United Nations, 1943-1951
- Component identifier:
- Subseries 48-24
- Content Summary:
- Having participated in the establishment of the League of Nations and analysed its failure in Australia and war today (1935), Hughes was very interested in, though not a confident supporter of the United Nations Organisation. His papers include a large UN file consisting of statements, reports, and supporting documents presented by Evatt to Parliament, drafts of some of his own speeches, and parliamentary papers on the International Labour Organisation, the UN Conference on trade and employment and the 1945 Bill approving the UN Charter. Also included are printed items like Hughes' 1949 pamphlets U.N.O. Dr Evatt and world peace, newscuttings and pamphlets and notes on the Conference at Bretton Woods.
- Immediate source of acquisition:
- The W. M. Hughes Papers were presented to the National Library of Australia by Dame Mary Hughes in 1953. The collection was received in two consignments. One consisted of papers taken from the Perpetual Trustee Company comprising material from Hughes' Lindfield home and from his office rooms at the Commonwealth Offices, Sydney; the other came directly from Lindfield. Lists of the contents of both consignments are held in the Library's Manuscript Branch. With the agreement of the executors and the Library, much of the collection, was for a time, held at the Australian National University by Fitzhardinge. He was permitted sole access to the collection while writing the biography Hughes commissioned in 1951. Fitzhardinge's own papers documenting the writing of the biography are also held by the Library (MS 5400). The papers transferred to the Library in 1953 are by no means the total collection of Hughes' personal papers, although it is impossible to say what proportion has survived. (see Fitzhardinge, p.936).
- Names:
- Hughes, W. M. (1862-1952)
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Access and use
- Parent Restrictions:
- Available for research.
- Parent Terms of Access:
- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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