Interview with Darwin McMillan, an executive at Caltex Petroleum Corporation, discussing his educational background, his early work experience, his employment with Texaco in China, the Young Marshall (Chiang Hsueh-liang), Texaco (China) marketing policies, Texaco's product lines in China, the formation of Caltex in 1936, his transfer to Caltex, his assignment to Caltex (India) in 1937, and the expansion of the Indian market. He also talks about his employment with Standard Oil of California in 1941, Army Air Corps in 1942, his reemployment with Caltex (China), the reestablishment of the Chinese market after World War II, the Chinese Revolution, and his internment in Communist China from 1949 to 1952. McMillan discusses his assignment to Caltex (Philippines) from 1952 to 1956, the building of Batangas refinery, the hiring of foreign nationals, the company reorganization in 1957, his assignment to Caltex West, his assignment as managing director of Caltex (Germany), refinery expansion, marketing in Germany, the Frankfurt refinery, divestiture of European markets in 1967, his assignment as regional director for Africa in 1966, his assignment to Caltex (India), nationalization, his assignment as regional director for South Africa in 1970, and the effects on Caltex.
