Peace Library

There will be no chamber of horrors on view for the conferees assembling in San Francisco this week. But only an hour away, at Stanford University in Palo Alto, is something like it: the world's most complete record of its past failures in keeping the peace. The Hoover Library on War, Revolution and Peace, started in 1919 by Alumnus Herbert Hoover (the only President ever to make a fortune in private life) while he was directing war relief in Europe, will be available for their study and reference.

The collection began with the records Mr. Hoover accumulated during his relief work in Belgium, has since expanded to include more than 1,450 manuscripts, 100,000 books, files of 8,800 magazines and newspapers, 31,000 posters and photographs, 4,500 maps, 300,000 feet of movie film. Among the nearly 6,000,000 items in the Library's 279-ft., $600,000 tower: P: Personal diaries of diplomats and heads of states, secret minutes of chancelleries and general staffs, data on revolutions and acts of treason, a trunk believed to contain the records of Mata Hari. Many of these documents were sealed by their donors until some future date, hence will be inaccessible to delegates. P: Records of all major international conferences since the Hague Conference in 1899, with particular emphasis on the period since 1918.

P: Minutes of the United Nations meetings at Casablanca, Cairo, Teheran, Yalta, Moscow, Dumbarton Oaks, Bretton Woods, Atlantic City, Hot Springs. P: complete documentary history of the League of Nations.

P:Official documents and publications of such groups as the Bank for International Settlements, the International Labor Office, the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation.

P: A set of the propaganda materials distributed by each of the delegations to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

To lure the delegates, the Library will hold a series of "days" in honor of each of the United Nations, during which material especially pertinent to the honored country will be displayed. To keep their records up to date, the Library's staff meanwhile will be busy collecting data on the delegates' own official doings.

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