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Civil War as a mirror of American society.  Present also with the Institute is Dr. Knud Krakau, professor of history at the John F. Kennedy Institute of American Studies of the Free University of Berlin.  Dr. Krakau is conducting a study of the formative years of the Organization of the American States.

In December 1976, to coincide with the meeting of the American Historical Association in Washington, D. C., the Eisenhower Institute, the American Military Institute, and the United States Commission on Military History, sponsored jointly in the National Museum of History and Technology a scholarly session entitled "Non-Americans In The American Revolution." Attended by about two hundred persons, the session featured excellent papers on participation by the French, Germans, and Poles in our struggle for independence.  Professor Russel F. Weigley, of Temple University, served as chairman and Professor Peter Paret, of Stanford University, commented on the papers. 

In May 1977, the Eisenhower Institute co-sponsored with the American Committee for the History of the Second World War a conference entitled "Americans As Proconsuls: U. S. Military Government in Germany and Japan, 1944-1952."  This was the third and last of a series of conferences on United States occupation policy, carried out on a cooperative basis by the Eisenhower Institute, the Douglas MacArthur Memorial Library, and the George C. Marshall Research Library. The conference was held in the National Museum of History and Technology and was attended by some two hundred and fifty historians and individuals who played important roles in military government during and after World War Two, such and the Honorable Jacob D. Beam and the Honorable Jacques J. Reinstein.  The Honorable John J. McCloy, Assistant Secretary of War, 1941-1945, and U. S. Military Governor and High Commissioner for Germany, 1949-1952, spoke at length on his part in military government policy making.  Dr. Pogue and Dr. Robert Wolfe, of the National Archives, are presently engaged in readying for publication all of the papers that were delivered during this memorable conference.

As I mentioned above, the Hall of the Armed Forces in the National Museum of History and Technology is planned to be expanded.  As you know, it now consists of exhibits concerning our military and naval history from their beginnings in colonial times up to the close of the Civil