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Emma Beatrice Haas was left without income after Arthur’s death. Using her skills in multiple languages, she first worked at the Notre Dame Archives and from there she transferred to the National Archives in Washington. She was recruited by the OSS and subsequently by the CIA and had a successful career in identifying Nazi criminals in hiding, during the first years after the war. She continued to serve and while closer details were not disclosed by the CIA archives, her personal letter and postcard collection reveals that she was stationed in Japan, Korea, Egypt and Algeria, all hotspots of US foreign politics and involvement before her final retirement. She died in 1985, more than forty years after the death of Arthur.
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As an historian, McAvoy broke new ground with his interpretative approach that focused on accurate documentation, the rejection of generalizations, and an impartial judgment on the history of the Catholic Church. He wrote in many historical fields but made his most significant contribution to American church history and educational history by creating a composite sketch of American Catholicism in history, especially through his unique perspective of looking at all events through the lens of Catholicism's minority status. Richard Gribble, “Thomas T. McAvoy, CSC: Historian, Archivist and Educator,” American Catholic Studies 115, 1 (2004): 25–43.
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Yves Simon retired in 1958 due to illness and in his last letters to Emma Beatrice Haas in 1949, he already complained of frequent indisposition. Even during his time in Chicago, he lived in South Bend where he died of cancer in 1961. Walter Nicgorski, “Yves R. Simon: A Philosopher's Quest for Science and Prudence,” The Review of Politics 71 (2009): 68–84.
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On the implementation of the ROTC Program of the Navy at the University of Notre Dame see Thomas E. Blantz, The University of Notre Dame – A History (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020), 321–347.
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For sons of university employees, university fees were traditionally waived but the incidental costs for room and board, study materials, and related costs were still required.
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McAvoy to EBH (Notre Dame, IN, February 15, 1943).
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McAvoy to EBH (Notre Dame, IN, February 17, 1943).
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McAvoy to EBH (Notre Dame, IN, January 8, 1943).
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Ibid.
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Inquiries by the author and various family members to the CIA - based on the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) - about the person and area of responsibility of Emma Beatrice Haas during her work there between 1945 and 1960 were turned down or ignored.
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According to the family, these trips were business trips although there is no direct written evidence for this. It is, however, unlikely that such extensive travel could have been financed from the family’s private coffers; the age of cheap, global mass tourism was still forty years away.
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Yves Simon wrote nothing about Emma Haas’ special difficulties, which were probably a matter of professional decisions that she had to make. Yves Simon to EBH (South Bend, May 19, 1950).
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Yves Simon to EBH (South Bend, November 13, 1950).
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Yves Simon to EBH (South Bend, March 16, 1953).
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Arthur G. Haas, Metternich, Reorganization and Nationality 1813—1818 (Wiesbaden: Steiner Verlag, 1963).
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Yves Simon to EBH (South Bend, October 3, 1953).
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Wiescher, M. (2021). Emma Beatrice Haas. In: Arthur E. Haas - The Hidden Pioneer of Quantum Mechanics. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80606-4_29
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