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Paul G. Hoffman Oral History Interview

… on that note. much to my surprise at 4:30 that afternoon when i was involved in a press conference at the pentagon on the japanese and korean economies, one of the reporters asked me, "have you been offered the post as eca administrator?" because …

Milton S. Kronheim Sr. Oral History Interview

… that was his greatest contribution as it saved possibly half a million american lives, and perhaps a couple of million japanese lives. i think everything stemmed [ 26] from that. that night everybody at the table sent their placecards over to …

Stephen J. Spingarn Oral History Interview, March 24, 1967

… from the civil libertarian standpoint and sometimes you're wrong, too. i mean we did an outrageous thing in interning the japanese on the west coast in world war ii and we know that now, but on the other hand, everybody was panicked by the pearl harbor attack, it was considered quite likely that the japanese might attack the [759] west coast of the united states and perhaps we hadn't established a good enough rapport with our japanese-american citizens and the non-citizens, too, certainly there was a. widespread belief that one jap was like another …

Charles Burton Marshall Oral History Interview

… when the port commander wasn't there, i was in charge. that was the number of military exclusive of filipino civilians and japanese prisoners of war working for us." that was an impressive number. so, the scrutiny was over; it was just a chat among … run? probably not. the fortification of guam, even if approved, could not have advanced appreciably by the time of the japanese attack. marshall: he had beaten rayburn, and he had beaten the roosevelt administration, on the question of … about his so-called "perimeter speech." marshall: let's go back to [franklin d.] roosevelt times. korea was marginal. the japanese surrendered. the korean peninsula had to be administered. there had to be somebody in korea that the japanese in …

Keith Wilson Jr. Oral History Interview

… that the french came back and sought to reinstitute colonialism, the people of that peninsula [felt they] were trading japanese masters for french masters. the thing that is staggering to me now, in reviewing some of the vietnamese episode, is that one of the things that the french did when they reoccupied indochina was to rearm the japanese soldiers that had surrendered and utilize them in combat against the vietminh. this really doesn't have much to do …

Gaylon Babcock Oral History Interview

… was treated better than at both of those places. we saw macarthur come and go from his headquarters a number of times. the japanese citizens -- to a man -- showed all the respect in the world to macarthur. without exception my wife and i were … our form of government will change pretty [84] fast. i honestly wonder whether it might not have been better for the japanese to have won this war, and i'll tell you why. the japanese are very intelligent people, pretty farsighted; when they won the war with russia, they were pretty easy to deal …

Col. R. Allen Griffin Oral History Interview

… he was a man who had great vision up to the time when the kuomintang began to go to pieces under the defeats caused by the japanese. but after all, he created and developed the strength of the kuomintang and they were on their way to making a great country out of china when the japanese felt they had to intervene. they had to prevent this giant from pulling itself together. so, they came in to destroy …

Edward W. Barrett Oral History Interview

… and we had better tell it. as i think i mentioned in the book, later on when we started doing systematic interviewing of japanese, we got quite a fair number who said, "after the voice of america reported that, we began to really believe them." … there would be an ugly rumor flying around the continent of europe, or somebody would have hurt the feelings of the japanese. we would get a little statement up and send it over to go into the president's briefing book, sometimes with a …

John M. Begg Oral History Interview

… a flattop exhibit, it couldn't get into the harbor. finally, the plan died, but i think this is worth noting; [51] the japanese knew that we were doing this. they took one of their little flattops and did exactly what we had recommended a year … of, 42- 43 international high frequency broadcasting conference, 1947, 34-37 international telephone company, 65 japanese goodwill ships, 51 macdonald, ramsay, 65 macy, noel, 64 "mediterranean lights," 51-53 monte carlo, visiting u.s. …

Robert R. Nathan Oral History Interview

… willow run. you know, it's a great tribute to american ingenuity. we don't seem to have it these days; rather, it's the japanese. i don't know whether it's affluence, or what the hell is going on. but now, we don't have that kind of fervor and … the owmr was a wasting asset to the government. i stayed until december 31st, but i'd say a month or so after the japanese were out, the war was over, i wanted to get out. he asked me to stay on, and i felt a responsibility to truman. … this was its transportation, the image of a very primitive society. johnson: wasn't it deliberately kept backward by the japanese? nathan: well, i'd say it was kept back:, but also i think [81] that the japanese trained a few of them. korea …

Walter Hehmeyer Oral History Interview

… long before pearl harbor -- he went to japan and they were very interested in it. he closed a licensing agreement with the japanese for this 20mm oerlikon gun -- they took the oerlikon gun, and then subsequently our navy and the british navy adopted that gun as a standard weapon. fuchs: you mean the japanese took it? hehmeyer: they had it. they had it before pearl harbor. then he started to work on the gazda gun which had … was it 20mm? fuchs: i think so, but... hehmeyer: the oerlikon was a standard antiaircraft gun, and i believe that the japanese had it on aircraft 20mm. gazda was not getting anywhere in interesting [13] our army or our navy in the merits of …

