Oral History Interview with
John S. Service
Political adviser to the Commander in Chief of American forces in the China-Burma-India Theater, 1943-45; executive officer to the political adviser to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in the Far East, 1945-46; First Secretary of the American Legation, Wellington, New Zealand, 1946-48.
Berkeley, California
by the University of California Bancroft Library/Berkeley
Regional Oral History Office (Rosemary Levenson interviewer)
Appendicies
[Notices and Restrictions | Interview
Transcript | Additional John S. Service Chapters]
Notice
This is a transcript of a tape-recorded interview donated to the Harry S. Truman Library. The reader should remember that this is essentially a transcript of the spoken, rather than the written word, although some editing was done.
Numbers appearing in square brackets (ex. [45]) within the transcript indicate
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RESTRICTIONS
All uses of this manuscript are covered by a legal agreement between the Regents of the University of California and John S. Service, dated March 7, 1980.
No part of the manuscript may be quoted for publication without the written permission of the Director of The Bancroft Library of the University of California. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, 486 Library, and should include identification of the specific passages to be quoted, anticipated use of the passages, and identification of the user. The legal agreement with John S. Service requires that he be notified of the request and allowed thirty days in which to grant or deny permission.
It is recommended that this oral history be cited as follows:
John S. Service, "State Department Duty in China, The McCarthy Era, and After, 1933-1977," an oral history conducted 1977-1978 by Rosemary Levenson, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1981.
Opened March, 1980
Harry S. Truman Library
Independence, Missouri
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Oral History Interview with
John S. Service
Berkeley, California
October 24, 1977
by the University of California Bancroft Library/Berkeley
Regional Oral History Office (Rosemary Levenson interviewer)
Appendicies
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TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIVE MATERIALS
Partial genealogy of the Service family 2a,b
Letter from Roy Service, 02, to the California Monthly. January, 1927 18a,b
A directory of foreigners resident in Chengtu, January, 1919. 25a
[Chinese names of denominations omitted. Ed.] Boggs and Service family photographs 31a
Letter from Grace Boggs Service to her mother describing preparations for an ethnographic trip into Tibet, plus some fashion notes. July 29, 1921 41a-c
Family, school, and college photographs 66a
Ratings on John S. Service's written and oral examinations for the Foreign 93a,b
Service, 1932-1933 General information concerning the Yunnanfu consular district. 104a
Revised, February 1, 1931 Notice of appointment as Foreign Service officer, unclassified, October, 1935 114a
Yunnanfu, Peking, Shanghai, and Chungking photographs 132a
Congratulations on promotion from the division of Far Eastern Affairs, 142a
signed by John Carter Vincent, Stanley K. Hornbeck, et al. , April 15, 1935 Dinner honoring Clarence Edward Gauss: Menu from the Columbia Country 142b
Club, Shanghai, March 30, 1940 Letters of commendation from John B. Sawyer and Clarence Gauss, 1941 153a
Letter from John S. Service to Caroline and Mother, Shanghai, April 7, 1941 158a,b
John S. Service's place card from dinner given by Chiang Kai-shek to honor 165a
Nelson T. Johnson. Personal card, China-Burma-India theater Excerpts from Stanley K. Hornbeck s memorandum on Service's despatch 228a-c
of January 23, 1944. July 27, 1944 Certificate from H.Q. U.S. Army Forces, China-Burma-India theater 266a
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The Dixie Mission, and Ambassador Hurley with Mao Tse-tung and 282a
Chou En-lai, photographs Letter to John Davies from John S. Service, February 14, 1945 306a
Letter from John S. Service to his mother, written from a Washington jail, 313a
July 27, 1945 Editorial on Grand Jury's unanimous decision that Service had no charges to 328a
answer in Amerasia case. Washington Post, August 21, 1945 Theodore White's testimony before the Committee on Foreign Relations, 338a-d
U.S. Senate, 79th Congress, December 10, 1945. United States-China Relations, Washington, 1971 "Senators Told of Tampering with State Department Secret Files" 348a
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David McConnell, New York Herald Tribune, February 5, 1953 Speech of Senator Joseph McCarthy: Wisconsin Retail Food Dealers 365a
Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 6, 1950. And Service and McCarthy departing Senate Foreign Relations Committee, June, 1950 Excerpt of remarks by Herve J. L'Heureux, chairman of the executive 367a
committee, Foreign Service Association, in support of Jack Service, March 29, 1950 Four sample cards from the Service index to the Tydings Committee 377a
hearings John S. Service to the Secretary of State. Formal request to have his name 384a
removed from the promotion list: March 23, 1951 Letter from John S. Service to his mother describing the Loyalty Review 388a
Board hearings, November 10, 1951 John S. Service's press release on his dismissal from the Foreign Service, 392a
December 13, 1951 State Department press release, ibid. 392b Transcript of Eric Sevareid's radio talk, December 14, 1951 394a-c
"They Fought Communism and Were Smeared." National Wage Earner, 401a Vol. 2, #9, p. 25, October, 1951 Collage of newspaper headlines on Service firing, December, 1951 402a
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Notarized letter from Annalee Jacoby (Fadiman) to John S. Service 404a,b
testifying to her knowledge of the birth of Valentine (Yun-ju) Chao's baby in New York, September 19, 1946, seventeen months after Service left China "McCarthy Reveals Review Board 'Transcript' Hitting State Department" 405a
Washington Post, January 6, 1952 History of SARCO 410a
Mrs. Grace Boggs Service s death announcement and poem, written by her, March, 1943. Died October 20, 1954 423a
Letter from Caroline Service to her mother, describing the United States Supreme Court hearings, April 1, 1957 434a-c
Statement of John S. Service prepared in advance of the Supreme Court decision, June 17, 1957 435a
Berkeley and China photographs 460a
"Security Case Star Works at UC Center" Tocsin: The West's Leading Anti-Communist Weekly, February 11, 1965, Vol. 6, #5, p. l 470a
Obituary of Chou En-lai by John S. Service, Los Angeles Times, 480a,b
January 14, 1976 New Yorker advertisement featuring E.J. Kahn Jr.'s profile of 4 |