McHugh, J. M. (James Marshall), 1899-. James M. McHugh papers, 1930-1965.
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James M. McHugh papers, 1930-1965.
Included are military correspondence and intelligence reports, family and other personal correspondence, diaries, among them a journal that McHugh kept on his motor trip over the Burma Road (December 1938-January 1939), photographs (ca. 1300 items, many not precisely identified, of wartime figures, and colleagues and friends), manuscripts of articles and books, and printed items. Subjects of the correspondence and reports to 1946 include China in general, the Sino-Japanese War, McHugh's association with or impressions of the Chiangs, T.V. Soong, Ai-Ling Soong (Madame H.H. Kung), and other Chinese public figures, the management of the Bank of China, disputes and rivalries among American interests with contracts for supplying the Chinese Air Force. Other subjects include the bribery of Chinese officials, the administration of Lend-Lease in China, the construction and use of the Burma Road, the bombing of the British gunboat H.M.S. "Sandpiper," the work of the American Volunteer Group (AVG), Japan and the Japanese people, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the activities of William Henry Donald, advisor to the Chiangs, Ambassador Nelson Trusler Johnson, and Clarence Gauss, Vice-President Hyman G. Rickover, General Evans F. Carlson, and General Claire Lee Chennault. After 1946, the letters are primarily analyses of events of national and international importance, such as the civil war in Indo-China and tVietnamese conflict, Soviet-American relations, Sino-Soviet relations, Amcan presidential elections, and the foreign policies of the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations, written to and from various representatives of Jardine, Matheson & Co. and Balfour, Guthrie & Co., including Hugh David MacEwen Barton, David Bosanquet, Michael Alexander Robert Young-Herries, John Henry Keswick, William Johnson Keswick, and Erik Watts; also correspondence with Richard R. Smith, formerly with the British-American Tobacco Company (BAT) in Shanghai, on world affairs and on Smith's life in California. Also, manuscripts and correspondence relating to an article by K.C. Wu (Kuo-chen Wu), former governor of Formosa; and correspondence and articles of McHugh's wife, Maxine Davis, the writer. Other correspondents include Major Ronald Aubry Boone, John H. Bruins, General Evans Fordyce Carlson, General Claire Lee Chennault, Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Mayling Soong), Oscar Sidney Cox, Commander John Marion Creighton, C.D. Culbertson, Lauchlin Currie, William Henry Donald, Herbert B. Elliston, Abijah Upson Fox, Clarence E. Gauss, Robin Gordon. Other correspondents include Major Edward Gillette Hagan, Luther Hartwell Hodges, General Thomas Holcomb, Cordell Hull, Juang P'ing-heng (P.H. Whang), British Ambassador Archibald Clark Kerr, Claire (Lady) Keswick, Val St. J. Killery, Franklin William Knox, John Magruder, Rear Admiral Edward John Marquart, Lieutenant Commander Milton Edward Miles, Sir Geoffrey Alexander Stafford Northcote, Duncan Oppenheim, George M. Schurman, Charles Vincent Sheehan, Edgar Snow, Harold John Timperley, Rear Admiral Kemp Tolley, John Carter Vincent, and Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell.
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