Frederick Osborn Oral History Interview

… now we are going to have an era of peace in a world which knew better than to go to war. i [67] saw the british-american-japanese naval treaties in which our neighbors would be on a three-three-two basis. i wrote in my diary at the time: "now we will go to war on a bigger scale than ever." and the japanese developed a pocket battleship which was not included in the treaties but which had bigger guns than any of our …

Clark M. Clifford Oral History Interview, July 26, 1971

… to help the nations of western europe reconstruct. france had owned indochina. the reason they'd lost it was due to japanese aggression. we were, i believe, attempting to take those steps which would tend to return areas of that kind to' the … to the changes that had taken place in the second world war as the result of communist [252] aggression--communist or japanese aggression. hess: did you ever recall what mr. roosevelt's attitude was, might have been, on helping the french …

Elbridge Durbrow Oral History Interview

… our allies, as hitler jumped on them and russia was thrown on the side of the british and french. then we were hit by the japanese and thus strange circumstances brought us together as allies, not any basic common interests except get hitler. … behind fdr's thinking we were told was roughly as follows: [16] chance brought us together on the same side when the japanese attacked and the german attack on the soviet, and all that sort of business. so here is a god-given opportunity to …

J. Noel Macy Oral History Interview

… value of the press reports which the united press puts into japan from all over the world is less than the value of the japanese news which it gets out of japan. therefore, they are a net burden upon the japanese economy, and they may not have any yen." that's how much understanding was in a bureau chief, at least, in my …

Jack K. McFall Oral History Interview

… have any dealings with him? mcfall: yes i did. of course his primary, almost exclusive responsibility was working on the japanese peace treaty and getting it ratified by the senate. that was "his baby" and he confined himself to that. i must say that my relations with dulles were very good. in order not to cross paths with me in connection with his japanese treaty operations he made it a point to draw me in. so, while i wasn't in on all of his discussions on the treaty, … mcfall, jack k., relations with, 63 senate committee on foreign relations, relationship, 70-71 humelsine, carlisle h., 97 japanese peace treaty, 94-95 judiciary committees, 64 kansas city, missouri, 2 , 17 kerr, robert, 52 , 96 korean invasion, …

Admiral Lewis L. Strauss Oral History Interview

… in view of the statement that had been made after the second bomb had been dropped on nagasaki. the president gave the japanese to understand that if they did not surrender, there would be more of the same. now, i have satisfied [21] myself in … of course, but not over a city. i was opposed to that and i make it clear in my book that i was opposed to it and why. the japanese were suing for peace and the bombs, as used, were unnecessary. i had a proposal to avoid that by having one exploded …

Samuel P. Hayes Oral History Interview

… have said that the military in tokyo did make quite a point that we should take any opportunity we could find to use japanese technical experts or bring in japanese technology and japanese investment. "you should do your best to explore this." we raised this very tentatively in two or three places -- i …

Willard L. Thorp Oral History Interview

… but we managed not to be hung up. however, in the early postwar stage, we had relatively little to do with german or japanese policy, though that soon changed. i would say that the only area in which i really [22] felt we were hung up was … cotton we didn't actually have to sell. at any rate, the senators felt that since we won the war we should take over the japanese cotton market. when i arrived and walked in, there were about 20 senators in this office. one said, "where's will … affairs. one other thing ought to be in the record. mr. dulles was asked by mr. truman and mr. [166] acheson to work out a japanese peace treaty. after this had gone some distance i saw the draft as it then stood, and discovered that the economic …

Philleo Nash Oral History Interview, June 8, 1967

… and the trust territory, even though they came about in different [729] ways. the trust territory, of course, was the japanese mandated territory, and then we took that from the japanese in the pacific campaign in the course of world war ii. there was a strong feeling in quite a number of government …

Truman Gibson Oral History Interview

… of fact, it was shortly after the order – mccormack, one of my bosses was responsible for, for the movement of all the japanese. but my only contacts with her were through mrs. bethune, but she was very evident. she, really more than anybody, … very sympathetic people. mccloy was difficult. i don’t know what his real views were. i know he was responsible for the japanese expulsion from the west coast. he was never warm, but always available to talk about problems. the only social …

Richard W. Bolling Oral History Interview

… of reaction did you get when you landed in japan? bolling: it scared the hell out of us. when we got into buses that the japanese ran, and we came in from the airport, which ever one it was, we went down roads that were still fields, and every japanese turned their back on us. and when they took us into places to eat or live, i was scared all the time, and most of … us sitting down there wondering when the japs were coming. we also had things like intelligence information that said the japanese were going to dive in on us; you know, they were going to crash planes and send in parachutes, the works. we had …

