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Frank Pace Jr. Oral History Interviews
… army, u.s., 2 , 129-133 army, department of the, 30 , 64-75 , 76-114 , 115-133 atomic weapons, possible use of in the korean war, 137-140 attlee, clement, 137 baughman, u.e., 59 bendetsen, karl r., 127-128 biffle, leslie, 7 , 8 , 54 blair house … 65 , 154 , 155 key west, florida, 58-61 kimball, dan a., 121 , 124 , 126 , 130 , 131 koje do island (pow camp), 113 , 114 korean military advisory group (kmag), 72 , 94 , 95 the korean war, 89 , 106 , 107 korean war, 31 , 33 , 66-75 , 76-95 , …
Karl R. Bendetsen Oral History Interviews
… | list of subjects discussed ] additional biographical information (submitted by karl bendetsen) during world war ii during the administrations of president franklin d. roosevelt and of president harry s. truman, bendetsen was an … 83 assembly centers (war relocation authority), 78 , 81 , 86-88 , 94 , 96 , 102 , 109-112 atomic bomb, possible use of, in korean war, 259 , 260 attlee, clement, 260 , 261 auer, harry, 5 , 7 banana river bombing range, 181 barnett, allison j., 74 battle of the bulge, 126-130 blair house conferences (korean war), 202 , 204-206 , 211 , 216 , 217 bradley foundation, 125 bradley library, 125 bradley, omar n., 120-128 , 133 …
Niles W. Bond Oral History Interview
… and consul, 1947; assistant chief, division of northeast asian affairs, department of state, 1947-49, officer in charge korean affairs, 1949-50; adviser to u.s. delegation to the 4th session u.n. general assembly, 1949; 1st secretary office of … the end of august and they gave me two months leave. i then went to madrid early in november and spent the rest of the war there, until 46. mckinzie: you were in madrid at the time that president roosevelt died and truman became president. you … walt butterworth was made assistant secretary for the far east in 47 and was looking around for somebody to take over korean affairs, because korea was just beginning to become an area of interest. he thought of me, because wed always gotten …
Frederick Nolting Oral History Interview
… people go into government service in the first place; perhaps we can start there. nolting: well, when i came out of the war (out of the navy), i needed a job. number two, i had, in the last six months of the war, been assigned to what was called … foreign service in those days. incidentally, some of those recommendations of our planning group were valuable when the korean war broke out. mckinzte: were you immediately assigned to dutch affairs? nolting: no. walt rostow was the first … allocated to south korea for things like concrete, steel, barbed wire, and things of that sort against a possible north korean invasion. so far as i know, those allocations were too late and the materials did not arrive in time. they may have …
Robert G. Nixon Oral History
… with the international news service (ins), 1930-58; ins state department and foreign relations correspondent in 1938; war correspondent, attached to the british army in france and belgium, 1940, during invasion of the low countries; evacuated … , 508 , 512 speech dealing with the defense perimeter of the united states, 495-496 truman, harry s.: informs of the north korean invasion of south korea, 719-720 , 721 as secretary of state for, 505 , 508 adams, sherman, visits white house, … 119 atomic bomb: germany: attempts to develop, 330-331 speculation of use in, if the war had continued, 337-338 , 340-341 korean war, possible use during, 805-810 leahy, william, opinion of the power of, 713-714 nixon, robert g.: knowledge of the …
General John H. Chiles Oral History Interview
… staff of the far east command, and supreme commander for the allied powers, 1948-50; staff officer and combat officer, korean war, 1950-51. independence, missouri july 27, 1977 by d. clayton james [ notices and restrictions | interview transcript | … became chief of staff, doyle hickey came in to be the fec deputy. so i was there during all the preliminaries to the korean war. the attack in june 1950 was an absolutely complete surprise. dcj: from secretary of the general staff, scap and …
J. Thomas Schneider Oral History Interview
… believe, 59 years of age.) a couple of months after that general pershing informed me that the president and secretary of war [newton d.] baker had requested him to make a tour of military camps and posts, as well as principal industrial areas … pricing policies in connection with the [18] munitions board, which i did, and while engaged in that, just before the korean war broke out, the president and secretary of defense louis johnson asked me to become chairman of the personnel … that were discussed. that council met at least once a week, and sometimes more, especially after the commencement of the korean war. but up to the time of the commencement of the korean war, that period in between there -- do you recall what date …
John J. Muccio Oral History Interview, February 10, 1971
… new authorities, there was a constant transfer of responsibility from u.s. military government authorities to their new korean counterparts. it was very intricate. one interesting and complicating factor that plagued me during this period was … of the very first u.s. international problems handled under the new mechanism of the national security council. and the korean position was elaborated and set forth in the national security council and issued by president truman, i forget the … was the first time that the transfer of military government functions to a civilian agency had taken place after world war ii. i would undoubtedly face problems they didn't have ready answers to, but for me to use my judgment and they'd back me …
John W. Snyder Oral History Interview, July 2, 1969
… to the director of the reconstruction finance corporation, 1940-44; federal loan administrator, 1945; director, office of war mobilization and reconversion, 1945-46. secretary snyder was a longtime close friend of harry s. truman beginning with … year 1951. this revenue bill was not quite up to what it should have been, but it at least made a step towards meeting the korean expenditures that were, of course, at that time, completely unpredictable. and we did take a step to try to meet some … in february 1950, i tried to emphasize the necessity for limiting the amount of excise tax reduction, because of the korean situation, and specified most urgently the need of reduction of the excises on transportation or property and persons, …
Leon H. Keyserling Oral History Interviews
… 40-43 , 106-109 , 111-112 , 129-130 , 148 budget for, 123-125 congressional liaison, and, 173-177 economic policies during korean war, 133-139 , 156-158 economic policy of the truman administration, impact on, 192-194 function of, 44-46 , 49-53 … of, 178-180 davidson, c. girard, 58 , 67 , 78 , 79 davis, john c., 183 davis, william h., 29 defense budget, u.s. (korean war), 113-120 defense production act of 1950, 156-158 democratic national convention, 1936, 35 democratic national …
U. Alexis Johnson Oral History Interview
… and i think it was sort of a test-tube case for what developed in the postwar period of our students going to the national war college and our participating in almost all of the service schools. my assistant out here now is going to carry on a … [41] before i got back to washington, driving as hard as i could. as i recall it, niles bond, who was what we'd call the korean desk officer, went up to the security council meeting. so, i was not present at the security council. mckinzie: were … a message telling him to be sure to get out and not get captured. that, as i recall, was my sole contribution to the korean policy as far as that day was concerned. mckinzie: that was a considerable contribution, because those people who …
Philip Trezise Oral History Interview
… that's where i stayed. [2] mckinzie: could you explain the happenstance? trezise: well, i was in the service during the war, and i was co-opted from the navy to oss [office of strategic services]. from oss i was sent to china, where i became, … over to work on the gray commission -- that this would have been in may of 1950. we were already hard at work when the korean war began, and the korean war is what made the military arrangement with western europe easily feasible. i don't suppose that without the korean …
John W. Snyder Oral History Interview, July 10, 1968
… to the director of the reconstruction finance corporation, 1940-44; federal loan administrator, 1945; director, office of war mobilization and reconversion, 1945-46. secretary snyder has been a longtime close friend of harry s. truman beginning … -- what do you recall about the events surrounding louis johnson's resignation, which was, of course, after the korean invasion. snyder: unhappily, there began to be dissension among certain cabinet members who couldn't get along with … the latter part of june when korea was invaded? snyder: it began just before that and came to a focus at the time of the korean invasion. [767] hess: what were some of the difficulties? snyder: oh, i don't recall. hess: all right. then let's …
