John Cooper Wiley Papers, 1898-1967 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum
Collection Overview
Title: John Cooper Wiley Papers, 1898-1967
Primary Creator: Wiley, John Cooper
Extent: 6.28 Cubic Feet
Arrangement: The Wiley Papers are arranged into seven different series: Diplomatic Files, General Correspondence, Personal Files, Writings, Clippings, Miscellaneous Publications, and Commissions.
Abstract
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Collection Historical Note
John Cooper Wiley was born in 1893 in Bordeaux, France where his father was the American Consul. He was educated by private tutors until he enrolled in Union College for one year. He also attended the Georgetown University Law School. In 1915 Wiley was appointed clerk at the American Embassy in Paris. Thereafter he held a number of diplomatic posts in Europe and Latin America. After serving as a technical advisor to the American delegation to the World Economic Conference in 1933, he was appointed Counselor of Embassy in Moscow when the United States recognized the Soviet Union. He was Counselor of Embassy in Vienna when Germany took over Austria in 1938 and Minister to Estonia and Latvia when the Baltic countries were absorbed by the Soviet Union in 1940. Wiley also served as Ambassador to Columbia, Portugal, Iran, and Panama and American representative in lend lease negotiations with the Soviet Union before retiring from the foreign service in 1954. Ambassador Wiley died in 1967.
Diplomatic posts held by John C. Wiley: July 30, 1915 Appointed clerk, American Embassy, Paris; May 1916 Appointed Secretary of Embassy, Paris; January 30, 1918 Assigned to the Hague; December 12, 1919 Assigned to Santiago; April 10, 1920 Assigned to Buenos Aires; July 24, 1920 Assigned to Caracas; February 17, 1921 Assigned to Department of State; October 20, 1921 Assigned to Copenhagen; September 7, 1922 Assigned to Madrid; September 1, 1923 Assigned to Lima; July 1, 1926 Appointed First Secretary, Lima; January 7, 1926 Assigned to Berlin; May 1, 1926 Assigned to Copenhagen (Temporary); July 22, 1926 Returned to Berlin; April 10, 1930 Assigned to Warsaw; May 26, 1930 Appointed Counselor of Embassy, Warsaw; December 22, 1931 Assigned to Berlin (Temporary); May 26, 1932 Returned to Warsaw; June 1, 1932 Assigned to Madrid; February 16, 1933 Assigned to Department of State, served as technical advisor to the American delegation to the World Economic Conference; February 10, 1934 Appointed Counselor of Embassy, Moscow; March 9, 1934 Appointed Consul General, Moscow; August 26, 1936 Appointed Consul General, Antwerp; July 13, 1937 Appointed Consul General and Counselor of Embassy, Vienna; July 18, 1938 Appointed Minister to Estonia and Latvia; April 4, 1921 Assigned to Department of State; September 21, 1944 Appointed Ambassador to Columbia; April 10, 1947 Appointed Ambassador to Portugal; February 26, 1948 Appointed Ambassador to Iran; October 1, 1950 Assigned to Department of State; January 1951 Appointed to conduct lend lease negotiations with the Soviet Union; June 20, 1951 Appointed Ambassador to Panama; January 1954 Retired from the foreign service.
Administrative Information
Repository: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum
Access Restrictions: None
Use Restrictions: The collection contains material restricted in accordance with Executive Order 12065, and material which might be used to harass, embarrass or injure living persons has been closed.
Acquisition Method: These papers were donated to the Library by Irena M. Wiley (Mrs. John C.).
Related Materials: President's Official File, President's Personal File, President's Secretary's File.
Box and Folder Listing
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[Series 1: Diplomatic Files],
[Series 2: General Correspondence],
[Series 3: Personal Files],
[Series 4: Writings],
[Series 5: Clippings],
[Series 6: Miscellaneous],
[Series 7: Commissions],
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Series 1: Diplomatic Files - The diplomatic files contain copies of correspondence with the head of the Division of Eastern European Affairs in the State Department, telegrams and dispatches sent to the Department, memoranda and correspondence exchanged with embassy personnel, subject files, and miscellaneous materials such as background information, post reports, diplomatic lists, invitations, clippings, and pamphlets relating to the country in which Wiley was stationed. The files are arranged by country in the order of Wiley's assignment to each post.