John Wesley Jones Oral History Interview

… who, i think, was enrico de nicola. [26] mckinzie: now, in the case of japan, general macarthur's influence was huge: japanese land reform, educational reform. was there an analogous influence in italy? jones: no, i don't think so. there was … as you can see from my record, but there are so many extenuating circumstances for chiang kai-shek. he first had the japanese in occupation; then he had the war against japan; as soon as that was over he had the russians moving into …

Thomas D. Cabot Oral History Interview

… things that concerned only the democratic party. during most of the time i was there foster dulles was working on the japanese treaty. my deputy, charlie coolidge, was a republican and much more a party man than i. there had been quite a …

Raymond W. Goldsmith Oral History Interview

… the mark, the troubles we've had to the middle and late fifties. after that, of course, this disappeared, and the japanese began to be the "bad boys." [14] mckinzie: at the time you were undergoing this study, did general clay or anyone …

Edwin N. Plowden and Douglas Allen Oral History Interview

… with international institutions like the league of nations because of its failure to stand up, first of all to japanese aggression in manchuria, and then aggression by italians in abyssinia, and then the spanish civil war, and so on. …

E. Allan Lightner, Jr. Oral History Interview

… he was an old man around 80, with many attributes of the aged. for example, he was unreasonably vindictive about the japanese. in a way you can understand why -- he'd been thrown out by them. he'd been in exile for forty years while the japanese occupied his country; but still after world war ii a younger person might have recognized the necessity of obtaining … the logical place, but [109] rhee was dead set against it and held up any kind of trade and any kind of contact with the japanese, thus impeding his country's development. rhee was also unwilling to encourage bright younger people to take on …

Dr. Wallace H. Graham Oral History Interview, January 10, 1976

… devastating mechanism or not." he said, "if we don't we're going to lose thousands of our own good troops." he said, "the japanese are natural fighters, and, believe you me, when they're fighting for their homeland that's all there is to it, they … when he made his decision was on the way back to washington from kansas city. now soon after that came the termination of japanese hostilities and the war's end. then, of course, he made several trips and they were all very interesting--key west …

Philleo Nash Oral History Interview, June 5, 1967

… had been extremely successful as the administrator of the war relocation authority, and who was greatly respected by the japanese-american citizens league, which was the interest group of japanese americans that grew out of the wartime concentration of the nisei, they liked him, and it seemed to me that if they …

James W. Riddleberger Oral History Interview, April 26, 1972

… state department during a good deal of the truman administration. riddleberger: and basically did the negotiation on the japanese peace treaty... hess: he certainly did. riddleberger: ...with allison. hess: so, mr. truman had several republicans … for the council of foreign ministers), and i remember talking frequently with him there, i had nothing to do with the japanese treaty. as for vandenberg, i think he was at the paris peace conference in '46, but i was there primarily on germany …

Ted Marks Oral History Interview

… yes, he was hanged -- later. fuchs: your experiences in the pacific were certainly interesting, meeting some of those japanese big shots. *mr. marks here referred to a picture in one of his photograph albums. [58] marks: yes. i thought there … government panel visiting asiatic pacific theater of operations, as member of, 55 grenadier guards, as member of, 1-4 japanese war criminals, meets, 57 masonic order, as member of, 74-75 mexican border, 1916, service on, 13 national guard, …

Robert G. Nixon Oral History Interview, October 19, 1970

… the german surrender, our top military people predicted it would take another year of fierce fighting to bring about the japanese surrender. it was a dreadful time, and here was a man who came into the white house almost as though he had been …

William M. Rigdon Oral History Interview

… i can spotlight it is that he was commander of the task force when "butch" (lt. edward h.) o'hare shot down five or six japanese planes down in the solomons and won the congressional medal of honor. it wasn't any major victory, but it helped to check the japanese at a very critical time. i mean had they not been checked then and been permitted to move on farther south, why, it …

Philleo Nash Oral History Interviews

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Dennis A. Fitzgerald Oral History Interview

… preference to those markets which they thought would be the continuing ones. they focused quite a bit of interest on the japanese, for example; but i wouldn't consider that their interest was unreasonable or excessive. that's their business . …

H. H. Halvorson Oral History Interview

… of the army. now, i have kept so little an account of mr. truman, but i did think that his dropping the bomb on the japanese, i thought it was warranted. he did the right thing. and then i thought, although i was always a great admirer of …

John A. Kennedy Oral History Interview

… back posthaste to become forrestal's special assistant in his office. i returned at about the time of the signing of the japanese surrender on the u.s.s. missouri , which was september 2, 1945. i got very close to forrestal. i was in his office …

