Henry Merritt Wriston

Henry Merritt Wriston (1889-1978)

Domestic and Foreign Policy

Wriston, H. M. (1911, June). "A Plea for Conservation." Speech presented at Wesleyan University Commencement, Middletown, Connecticut. Printed in "Commencement. Henry Merritt Wriston Wins Rich Prize. Degrees Conferred." The Wesleyan Argus, June 22, 1911.

Used with permission by Wesleyan University Archives.

Wriston, H. M. "Constitutional history of democracy in the United States; 1776-1885." M.A. Thesis, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1912.

Olin Library, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut

Wriston, H. M. Report on War Chest Practice Hartford: Connecticut State Council of Defense, 1918.

Wriston, H. M. Report of Connecticut State Council of Defense. Hartford: Connecticut State Council of Defense, 1919.

Wriston, H. M. "Forerunners of Colonel House and John Lind." The New York Times, March 6, 1916.

Wriston, H. M. (1924, December 10) Washington's Foreign Policy as a Guide for Today. Speech presented at Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut. Printed by Direction of the Council, June 1925.

Wriston, H. M. "American Participation in International Conferences." American Journal of International Law Vol. XX, No. 1 (January 1926): 33-45.

Wriston, H. M. "Comment on the Sixth Session of the Institute of Politics: July-August 1926" American Political Science Review Vol. 20, No. 4 (1926): 852-860.

Copyright © 1926 by the American Political Science Association. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press.

Wriston, H. M. Executive Agents in American Foreign Relations. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press and London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1929.

Olin Library, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut

Wriston, H. M. (1936, June 5) Economics vs. Politics Address presented at the Executive Committee and the Board of Governors of the American Paper and Pulp Association, the executive officers of member mills of the Institute of Paper Chemistry, and invited guests at the North Shore Golf Club, Appleton, Wisconsin. Printed by Institute of Paper Chemistry, Appleton, Wisconsin.

Used with permission by the Lawrence University Archives. Appleton, Wisconsin.

Wriston, H. M. "Court Issue: A Reply" The Social Frontier (October 1937).

Wriston, H. M. "Cultural Self-Reliance and the Democratic Process" Address presented at the Associated Alumni Meeting, 172nd Commencement, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Printed Bulletin of Brown University (September 1940).

Used with permission by the Brown University Archives.

Wriston, H. M. (1940, April 11) "American Policy: Positive or Negative?" Address presented at the Academy of Political Science meeting on "Economic Nationalism, Trade Barriers and the War", New York, New York. Published by The Academy of Political Science Vol. XIX, No. 1 (1940): 58-67.

Wriston, H. M. "Democracy and a Self-Reliant Culture" Journal of Adult Education American Association for Adult Education (1940): 1-7.

Used with permission by the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education.

Wriston, H. M. Prepare for Peace!. New York, London: Harper & Brothers, 1941.

Olin Library, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut

Wriston, H. M. "Can There be a Substantial Reduction in Non-Defense Expenditures of the Federal Government?" A National Radio Debate, as discussed by HMW and The Honorable T. V. Smith, Former Congressman-at-Large from Illinois, Moderator: Mr. Fred G. Clark. Discussion of the Text "Wake Up, America!", Over the Blue Network of The National Broadcasting Company, Sponsored and Released by the American Economic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. December 7, 1941.

Wriston, H. M. (1941, September 30) "After the War, What?" Address presented at the tenth annual convention of the Controllers Institute of America, New York, New York. Highlights also published in Trained Men (May-June 1942).

Wriston, H. M. (1941, December 17) "Unity for War and for Peace" Address presented at the Meeting of the Bond Club of New York, New York, New York.

Wriston, H. M. "Faith in Democracy" Pathfinder, America's Oldest News Weekly. (June 21, 1941).

Wriston, H. M. "The Worth of the Initiative: The Doctrine of Limited Liability One of Many Shortcomings in the Affairs of Nations; the Moral Initiative Vital to Maintenance of Democracy" The Technology Review Vol. XLIII, No. 5 (March 1941), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Wriston, H. M. (1941, December 4) "Wriston Assails Non-Defense Spending in an Address at New York State Emergency Rally Non-Defense Governmental Spending" Albany, New York.

