Notre Dame Archives
CWLK Frank C. Walker: Manuscripts
CWLK 95-98 Series : Democratic National Committee 1932-1952
CWLK 98/06-42 Subseries : DNC Financial Material 1932-1938
- CWLK 98/24 File : Contributors 1937
- CWLK 98/25 File : Contributors 1938
- CWLK 98/26 File : List of Contributors of $100 and over c1932-1934
- CWLK 98/27 File : Contributors of $1,000 and over c1932-1934
- CWLK 98/28 File : Contributors of over $500 c1932-1934
- CWLK 98/29 File : Receipts and Disbursements of Minute Men Campaign 1932-1933
- CWLK 98/30 File : Receipts and Disbursements, March-May 1932
- CWLK 98/31 File : Receipts and Disbursements, June- August 1932
- CWLK 98/32 File : Receipts and Disbursements, September- October 1932
- CWLK 98/33 File : Receipts and Disbursements, October- November 1932
- CWLK 98/34 File : Receipts and Disbursements, January- February 1933
- CWLK 98/35 File : Receipts and Disbursements, January- December 1933
- CWLK 98/36 File : Receipts and Disbursements, January- February 1934
- CWLK 98/37 File : DNC Detailed Payroll, March- May 1933
- CWLK 98/38-39 File : DNC Pre - Convention Bills 1935
- CWLK 98/40 File : Miscellaneous Financial Material 1932-1934
- CWLK 98/41 File : Pennsylvania Railroad Receipts 1934-1936
- CWLK 98/42 File : Financial Memoranda 1932
CWLK 99/01-31 Series : Japanese Negotiations 1941-1953
In January of 1941 Frank Walker was asked to deliver unofficial messages from
some members of the Japanese government to President Roosevelt. The request
came from Father James M. Drought and Bishop James Edward Walsh, two
members of the Maryknoll foreign mission society whose work in Japan had
brought them into contact with Tadao Wikawa (also called Paul Wikawa), a
prominent Japanese banker with close ties to his government. Walker agreed to
serve as an intermediary between the United States government, primarily
Secretary of State Cordell Hull, and the Japanese government. The subjects of the
negotiations were the strained relations between the two countries and possible
agreements that might ease the tensions. Roosevelt asked Walker to make
unofficial contacts with the Japanese embassy and to reduce to writing whatever
proposals the Japanese made. The records from these negotiations include
accounts of meetings, correspondence among the participants, memoranda to
Roosevelt and Cordell Hull, chronologies of events, position papers, texts of
cables, and newspaper clippings on Japanese- American relations. Most of the
contacts were by telephone or personal interview and few written communications
were exchanged. Also included in this series are records generated after World
War II as historians and Congress investigated the events leading up to the attack
on Pearl Harbor. Included in this category are correspondence, excerpts from
books on the topic, accounts of the events by various participants, and testimony
and reports from the 1946 congressional investigation into the Pearl Harbor attack.
Walker's own account of the negotiations and related events can be found in the
Memoirs Series (boxes 122-125).
- CWLK 99/01 File : Telephone and Appointment Log 1941
- CWLK 99/02 File : Memoranda, January- March 1941
- CWLK 99/03 File : Correspondence and Proposal Drafts, May- July 1941
- CWLK 99/04 File : Correspondence, telegrams, notes, proposals 1941-1954
- CWLK 99/05 File : Document List, Correspondence, Memoranda, March-July 1941
- CWLK 99/06 File : Correspondence, clippings, March- July 1941
- CWLK 99/07 File : Correspondence and proposals, May- November 1941
- CWLK 99/08 File : Notes, Memorandum, Correspondence, June-July 1941
- CWLK 99/09 File : Correspondence, Memoranda, September 1941
- CWLK 99/10 File : Bishop Walsh's statement, October 1941
- CWLK 99/11 File : Bishop Walsh Memorandum, 12/15 1941
- CWLK 99/12 File : Memorandum and Correspondence 1941-1949
- CWLK 99/13 File : Brief Case of Tadao Wikawa 1941
- CWLK 99/14 File : Contents of Inner Sleeve of Tadao Wikawa Brief Case 1940-1941
- CWLK 99/15 File : Contents of Tadao Wikawa Brief Case 1941-1946
- CWLK 99/16 File : Envelope containing Japanese money from Brief Case 1941
- CWLK 99/17-18 File : Correspondence, Memoranda, Reports 1940-1955
- CWLK 99/19 File : PEACE AND WAR: US FOREIGN POLICY, 1931-1941 1942
- CWLK 99/20 File : Miscellaneous Press Clippings 1942-1946
- CWLK 99/21 File : Correspondence- Fr. James Drought, MM 1941-1942
- CWLK 99/22 File : Memoranda and Clippings 1952-1953
- CWLK 99/23 File : Photocopies of Congressional Report on Pearl Harbor 1941-1949
- CWLK 99/24 File : The X Memorandum 1945
- CWLK 99/25 File : Hull Statement to Joint Committee on Pearl Harbor 1945-1946
- CWLK 99/26 File : Bishop Walsh Affidavit to International Tribunal 1947
- CWLK 99/27 File : Memoranda 1941-1949
- CWLK 99/28 File : Memoranda, Clippings 1952
- CWLK 99/29 File : Notes, Memoranda 1953
- CWLK 99/30 File : Memoranda, clippings 1953
- CWLK 99/31 File : Excerpts from THE UNDECLARED WAR 1953
- CWLK 99/31 Author : William L. Langer and S. Everett Gleason 1953
CWLK 99-102 Series : United Nations Organization 1942-1946
In 1946 Frank Walker accompanied Secretary of State James Byrnes, Eleanor
Roosevelt, and Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. to London as a member of the United
States delegation to the first session of the United Nations (U.N.) following the
adoption of the group's charter at the San Francisco Conference in 1945. Walker's
records from these meetings include correspondence, his diary for December 1945
to February 1946, reports of the United States delegation, memoranda reporting
meetings with other delegations, U.N. General Assembly resolutions and
amendments, lists of U.N. committees and minutes from their meetings, a digest
of world press comments on the U.N., and press releases. Correspondents include
other members of the United States delegation, organizations and individuals
interested in world cooperation, delegates from other countries, and U.N. officials.
Walker's work with the United Nations Organization and the U.N. delegation was
his last act of public service before returning to his family business and personal
interests. Newspaper clippings concerning United Nations activities of this period
can be found in the Scrapbook Series.
- CWLK 99-100 Subseries : UNO Correspondence, Memoranda, Walker Diary 1945-1946
- CWLK 99/32 File : A 1945-1946
- CWLK 99/33 File : Atomic Bomb 1945-1946