Sir Edgar Cohen Oral History Interview
… sir edgar cohen sussex, england june 12, 1970 by theodore a. wilson [1] cohen: the main problem immediately after the war was that the countries hadn't the money and the resources to import freely from one another. they had a tradition from … in a creditor position, i imagine -- about 1950. i don't remember that we were in a strong creditor position until the korean war. the korean war pushed us into a very strong creditor position for the reasons i just mentioned here. there was the sterling-area …
Charles Burton Marshall Oral History Interview
… of operations, office of the chief of transportation, u.s. army, and deputy commander of the port of manila, during world war ii; consultant, intergovernmental committee on refugees, 1946-47; staff consultant on the house committee on foreign … mutual defense assistance program; statement of the managers regarding military assistance legislation; the "china lobby;" korean aid bill of 1949; u.s. intervention in the korean war; theories concerning foreign policy; u.s. communication with the peoples republic of china during the korean war; …
John J. Muccio Oral History Interview, February 18, 1971
… general walker accepted this flag and put it up over his headquarters in taegu, alongside the u.s. flag and the korean flag. up to that time the u.s. flag had been flying alone over the headquarters. propriety of this [70] was talked … never to my knowledge, saw president rhee on any matter except in my presence. he was most careful in talking to his--the korean officers . . . hess: counterpart officers. muccio: well not counterpart, because they were under his command. earlier … [william f.] dean, were men who were still in their physical and mental prime, who had come to the fore during world war ii. and it was really a tremendous satisfaction to have dealings, direct dealings, with men of that caliber. i think that …
Leon H. Keyserling Oral History Interview, May 19, 1971
… to it during the truman administration. i covered that in part, let us say through the first year or so of the korean war. i would like to say a little bit more about that and then carry through to the end of the truman administration. i don't … now, coming to the economic policy matter, i also said that the really great issue that arose at the beginning of the korean war was the balance between trying to finance the war out of diversion of resources, as against financing [134] the …
Walter H. Judd Oral History Interview
… summer of 1943 . a group of us in congress were concerned that the united states not go back into isolationism after world war ii. i had been a young soldier in world war i, and he had been a captain in the field artillery, and when we got to know … defeated them there. just as the war in korea was the unfinished china war, so the war in vietnam is merely the unfinished korean war. the biggest mistake truman made was his failure to finish up the korean war after sending our forces in and when he had the communists on the ropes there. hess: what should have been done? …
Arthur R. Ringwalt Oral History Interview
… foreign service officer. chief, division of chinese affairs, u.s. dept. of state, 1946-48; state dept. member of naval war college, 1948-49; 1st secretary of american embassy, london, 1949-57. chapel hill, north carolina june 5, 1974 by richard … no, see this is the european field, and i stayed well out of that. mckinzie: how did things change for you when the korean war began? [27] ringwalt: i got quite busy. mckinzie: i'm sure you did. could you say something about how and what you … guy, whom i had previously known in china. i would call on him and get his views and his government's views about the korean war, and would capsule them and send them back to washington. some of them were quite interesting, some of them …
Willis C. Armstrong Oral History Interview
… interview with willis c. armstrong official, lend-lease administration and foreign economic administration, 1941-45; war shipping administration, 1945-46; adviser on state trading, u.s. dept. of state, 1946-48; asst. chief, division of … to. and after all, we did business ourselves that way in various respects during the war, and we did also during the [23] korean war; we were a monopoly buyer of tin and rubber in the korean war. we engaged in state trading ourselves on a large scale during world war ii, and under security circumstances we …
John F. Melby Oral History
… paul, 319 kennan, george, 71-73 , 74-76 , 79 and melby, john f., 305 kerr, clark, 102 knowland, william, 169 , 170 korean war, chinese intervention in, 125 , 126 , 241 kuibyshev (ussr), 50 lacy, william, 246-249 , 252-255 landon, margaret, 251 lansdale, ed, 184 , 187 , 188-189 , 240 latin america, u.s. policy toward, in world war ii, 34-49 laurel, jose, 229 levinson, sy, 307-308 lind, lucy, 255 ludden, raymond, 117 , 133 , 135 , 144 macarthur, …
Reminiscence of William Sanders
… truman's visit to rio de janeiro in september 1947 was: 1) the mexico city inter-american conference on problems of war and peace held in 1945 adopted resolution viii on "reciprocal assistance and american solidarity," known as the "act of … the mexican proposal was manifest in the feeble support the u.s. received from latin america (except for columbia) in the korean war, and more recently in the attitude assumed by the european nato countries in the last armed conflict in the middle … level instructions, was to gain time for a more careful determination of policy in reaching a final decision. [25] the korean war i had a marginal part in the discussions in the department of state leading to the recommendations to president …
John J. Muccio Oral History Interview, December 27, 1973
… and the next day on the 26th. there had been an account of that written by t.r. fehrenbach in a book called this kind of war . the subtitle of that book is "a study in unpreparedness." would you indulge me and allow me to read a page out of that … no resistance whatsoever on the part of the south koreans. it was a question of staying there and encouraging the entire korean military forces to face up to the communists onslaught without, at the same time, our being caught. i was baffled when … behind with me. we had decided that we would make our way down south through the interior to maintain contact with the korean government and [8] the korean military. let me repeat, there was never any intention on my part of staying on in seoul …
Ewan Clague Oral History Interview
… but i had had some experience with him as a senator in connection with the work of his committee on the conduct of the war. also, i had heard him speak at an interstate conference of employment security administrators in missouri in one of the … and develop a revised, modernized, up-to-date index. however, at the end of our first fiscal year of operations, the korean war broke out. as soon as this happened, we were in trouble. in the first place, we were right in the midst of our … of the decision was to take away part of the excessive rise of the index which had occurred in the first six months of the korean war, that is, take it away for the purposes of wage and price determination by the stabilization agencies. by the …
General William H. Draper Jr. Oral History Interview
… military government adviser to the secretary of state, moscow conference of foreign ministers, 1947; under secretary of war, 1947; under secretary of the army, 1947-49; and united states special representative in europe, with rank of ambassador, … the council was moving from london to paris and being upgraded, as it became evident that it would be necessary, with the korean war on and the threat to western europe from russia, to build up the western world's mutual defenses. the nato … that it was thirteen and a half billion -- the president's original budget. i think that may have helped to bring on the korean war. i think that may have helped to bring on jim's death. that's something i'd like to put off the record until after …
Benjamin M. Hulley Oral History Interview
… would be turned over to us, and the pressure was continuous. also from various societies here, which wanted to help these war refugees. mckinzie: there was really nothing you could do except quote the law to them on that. hulley: that's right. … time you thought it brought iceland a little closer to the interests of the rest of us? hulley: yes. mckinzie: how did the korean war affect your work? hulley: not at all. mckinzie: the routine work of the division was not affected? hulley: was not influenced by the korean war. now, let's see, i forget the date of the war, was it '51? mckinzie: it began in june of 1950. hulley: in june of …
Edward S. Mason Oral History Interview
