OPERATION TURNING POINT: END THE ARMS RACE

The records of the Institute for World Order, accession 3196, date 1948, 1958-1959, 1961-1982, with the bulk of the documents falling between 1966 and 1978. Included in the records are documents created by the World Law Fund between 1961 and 1972. by the Institute for International Order between 1970 and 1972, and by the Institute for World Order between 1973 and 1982. Scattered earlier records of the Institute for International Order date from 1948, 1959, and the mid-1960s. All of these records were created in the organizations' New York offices.

Because of the interrelated nature of the records of the World Law Fund, the Institute for International Order, and the Institute for World Order. the records of these organizations have been kept together as a single record group. When given to Rutgers University in 1982 by the Institute for World Order, the records filled 46 record center cartons. With reboxing and the segregation of duplicates, the volume was reduced to 42 cartons.

Included in the records of the Institute for World Order and its predecessor organizations are incoming and outgoing correspondence, memoranda, speeches. reports, agendas and minutes, transcripts of meetings, conference papers, drafts of published manuscripts, photographs, tape recordings, and movie film. Also included in the records are various printed materials. including pqmph1ets, brochures, journal articles, newspaper clippings. journals, and newsletters. Not contained in accession 3196 is a file of Institute publications.

The records of the Institute and of the World Law Fund. In addition, the records contain biographical data relating to Institute personnel. including Harry B. Ho11ins~ Elizabeth C. Little. Saul H. Mend1ovitz, and Earl D. Osborn. The records of the Institute also provide insight into the formal and informal interaction between various groups active in the peace movement in the United States.

Records of the programs and projects of the Institute for World Order relate to curriculum revision, public education, and the sponsorship of scholarly research. Falling in the area of curriculum revision are the records of the Institute's Transnational Academic Program. These records provide important documentation of the period during the 1960s and 70s when peace and world order studies were first added to the curricula of American colleges and universities. The Institute's public education projects center on the arms race, arms control, peacekeeping, and disarmament. The records of these programs demonstrate the difficulty of broadening active constituencies for issues related to peace. The Institute's principal ongoing research project is the World Order Models Project. Documented in the project's records are the views of Western, Eastern, and Third World scholars on the institutional structures necessary to achieve a just, peaceful, ecologically balanced global system which transcends the jurisdictional conflicts of individual states.

While providing significant insights into the activities of the Institute for World Order, the records in accession 3196 also contain significant omissions. For example, although the Institute was incorporated in 1948, the minutes of the board of directors in accession 3196 do not commence until 1970. In addition, the series of annual financial statements does not begin until 1971 and is incomplete thereafter. Similarly. the first records of an Institute president in accession 3196 are those of Harry B. Hollins who was elected in 1971. The records of the Institute's Grants Committee, begun in 1964, are even less complete, representing only the years' 1917-1978. Generally complete, however, are the records of non-current Institute projects begun in 1971 or later.

Over one-third of the records of the Institute for World Order document the World Law Fund (1961-1972) or Institute programs originally begun by the World Law Fund. These records are generally more complete than those of the parent Institute, although several gaps exist. the most notable of these gaps is the omission from accession 3196 of a file of the minutes of the Managing Committee of the World Law Fund. Missing also are the office files of the School Program (1963-1978). Records of the University Program (now the Transnational Academic Program) are generally complete, as are the files of Harry B. Hollins, Chairman of the World Law Fund's Managing Committee. The Fund's annual financial statements are also present, but only for 1961-1964. Missing from the files of the World Order Models Project are the working papers discussed at several project conferences, but as a whole the project is well documented.

A listing of the principal correspondents of the Institute's operating officers has not been prepared, pending the preparation of folder listings for several of the record series in accession 3196. Among the individuals appearing on the list will be Archibald S. Alexander, Grenville Clark, Norman Cousins, Alan Cranston, C. Douglas Dillon, Earl Osborn, and Cyrus Vance. Organizations appearing on the list will include the Arms Control Association, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Council on Religion and International Affairs, the 1968 Democratic National Convention Committee, the Fund for Peace, New Call to Peacemaking, and the Stanley Foundation.