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Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers, 1873-2013

15. Ava Helen Pauling. 1927-2013.

Manuscript and typescript leaves, correspondence, assorted biographical materials, publications and government documents related to the life and work of Ava Helen Pauling are the foundation of this section. Items of special interest include writings by Ava Helen Pauling on issues of peace, civil liberties and women's rights. The section also contains extensive genealogical data; correspondence and meeting minutes chronicling the work of prominent peace groups including the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Women Strike for Peace and Federal Union; and other assorted personal materials documenting Ava Helen's activities both within and outside the Pauling family home.


69 boxes

5. Materials re: Political Issues and Civil Liberties.

Boxes 5.011 - 5.014 (Page: 11 - 14)



5.011.
Ava Helen Pauling: Assorted Political Materials, 1940-1960.
11.1.
Newspaper Clipping: "Pegler: Declares Record of Hitlerism Is Only Propaganda Germans Need Fear", Chicago Daily News, April 10, 1940.
11.2.
Newspaper Clipping: "Tragedy In The North", The Strategic Picture", New York Times, April 10, 1940.
11.3.
Editorial Cartoon: "The Spoiler", Chicago Daily News, April 10, 1940. [Depicts a large boot threatening to stomp on Scandinavia].
11.4.
Newspaper Clipping: "Lock the Back Door", Chicago Daily News, April 10, 1940.
Newspaper Clipping: "Beyond the Pale", Los Angeles Times, July 21, 1940.
Newspaper Clipping: "Sudden War in Scandinavia Means Temporary End of All Its People Held Most Dear", Chicago Daily News, 1940.
11.5.
Newspaper Clipping: "Invasions Pull the Americas Nearer to European War", Publication Unknown, 1940.
Newspaper Clipping: "War On Reich By U.S. Forecast By Dr. Hart", New York Times, No Date.
11.6.
Typescripts, Correspondence, Notes, Newspaper Clippings re: War-time evacuation of European children, 1941.
11.7.
Typescript: Franklin Delano Roosevelt: 1882 [biographical information], Author Unknown, January 1946.
11.8.
Newspaper Clipping: "Bricker amendment would hamstring U.S.", Los Angeles Daily News, April 13, 1953.
11.9.
Publication: New Outlook: A Digest of Ideas and Ideals, June 1953.
11.10.
Reprint: "Selective Service: How to Obtain a Deferment For Your Client", American Bar Association Journal, September 1955.
11.11.
Pamphlets: 'We the People' - Historic Defense of the First Amendment, by Alexander Meiklejohn, December 14, 1956.
Freedoms and Foreign Policy, by Owen Lattimore, March 24, 1956. Both published by the Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms.
11.12.
Pamphlet: The Challenge of China, by James Muir, published by the Royal Bank of Canada, June 26, 1958.
11.13.
Bulletin: Women for Legislative Action, January,1959. [contains summary of AHP speech re: peace-related travels in Moscow and Australia]; Bulletin: Women for Legislative Action, February 1959. [contains advertisement for AHP speech, "What Science Means to the World", Encino, California, February 21, 1959].
11.14.
Article: "Reflections on the Asian Scene", [re: socio-economic development in Nepal] by Francis Dart, International Affairs Reports from Quaker Workers, American Friends Service Committee, April 1959.
11.15.
Memoranda, Correspondence, Deed of Trust: Southern Conference Educational Fund, [re: Amzie Moore project] 1959-1962.
11.16.
Paid Advertisement: "Peace in Europe--Peace on Earth", by Ernest O. Melcher, No Date. [1950s].
11.17.
Typescript: Who is a Socialist, poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, No Date. [1950s].
11.18.
Newspaper Clipping: "U.S. Plans to Give Allies Atom Arms is Reported", New York Times, February 3, 1960.
11.19.
Newspaper Clipping: "News Conference in Brief", New York Times, February 4, 1960.
11.20.
Reprint: "New Passport Bill", New York Times, July 5, 1960. Reprinted by the New York Emergency Civil Liberties Committee.
11.21.
Press Release: "Communiqúe on Meeting Between N.S. Khrushchev, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, and Raul Castro, Minister of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Republic of Cuba," Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, July 22, 1960.
11.22.
Reprint: "Committee Aide 'Kicked Upstairs' To Claims Court", The Gazette and Daily, August 23, 1960. Reprinted by the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee.
11.23.
Reprint: "Command Performance - A British Critic's Report on his Interrogation by a Senate Committee", by Kenneth Tynan, Harpers, October, 1960.
11.24.
Reprint: "Drew Pearson Reports: Plan To Revamp Senate", The Gazette and Daily, November 21, 1960.
11.25.
Reprint: "Forgery by Film", "Congressional Record Speech of Hon. James Roosevelt", The Washington Post, November 26, 1960. Reprinted by Friends Committee on Legislation.
11.26.
Reprint: "McCarthyism Cows Clergy, Pike Declares", New York Post, December 6, 1960. Reprinted by Emergency Civil Liberties Committee.
11.27.
Publication: "U.S. Bill of Rights", The Watchman Examiner: A National Baptist Paper, December 8, 1960.
11.28.
Publication: Monthly Bulletin, published by the Committee for World Development and World Disarmament, November 1960.
11.29.
Articles, Correspondence re: execution of Caryl Chessman, 1960.
11.30.
Pamphlets: A Fateful Moment in Our History - Dissenting Opinion of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Hugo L. Black in the McCarran Act Decision, 1960.
I Do Not Think the Court's Action Can be Justified - Dissenting Opinion of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Earl Warren in the McCarran Act Decision, 1960. Published by the Citizens' Committee for Constitutional Liberties.