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Box 1 -
Correspondence with the Division of Eastern European Affairs, 1928-1931 -
Correspondence with the Division of Eastern European Affairs, 1932-1933 -
Correspondence with the Division of Eastern European Affairs, 1934-1936 -
The Netherlands, 1918-1919 -
Venezuela, 1920-1921 -
Poland, 1930-1931 -
Germany, 1931-1932 -
Spain, 1932-1933 -
Department of State, 1933-1934 -
Department of State: World Economic Conference, 1933-1934
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Box 2 -
Box 3 -
Box 4 -
Estonia and Latvia: Telegrams from Riga, 1938-1941 -
Estonia and Latvia: Background Information on Latvia, 1938-1941 -
Estonia and Latvia: Dispatches from Tallinn, 1938-1941 -
Estonia and Latvia: Telegrams from Tallinn, 1938-1941 -
Estonia and Latvia: Report on the Czechoslovak Crisis, 1938-1941 -
Estonia and Latvia: Official Miscellaneous, 1938-1941 -
State Department, 1941-1944
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Box 5 -
Columbia, 1944-1947 -
Columbia: Naval Attache, 1944-1947 -
Portugal, 1947-1948 -
Iran, 1948-1951 -
Lend Lease Negotiations, 1950-1951 -
Lend Lease Negotiations: Chronological File, 1950-1951 -
Lend Lease Negotiations: Russia, Miscellaneous, 1950-1951 -
Panama, 1951-1954 -
Panama: Chronological File, 1953, 1951-1954 -
Panama: Communism File, 1951-1954 -
Panama: Economic Program, 1951-1954 -
Panama: Treaty Revision, 1951-1954 -
Panama: Press Releases and Clippings, 1951-1954
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Series 2: General Correspondence - The general correspondence is essentially personal in nature. However, much of it is with other foreign service officers and frequently discusses official matters. The series is arranged alphabetically. At the end is a small file of letters from unidentified individuals.
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Series 3: Personal Files - This series consists of files relating to bills, insurance, moving and storage, servants, and other personal affairs and is arranged by subject.
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Series 4: Writings - The writings include articles, memoranda, and notes on possible projects. Among the topics are State Department and foreign service organization, American foreign policy, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, France and Latin America. The series is arranged roughly by topic.
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Box 10 -
"A Permanent Civil Service or the Merit System" on the foreign service -
"The Foreign Service" -
Writings on the foreign service, 1928 -
"The Foreign Service", 1937 -
"1955 - The Foreign Service", 1955 -
"Foreign Service Reorganization - Morale and Public Confidence" -
"Department of State" -
"Reorganization of the Department of State" -
"Reorganization of the Department of State", 1961 -
"Reorganization of the Department of State and the Foreign Service" -
"Department of State: Accretion of Function; Loss of Efficiency"
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Box 11 -
"The Quest for Peace" -
"Diplomacy" -
"Diplomacy Gap" -
"Diplomacy: Neglected Weapon of the Cold War", 1952 -
"The Next War Discussed; With Malice Towards All" -
"Foreign Policy" -
"The Pattern of the Future or How to Bring the War Successfully to an Unsatisfactory Conclusion", 1943 -
Writings On Foreign Affairs, 1943 -
Writings On Foreign Policy, 1957 -
Writings On Foreign Policy, January 1958 -
"Foreign Policy", 1958 -
"American Foreign Policy: A Little Finger Nail Sketch by Upsilon", 1958 -
Writings On Foreign Policy, 1962 -
Writings On Foreign Policy, 1964 -
Writings On Foreign Policy (letter to Washington Post), 1965 -
"League of Nations" -
Writings on United Nations and Collective Security -
Writings on Berlin and United Nations, 1958 -
Writings on China -
"Castro" -
"The Soviet Military Presence in Cuba - Why?", 1963 -
Writings on France -
"France", 1960 -
Writings on France, "Rift and Schism", 1962
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Box 12 -
Writings on Nazism -
"Germany" -
Statement on fall of Germany -
"Berlin, Prestige Point of No Return" -
Writings on Great Britain, 1954 -
Writings on Great Britain, 1958 -
Writings on British Prime Ministers "Will Great Britain Learn?" -
"A History of the British-American Debt Negotiations of 1933" -
"Latin American and the Middle East" -
"Questions for Espectador" -
"Latin America 1945" -
"Economic Problem of Latin America", 1950 -
Writings on Latin America, 1952 -
Writings on Latin America, 1962 -
Writings on Latin America, 1963 -
"Latin America and We" -
Writings on the Middle East -
"Petroleum, Focal Point of Policy" -
"Panama", 1951 -
"Soviet Designs", 1951 -
"A Meeting in the Valley", 1957 -
"The Big Threat", 1958 -
"Missile Gap" -
"Foreign Mishmash", 1965 -
"Ignorance of the Obvious(Rise of Communism)" -
"Civil Defense" -
"I Knew Sinclair Lewis Suddenly" -
"Premillennial Scholia" -
"Propaganda" -
"Why People Travel"
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Box 13
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Series 5: Clippings - This series is a small file of newspaper and magazine clippings about Wiley of on topics of interest to him. The clippings are unarranged.
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Series 6: Miscellaneous - This small file is not arranged
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Series 7: Commissions - Certificates of appointment to foreign service posts. These are filed in the audiovisual department.
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