Call Number:

CDG-A.Committee on Cultural Relations.Latin America

Repository:

Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Extent:

0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear in.)

Date:

1927-1940 (bulk)

Abstract:

Primarily printed material including correspondence, reports, publicity materials, pamphlets, and one serial publication"Three Americas." Correspondents include Hubert Herring.

Committee on Cultural Relations with Latin America; headquartered in New York, New York; began in 1926 as an outgrowth of an informal experiment"The Seminar in Mexico" started by Hubert Herring, with the early and continued support of John Dewey, Henry Goddard Leach, Herbert Croly, Paul U. Kellogg, Stuart Chase, Florence E. Allen, and many others, who believed that a strong body of informed public opinion assured the only basis for equitable and peaceful inter-American relations; by means of annual Seminars, it provided cultural interchanges between Latin Americans and people of the United States.