Reminiscences of John Stewart Service : oral history, 1978.

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Reminiscences of John Stewart Service : oral history, 1978.

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Family background, birth and early years in China; Oberlin, 1927-1931; passed foreign service examination and return to China, 1933; vice consul, Kunming; language officer, Peking, 1935-1937; outbreak of Sino-Japanese War, 1937; political reporting; United States Embassy, Chung-king, 1941-1943, contacts and travels; on General Stilwell's staff, 1943: Dixie Mission to Communist headquarters, Yenan, 1944; recalled to Washington, 1945, AMERASIA case, arrest, clearance, assigned to Japan, New Zealand, 1946-1948; McCarthy hearings, Loyalty Security Boards, Tydings Committee, 1950; firing from State Department 1951; business career; appeals carried to Supreme Court; reinstated by State Department, 1957; United States Consul, Liverpool; retirement in 1962; Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley, California; author THE AMERASIA PAPERS, trips to China in 1971 and 1975.

Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Foreign service officer. From the description of Reminiscences of John Stewart Service : oral history, 1978. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309724904 Foreign service officer; b. John Stewart Service. From the description of Papers of John Stewart Service and Charles E. Rhetts, 1950-1963. (Harry S Truman Library). WorldCat record id: 70959670 John Stewart ("Jack") Service was a diplomat and China expert for the U.S. For...