Wriston, H. M. (1941, November 12) "Government Use of the Machine in War" Address presented at the Academy of Political Science Annual Meeting on "American Industry in a War of Machines," New York, New York. Published by Academy of Political Science (1942).

Personal Correspondence, regarding New York Bond Club lecture, November 17, 1941 - June 3, 1943, H. M. Wriston, J. Taylor Foster, Ralph H. Bollard, William M. Chadbourne, H. J. Fuller, Drury W. Cooper, Frederick B. Wilcox.

Used with permission by the Brown University Archives.

Wriston, H. M. Bases para la paz, la negociación de tratados. Buenos Aires: Editorial Claridad, 1942.

Wriston, H. M. "Subsoil of Peace" The Hazen Pamphlets No. 6., Edward W. Hazen Foundation, Haddam, Connecticut. Previously printed in Library Quarterly: Louis Round Wilson: Papers in Recognition of a Distinguished Career in Librarianship, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, Vol. XXII, No. 3 (July 3, 1942): 752-761.

Wriston, H. M. Challenge to Freedom. New York, London: Harper & Brothers, 1943.

Olin Library, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut

Personal Correspondence, regarding "Educational Opinion in Wartime" letter, April 13, 1943, H. M. Wriston (Providence, Rhode Island), Morse A. Cartwright (New York, New York).

Used with permission by the Brown University Archives.

Wriston, H. M. "Free Enterprise" Second War Congress of American Industry, The National Association of Manufacturers (December 1943).

Used with permission by the National Association of Manufacturers.

Wriston, H. M. Strategy of Peace. Boston: World Peace Foundation, 1944.

Olin Library, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut

Wriston, H. M. (1944, March 2) "The Functional Approach to Peace" Address presented at the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, New York, New York. Printed in Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York Monthly Bulletin Vol. 35, No. 9 (March 1944): 456-472.

Used with permission by the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York.

Wriston, H. M. (1947, October 21) "Economic Democracy" Address presented at Better Business Bureau, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Also presented (1947, December 3) at The Tax Foundation, New York, New York.

Wriston, H. M. (1948, September 24) "Charles Evans Hughes" Address presented Opening of the 185th year at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Printed by Akerman-Standard Press, Providence, Rhode Island, 1949.

Wriston, H. M. (1949, January 19) "Political Strategy for Business" Address presented at 29th Annual Meeting of the Associated Industries of Cleveland, Ohio.

Wriston, H. M. (1951, May 24) "How to Live Together and Like it" Address presented at the National Board of Fire Underwriters, New York, New York. Also presented at the Plant Management Conference of the National Metal Trades Association, Mayflower Hotel, Plymouth, Massachusetts, June 18, 1951.

Wriston, H. M. (1951, February 21) "Tensions" Address presented at U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island. Printed in U.S. Naval War College Information Service for Officers, Vol. III, No. 9 (May 1951): 21-40.

Wriston, H. M. (1951, February 22) "George Washington" Chapel Speech presented at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

Used with permission by the Brown University Archives.

Wriston, H. M. (1951, September 10) "The Validity of Limited Objectives" Address presented at U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island. Printed in U.S. Naval War College Information Service for Officers, Vol. IV, No. 3 (November 1951).

Wriston, H. M. "The Fabric of American Opinion on Foreign Affairs" International Affairs, Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, Vol. XXVIII, No. 2 (April 1952).

Used with permission by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Wriston, H. M. (1952, December) "'Policy' in Foreign Affairs" Address presented at U.S. Naval War College, Providence, Rhode Island.

Wriston, H. M. (1952, March 5) "The Role of Higher Education in Furthering the Security of the Nation" Address presented at United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. Printed in The Sesquicentennial of the United States Military Academy, An account of the Observance West Point, New York, January-June 1952): 107-117.

Wriston, H. M. (1952, September 10) "A Comprehensive Review of Anglo-American Relations" Address presented at U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island.

Wriston, H. M. (1952, April 26) "American Leadership" Address presented at Chancellor's Dinner for Faculty Members Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.

Wriston, H. M. (1952-1954) "Basic Factors Underlying our National Strategy" A series of lectures presented at Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Virginia and U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island.

Wriston, H. M. (1952, June 18) "American Leadership" Address presented at 196th Commencement of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Printed in The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Vol. LIV, No. 4 (1952).

