Sumner, John D. Papers

Dates: 1928-1953

Chief Economic Officer, China Mission, Economic Cooperation Administration, 1948-1949

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Size: 6 linear feet.
Access: Open.
Copyright: The donor gave to the U.S. government the copyrights in this material and in any other material received by the U.S. government and maintained in a depository administered by the National Archives and Records Administration. Documents created by U.S. government officials in the course of their official duties are in the public domain. Copyright interest in other documents presumably belongs to the creators of those documents, or their heirs.
Processed by: Dennis E. Bilger (1974).

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FOLDER TITLE LIST

CHINA FILES: General File

Box 1

  • Agriculture - Report of the National Agricultural Research Bureau, 1932-1944
  • American economic policy toward China - study by John D. Sumner
  • Chinese attitudes toward economic policy - study by John D. Sumner
  • Chinese opinions on post-war development
  • Chungking conferences on post-war economic reconstruction in China, April 1945 (2 folders)

Box 2

  • Communists, 1944-1945
  • Correspondence re Chinese loans, 1945-1953
  • Counterpart fund, summary of current policies of Chinese Government toward Industry and Trade - Study by John D. Sumner
  • Daily News Bulletin - United States Information Service, December 1948
  • Economic Cooperation Administration - China Aid Program
  • Formosa-Foreign Trade, 1950-1953
  • Government (Chinese) - plan prepared by Chinese Government Information Office, Nanking, China, June 1947
  • Government (Chinese) - John D. Sumner as economic adviser to Chinese Embassy
  • Map of Tukiangyien Irrigation System
  • New Democracy of Mao Tse-Tung, 1940 (English Translation)
  • Newspaper clipping on China - miscellaneous

Box 3

  • Press Release - Department of State, January 7, 1947, personal statement by General George C. Marshall
  • Shanghai file (2 folders)
  • Statement of N.F. Allman, House Foreign Affairs Committee, March 2, 1948
  • Sumner, John D. - personal files on China - certificate of membership in the United States Delegation to the United Nations Commission for Asia...November 14, 1951
  • Sumner, John D. - personal files on China - correspondence, 1948-1952
  • Sumner, John D. - personal files on China - memoranda and notes
  • Sumner, John D. - personal files on China - Far East Seminars, 1947-1948
  • Sumner, John D. - personal files on China - telephone directory
  • Sumner, John D. - personal files on China - working papers
  • Taiwan Economy, Its Position under Japan, and its Relation to China by L.F. Craig
  • Taiwan - Rural Reconstruction Under the China Aid Act
CHINA FILES: Publication File

Box 4

  • An Approach to China's Land Reform by Chen Chang, Premier of the National Government, Republic of China, 1951 (English Translation)
  • Bank of Taiwan - Report on Foreign Exchange Business, December 1952-March 1953
  • Banking Law of China - English Translation by Chaoyuen C. Chang, 1947
  • The Company Law of China - English Translation by Chao-Yuen C. Chang. 1946
  • The Economic Cooperation Administration Program in Taiwan, May 1951
  • Food Production and Administration in Taiwan by T.H. Shen (reprint from Scientific Monthly, Vol. LXXIV, No. 5, May, 1952)
  • Forging of a New China by Lawrence K. Rosinger, 1948
  • Free China, Report on by Chen Chang, 1952
  • In Greater East Asia and The New China
  • International Economic Service - published by the International Economic Association of China
  • Manchurian Railway Development by Norton S. Ginsburg (reprint from The Far East Quarterly, vol. VIII, August 1949, No. 4)
  • Mutual Security Agency - Mission to China - reports (2 folders)
  • Trends in the Chinese National Budget, July 15, 1947
ECONOMIC COOPERATION ADMINISTRATION FILES: Africa File

Box 5

  • Angola, outline economic survey, August 8, 1950
  • Belgian Congo, outline economic survey, September 5, 1950
  • East-West African Conference, December 20, 1949
  • East-West Africa Consular conference - background papers, 1950
  • Empire in Africa, XVII - "A Race With Time" by J.H. Huizinga, August 5, 1949
  • French West Africa, typed note re
  • Gold Coast, outline economic survey, September 14, 1950
  • Kenya, outline economic survey, September 14, 1950
  • Map - location of ECA developmental and technical assistance projects, February 2, 1951
  • Morocco - memoranda, April 27, 1949
  • Mozambique, outline economic survey, October 2, 1950
  • Portuguese Guinea, outline economic survey, December 7, 1950
  • Soviet Propaganda on Africa, August 14, 1951
  • Tangier Consular Conference, August 8, 1950
  • "Union of South Africa, Report of Visit to" by Whitney H Shepardson, October 25, 1948
ECONOMIC COOPERATION ADMINISTRATION FILES: Asia File
  • General - memoranda and reports, 1950-1951
  • General - class notes of John D. Sumner - University of Buffalo, 1947-1948
  • News clippings on foreign policy, 1951
  • General - Copy of White House Press release - President Truman's meeting with General Douglas MacArthur at Wake Island - statement by the President, October 17, 1950

