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My Year with Ambassador Joseph C. Grew, 1941-1942: A Personal Account

My Year with Ambassador Joseph C. Grew, 1941-1942: A Personal Account This is the story of one year of what has turned out to be a rather interesting life. Another such period was my year as special assistant to John Foster Dulles during his negotiation of the Japanese Peace Treaty. But with the fiftieth anniversary of Pearl Harbor, and of the unsuccessful U.S.-Japan negotiations that preceded it, approaching, there seemed special reason to set out my recollections of what I observed and participated in as private secretary to our Ambassador to Japan, Joseph C. Grew, in Tokyo and Washington from mid-1941 to mid-1942. The story of those negotiations, referred to on the U.S. side as "the Washington talks,"' is available in Mr. Grew's Ten Years in Japan (1944) and Turbulent Era, vol. 2 (1952), and in the official records, published by the Department of State, in Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Japan: 1931-1941, vol. 2 (1943). Fully set out in those volumes are the arguments supporting Washington's handling of the negotiations, on the one hand, and on the other, Ambassador Grew's firmly held views that Washington's stance was unimaginative and inflexible; that the Embassy's carefully considered reports, analyses and recommendations, centering on Prime Minister http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of American-East Asian Relations Brill

My Year with Ambassador Joseph C. Grew, 1941-1942: A Personal Account

Journal of American-East Asian Relations , Volume 1 (1): 99 – Jan 1, 1992

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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Abstract

This is the story of one year of what has turned out to be a rather interesting life. Another such period was my year as special assistant to John Foster Dulles during his negotiation of the Japanese Peace Treaty. But with the fiftieth anniversary of Pearl Harbor, and of the unsuccessful U.S.-Japan negotiations that preceded it, approaching, there seemed special reason to set out my recollections of what I observed and participated in as private secretary to our Ambassador to Japan, Joseph C. Grew, in Tokyo and Washington from mid-1941 to mid-1942. The story of those negotiations, referred to on the U.S. side as "the Washington talks,"' is available in Mr. Grew's Ten Years in Japan (1944) and Turbulent Era, vol. 2 (1952), and in the official records, published by the Department of State, in Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Japan: 1931-1941, vol. 2 (1943). Fully set out in those volumes are the arguments supporting Washington's handling of the negotiations, on the one hand, and on the other, Ambassador Grew's firmly held views that Washington's stance was unimaginative and inflexible; that the Embassy's carefully considered reports, analyses and recommendations, centering on Prime Minister

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Published: Jan 1, 1992

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