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Correspondence with and regarding Clyde Sanger

File contains correspondence with Sanger, from the North-South Institute. Includes a draft and published version of a review Elisabeth Mann Borgese wrote of his book, "Ordering the Oceans: The Making of the Law of the Sea," which was published in the “Canadian Journal of Political Science.” Also includes correspondence discussing the closure of the International Centre for Ocean Development (ICOD).

Correspondence with Anatoli Kolodkin

File contains correspondence with Anatoli Kolodkin, who was the President of the International Maritime Law Association. Discussed is membership in the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO).

Correspondence with Ambassador Juan Somavia

File contains correspondence with Juan Somavia, an ambassador for the Permanent Mission of Chile to the United Nations. Included is an invitation to be the Vice-President of Latin American for the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO). File contains duplicate copies of a letter which have not been digitized.

Correspondence with Ambassador Jose Luis Jesus

File contains correspondence with Ambassador Jose Luis Jesus, Permament Mission of Cape Verde to the United Nations. Correspondence concerns Pacem in Maribus (PIM) XVII, XVIII and XIX, the eighth session of the Preparatory Commission for the International Sea-Bed Authority (PrepCom) (and includes an agenda and time-table), and copies of correspondence from Mann Borgese to the Government of Finland and the need to obtain additional ratifications of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. File also includes a statement by Ambassador Jesus on the work of the Preparatory Commission

Correspondence with Ambassador Don Mills

File contains correspondence to Don Mills, Jamaican Ambassador to the United Nations. File includes outgoing correspondence only, mainly about the 1995 Tokyo meeting of the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO).

Correspondence with Ambassador Bhagwat Singh

FIle contains correspondence from Elisabeth Mann Borgese to Ambassador Bhagwat Singh, discussing the set of up of the Independent World Commission on the Oceans. Discussed are membership, funding, scheduling, and other administrative matters.

Correspondence with Amadou Seitz

File contains some correspondence with Seitz, and generally discusses setting up an interview with Mann-Borgese. See file MS-2-744, Box 137, Folder 18 for a published transcript of the interview with Seitz. File also includes a copy (in English) of a letter Elisabeth Mann Borgese wrote to the editor of the "New York Times" concerning a story about Erika Mann being an FBI informer.

Correspondence with Alyn Ware

File contains correspondence with Alyn Ware, Consultant at Large for the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy. Includes a copies of two papers by Ware ('Returning to the World Court: Notes on Possible Avenues for Follow-up Action in the International Court of Justice on Nuclear Disarmament," and "Nuclear Denizens of the Deep: Can we Prohibit Them?"), discussion surrounding bill introduced in the New Zealand parliament ("Nuclear Free Zone Expansion"), along with a copy of the bill, a speech by Elisabeth Mann Borgese on the bill, and a paper by Mann Borgese titled "Ocean Governance."

Correspondence with Alva Myrdal

File contains correspondence with Alva Myrdal of the Myrdal Foundation, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. Correspondence discusses Myrdal's nomination of Arvid Pardo for the Einstein Peace Prize.

Correspondence with Allan Farmer

File contains memorandum and correspondence with Allan Farmer, the second President of the International Centre for Ocean Development (ICOD). Correspondence discusses the Ocean Forum conference and the closing of the ICOD in 1992.

Correspondence with Alfred A. Knopf Publishers

File contains correspondence with Aureilio Peccei (the Club of Rome), Susan Sheebran, Ashbel Green, and William Koshland. Topics of discussion include Pacem in Maribus (PIM) XI, Elisabeth Mann Borgese's family, "The Drama of the Oceans," and recent publications of editions of Thomas Mann's work.

Correspondence with Alejandro Gutierrez

File contains correspondence with Alejandro Gutierrez, who was the Director of International Ocean Institute Costa Rica. Included is an invitation to join the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO), and information about funding the IWCO.

Correspondence with Alan Cranston

File contains correspondence concerning World Federalism and the Law of the Sea with American Senator Alan Cranston. Also includes a Congressional Record (Volume 121, Number 152 - Part II), and a copy of a speech Cranston gave on Strip Mining in Death Valley.

Correspondence with Alan Beesley

File contains correspondence with Ambassador John Alan Beesley, Canada's ambassador to the Law of the Sea Conference, and the head of the drafting committee. Topics of discussion include Beesley's honourary degree from Dalhousie, ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS), Pacem in Maribus (PIM) XXVI, Law of the Sea training at the International Ocean Institute (IOI). File also contains a newspaper article on PIM XXVI, several articles and speeches by Ambassador Beesley ("The Missing Environmental Perspective," "The Negotiating Strategy of UNCLOS III: Developing and Developed Countries as Partners: A Pattern for Future Multilateral International Conferences?," "Purposes and Principles or Platitudes and Pronouncements," and "The International Constitution for the Oceans: Canada and the Rule of the Law"). Also includes "The Plot to Save the World" by Wade Rowland, which mentions Beesley and the UNCLoS conference, and copies of "Canada and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: The Need for Ratification," written/edited in part by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, and sent to various government officials.

Correspondence with Al Gore

File contains a letter from Elisabeth Mann Borgese to Vice President Elect Al Gore, asking him to reconsider American opposition to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Correspondence to Aurelio Peccei and the Executive Committee

File contains a memo from John Platt at the University of Michigan to Aurelio Peccei and the Executive Committee of the Club of Rome suggesting a conference on "megafamine." There is also a memo from Nello Celio suggesting that the current executive be reappointed for another three-year term.

