World Bank Group Archives Catalog

Contacts with member countries: Argentina - Correspondence 01

Contacts with member countries: Australia - Correspondence 01

Contacts with member countries: India - Correspondence 10

Contacts with member countries: India - Correspondence 03

Contacts with member countries: India - Correspondence 04

Contacts with member countries: Indonesia - Correspondence 03

Contacts with member countries: Organization of African Unity (OAU) - Correspondence 01

Contacts with member countries: Cambodia - Correspondence 01

Contacts with member countries: Canada - Correspondence 02

Contacts with member countries: Chile - Correspondence 02

Contacts with member countries: Brazil - Correspondence 01

Contacts with member countries: Brazil - Correspondence 04

Contacts with member countries: China - Correspondence 01

Contacts with member countries: Dominican Republic - Correspondence 01

Contacts with member countries: Ecuador - Correspondence 01

Contacts with member countries: Egypt - Correspondence 01

Contacts with member countries: European Economic Community - Correspondence 01

Contacts with member countries: Egypt - Correspondence 02

Contacts with member countries: France - Correspondence 01

Contacts with member countries: France - Correspondence 03

Contacts with member countries: Germany - Correspondence 02

Contacts with member countries: Germany - Correspondence 06

Contacts with member countries: Haiti - Correspondence 01

Contacts with member countries: Honduras - Correspondence 01

Contacts with member countries: Iran - Correspondence 02

Contacts with member countries: Israel - Correspondence 01

Contacts with member countries: Italy - Correspondence 01

Contacts with member countries: Ivory Coast - Correspondence 01

Contacts with member countries: Ivory Coast - Correspondence 02

President's papers - Robert S. McNamara Contacts with member countries: Korea - Correspondence 01

President's papers - Robert S. McNamara Contacts with member countries: Lebanon - Correspondence 01

President's papers - Robert S. McNamara Contacts with member countries: Liberia - Correspondence 01

President's papers - Robert S. McNamara Contacts with member countries: Kenya - Correspondence 01

President's papers - Robert S. McNamara Contacts with member countries: Mekong Committee - Correspondence 01

Contacts with member countries: Mexico - Correspondence 01

Contacts with member countries: Netherlands - Correspondence 01

Contacts with member countries: Norway - Corresondence 02

Contacts with member countries: Panama - Correspondence 01

Correspondence

This series contains fragments of John J. McCloy's correspondence with political leaders and prominent businessmen during his time as President of the World Bank from March 1947 to May 1949. The most substantial bodies of correspondence are with Emilio G. Collado, U.S. Executive Director of the World Bank, 1946-1947; Russell C. Leffingwell, Chairman of the Executive Committee of J.P. Morgan and Co. Inc.; and Bernard H. Baruch, American financier and stock investor.

The correspondence with Emilio Collado consists of letters and memoranda to McCloy regarding World Bank activities, including excerpts from memoranda Collado prepared for U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson and a document entitled "Note Relating to a Debt Limit" dated May 1947. McCloy's correspondence with Russell C. Leffingwell includes substantive comments on topics related to the Bank and its operations, such as money stabilization, sterling devaluation, the Bank's lending philosophy, and the prospects for European recovery under the MarshallPlan. Letters to and from Bernard H. Baruch include: a letter related to an Export Import Bank loan to England; a letter sent by Baruch to John Snyder, U.S. Treasury Secretary, on how to stimulate production in the world; and a copy of McCloy's memoranda to Snyder on lending.

Also included are McCloy's answers to questions from U.S. House of Representatives member Howard Buffet and U.S. Senator Leverett Saltonstall. Finally, a letter from Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder forwarding an August 1947 memoranda by U.S. President Harry Truman is also included. It concerns U.S. Ambassador to Chile Claude Bowers' complaint about Wall Street control over the operations of the Bank.

Country correspondence

The country correspondence files contain miscellaneous correspondence with persons and businesses from particular countries, mostly for the period after Woods' tenure as Bank President. They include invitations, thank you letters,travel arrangements and some printed brochures. In the Pakistan file is a set of material relating to the groundbreaking ceremony for the Tarbela Dam in November 1968.

President George D. Woods Country Correspondence Files: Pakistan - Correspondence 01

President George D. Woods Country Correspondence Files: Argentina - Correspondence 01

Travel files

The travel files are for foreign trips exclusively. They include both trips undertaken for specific operational purposes, such as raising funds for IDA and promoting bond issues in Part I countries and encouraging the establishment of development funds, banks and agencies, and trips undertaken for ceremonial activities, such as the groundbreaking ceremony of an Aluminum Smelter in Ghana. Individual trips files may include handwritten notes President Woods took during meetings with heads of state and other dignitaries, speeches, and frequently memoranda to files summarizing the purposes and highlights of important meetings, as well as invitations, acceptance and thank you letters, background or formal briefing papers on the politico-economic situation of the countries visited, itineraries, agendas, programs, flight schedules, information on lodgings and tourist attractions, maps, and newspaper clippings.

President George D. Woods Travel Files: Yugoslavia - Travel file 01