Reminiscences of Douglas MacArthur II, 1985.

Biographical Note

Diplomat

Scope and Contents

Decision to join the Foreign Service; Ambassador to France during German occupation, 1940-1942; State Department counselor, 1953-1957; impressions of Iran during early 1950s; Ambassador to Japan: United States-Japan Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security; Ambassador to Iran, 1969; impressions of the Shah of Iran; political stance of educated youth in Iran; problems leading to downfall of Shah's regime; sale of arms to Iran; the Shah's foreign policy in the Middle East; politics involving the sale of oil

Subjects

• Ambassadors--United States--Interviews.
• Burr, William, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Diplomacy.
• Diplomats--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Iran--Foreign relations--United States.
• Iran--History--Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 1941-1979.
• Japan--Foreign relations--United States.
• MacArthur, Douglas, 1909---Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Petroleum industry and trade.
• United States--Foreign relations--Iran.
• United States--Foreign relations--Japan.
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
• United States. Department of State.