5.012.
Ava Helen Pauling: Assorted Political Materials, 1961-1964.
12.1.
Memorandum: from Jim Dombrowski to Lenders in the Moore Service Station Project, re: completion of financing, January 19, 1961.
12.2.
Newspaper Clipping: "To Coexist and Compete: President's Statement and Moscow Declaration Compared", Publication Unknown, February 14, 1961.
12.3.
Newspaper Clipping: "Cardenas Protests 'Blackout' By Press", Publication Unknown, February 19, 1961.
12.4.
Publication: The Wells Newsletter, September 1, 1960.
12.5.
Article: "Correspondence: The Berlin Crisis", New Statesmen, August 4, 1961.
12.6.
Typescript: No Title, [re: nuclear weapons tests] speech delivered by R. H. Wright, September 3, 1961.
12.7.
Publication: New America, October 6, 1961.
12.8.
Correspondence: Women's International Liaison Committee for International Cooperation, 1962.
12.9.
Publication: I. F. Stone's Bi-Weekly, September 30, 1963.
12.10.
Article: "International Law: The Tribunal of the Nations", Time, November 22, 1963.
12.11.
Newspaper: םייהיירפ, January 6, 1964. [annotation indicates article about AHP].
12.12.
Reprint, Correspondence: "The Social Function of Dissent", by Henry Steele Commager, The Minority of One, February 1964.
12.13.
Newspaper Clipping: "Good and Welfare", Publication Unknown, February 22, 1964.
12.14.
Newspaper: Πορia θριaμβοu!, 18 Ματου 1964.
12.15.
Reprint: "The Hoffa Trial", by Fred J. Cook, The Nation, April 27, 1964.
12.16.
Newspaper Clipping: "Overhauling NATO", New York Herald Tribune, May 11, 1964.
12.17.
Newspaper Clipping: "A Letter to the President" by Lewis Mumford, Publication Unknown, March 24, 1964.
12.18.
Publication: I. F. Stone's Weekly, vol. XII, no. 19, June 1, 1964.
12.19.
Publication, Correspondence: New Man, vol. XVI, no. 6, November-December 1964.
12.20.
Typescript, Correspondence: No Title [re: Goldwater and Johnson Presidential Candidacies], by Evelyn Alloy, 1964.
12.21.
Typescript: The Role of the Married Middle Class Women in American Life, by Goldie L. Kaplan, 1964.