Used with permission by the University of Pennsylvania Archives.

Wriston, H. M. (1953, October 23) "The Ideology of the West" Address presented at U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island. Published in Naval War College Review, Vol. VII, No. 1 (September 1954): 1-26.

Wriston, H. M. (1953) "American Freedom and Education" Address presented at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Printed in Maxwell, Allen, ed. The Present Danger: Four Essays on American Freedom, 61-99. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1953.

Wriston, H. M. "Henry Wriston Speaks to the Foreign Service on Personnel Problems" A summary of the Informal Comments of Chairman Henry M. Wriston, of the Secretary of State's Public Committee on Personnel, at a Luncheon Meeting of the Foreign Service Association at the Officers Club, Fort McNair, Washington, D.C., March 30, 1954.

Used with permission by the Foreign Service Journal.

Wriston, H. M. "Young Men and the Foreign Service" Foreign Affairs Vol. 33, Issue 1 (October 1954): 28-42.

Used with permission by Foreign Affairs.

Wriston, H. M. "The Voices of America" Foreign Affairs Vol. 32, No. 2 (January 1954).

Used with permission by Foreign Affairs.

Wriston, H. M. (1954, May 16) "Let Us Have Peace" Address presented at Centennial Convocation, Rhode Island College of Education, Providence, Rhode Island. Published in Vital Speeches of the Day (June 15, 1954): 542-544.

Personal Correspondence, regarding President Eisenhower, January 19, 1955, H. M. Wriston (Providence, Rhode Island) to Edward A. Rumely (New York, New York).

Used with permission by the Brown University Archives.

Wriston, H. M. (1955, June 8) "Political Factors in National Strategy" Address presented at Conference on Global Strategy, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island.

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Wriston, H. M. (1955, May 6) "Perspective on Security" Address presented at Conference on "Overseas Information Services: A New Career" at New York University, New York, New York.

Wriston, H. M. Diplomacy in a Democracy. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956.

Olin Library, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut

Wriston, H. M. "The Secretary of State Abroad" Foreign Affairs Vol. 34, Issue 4 (July 1956).

Used with permission by Foreign Affairs.

Wriston, H. M. "The Special Envoy" Foreign Affairs Vol. 38, Issue 2 (January 1960): 219-237.

Used with permission by Foreign Affairs.

Personal Correspondence, regarding lecture given to The American Assembly, October 30, 1961, Ben D. Wood to H. M. Wriston.

Used with permission by the Brown University Archives.

Wriston, H. M. "The Age of Revolution" Foreign Affairs, Vol. 39, Issue 4 (July 1961): 533-548.

Used with permission by Foreign Affairs

Wriston, H. M. (1961, November 14) "The United States and Tomorrow's World" Address presented at Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.

Used with permission by the Army War College Archives.

Wriston, H. M. "Thoughts for Tomorrow" Foreign Affairs, Vol. 40, Issue 3 (April 1962): 1-18.

Used with permission by Foreign Affairs

Wriston, H. M. Policy Perspectives. Providence: Brown University Press, 1964.

Wriston, H. M. (1964, March 23) "Education and World Affairs" Address presented at Education and World Affairs Conference, Greenbrier, West Virginia.

Wriston, H. M. (1964, April 6) "Address" Address presented on the occasion of his election as Honorary President of the Council on Foreign Relations. Printed by The Overbrook Press, Stamford, Connecticut.

Wriston, H. M. "Taking the National Pulse: A Review of the Work of The President's Commission on National Goals" The Saturday Review, September 11, 1965.

Wriston, H. M. "Publish or Perish" (Guest Editorial) The Saturday Review, July 17, 1965.

Personal Correspondence, regarding resolution of H. M. Wriston as Chairman Emeritus of The American Assembly, April 26, 1966, Courtney C. Brown to H. M. Wriston.

Used with permission by the Brown University Archives.

Wriston, H. M. (1966, October 26) "One World -- A Paradox" Address presented on his retirement from The American Assembly, New York, New York.

Wriston, H. M. (1967, March 2-5) "Expanding Ideas in a Shrinking World" Address presented at the Eighteenth Conference, Bennett College, Millbrook, New York.

Wriston, H. M. "The Scandalous Form 1040" The Christian Science Monitor (April 13, 1977): 27.