Reminiscences of Joseph William Ballantine, 1961

Biographical Note

Consular officer

Scope and Contents

Childhood in India; United States consular service beginning at Tokyo, 1909; Dairen and Yokohama earthquakes; Japan Desk, State Department; London Naval Conference; Consul General, Canton and Mukden; Japanese government in Manchuria; adviser to Cordell Hull during Japanese conversations, 1941; Pearl Harbor investigations; Head, Far Eastern Division; Director, Office of Far Eastern Affairs; post-war program for Far East; occupation policies; Owen Lattimore, Joseph Grew, Eugene Dooman, Douglas MacArthur

Subjects

• Ballantine, Joseph, 1888-1973--Interviews.
• Diplomats--Interviews.
• Gordon, Beate, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.
• United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
• United States--Foreign relations--Japan.
• United States. Department of State.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1972