the American Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR) and Lockwood's tenure as the organization's Research Secretary (1935-1940) and Executive Secretary (1941-1943). Lockwood's interests and involvement in U.S.-Far East relations and his research and study of U.S.-Japanese trade and the Japanese textile industry are documented here. Also included are a small number of personal items dealing primarily with his service in World War II and his involvement in the 1954 AMERASIA case, as well as his FBI file. A significant part of the collection concerns Senators Joseph McCarthy and Pat McCarran's investigation of the IPR and the subsequent 1952 Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearings on the alleged Communist activities of the IPR and some of its members. Included in IPR files seized by McCarran was a 1942 letter Lockwood wrote which McCarthy used to implicate Adlai Stevenson with Alger Hiss. The collection also contains a significant amount of correspondence and other material regarding Owen Lattimore and Philip Jessup, who served as links to McCarthy's and McCarran's investigations of the IPR