Arthur Bullard Papers

Bullard, Arthur (1879-1929)

Born in Missouri in 1879, Bullard graduated from the Blair Academy in Blairstown, NJ and attended Hamilton College for two years. He subsequently worked as a probation officer in New York City, during which time he wrote several essays on criminology. His work as a foreign correspondent for various american and european journals, which began in 1904, was highlighted by editorships with THE OUTLOOK (1914) and OUR WORLD (1922-1924). Like his press writings (sometimes published under the pseudonym "Albert Edwards") his later novels, travel books, and political volumes drew on his travels through Eastern and Western Europe, Russia, North Africa, and Central America. Bullard was also a statesman. He served on the Committee on Public Information's divisions in Washington, Western Russia, and Siberia from 1917 to 1919, was chief of the Russian Division of the Department of State from 1919 to 1921, worked for John W. Davis during his presidential campaign in 1924, and was a representative of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association in Geneva. He died in Geneva on September 10, 1929.

Further details on Bullard's life may be obtained from the "Biographical Material" folders in this collection.

Council on foreign relations

The Council on Foreign Relations (the Council) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and national membership organization dedicated to promoting improved understanding of international affairs and to contributing ideas to United States foreign policy. The Council has had a large impact in the development of twentieth century United States foreign policy. Its membership has historically been drawn from those in business, government and academia recognized as the nation's opinion leaders in international relations; membership is by invitation only. The Council's basic constituency is its members, but it also reaches out to a wider audience through its publications, Committees on Foreign Relations, Corporate Program, and media efforts, so as to contribute to the national dialogue on foreign policy.

The Studies Department spearheads the Council on Foreign Relation's efforts to promote informed discussion on issues shaping the international agenda and defines the Council's function as a foreign policy research organization. This "think tank" has played a vital role in the Council since its incorporation in the 1920s. The department includes a large number of scholars and research associates who engage each other, Council members, and non-affiliated individuals in research on topics and regions related to United States foreign policy, which historically have included topics such as international trade, arms control, and economic development, and regions such as the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, and Latin America, to name a few. The Studies program produces articles, books, policy reports and papers to disseminate the research undertaken by staff and members.

For a fuller history on the Council on Foreign Relations, see the finding aid for the Council on Foreign Relations Records located at http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/gb19f5814 , Peter Grose's Continuing the Inquiry: The Council on Foreign Relations from 1921-1996 , located at http://www.cfr.org/about/history/cfr/ and Michael Wala's The Council on Foreign Relations and American Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War (Providence: Berghahn Books, 1994).

Consists of the papers of Bullard, chronicling the major world political and economic events of World War I and its aftermath. Included are the manuscripts of several of Bullard's novels written under the pseudonym of "Albert Edwards", including COMRADE YETTA (1913) and THE STRANGER (1920), and a large file of miscellaneous writings in the form of articles, essays, memoranda, printed materials, and pertinent correspondence related to various subjects and organizations, such as the Council on Foreign Relations, disarmament, international relations, the Committee on Public Information, the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, Anglo-American relations, the League of Nations (the Secretariat of which Bullard was a member, 1926-1927), trade, economics, and World War I.

The Papers were the property of Bullard's wife, Ethel Bullard. What was not already in Bullard's private files was collected from the respective owners, as the "Miscellaneous Correspondence re Writings" folder in the Biographical Material section indicates.

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This collection was processed by Andrea Schorr in January 1991. Finding aid written by Andrea Schorr in January 1991.

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Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Arthur Bullard Papers, Box and Folder Number; Public Policy Papers, Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Publisher

Public Policy Papers

Finding aids author

Andrea Schorr

Date

1997

Creator

Bullard, Arthur (1879-1929)

Subject

Communism -- Soviet Union

Novelists, American -- 20th century

World War, 1914-1918 -- United States -- Public opinion

Organization

Council on foreign relations

United States. Committee on Public Information

League of Nations.

Place

London (England) -- Description and travel -- 20th century

Poland -- photographs

Panama -- Description and travel -- 20th century

Russia -- History -- Revolution, 1905-1907

Soviet Union -- photographs

Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921

United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century

United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century

West Indies -- Description and travel -- 20th century

Occupation

Foreign correspondents -- United States

Language

English

Form

Correspondence

Manuscripts

Photographs, Original

Postcards -- Poland

Postcards -- Soviet Union

American diaries -- 20th century