Correspondence relating to the Geneva session of the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS)

Primarily form letters to various UN delegates concerning the proposed composition of an International Ocean Institute Occasional Paper on UNCLoS III. Please refer also to MS-2-744, Box 136, Folder 5 and MS-2-744, Box 121, Folder 10. Also includes "Preguntas y respuestas al cuestionario del Instituto Oceanico Internacional (Pacem in Maribus)" and a provisional agenda of the third session of UNCLoS III.

Correspondence relating to Oral history: North/South Institute

File contains correspondence with and documents from the North-South Institute, regarding an interview Elisabeth Mann Borgese did with them for their oral history series. Also includes a copy of the "Review," the newsletter of the North/South Institute (with an article by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, "Solutions for the Oceans"), and a copy of the interview with Mann Borgese by Cindy Weeks (covering Mann Borgese's personal life, work on the Law of the Sea, and her dogs).

Correspondence regarding "Vista, The Magazine of the United Nations Association"

File contains correspondence and issues from "Vista," the magazine of the United Nations Associations. Includes the following issues of "Vista": August 1973 (which contains "On Surveying Earth's Resources from Space" by Elisabeth Mann Borgese), May/June 1972 (which contains a report on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea), and January/February 1972 (which contains "Who Owns the Oceans? by Mann Borgese). Also includes a draft article, "Yugoslav Consititutional Law as a Model for World Law and the Law of the Seas" by Mann Borgese.

Correspondence regarding United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

File contains project descriptions, documents related to Pacem in Maribus X and XIV (ten / 10 and fourteen / 14), correspondence to Pierre Elliott Trudeau, "Convention for the protection of the Mediterranean Sea against pollution," "Report of the ad hoc Expert Group meeting on the Draft World Charter for Nature," and other miscellaneous reports. Reports written in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic.

Correspondence regarding "The Drama of the Oceans"

File contains correspondence with Pilkington Bros. Ltd., Princeton University Press, Alessandro Olschki, Claire McDonald, Sheila Martin, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, N. B. Marshall, Tom Mahnken, The Metropolitan Museum, Harry N. Abrams, Cyril Glasse, Judith Munns, Brian J. Rothschild, Donna D. Schwartz, A. M. Kennedy, Kjel Sandved, Srpoka Knizevna Zadruga, Flip Schulke, Professor Vigneaux, John Sylvester, Jack Drafahl, Deirdre Silberstein. Most of the correspondence relates to clearing pictures for inclusion in Elisabeth Mann Borgese's "The Drama of the Oceans."

Correspondence regarding Canadian ocean assessment hearings : ['L' - 'P' miscellaneous]

File contains correspondence with Canadian government officials, including Huguette Labelle (president of the Canadian International Development Fund, or CIDA); and L.S. Parsons of the Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans (outgoing only), and Professor Dale Poel (outgoing only). Correspondence mainly about the funding of the Independent World Commission on the Oceans and its public hearings in Canada. File contains duplicate copies which have not been digitized.

Correspondence regarding Canadian ocean assessment hearings : ['F' - 'J' miscellaneous]

File contains correspondence with Robert Fournier (outgoing only); Lennox Hinds (Canadian International Development Agency), and Ron Jones (outgoing only). Topics of discussion include funding and administrative matters relating to the Independent World Commission on the Oceans, and hearings to be organized on its behalf in Canada.

Correspondence concerning "Encyclopaedia Universalis"

File contains correspondence with Claude Gregory, John Dodge, F. Weizsacker, Jean R. de Salis, John Kendrew, P. Kapitza, Salvatore Quasimodo, Daniele Bovet, Georg Likacs, D. Lavergne, Linus Pauling, S. Radhakrishnan, C.F. Weizsacker, Werner Heisenberg, Robert Forbes, Robert Hutchins, and Theodor Svedberg. Correspondence mainly includes invitations to join the Encyclopedia Universalis' project. Also includes comments written about the encyclopedia by Marcello Colocci (on the "Physics" and "Chemistry" pieces) and Guiseppe Barbreri (on the "Geography" section). Contains English, Italian, and German correspondence.

Correspondence between the United Nations Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (DOALOS) and the International Ocean Institute (IOI)

File contains correspondence with DOALOS, the majority of which concerns the establishment of the Train-Sea-Coast-Program by DOALOS and International Ocean Institute (IOI). Other topics of discussion include proposed training programmes, and the DOALOS library, a working paper by Elisabeth Mann Borgese ("Analysis of Debate on Coordination") on the idea of the United Nations forming a "Committee of the Whole," to deal with ocean developments and ocean space in an inter-related and systematic manner. The file also includes a letter from Michael MccGwire.

Correspondence between the International Ocean Institute, Elisabeth Mann Borgese, Zhiguo Gao and Ping Han

File contains correspondence with Dr. Gao Zhiguo and his wife, Ping Han. Some of which concerns Pacem in Maribus (PIM) and the Ocean Yearbook. Other topics of discussion include Ping Han’s studying at Dalhousie. Also includes a copy of the article "China and the Law of the Sea (LoS) Convention" by Gao Zhiguo.
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