… which was then my special field of interest. my second assignment was just before the united states entered the war when i served for a period as a [3] consultant to the office of production management working particularly on raw … and i suppose i was one of the natural candidates to be considered by him. gray was appointed by the president before the korean war and the program of the gray commission, if you want to call it that, was very much altered by the advent of the korean war. mckinzie: you had done a great deal of work almost up to the point of drafting the report, had you not? mason: …
Robert Marjolin Oral History Interview, July 2, 1971
… did they enjoy undisputed leadership, given their desperate economic situation? they had been instrumental in winning the war. was that the explanation? marjolin: yes. they won the war and in europe, in spite of the economic difficulties, they … to a large extent, it was aid without strings. i think the policy of restricting exports to the east came later, after the korean war started, or just before. after that conflict started, the whole emphasis shifted. before that american aid was … hoffman, paul g., 9-10 , 17 hull, cordell, 16 , 17 indochina, french, post world war ii, 7 italy, post world war ii, 5 korean war, 7 , 20 marshall plan, 10 , 16 , 20 netherlands east indies, post world war ii, 6 north atlantic treaty …
Gerard Bauer Oral History Interview
… plan experience. he said that the important thing which knowledgeable europeans recognized at the end of the second world war was that they must not repeat the mistakes made [3] after the first world war. he urged that we, in a preface to the … some difficulty, but that this was settled without a great crisis. then on the oeec, the outside, he said that during the korean war there was considerable pressure. some did establish a quota system on the basis of then existing trade, and … 3 economic cooperation administration, 6 european payments union, 4 geneva, switzerland, 1 harriman, averell, 4 hungary, 6 korean war, 5 league of nations, 3 london, england, 1 marshall plan, 2 , 3 , 6 , 7 mayer, rene, 5 monnet, jean, 5 …
Arthur Ringland Oral History Interview
… interview oral history interview with arthur ringland consultant, national defense advisory commission and president's war relief control board, 1940-46; executive director, advisory committee on voluntary foreign aid, u.s. department of state, … in korea, in response to joint resolutions of congress. the white house requested help to draft the proclamation for this korean project. that was an interesting experience. i remember the president [27] walking in while we were sitting down and … war economic board, which referred to the president's declaration of a national emergency. this declaration was due to the korean situation. our war in korea brought governmental recognition of the needs of civilians. in 1951 and again in 1953 …
John W. Snyder Oral History Interview, May 7, 1969
… to the director of the reconstruction finance corporation, 1940-44; federal loan administrator, 1945; director, office of war mobilization and reconversion, 1945-46. secretary snyder was a longtime close friend of harry s. truman beginning with … to take on a little higher rate. and we were doing that in an orderly fashion, and going along very splendidly, until the korean invasion took place, and we went to the defense of south korea. at that time, the fed, the new york fed, particularly, … all of those things have to be taken into consideration. mr. truman, upon my strong recommendation, agreed when the korean conflict started, we went right to congress and put in a tax bill to help meet the unknown cost of the korean …
Roswell Gilpatric Oral History Interview
… that stage, some of the qualities that later on during the truman investigation committee, the truman committee, of world war ii years, appeared at such advantage. hess: that's interesting. that was the interstate commerce commission of which … committee, i did have several occasions to see that committee in action. in the light of my subsequent experience in the korean war and during the kennedy administration, i have always had the feeling that that committee had a very positive, … just what were your principal duties? were they directed towards building up the air force for prosecution of the korean conflict? gilpatric: yes. the state of all of the military departments, particularly under louis johnson, had been cut …
Shaw Livermore Oral History Interview
… interview with dr. shaw livermore director, review and analytical staff, vice-chairman of the requirements committee, war production board, 1944-45; staff of economic cooperation administration, paris and washington, 1949-51; and assistant to … divert money to military outlays. congress, of course, was going to change appropriations over to military aid anyway. the korean war obviously did that, without any help from nato. obviously we had a war with communism on our hands in the far … to los angeles?" for a few months, when i came back to washington, i worked with bill foster, hoffman's successor, on the korean war international allocations. [ 45] it was about a three-months job. this, by the way, was one of the few cases in …
Robert G. Nixon Oral History Interview, November 4, 1970
… came to washington, d.c., in 1938 where he served as their state department and foreign relations correspondent. he was a war correspondent, attached to the british army in france and belgium, 1940, during invasion of the low countries; evacuated … this thing, thus and so can be said. so, that's the way it went. [719] hess: moving on from that topic to the topic of the korean war. we have mentioned this already, but let's just start in with the weekend that you were in kansas city, the … phoned the president at his home in independence. acheson was in washington, and he told the president that the north korean communist army had invaded south korea. acheson told the president that this information [720] was sparse and …
John W. Snyder Oral History Interviews
… to the director of the reconstruction finance corporation, 1940-44; federal loan administrator, 1945; director, office of war mobilization and reconversion, 1945-46. secretary snyder was a longtime close friend of harry s. truman beginning with their service in the u.s. army reserves after world war i. interview transcripts filter for 1967 1967 november 8 november 22 december 8 december 27 filter for 1968, january … knutson, harold, 1899-1900 , 1902 , 1916-1917 korea, military status in 1949, 1416-1418 korea, and soviet union, 1447-1450 korean war, financing of, 1624-1627 , 1705-1709 , 1798-1799 , 1807-1808 , 1838-1851 kowloon, 1387-1388 kraus, charles h., …
Dr. Grover W. Ensley Oral History Interview
… the president in formulating economic policy. i worked at the budget bureau until i went into the service late in the war. i suppose my most interesting experience while at the bureau of the budget, was in the spring of 1942. roosevelt was the … taxes to reduce inflationary [9] pressures. i'll come back to this world war ii tax deficiency when we get into the korean war. fiscal policies were much more intelligently managed in the korean war. i think that was, in part, because of president truman's experience as chairman of the senate committee during …
Dr. Robinson Newcomb Oral History Interview
… newcomb oral history interview oral history interview with dr. robinson newcomb director of construction research, war production board, 1940-45; director, office of economic research, federal works agency, 1945-47; economist, president's … in state. he was an able man. [6] just as an aside, when i was in the office of defense mobilization during the korean war, one of the men asked me about firing willard thorp and putting in someone else more dynamic, and i said, "for … a mess of public works, fleming had been moved over there, either in 1943 or '44, but it was during the war. so, when the korean war was approaching he was sent over to maritime to see if he could straighten that up. fuchs: was the maritime …
Robert R. Nathan Oral History Interview
… robert r. nathan oral history interview oral history interview with robert r. nathan chairman, planning commission war production board, 1942-1943. deputy director, office of war mobilization and reconversion, 1945. un korean reconstruction agency, 1952-1953. washington, d. c. june 22, 1989 by niel m. johnson [ notices and restrictions | … a wonderful personality and marvelous storyteller. later, you know, he became more active in the price controls in the korean war. leon henderson was active all around the place, but he had been bitter about the opa and the conflict there. [65] …
Henry H. Fowler Oral History Interview
