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According to Taylor, "one of the great public servants in the war" was his own colleague in the History Department, Coolidge Professor William L. Langer '15, who directed the Research and Analysis Branch, Office of Strategic Services. Starting in 1941 under "Wild Bill" Donovan, Langer helped organize what he calls a "super-university," a group of highly qualified experts on foreign affairs, experts that knew other countries inside out from personal experience and years of study. One of the first few in OSS--which was barely organized by Pearl Harbor--by the end of the war he had a staff...
...Langer plans to utilize the Palo Alto resources to continue on a one-volume history of the early 19th century, which he began over a year ago. Freidel will try to complete the fourth volume of his projected six-volume biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History; Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy; Frank B. Freidel, Jr., professor of History; and George Mandler, lecturer in Clinical Psychology, will attend with Guerard...
Professor Guber was in the United States last October to attend a meeting of the Bureau of the International Committee of Historians, and was invited by William L. Langer '15, director of the Russian Research Center, to give a talk on the study of history in the Soviet Union. He spent two days in Cambridge at the time and was shown around the University by members of the Center...
About Professor Langer, Guber said "the Russian Center at Harvard is headed by the present president of the American Historical Association, professor W. Langer, famous for his works on international relations, his publications of the documents on foreign policies of the U.S.A.--in particular on the eve of the Second World...