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Henry Byroade Oral History Interview

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Interview 1, parts 1-7
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Interview 2, parts 1-2

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Oral History Interview with
Henry Byroade

As U.S. Army officer, served in China-Burma-India theater, 1937-1944; deputy chief and acting chief, Asiatic Theater section, Operations Division, Office, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, 1944-45; Military Attaché to General George C. Marshall on China mission, 1946-47; Deputy Director and Director, Bureau of German Affairs, U.S. State Department, 1949-52; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, 1952-55; U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, 1955-56, Union of South Africa, 1956-59, Afghanistan, 1959-62, Burma, 1963-68, Philippines, 1969-73, and Pakistan, 1973-77.

Potomac, Maryland
September 19, 1988 and September 21, 1988
by Niel M. Johnson

 

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Notice
This is a transcript of a tape-recorded interview conducted for the Harry S. Truman Library. A draft of this transcript was edited by the interviewee but only minor emendations were made; therefore, the reader should remember that this is essentially a transcript of the spoken, rather than the written word.

Numbers appearing in square brackets (ex. [45]) within the transcript indicate the pagination in the original, hardcopy version of the oral history interview.

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This oral history transcript may be read, quoted from, cited, and reproduced for purposes of research. It may not be published in full except by permission of the Harry S. Truman Library.

Opened November, 1989
Harry S. Truman Library
Independence, Missouri

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Oral History Interview with
Henry Byroade

 

Potomac, Maryland
September 19, 1988
by Niel M. Johnson

Summary Description:

Topics discussed include the building of airfields in the China-Burma-India theater during World War II; operations over the "Hump" to China; the Ledo road; the Flying Tigers; the bombing of Tokyo; the Marshall mission to China; Soviet dismantling in Manchuria; the Berlin airlift; postwar occupation of Austria and Germany; the issue of German unification; German rearmament; the Plevin Plan; the Schuman Plan; French-German relations; European economic integration; China and the Korea war; the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; U.S.-German relations; Zionism; Arab-Israeli relations; U.S. policy toward the Middle East; U.S. policy toward Iran; oil nationalization in Iran; U.S.-Egyptian relations; Suez crisis; apartheid in South Africa; U.S.-Afghanistani relations; U.S.-Burmese relations; U.S.-Filippino relations; and U.S.-Pakistani relations.

Names mentioned include Generals Caleb V. Haynes, Raymond A. Wheeler, Edward Alexander, Albert C. Wedemeyer, Claire Chennault, Joseph W. Stilwell, Curtis LeMay, Ed Hull, George C. Marshall, Clayton Bissell, Thomas Timberman, Lucius Clay, William Draper, and Omar Bradley, Chou En-lai, Mao Tse-Tung, Walter Robertson, Chiang Kai-shek, John Davies, John J. McCloy, Til Durdin,