… and sale of power from the muscle shoals dam power properties, which were defense properties, clearly developed in world war i to supply ammonium nitrate for our explosives in world war i. so the remainder of the tva project then came up for … say, we had, in good faith, pretty well gone the peaceful route. look, the defense budget in the fiscal year before the korean war broke was 12 billion dollars. during the korean war it went to four times [30] that, to $50 billion. johnson: and remained on a fairly high level ever since. fowler: …
Brigadier General Paul H. Griffith Oral History Interview
… interview oral history interview with brigadier general paul h. griffith personal assistant to under secretary of war louis johnson and, as a member of the american technical mission to india, an assistant to mr. johnson when he was the … that gap perfectly or not. hess: well, no, i lost out on that, because i was thinking of acheson during the time of the korean conflict. [10] griffith: that's right. and that's what i was talking about; acheson during the time of the korean conflict. hess: all right, do you recall anything in particular about the mental breakdown that overtook mr. johnson's …
Harold Stassen Oral History Interview
… sent a cable to admiral halsey -- i was serving then as his assistant chief of staff for administration in the pacific war -- stating that he would like me to be on the delegation. i think president roosevelt was then on his way back from the … vandenberg, and at times with me and others, on these foreign policy issues, including at the time of the beginning of the korean war, and that issue. but you see, the issues in many instances were sharper inside of parties than they were between … unity of a position, you should mute your own lesser differences and emphasize the united stand. this is what i did in the korean matter, and then, as i say, i did it the other way around in the macarthur thing because i had also felt at that time …
James W. Riddleberger Oral History Interviews
… administration june 24, 1971 ; april 6, 1972 economic warfare, british ministry of april 6, 1972 economic warfare, world war ii june 24, 1971 ; april 6, 1972 economic warfare division, department of state june 24, 1971 eisenhower, dwight d. april … elections england general june 24, 1971 ; april 6, 1972 ; april 26, 1972 german air raids on june 24, 1971 world war ii, economic warfare june 24, 1971 erhard, ludwig june 24, 1971 european advisory commission june 24, 1971 ; april 6, … george f. june 24, 1971 ; april 6, 1972 kiel-basel line (germany) april 6, 1972 kindleberger, charles p. june 24, 1971 korean war june 24, 1971 landwehr canal, berlin, germany april 6, 1972 laukhuff, perry april 26, 1972 league of nations april …
Frank Pace Jr. Oral History Interview, February 17, 1972
… did you think that movement was a good idea? pace: well, remember i came to the defense department in april of 1950. the korean war broke out in june and this was quite early on. i was not a military expert in that sense, and therefore my views were … well, remember mr. johnson was under considerable attack for some of the statements he had made about our readiness. the korean war had not moved... hess: "cutting the fat out of the armed forces." pace: "cutting the fat out of the armed forces," …
Frank Pace Jr. Oral History Interview, February 25, 1972
… hess: tell me about that. pace: well, i came into his office and i said, "general marshall, general macarthur says the war will be over by thanksgiving and the troops home by christmas." well, he said, "pace, that's troublesome." well, i said, … ever felt really intimately associated himself with the real deep problems of the navy and the services. hess: during the korean war i understand that he made a speech, i believe it was to the sons of st. patrick in boston, disagreeing somewhat … of the army. i would say to you that this competition between the marines and the army was very prevalent throughout the korean war, one which i constantly, frankly, played down. i remember one day dan kimball called me and said, "frank, cliff …
Robert H. S. Eakens Oral History Interview
… fellowship in economics at columbia and spent a year there completing all [4] my work for a ph.d. while i was there the war came along, and i let that interrupt my dissertation writing and never did write one, like a lot of other people, i … all agencies of the government working together and having a coordinated policy. mckinzie: how did things change when the korean war began in 1950? eakens: during the korean war, i was on assignment to the naval war college for a year and missed some of the main things that went on during …
George M. Elsey Oral History Interview
… p q r s t u v w x y z acheson, dean, 153 , 269 , 274 , 277 , 278 , 298 , 325 , 353 , 365 , 374 active service in peace and war , 345 adams, sherman, 52 , 455 ak-sar-ben, 407 alamogordo, new mexico, 268 , 343 alexander the great, 36 american … , 37 and harry s. truman’s vacations to, 430-434 , 435 kiel auditorium, st. louis, missouri, 426 kissinger, henry a., 324 korean war, 113 , 215 , 221 , 268-270 , 284 , 289 , 359-361 , 427 , 440 krock, arthur, 181 , 261 , 265 leahy, admiral william … report of 1946 , 261-267 and world war ii, 333-336 united kingdom, 387-388 united nations, 88 , 348 , 356-357 and the korean war, 359-360 united states foreign policy toward south america, 376-379 united states foreign policy 1945-55 , 356 …
John W. Snyder Oral History Interview, May 28, 1969
… to the director of the reconstruction finance corporation, 1940-44; federal loan administrator, 1945; director, office of war mobilization and reconversion, 1945-46. secretary snyder was a longtime close friend of harry s. truman beginning with … the whole treasury was done under various bills that we were able to put through. mr. truman's financing program in the korean situation. i have told you, from the time that i went into the treasury until the korean war came up, we had actually taken in more money in the treasury than we had spent. we had actually been in balance …
Robert C. Goodwin Oral History Interview
… robert c. goodwin oral history interview oral history interview with robert c. goodwin regional director, war manpower commission, 1942-45, executive director 1945; director, u.s. employment service, dept. of labor, washington, d. … maybe we'd better get on to something about [39] the defense manpower administration that came about at the time of the korean war. frank graham was appointed. goodwin: well, i was the first administrator of that. i actually operated it most of … goodwin: yes. i know arthur fleming quite well and had a good deal of contact with him during the war period. fuchs: korean war, you're speaking of? goodwin: both wars. he was on the civil service commission during the war and was their …
Major General Kenner F. Hertford Oral History Interview
… u.s. army, 1923-55. military advisor, conference chapultepec, mexico and u.n. conference, san francisco, 1945; national war college, 1946-47; military staff committee, united nations staff, 1947; deputy commander, armed forces special weapons … that we should go on with the development at los alamos and the sandia laboratory. mckinzie: was this at the time of the korean war? hertford: well, we got a little bit of a nudge in 1949. in '48 i came out to sandia base in albuquerque and the … [61] least they have gotten started on it. and suppose we hadn't done anything about it. mckinzie: do you think that the korean war changed the thinking of a lot of the scientists regarding what could be developed or what ought to be developed? …
Dr. Guido Preglau Oral History Interview
… in the coalition government. economically, a large part of austria's industries had been destroyed or heavily damaged by war action or dismantling. the surviving industries were suffering from lack of raw materials and manpower; many prisoners of war had not been released. in addition, a large number of industrial enterprises situated in the russian occupation zone were … capable of generating in those needing help. although the reestablishment of the organization wilson: what effects did the korean war have upon the u.s. aid programs, particularly in austria? preglau: well, that is difficult to answer. [16] wilson: …
Charles E. Saltzman Oral History Interview
… d. mckinzie [1] mckinzie: mr. saltzman, would you explain how you happened to deal with occupied areas during world war ii? saltzman: i got into occupied area work in the american occupation headquarters in austria at the end of the war … back from germany where he had been general clay's political adviser to head that office of german affairs. the japanese-korean occupied area matters were put under the far eastern office of the state department, austria under the corresponding … hilldring, john h., 5 , 6 hull, cordell, 16 israel, 15 italy, 18 japan, u.s. occupation of, 6 , 7 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 19 , 22 korean, u.s.-soviet occupation of, 19 linz, austria, 4 macarthur, douglas, 7 marshall, george c., 5 , 6 , 8 , 9 , 11 , 20 , …
