Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Institute of Inter-American Affairs project : oral history, 1984-1990.Scope and ContentsThe Institute of Inter-American Affairs was established in 1942 under the Good Neighbor Policy of the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Nelson A. Rockefeller served as first coordinator. The aims of the institute were to develop and administer a program of economic and social aid to various Latin American nations. These memoirs, conducted by James D. Williams and donated to the Oral History Collection, were conducted with the various officials and aid workers associated with the institute from 1942 to 1948. Recollections include testimony on the economic and social structure of the nations in which they worked, the formulation of early American aid policy, and memoirs of personal life and relations within the institute.
Participants and pagination of transcripts: Betty Brooks Bell, 27; William Brooks Bell, 19; Edward Betzig, 49; Eliska Lowbeerova Chanlett, 20; Emil Chanlett, 45; Evelyn Goin, 22; Lauren J. Goin, 35; John A. Logan, 18; Dorothy Dee Longan, 35; John P. Longan, 53; Frank Lowenstein, 49; William Lownthal, 40; Glen W. McDonald, 51; Clifford J. Pease, Jr., 79; Charles Pineo, 44; Evelyn Pineo, 65; Lottie Chaikin Plaut, 43; Leonard S. Rosenfeld, 35; Mortimer A. Rosenfeld, 80; Carol Reno Teixeira, 69; Elvera L. Williams, 90; and James L. Williams, 173
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1985-1991
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