George Van Horn Moseley papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 4250
Subjects: Correspondence; United States; Communism; Foreign service; United States. Army; United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces; Bonus Expeditionary Forces; International organization; New Deal, 1933-1939; Boundaries; Conservatism; Labor unions; Emigration and immigration; Military readiness; United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944); History
Description: Correspondence, diary, military reports, statements, notes, speeches, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, and memorabilia covering Moseley's military career in the Philippines, on the Mexican border, with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, during the Bonus March on Washington, and extending into the period of his retirement.  Includes a typescript (4 volumes) of his unpublished autobiographical narrative, One Soldier's Journey, documenting his conservative views on such topics as immigration, labor unions, military preparedness, and international organizations and his opposition to communism and Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policies.   Also includes material relating to Moseley's testimony before the Dies committee on un-American activities in 1939.

Correspondents include Dwight D. Eisenhower, Walter F. George, James G. Harbord, Herbert Hoover, Douglas MacArthur, Joseph McCarthy, Robert R. McCormick, Joseph J. Pershing, John E. Rankin, B. Carroll Reece, Walter B. Smith, Joseph W. Stilwell, and Eugene Talmadge.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, George Van Horn Moseley and his estate, 1953-1960.

Gift, H. K. Thompson, 1985.

Army officer.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001037