John W. Snyder Oral History Interview, August 13, 1969
… to the director of the reconstruction finance corporation, 1940-44; federal loan administrator, 1945; director, office of war mobilization and reconversion, 1945-46. secretary snyder was a longtime close friend of harry s. truman beginning with … a hundred and seventy billion dollars by the close of 1952, only a part of which was a [ 1778] result of the new korean defense program. while these developments were going on, the treasury found it possible to keep substantial amounts of … the financing of the government's requirements, including its requirements for new money during the period of the korean emergency, was successfully conducted with a minimum strain on the financial structure of the nation. at this point, …
Stuart Symington Oral History Interview
… interview oral history interview with stuart symington surplus property administrator, 1945; assistant secretary of war for air, 1946-47; secretary of the u.s. air force, 1947-50; chairman, national security resources board, 1950-51; … i think in '49. i don't remember the exact figures; all this was a long time ago. hardly had i left when we ran into the korean war, doubled what i had asked for and doubled it again. i had told him i would stay in government, be honored to, but … in the past he had fought for his team, always a good thing to do around this town. [79] fuchs: now, at the time of the korean war, you were still on the nsc when that started, weren't you? symington: sure. as chairman of the nsrb i was a …
Edwin W. Martin Oral History Interview
… was a small place and i learned all the consular ropes there, including some rather exotic things, because britain was at war. we got into the war while i was there, and it was a big rendezvous point for convoys going over to europe, to england … as march of '50 might launch an invasion of formosa. now, where history really would have changed, is if there had been no korean war, and the communists had taken over formosa, if they had been successful--and they probably would have been because … the hands off policy changed. i wasn't in washington, i don't know what the atmosphere was, but certainly up until the korean war i was not [68] aware of any great pressures to change our china policy. it changed then. i was in washington in …
Oral Histories
… u.s. embassy in rome, italy, 1945-48, and u.s. embassy in madrid, spain, 1949-53. 102 pages. jones, marvin . u.s. war food administrator, 1943-45; chief judge, u.s. court of claims, 1947-64. 397 pages. jones, roger w. assistant director, … 1947-49, and general counsel, 1950-51, office of the secretary of defense. 110 pages. larson, jess. administrator, war assets administration, 1947-49; administrator, general services administration, 1949-53. 110 pages. laukhuff, perry. … commission war production board, 1942-1943; deputy director, office of war mobilization and reconversion, 1945; un korean reconstruction agency, 1952-1953. 105 pages. neustadt, richard. special assistant in the white house office, 1950-53. …
John W. Snyder Oral History Interview, March 26, 1969
… to the director of the reconstruction finance corporation, 1940-44; federal loan administrator, 1945; director, office of war mobilization and reconversion, 1945-46. secretary snyder has been a longtime close friend of harry s. truman beginning … mr. snyder, one thing that will be of interest to historians would be your recollections of mr. truman's reactions to the korean invasion. and on that subject, how long was it after he received the news, that you saw him? snyder: president truman … north and south korea had been set up by agreement. governments had been established and had been in operation. the south korean government had become a republic that was relying a great deal on the united states for assistance, and we had quite a …
Bruce C. Clarke Oral History Interview
… of staff of an armored division, commander of an armored combat command in the battle of france. and at the end of the war, was a brigadier general and commander of the fourth armored division. when i returned to the united states in 1945 i … stayed until the end of the truman administration in '53. [60] clarke: well, mr. lovett was the man that had to handle the korean war and that's perhaps why i know of him more than i did johnson. when johnson was in i was a brigade commander in germany so i didn't know much about him. hess: johnson was in when the korean war started. why do you think that we were taken so much by surprise by the north koreans? clarke: well, our history …
Harding F. Bancroft Oral History Interview
… how did you happen to get involved in lend-lease? bancroft: i joined the office of price administration in 1941 before the war began. i went there in february, 1941 as a member of the legal staff. when the landings in north africa took place and … to have a peaceful solution. mckinzie: do you remember how your work changed or what happened when, in june of 1950, the korean war broke out? bancroft: well, the korean war was, of course, the great example. i was on vacation in canada at the moment the war broke out. i think that the …
Sir Edmund Hall-Patch Oral History Interview
… sir edmund said he thought there was one point that ought to be added to the discussion. that was the effect of the korean war on the marshall plan organization. he emphasized that up until that time all the activities and policy decisions of the … the international organization, and putting its interests ahead of [3] individual nations. sir edmund said that when the korean crisis arose, the united states and the united kingdom were going to have to carry the burden and had to have raw …
Edwin N. Plowden and Douglas Allen Oral History Interview
… the economic planning board and chief planning officer in charge of the planning staff in the spring of 1947. before the war i was in business, but i had gone back to business in 1946. after the coal crisis of the winter of '46-'47, the … in knowing how this image developed. and i take it, mr. allen, you would say primarily the '48 campaign and then the korean decision, right? allen: i would think so. plowden: yes, i think i would agree with douglas allen on that. for me, it's the korean decision that stands out way above everything else. brooks: earlier you mentioned the sudden cessation of lend-lease …
H. Graham Morison Oral History Interviews
… morison oral history interviews oral history interviews with h. graham morison assistant to the general counsel of the war production board, 1941-43; captain, united states marine corps, 1943-45; special assistant to the attorney general of the … rose, 264 dewey, thomas e., 437 , 445 dewitt, john l., 28 , 113-114 disalle, michael v., 278-279 displaced persons, world war ii refugees, 17 , 18 , 19 dixon, paul r., 174 dollar steamship case, 178-179 donohue, f. joseph, 118 douglas, paul h., … john f., 164 , 378 , 391-392 kennedy, joseph, 177-180 , 182-188 kennedy, robert f., 322-323 , 325 king, martin luther, 121 korean war, 14 , 19 , 101 , 261 , 263 , 267 , 439 , 441 kramer, victor, 25 kronheim, milton s., jr., 118 labor unions, wage …
Per Haekkerup Oral History Interview
… indicate the pagination in the original, hardcopy version of the oral history interview. philip brooks note: during the war mr. haekkerup was a unit leader in the social democratic resistance organization. during his time in the folketing, he … needed for the european countries. we would hardly have been able to pull ourselves out of the mess we were in after the war, as fast as it did happen if we did not get capital, equipment, and assistance from outside. and we were surprised, … 21] brooks: he says that's the most difficult decision he had to make. haekkerup: i believe that. and, i remember when the korean war broke out, the morning we got the news, the editorials in some of our papers were to the effect that now you see, …
Governor W. Averell Harriman Oral History Interview, January 10,1980
… and for three years he was chairman of the business advisory council of the department of commerce. during world war ii president roosevelt sent him to england as his special representative in great britain in charge of lend-lease and … chairman of a committee of the north atlantic treaty organization. he was special assistant to president truman during the korean war, and later served as director for the mutual security program. he was elected governor of new york state, 1955-59. … was chairman and had returned to washington by that time. i was assistant to the president on national matters during the korean war. i was appointed in 1951, no 1952 i think it was, and in october, 1951 to be chairman of the so called three wise …
H. Freeman Matthews Oral History Interview