Box 6

  • China (Taiwan) - (3 folders)
  • China - documents re John D. Sumner - Chief Economic Officer - Mission to China - travel vouchers, 1948-1949
  • Far East - general
  • India, 1948-1951
  • Indonesia, 1938-1950 (3 folders)
  • Indonesia - maps re.

Box 7

  • Japan, 1946-1950 (3 folders)
  • Near East Conference, December 20, 1949
  • Philippines - proposed program for industrial rehabilitation and development, published report, 1947
  • Philippines - reports and memoranda, 1950-1951 (folders 1 and 2)

Box 8

  • Philippines - reports and memoranda, 1950-1951 (folders 3 and 4)
  • Southeast Asia, 1950-1951 (2 folders)
  • Turkey, 1946-1948
EUROPEAN FILE
  • General - European Recovery Program and Marshall Plan, materials re., 1948-1951 (2 folders)
  • Belgium, 1949
  • France, 1949

Box 9

  • Germany, 1945
  • Great Britain, 1949-1950
  • Greece, 1951
  • Italy, 1949
  • The Netherlands - agreement between the United States and the Netherlands
  • Poland - statements of Dr. Oscar Lange, Representative of Poland, before the 6th session of the Economic and Social Council, February 17, 1949
EUROPEAN FILE: General File
  • Advisory Committee on Overseas Territories, 1949-1951 (4 folders)

Box 10

  • Commerce Department - International Reference Service, 1949-1950
  • Conference on Overseas Territories, 1949-1950
  • Dependent Areas Branch - notes on Dependent Overseas Territories, 1950-1951
  • ECA - Council on Foreign Relations, December 23, 1949
  • Export-Import Bank - Memoranda and reports, 1946-1951

Box 11

  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Council of - Sixth Session - Paris, France, June 13-25, 1949
  • International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1946-1949
  • International Monetary Fund, 1948-1953
  • The International Studies Group - The Brookings Institution - report on teaching of international relations, Conference at Charlottesville, Virginia, January 26-28, 1950
  • Latin America - general
  • Local currency - counterpart funds, 1949-1950
  • National Advisory Council
  • Point Four Program, 1949
  • Public Advisory Board - report, March 24, 1950
  • Public Advisory Board - Weekly Summary of Developments, June 8, 1949-May 5, 1950 (2 folders)

Box 12

  • State Department - press releases, 1945-1951 (5 folders)

Box 13

  • United Nations Economic and Social Council - reports, 1949 (2 folders)
MISCELLANEOUS FILES
  • National Resources Committee
  • Office of Price Administration: Correspondence, memoranda, notes and reports, 1942-1946 (2 folders)
PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE FILE
  • Biographical Data - John D. Sumner
  • Correspondence re China, 1945-1953
  • Correspondence - miscellaneous, 1929-1953 (2 folders)
PUBLICATIONS AND WRITINGS FILE
  • American Economic Review - reprints, 1935-1950
  • Council on Foreign Relations - reports, 1944-1945

Box 14

  • Economic Cooperation Administration - Reports for the Public Advisory Board, 1949-1950 (2 Folders)
  • Economic Periodicals re public utility prices and the business cycle, 1937-1950
  • Mining Congress Journal, December 1942
  • Postwar Economic Problems, edited by Seymour E. Harris, 1943 - reprint
  • Smithsonian Institution of War Background Studies, 1943-1944
  • Department of State Bulletin, February 2, 1946
  • Taiwan - periodicals re, 1951-1952
  • A Textbook of Elementary Indonesian Malay by Harry P. Cemach

Box 15

  • Writings and Manuscripts - correspondence re, 1944
  • Writings and manuscripts - Public Utility Prices and the Business Cycle by John D. Sumner - drafts, notes and publications (3 folders)
  • Writings and Manuscripts - railroads - articles by John D. Sumner
  • Writings and Manuscripts - Theory of Prices by John D. Sumner - draft
  • Writings and Manuscripts - waterways Article, 1936 - draft
  • Writings and Manuscripts - world affairs course - summer of 1940 - notes, "Problems in American Foreign Trade"
  • Foreign Policy Bulletin [1 of 2]
  • Foreign Policy Bulletin [2 of 2]
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