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Peter Weiss Collected Papers

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Call Number:
CDG-A.Weiss, Peter
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
1.25 linear ft. (15 linear in.)
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item], in the Peter Weiss Collected Papers (CDG-A), Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
Date:
1949-1967 (inclusive)
Creator:
Weiss, Peter, 1925-
Abstract:
Peter Weiss was born in Austria and moved to the U.S. in 1941. He worked has as a lawyer from 1955 to 2006 and is interested in nuclear policy and other human rights and peace issues. He is married to activist Cora Weiss.

Peter Weiss was born in Vienna (Austria) in 1925, and came to the United States in 1941. He served in the U.S. Army from 1944-1946, and with the U.S. Military Government in Berlin (Germany) in 1947. After graduating cum laude from St. John's College in Annapolis (Maryland), he attended Yale Law school in 1949-1952. After graduation, he founded and became the executive director of the International Development Placement Association, a precursor of the Peace Corps. He practiced law from 1955 to 2006, dividing his time between representing multinational companies, as a specialist in trademark law, and doing pro bono work in the fields of human rights, constitutional law, and nuclear weapons law.

Weiss is currently President of the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, and Vice President of the Center for Constitutional Rights. He is a member of the Executive Committee of Americans for Peace Now, which supports the Peace Now movement in Israel. He was a founder, and later President, of the American Committee on Africa.

The material in this small collection was removed from the papers of Peter Weiss' wife, Cora. They represent primarily his involvements with the Foundation for World Government in 1946-1951 (including his research trip to Israel in 1950), the International Development Placement Association (IDPA) in 1952-1954, and the Foreign Policy Council of New York Democrats in 1966-1967 (which led to his being a delegate from the Bronx to the Democratic National Convention in 1968, where he was arrested).

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for these papers/records.

Gift of Cora Weiss, 2007 [Acc. 07A-044]

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Processed by Anne M. Yoder, Archivist, September 2009

Cora Weiss Papers (DG 222)

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Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Collection Inventory

Archival Resource Key. Foundation for World Government: general.
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the Foundation for World Government: general.
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the Foundation for World Government: correspondence, 1949.
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the Foundation for World Government: correspondence, 1950.
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the Foundation for World Government: correspondence, 1951 (January - July).
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the Foundation for World Government: correspondence, 1951 (August - December).
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the Foundation for World Government: correspondence, 1952.
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the Foundation for World Government: correspondence, 1953.
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the Foundation for World Government: attendance at conferences, 1949-1950.
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the Foundation for World Government: trip to Israel [Project Kibbutz I] [see also 1949-1950 correspondence folder], 1950.
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the Foundation for World Government: trip to Israel [Project Kibbutz I]—writings; notes, 1950.
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the Foundation for World Government: development of bibliography re: Judaism/Israel [operation Kibbutz].
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the Foundation for World Government: writings; research; speech.
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Archival Resource Key. International Development Placement Association, Inc.: general, 1954.
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Archival Resource Key. International Development Placement Association, Inc: meeting minutes, 1951-1953.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. International Development Placement Association, Inc: correspondence (general).
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. International Development Placement Association, Inc: financial records.
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with International Development Placement Association, Inc: in-house memos, etc.
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the International Development Placement Association, Inc: correspondence, 1952-1953.
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the International Development Placement Association, Inc: correspondence, 1954 (April-August).
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the International Development Placement Association, Inc: correspondence, 1954 (September-December).
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the International Development Placement Association, Inc: correspondence, 1955-1956.
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the International Development Placement Association, Inc: trip to Africa -- general, 1954.
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the International Development Placement Association, Inc: trip to Africa -- reports; notes [see also trip correspondence folder], 1954.
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the International Development Placement Association, Inc: trip to Africa -- correspondence, 1954.
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the International Development Placement Association, Inc: trip to Africa, 1957.
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the Gandhi Society for Human Rights, 1962.
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Archival Resource Key. Efforts in support of peace message (etc.) by Professor Georgio LaPira, 1965-1966.
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the Foreign Policy Council of New York Democrats: general, 1966-1967.
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the Foreign Policy Council of New York Democrats: meeting minutes, 1966-1967.
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the Foreign Policy Council of New York Democrats: plans for New York Times advertisement, ca. 1966-1967.
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the Foreign Policy Council of New York Democrats: signed statements of principles by Advisory Council members, 1967.
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the Foreign Policy Council of New York Democrats: Democrat clubs' responses, 1966-1967.
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the Foreign Policy Council of New York Democrats: Vietnam meeting, Manhattan Center (NYC), April 11, 1966.
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the Foreign Policy Council of New York Democrats: " Vietnam and Israel: There is a Difference" rally, Manhattan Center (NYC), June 22, 1967.
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the Foreign Policy Council of New York Democrats: correspondence, 1966 (March-July).
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the Foreign Policy Council of New York Democrats: correspondence, 1966 (August-December).
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Archival Resource Key. Involvement with the Foreign Policy Council of New York Democrats: correspondence, 1967, n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. Foreign Policy Council of New York Democrats: reference material.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) files on Peter Weiss [folder 1].
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Archival Resource Key. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) files on Peter Weiss [folder 1 cont.].
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Archival Resource Key. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) files on Peter Weiss [folder 2].
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Archival Resource Key. Reference material.
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