… roosevelt had been influenced by his dislike of [charles] de gaulle and his activities in the earlier stages of the war; and i think admiral leahy didn't have any great admiration for de gaulle either; and i think that had something to do … washington. i was deputy under secretary of state (that was in june of 1950), and two days after i took up my duties, the korean war broke out. but during the period that i was in stockholm, i was largely an observer and read the papers and that … haven't a very vivid memory of that. mckinzie: could you tell me something about your dealings with the british during the korean war? i understand that in a number of cases you dealt with oliver franks and other british delegates at particular …
John W. Snyder Oral History Interview, April 16, 1969
… to the director of the reconstruction finance corporation, 1940-44; federal loan administrator, 1945; director, office of war mobilization and reconversion, 1945-46. secretary snyder was a longtime close friend of harry s. truman beginning with … active trying to stir up trouble in every fashion possible between the american troops and the japanese people and the korean people. okinawa, of course, was quite an area of conflict. the akahata was the newspaper that was the leading … they needed more troops if they didn't think that they were threatened? snyder: because they had to build up the south korean rok troops there, train them and equip them so that they could meet the threat if it ever came. but that was their …
Spyros Markezinis Oral History Interview
… i am willing to supply any further information required. during 1946 -- barely one year after the termination of world war ii -- it became clear in western europe that if the war had been won the same could not be said of peace. both the … short-term credits to meet current foreign exchange obligations, which have been settled entirely. question: how did the korean war affect u.s. aid programs in greece? markezinis: apart from the significant fact that the korean war reduced, as expected, the amounts of aid granted to the european countries, greece was not particularly affected …
Philleo Nash Oral History Interview, August 17, 1966
… interview, august 17, 1966 oral history interview with philleo nash special assistant for domestic operations, office of war information, 1942-45, and special consultant to the secretary of war, 1943. special assistant to president for minority problems, 1946-52, and an administrative assistant to the president, … existing policy of division segregation and was the beginning of the major changes which were completed by the end of the korean war, and was really quite a significant event, and one which has not been written about very completely or fully in my …
Frank Holeman Oral History Interview
… while you were out there? holeman: well, not then, no. we were in a little town of san jose, neuva eicja on luzon when the war ended. we went from there, and on about september 14 we landed in sendai, northern japan. it's on the island of honshu, … there's got to be some corroboration somewhere. johnson: okay. in 1950, of course, you're covering the white house and the korean war breaks out. holeman: yes, that's right. johnson: they flew back on a sunday afternoon from independence. holeman: … their parties. they dress for dinner." so believe it or not, i am the only sonofabitch you know that took a tuxedo to the korean war. johnson: you had your tuxedo in korea when you were there retreating? holeman: yes, in my suitcase, yes. johnson: …
Clayton Fritchey Oral History Interviews
… into government was through mr. truman appointing general marshall secretary of defense at a bad moment during the korean war. he asked me to take a leave of absence from the new orleans item and to become his assistant secretary of public … communist world. there was a limited objective of restoring the status quo ante. the moment that we cut off the north korean troops and had a very sizeable victory in our hands, there were those who wanted to go on and capture all of north …
Gunther Harkort Oral History Interview
… which united states aid was introduced? harkort: when in 1947 secretary of state marshall announced the marshall plan, the war in europe had been over for two years. the potsdam conference had divided the german "reich" into four zones. contrary to … without including an economic recovery in germany. question: at the beginning of the war in korea? harkort: when the korean war broke out, the american relief measures were in full swing. we did not assume that the demands [14] of the war … the iron curtain, if for instance czechoslovakia, poland, hungary had participated. it is true, however, that with the korean war defense against communism shifted decidedly to the foreground; instead of recovery, it was now mutual security. …
Charles J. Greene Oral History Interview
… i believe, was the first national attention that was ever given to harry truman, and he picked up a head of steam with his war investigation operations very promptly after [3] that report came out. hess: did you, or did you not, feel that walter … or both, the almost total dissolution of the country's military strength in a period between 1945 and the start of the korean war. i don't know whether he could have stopped it. certainly the people were sick of war, and sick of the money it had cost and all that, but the pendulum was so far that when the korean thing broke it was disaster. we had nothing, the military, the world's greatest military machines turned into a …
Sir Roger Makins (Lord Sherfield) Oral History Interview, August 10, 1970
… the planning fox the occupation, given your experience. how did these relate to what happened in the immediate post- [2] war period? did they make any difference at all, the occupations in north africa, and... makins: you mean the civil affairs … of the persons whom i've interviewed in europe have said that perhaps the death of the oeec came at the time of the korean war, when the united states and great britain revived this arrangement which had been a wartime arrangement, on the … it was what seemed, from what i gathered, a necessary operation without consideration of the effects. makins: i think the korean war was a crisis, and certain measures were taken to deal with it, and one of them was that the british government …
Richard M. Bissell Jr. Oral History Interview
… interview with richard m. bissell jr. during the truman administration served as economic adviser to the director of war mobilization and reconversion, 1945-46, dep. director, 1946; exec. secretary of the president's committee on foreign aid … some two years later when i actually did go back to mit and teach a seminar in the summer of 1950; but at that moment the korean war broke out and no one knew where it was going to lead. you remember, price controls were re-imposed, a whole series … that first of all we were too busy at the start to try to do much of anything about it but that with the outbreak of the korean war, chilling and sharpening of the cold war, a recognition that there was a serious split in europe that was going to …
Raphael Green Oral History Interview
… | list of subjects discussed ] appendix a – biographical material on raphael green appendix b – itinerary may 1946 – korean trip notice this is a transcript of a tape-recorded interview conducted for the harry s. truman library. a draft of … did you teach? green: four years. johnson: just four years. then what did you do? green: i went into the service. world war ii had started while i was still teaching. johnson: this would be about what year? green: i went into the service in … or the top people, the technical assistants, the secretariat, and apparently there were six russian interpreters and five korean interpreters. i think they weren’t necessarily russian, but they were interpreters of russian, and there were five …
Robert G. Nixon Oral History Interview, November 5, 1970
… came to washington, d.c., in 1938 where he served as their state department and foreign relations correspondent. he was a war correspondent, attached to the british army in france and belgium, 1940, during invasion of the low countries; evacuated … wars, which he had requested. it was to be read at their national convention in chicago. at the outset [818] of the korean conflict, the president laid down a very firm policy concerning the nationalist chinese government of chiang kai-shek on the island of formosa and concerning red china. in one of his first statements about the korean conflict, a few days after the blair house meeting took place, on that sunday evening when south korea was attacked, …
Robert A. Lovett Oral History Interview
… robert a. lovett oral history interview oral history interview with robert a. lovett special assistant to secretary of war, 1940-41; assistant secretary of war for air, 1941-45; under secretary of state, 1947-49; private law practice with brown … years and talk about your experiences in the department of defense. we're particularly concerned about the effects of the korean war on [27] american aid programs, because obviously the aid became more in the nature of military assistance than in economic development. of course, nobody could have forecast the korean war, but there must have been some discussion in the department about the effect of the switch from economic …
