Box 1

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Official correspondence, documents and sundry accounts, pertaining to McCeney Werlich's employment with American Locomotive Company; military service during World War I; and foreign service career, including assignments in riga, Latvia and Warsaw, Poland. Files are arranged chronologically.

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Material concerns Werlich's employment with the American Locomotive Company. Includes: letter expressing interest in employment in ALC's foreign contract office; ALC's reply, detailing customary one year apprenticeship as shop draftsman; and financial accounts, including personal expenses and travelling vouchers.

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Correspondence and sundry documents concerning werlich's military service as a liaison officer with the American Expeditionary Forces in France. Includes: enlistment notice; discharge notice (physical disability); subsequent orders to report to Bordeaux for liaison work; War Rick Insurance certificate; copies of various orders, transport vouchers and passes; and correspondence concerning commissions in the Officer's Reserve Corps.

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Correspondence concerning the closing of American Locomotive Company's European office, and Werlich's decision to remain in Europe; correspondence with State Department concerning Werlich's application for the foreign service; and letters of endorsement from Senators David I. Walsh and Walter Edge, and from H. E. Lowell, dean of M.I.T.

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Notice of examination date and test results [Werlich failed to pass]; correspondence with Harlain Miller [American Embassy/Paris]; notification of next examination date; examination results, and notice of acceptance.

Scope and Contents The file includes, among other material: - Assignment to Riga as Vice-Consul in American Consulate, signed by Joseph Grew. 5/25/26. - Orders to attend Preliminary Conference on Oil Pollution of Navigable waters. 6/1/26. - Carbon of letter to William Dawson, concerning rye production in Latvia. 10/16/26. - TLS, William Dawson. 10/31/26. - Carbon of letter to H. F. Worley [Customs Information Exchange] concerning the duties of vice-consul and difficulties over the exportation of caviar....

Scope and Contents The file includes, among other material: - TLS, Frederick W. B. Coleman, concerning the impropriety of arriving at dinner "17 minutes after the Minister." 1/8/27. - Memorandum on available consular funds on hand. 2/24/27. - State Department memorandum: "I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of 28th February 1927... that from this date you have taken charge of the American Consulate in Riga." 3/3/27. - Carbon of review of the Consulate's trade work for the year 1926,...

Scope and Contents The file includes, among other material: - Carbon of review of commercial and economis work received from the Consulate for 1927. - Copy of telegram from Kellogg, concerning the "Transfer of Werlich as Third Secretary of Legation Warsaw to fill urgent vacancy. 1/25/28. - Copy of Oath of allegiance and Office. - TLS, Robert Kelley, concerning method of filing reports. 8/7/28. - TLS, John foster Dulles, concerning volume of records on Polish Stabilization Measures of 1927. 9/7/28. - Carbon of...

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Official correspondence, documents and sundry accounts, pertaining to McCeney Werlich's employment with American Locomotive Company; military service during World War I; and foreign service career, including assignments in riga, Latvia and Warsaw, Poland. Files are arranged chronologically.

Scope and Contents - TLS, Alexander P. Moore to Werlich: "The law making Poland an embassy, has not yet been passed, but it will probably be passed this week..." 1/17/30. - ALS, Count Edward Raczynski [Assistant Chief of the Eastern Division of the Polish Foreign Office], concerning the U.S. Commerce's use of Soviet press as source for economic reports on the Soviet Union. 1/22/30. - Carbon of letter to Alfred W. Kliefoth [American Embassy, Bonn] sending statement of Polish concessions in the USSR; "At your...

Scope and Contents The files include, among other material: - Correspondence with Prentiss B. Gilbert [American Consul, Geneva], principally concerning Polish foreign delegation. 1/31. - TLS, Robert Kelley, authorizing the development of Kawecki as "a source of information, especially with respect to communist activities in Poland." 1/31/31. - Copy of assignment as Third Secretary to the American Legation at San Jose, Costa Rica. - Draft of letter to Charles C. Eberhardt, Minister to costa Rica. 3/12/31. -...

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Chapter XX: Accounts and Returns. List of Reports Required of Missions, etc. Travel Regulations. August 12, 1933. McCeney Werlich, Monrovia, Liberia.