Reminiscences of Joseph William Ballantine, 1961
- Name
- Ballantine, Joseph, 1888-1973 (Interviewee)
- Gordon, Beate (Interviewer)
- Title
- Reminiscences of Joseph William Ballantine, 1961
- Abstract
- 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
- Collection Name
- Occupation of Japan project
- Subjects
- Diplomats; Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941; Japan History Allied occupation, 1945-1952; United States Foreign relations 20th century; United States Foreign relations Japan; Ballantine, Joseph, 1888-1973; United States. Department of State
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1961
- Physical Description
- 271 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Consular officer
- Note
- Interviewed by Beate Gordon
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 15862561
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/9cv7-wg46
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.