Michael J. Dux Oral History Interview
… ussr. but on the whole i thought that something like that was necessary. mckinzie: did anything happen to you during the war to affect your view of the postwar period? [4] did you have a vision of what reconstruction would be like? did you … on the german side by that time than the japanese, and so i went into the german bureau. mckinzie: what happened when the korean war then broke out? in the interim nato had been founded, and then the korean war came and there was a great push to make nato a physical reality. [33] were you involved at all in any of those …
Robert W. Barnett Oral History Interview
… our time. my studies at oxford served that purpose; my graduate work at yale, where i studied chinese, served it too. when war between china and japan became violent and pervasive through the countryside, i was very much tempted to get in the war on the chinese side against the japanese, but nobody was urging me to volunteer. working for the united china relief was … and there was a kind of political-military sensitivity about japan's relations with china, both before and after the korean war. you may think i'm jumping ahead, but as we thought of japan in a world economy we thought that we could hardly do …
O. Edmund Clubb Oral History Interview
… time in china, and a little time in indochina, where however, i operated the office at hanoi only one half day before the war broke out and i was interned by the japanese. and then i served in vladivostok in the soviet far east. it was actually … and, being promised a degree of autonomy by the communists, began to side with the communists. there were also some korean elements that had come in, presumably either from korea or they might have served in earlier days in the russian … . one doesn't know, of course, what might have been, but on june the 23 rd , 1950, you'll recall, there was the north korean aggression. i simply suggest that, in the event that from the time of stilwell on we had carried on a different …
George C. McGhee Oral History Interview
… [william c.] clayton? mcghee: no, not at that time. i first met mr. clayton when i came to washington as a member of the war production board before we were in the war. i worked closely with him at that time when he was head of the reconstruction … it mean anything to you? mcghee: no. defense support came when we shifted impetus to the military effort following the korean invasion, and we determined that we had to strengthen europe militarily or europe would suffer the same fate as korea. … to move directly to whatever i'm supposed to do. mckinzie: you went to ottawa to the nato council meeting just after the korean war started. they were considering the admission of greece and turkey into nato. that, in itself, created a problem …
Lincoln Gordon Oral History Interview
… gordon oral history interview oral history interview with lincoln gordon program vice chairman, requirements committee, war production board, 1945; director, bureau of reconversion priorities, civilian production administration, 1945-46; … countries in proportion to the snoy-marjolin formula which had been applied in 1949. that worked for one year. then the korean war came and nato became a major operating enterprise and the rest of the marshall plan got merged into defense … recipients. a lot changed in late '49 and '50, as the cold war got hotter and particularly with the beginning of the korean war. that transformed everything, but then harriman didn't stay in paris; he came back to washington, mckinzie: would …
General Jess Larson Oral History Interview
… general jess larson oral history interview oral history interview with general jess larson general counsel to war assets administration, 1946-47; administrator, war assets administration, 1947-49; administrator, general services … asked me, i'm sure scholars looking at the operation of the government in this period, particularly the period of the korean war, will be curious to know why the administrator of the general services administration was also the administrator … procurement [34] agency -- dmpa. there's an interesting story about how that came about. we had gotten into the korean war, as you know, in the summer of 1950. we went into a semi-mobilization basis and later a fuller mobilization basis, …
Leon H. Keyserling Oral History Interview, May 10, 1971
… when clifford became secretary of defense--and here i am not saying whether i agree with him about the vietnam war, that's not the point. i can say a lot about that, but it has nothing to do with the subject. but when he became … these two articles in the new york times on it, but i became more vitally interested in it when we came to the time of the korean war, because there was a furious battle within the truman administration as to how to handle that war, partly under … because he was the greatest publicist that ever lived. but be that as it may, mr. baruch, as of the time of the korean war, wanted to freeze everything. this was his first idea, "freeze everything. we haven't got enough to go around. …
Eben A. Ayers Oral History Interview, August 6, 1968
… in our last interview, you stated that you were in the independence-kansas city area with the president at the time of the korean invasion in june of 1950. what do you recall of the events of that time? ayers: well, that trip started out as simply … meant there were none to be broken. it was a fortunate thing in that respect. acheson came in to see the president and the korean ambassador was in to renew requests for aid and i think admiral [roscoe h.] hillenkoetter, who was then head of the … to carry them out were sent out immediately after that. now that, i think, pretty well covers the start of the korean war. [ notices and restrictions | interview transcript | additional ayers oral history transcripts | list of subjects …
Edward W. Barrett Oral History Interview
… section, coordinator of information office, march-june, 1942; chief, overseas news and feature bureau, office of war information, june 1942-september 1943; member and later acting deputy chief, psychological warfare branch, allied forces … areas short-wave can really do a good job. mckinzie: how were you brought into the councils with the outbreak of the korean war? barrett: i was not in the councils with the outbreak of the korean war, because i was out on the pacific coast making three speeches. i was making a speech to, i believe, the motion …
John H. Tolan, Jr. Oral History Interview
… senate committee to investigate the national defense program), 1943-45; and special assistant to the director, office of war mobilization and reconversion, 1945-46. san francisco, california march 5, 10, and 17, 1970, and february 8, 1974 by … reservoir of power and prestige came such laws as "renegotiation of war contracts,(65 stat. 7 (this citation is from the korean war version. the original war contract renegotiation law was enacted as part of the national defense appropriation act … there after? tolan: yes, due to run away inflation, the congress created the office of price stabilization during the korean war. john abbott and i remained partners in business until that national emergency arose. i felt positive we would be …
George M. Elsey Oral History Interview, July 7, 1970
… recognition of the state of israel. he was a longtime friend of the president's. the president had known him since world war i and, as we all know, the two had briefly been business partners. the president liked jacobson, he respected him, and he … it's pertinent to show why the u.s. government went one route in '47 and went another route in 1950. hess: also on the korean matter, is there any significance to the fact that mr. truman did not try to get legislative approval for the action from congress on the korean matter, such as a senate resolution? was this discussed? elsey: it was discussed from time to time in the first few …
Nathan M. Becker Oral History Interview
… when i got my degree. it's hard to realize it, it's the 35th anniversary of that coming up in june. but, well, with the war starting to roll forward, the summer before pearl harbor i had been called to washington on two or three occasions in a … some kind of comment? becker: oh, yes, i would think so. i have facetiously told a couple of classes that as far as this korean experience is concerned, i was fully convinced of the relationship of military to economic policy, but very … united states go? could it go beyond the realm of friendly advice in bringing about some kind of economic reform in the korean government itself? becker: well, i have some mixed feelings about this. i have worked in and lived in a number of …