5.013.
Ava Helen Pauling: Assorted Political Materials, 1965-1971.
13.1.
Reprint: "Letters To The Editor: Playing Russian Roulette in Vietnam", San Francisco Chronicle, March 3, 1965.
13.2.
Newspaper Clipping: "Women Don't Rule Country; Here's Why", by J. B. Priestley, Santa Barbara News-Press, March 14, 1965.
13.3.
Publication: New Man, vol. XVII, no. 2, March-April 1965. [contains reply to previously-published AHP letter to the editor re: fluoridation of water].
13.4.
Paid Advertisement: "2500 Ministers, Priests, and Rabbis say: Mr. President: In the Name of God, Stop It!," Clergyman's Emergency Committee for Vietnam, published by Canadian Peace Congress, April 1965.
13.5.
Publication: Social Questions Bulletin, The Methodist Federation for Social Action, vol. 55, no. 6, August-September 1965.
13.6.
Pamphlet: Peace Workers Convicted!: Dr. Pauling, Mrs. Eaton, Dr. Spock Testify for 3 Against HUAC, published by Defenders of 3 against HUAC, Fall 1965.
13.7.
Publication: The Nation, June 13, 1966.
13.8.
Publication: The Nation, June 20, 1966.
13.9.
Publication: The Nation, December 12, 1966.
13.10.
Pamphlet: Concentration Camps, USA, by Charles R. Allen, Jr., 1966.
13.11.
Materials re: Petitions to impeach Lyndon Johnson, 1966.
13.12.
Article: "The Eagle's Eye Is On: The United States and China", Publication Unknown, 1966.
13.13.
Transcript: telephone conversation between Herbert Jehle and Walt W. Rostow, June 4, 1967.
13.14.
Typescript: Atomic Death or Social Reformation, by Jose Harari [transcribed by Lillian Albrecht], August 1967.
Publication: "Muerte Atomica O Tranformacion Social", by Jose Harari, 1966. [partially translated by Gus Albrecht].
13.15.
Newspaper Article: "U.N. Declaration on Women's Rights", New York Times, November 8, 1967.
13.16.
Reprint: "Abortion Laws: The Cruel Fraud", address delivered by Lana Clarke Phelan at the California Conference on Abortion, February 10, 1968.
13.17.
Partial Typescript: No Title [re: political actions in Vietnam], Author Unknown, 1968.
13.18.
Typescript: Statement by Herbert F. York before the Subcommittee on International Organizations and Disarmament Affairs of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, March 11, 1969.
13.19.
Publication: An Enemy of the People: How the Draft Is Used to Stop Movements for Social Change, Southern Conference Educational Fund, 1969.
13.20.
Pamphlet: The Cold War: The Insanity of Deterrence, published by U.S. Farm News, No Date. [1960s].
13.21.
AHP Notebook: Liga Internacional de Mujeres por paz y libertad, [International League of Women for Peace and Liberty] Seccion Columbiana, Bogotá, July 17-22, 1970. [contains AHP notes on conference sessions].
13.22.
Typescript: Final Report: Regarding the Position of Kathleen Gough Aberle at Simon Fraser University, submitted by Peter Carstens and Laura Nader, July 24, 1970.
13.23.
Publication with note by LP: Watch On The AEC: "To Curb the Unrestricted Power of the Atomic Energy Commission", published by The National Committee To Stop Environmental Pollution, September 16, 1970.
13.24.
Newspaper Clipping: "Vets find their glory on D.C. Mall", Publication Unknown, April 22, 1971.
13.25.
Typescript: Remarks by Robin E. Way at the Sierra Club Biennial Wilderness Conference, September 24, 1971.

5.014.
Ava Helen Pauling: Assorted Political Materials, 1972-1980.
14.1.
Article: "Our Present Dilemma: What is to be Done?", by George Wald, The Petal Paper, vol. 19, no. 4, February 1972.
14.2.
Reprint: "Who needs a war economy?", The Nation, November 20, 1972.
14.3.
Newspaper Clipping: "Women's 'No' to testing", Publication Unknown, 1972.
14.4.
Newspaper Clipping: "Abortion ruling: US landmark", Sydney Morning Herald, April 30, 1973.
14.5.
Newspaper Clipping: "Senators may impeach Nixon over Watergate", The Australian, April 30, 1973.
14.6.
Newspaper Clipping: "Abortion bill 'an insult'", Sydney Morning Herald, May 1, 1973.
14.7.
Newspaper Clipping: "Watergate: the first 10 months", Sunday Morning Herald, May 1, 1973.
14.8.
Newspaper Clipping: "Nixon 'furious' over FBI swoop", The Sun, May 3, 1973.
14.9.
Newspaper Clipping: "Is Watergate Nixon's Waterloo?", The Sun-Herald, May 6, 1973.
14.10.
Newspaper Clipping: "Nixon quietly thinks it over", Publication Unknown, 1973.
14.11.
Newspaper Clipping: "The POW List", Publication Unknown, 1973.
14.12.
Editorial Cartoon: [depicts Richard Nixon sweeping Watergate under a rug] "Oh, Hello - - Uh - - Look what I'm uncovering here.", Publication Unknown, 1973.
14.13.
Reprint: "A Renewed Effort", Letter to the Editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, by Otto Nathan, December 1974.
14.14.
Newspaper Clipping: "Charles McCabe Himself," San Francisco Chronicle, 1974.
14.15.
Newspaper Clipping: "PM's wife blasts women's embassy", Telegraph, January 3, 1975.
14.16.
News Advertisement: "What Are They Afraid Of?", [paid advertisement endorsed by AHP & LP, re: the Rosenberg case] New York Times, June 18, 1975.
14.17.
Newspaper Clipping: "Weapons and Poverty" San Francisco Chronicle, September 16, 1975.
14.18.
Newspaper Clipping: "Is Sakharov being honest about Russian scientists?", The Sunday Times; December 21, 1975.
14.19.
Article: "International Women's Year", Science, December 26, 1975.
14.20.
Reprint: "Feminists and Other Useful Fanatics - The Politics of Crazy Jane", by Garry Wills, Harpers, June 1976.
14.21.
Article: "Women in World Politics", World Issues, June/July 1977.
14.22.
Publication: Monthly Review, January, 1979.
14.23.
Newspaper Clipping: "Our Man Hoppe: A Popular Draft", San Francisco Chronicle, January 28, 1980.
14.24.
Publication: Report by the Central Statistical Office of the GDR on the fulfillment of the 1979 National Economic Plan, 1980.