Reminiscences of Hilda Anderson : oral history, 1977.

Biographical Note

Government official; interviewee's nickname is "Red."

Scope and Contents

Childhood in Brooklyn; education, Columbia and Cornell Universities; China 1931-37: arrival, evacuation, Japanese occupation; return to China, 1945; embassy work in Nanking; "China-Hand Purge"; McCarthyism; State Department reorganization, 1950; Foreign Service work in Taiwan 1953-56, Washington, D.C., Beirut 1959-63; retirement.

Subjects

• Anderson, Hilda, 1903-
• China--History--1937-1945.
• China--History--Republic, 1912-1949.
• Diplomatic and consular service--United States.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945.
• Stoltz, Susan, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.

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