Dr. R. Burr Smith Oral History Interview
… dr. r. burr smith oral history interview oral history interview with dr. r. burr smith served on the planning committee, war production board, 1942-43; coordinator of economic research and statistics, supreme commander allied powers, tokyo, 1946; … one or two people from washington, and i had some engineers from korea representing korea as a claimant, who knew what the korean capacities were, their needs for machine tools and such. this was essentially my staff. it was a very small staff. we … the thai were momentarily fearful that the chinese would come across from the north, that they would be involved, the korean war broke out. and when that took place there was temporary panic in bangkok. would the united states react to it? the …
E. Allan Lightner, Jr. Oral History Interview
… our being part of the league and working with other nations to try to avoid the international anarchy that preceded world war i. well, on that european trip i visited an uncle of mine who was on a sabbatical in lausanne from stanford. he'd been a … john muccio, our ambassador in korea, they purposely looked for someone without experience in the far east. in 1951 the korean war had been going on for a year and was still going on; the embassy counselor [everette f.] drumright had been … missions could not operate in the capital of seoul, which had been overrun and changed hands about four times during the korean war and was badly devastated. however, the un command headquarters under general van fleet, head of the eighth army …
John W. Snyder Oral History Interview, February 20, 1969
… to the director of the reconstruction finance corporation, 1940-44; federal loan administrator, 1945; director, office of war mobilization and reconversion, 1945-46. secretary snyder has been a longtime close friend of harry s. truman beginning with their service in the u.s. army reserves after world war i. washington, d.c., february 20, 1969 by jerry n. hess [ notices and restrictions | interview transcript | additional … [1133] when he wanted to extend a loan. congress again increased the bank's lending authority in 1951 in the midst of the korean war, this time to four and a half billion dollars, and directed the bank to place importance on the development of …
G. Frederick Reinhardt Oral History Interview
… another way of getting at this would be -- when did you as an individual say, if you ever said, "here's where the cold war began." [3] reinhardt: of course, i never thought it had stopped. from my point of view a cold war is inherent in the soviet approach to foreign relations, and it just gets dampened off at one time, and then heated up at … interests in the oeec, as a vehicle for integration, had waned, and that the united states, perhaps because of the korean war, perhaps because of another phenomenon, had shifted its thrust from the oeec to nato as a means of achieving …
John D. Hickerson Oral History Interview
… (u.s.- canada) was quite effective. it was quite helpful to the administration and to the canadians. we weren't in the war at that time, and didn't come in for about 15 months after that. incidentally, it has always seemed a little bit curious … itself would be enough to restrain any aggression. indeed, the nato machinery wasn't really set up until after the korean attack, you know. we had the council provided for, but a supreme commander and all that sort of thing that came only … that time a lot of information was in. there was one very interesting thing that i don't think has ever been made public. korean president syngman rhee was absolutely terrified. now, i don't think that it was cowardice or anything like that, he …
George M. Elsey Oral History Interview, February 10, 1964
… the map room but i'll be happy to explain what it was since the map room did exist for, not only all of the roosevelt war years, but through the early months of the truman administration till the end of the war with japan. the white house map … clifford as special counsel to the president in about february 1950. just to wind it all up, you'll recall that the korean war broke out in june of 1950 and w. averell harriman was [8] summoned home by president truman from paris where … mr. harriman and i maintained the exact same offices in the same white house space that we had from the outbreak of the korean war and continued to work closely with all of the presidential staff just as we had before. morrissey: the white house …
Edward T. Folliard Oral History Interview
… roosevelt steadily from 1941 until [2] the autumn of 1944 when the washington post sent me to europe to cover the war. then i came back to washington after the victory in europe. i came back right after v-e day. after a vacation down at … a historian; i would, one of the greatest. he wasn't willing to wait fifty years. i've forgotten, sometime after the korean war, it was during the eisenhower administration, churchill wrote an article and said he thought that mr. truman's handling of the korean war, what he called his celerity, his swiftness, in moving in, his courage throughout that, entitled him to be …
W. John Kenney Oral History Interview
… 1941. wilson: so many of the people we've interviewed have had this kind of experience with government service during the war. do you look back on it as being extremely important in shaping your views about the role the united states could play? … kenney: yes, i went through that period. mckinzie: the formation of nato and the tenseness that built up prior to the korean conflict. kenney: yes, that's right. mckinzie: was there any concern in britain that some of the plans that had been … wilson: right. was anything different. it was almost -- well, i shouldn't say almost all military -- but certainly the korean war had wrought some changes, and there was tremendous emphasis on military assistance at that time. did you find a …
Clifford C. Matlock Oral History Interview
… the foreign economic administration i participated in the administration of lend-lease during the last two years of world war ii. i was especially involved in lend-lease transfers to the united kingdom and british commonwealth, and to the soviet … aid and defense support. this same thing became an issue in europe after 1949-1950, particularly with the advent of the korean war. since you did deal with the pentagon aspect, i am wondering if you were aware at your level of this dispute about … saying at the time) was simply a figure they thought they could get through [42] congress and it wasn't until after the korean war started that it was escalated to five billion. then it was for real and it was new production. mckinzie: but there …
Robert G. Nixon Oral History Interview, October 28, 1970
… came to washington, d.c., in 1938 where he served as their state department and foreign relations correspondent. he was a war correspondent, attached to the british army in france and belgium, 1940, during invasion of the low countries; evacuated … he conducted an open feud with acheson, and this was particularly bad for the president because the climax came during the korean war. acheson had made a speech, with the president's approval, in which he drew a line. this line was in the far east. … smart thing for acheson to have done, or for truman to have approved because it was in a sense a green light to the north korean army, trained and equipped by the chinese communist military people as well as by soviet russia. all of its armored …
Dr. John Parke Young Oral History Interview
… investigation of the united [2] states senate. i spent about two years, part of it in europe, studying the post-world war i currency problems, the hyper-inflation in europe and the effect upon the united states. i visited 15 european countries … a trade basis. but the aim should be to end the need for aid. that is what dean had in mind. fuchs: yes. the advent of the korean war, how did that affect your position in the division of international finance? young: well, i don't recall any major changes. our work went on pretty much as before. nor did the korean war have any great effect on the operation of the imf. several years after the war i went out to [53] korea and …
John W. Snyder Oral History Interview, August 25, 1969
… to the director of the reconstruction finance corporation, 1940-44; federal loan administrator, 1945; director, office of war mobilization and reconversion, 1945-46. secretary snyder was a longtime close friend of harry s. truman beginning with … of additional revenue be provided by revising and improving the corporation, income, estate, and gift taxes. when the korean crisis occurred, the fiscal year 1950 was drawing to a close with a deficit of more than three billion dollars. the korean situation evolved rapidly and the treasury advised the congressional tax committees that it would not be prudent to …