Reminiscences of Caroline Schulz Service : oral history, 1976

Biographical Note

Interviewee married John S. Service

Scope and Contents

Family, background, education; Oberlin, 1927-1931: meeting John Stewart Service; debut in Washington, D.C.; engagement and marriage, 1933; life in China, 1933-1940: impressions of Kunming, Peking, Shanghai; return to United States, 1940; AMERASIA case, 1945; husband arrested, cleared; foreign service in New Zealand 1946-1948; assigned to India 1950, husband recalled; life in India; recalled to Washington 1951; Loyalty Review Boards, interviews with Senator Hiram Bingham and David Lawrence; New York, 1951-1957; reinstatment in the State Department, consulate in Liverpool, 1959-1962; retirement to Berkeley, California; trips to China in 1971 and 1975. Much correspondence is included in the memoir

Subjects

• China--Description and travel.
• China--History--Republic, 1912-1949.
• Internal security--United States.
• Interviews.
• Levenson, Rosemary, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Security clearances--United States.
• Service, Caroline Schulz, 1909-
• Service, John S. (John Stewart), 1909-1999.
• United States. Department of State.