Henry L. Deimel Oral History Interview

… remember one instance talking with will clayton. i don't know how it came up, but it was something to do with whether the japanese should have any ships. and he said something i wasn't used to hearing from an under secretary of state, usually, but it sounded [61] so good: "well, the alternative is that 50 million japanese have to starve." in other words, that's a point of view that you didn't used to find in the old state department …

Donald C. Blaisdell Oral History Interview

… all of those islands in the southwest pacific which had been used as staging areas for our attack on japan and the japanese supply lines of world war ii. [84] all of those were made a strategic trust territory under the united states. but … a representative of the united states. if i remember correctly he told me that he took the surrender from a detachment of japanese in the china-burma-india theater in 1945 at v-j day. he was out here (professor blaisdell's home) on one sunday, i … "this reminds me of some of the terrain we went over in the cbi theater." he told me that he took the surrender from some japanese unit or [108] units there in the cbi theater. he was a person who was well aware of the strategic and political, …

Vernice Anderson Oral History Interview

… of prisoners. this was of great personal interest to me because my brother, vincent, had been a prisoner of the japanese during world war ii. after making the death march in bataan in the philippines, he was taken to manchuria where he …

George M. Elsey Oral History Interview, July 17, 1969

… and the early part of august i was with president truman on the trip to the potsdam conference and was plunged, by the japanese surrender and many other military events, attendant on the ending of the war, for the next few weeks after returning …

Eben A. Ayers Oral History Interview, January 20, 1967

… president which starts off this way: 'sixteen hours ago an american airplane dropped one bomb on hiroshima, an important japanese army base.'" [47] hess: that is the same thing that is already documented here in the 1945 volume. ayers: i didn't …

Leo R. Werts Oral History Interview

… the department of labor began to plan programs and conduct tours for a variety of [39] european labor leaders and japanese and others. provision for that fell to my lot and that program has grown, and the department is recognized now as …

Roman L. Horne Oral History Interview

… simultaneously, the fund would place the equivalent of a hundred [63] million dollars in francs to the credit of the japanese in the bank of france, in paris, and our books at the imf would be adjusted accordingly. so, after the transaction … correct? horne: oh, it could not have been because we weren't [67] that well-staffed then. certainly in the case of the japanese, they weren't even members then. that was an unfortunate example, i guess. they didn't become a member until about …

Francis O. Wilcox Oral History Interview, March 21, 1984

… -- just to show his evolving role -- he was asked by the president to serve as consultant to handle the conclusion of the japanese peace treaty. he worked closely with the senate -- john sparkman was the chairman of our asia subcommittee -- and i … issues. if you look at the un charter, the greek-turkish program, the interim aid program, the marshall plan, nato, the japanese peace treaty, the peace treaties with the satellite states, all the specialized agencies of the united nations, the …

Lucius D. Clay Oral History Interview

… we might have a very real battle to land in and conquer japan. we didn't realize that the bombing was going to make the japanese quit. we felt that they would stay until the last jap. for this reason, we didn't want to get too involved in …

Ben Hill Brown Oral History Interview

… been assistant secretary for far eastern affairs. butterworth was put out, assigned to john foster dulles to negotiate the japanese peace treaty, and for a time had nothing to do with the substantive operations of the department except within this …

J. Thomas Schneider Oral History Interview

… i had a something to do with the purchase of tin from the dutch east indies before those islands were taken over by the japanese. i arranged for the storage of all this in warehouses in brooklyn. and there was tremendous other projects of that …

Michael H. Cardozo Oral History Interview

… going into lend-lease. for a couple of months i worked in what was then the war department, on the relocation of the japanese and the italian and german restrictions. then i went into lend-lease. that's how it came about: instead of being …

Harold I. McGrath Oral History Interview

… mcgrath: no. at that point i was an employee of the united states government war relocation administration, bringing these japanese-american people back from their detention camps. i entered the active political arena again , after an absence of … of mr. clark. well, now i take that back. i think highly of tom clark, but in other capacities. he was involved in the japanese evacuation deal out here and he was involved in several other things of which i was indirectly tied in with, and a …

Robert B. Landry Oral History Interview

… rosie o'donnell. general rosie o'donnell, later commander in chief of pacific air forces, led the first raid against the japanese with b-29s in world war ii. o'donnell was commanding general of the 15th air force bomber forces that were being … officer, aide to commanding general and executive officer hawaiian interceptor command, 1940-1942. following the japanese attack on hawaii on december 7, 1941, ordered to duty in february, 1942 with the 8th air force in england for the …

Milton P. Kayle Oral History Interview

… of taking that assignment in washington in january of '43, i passed up cryptography in the signal corps and the navy japanese course out in boulder, where you would have had an ensignship once you learned the language. i opted to go to … jumped on them in the face of this crossfire, and the tanks took us out. i remember looking in the peephole and i saw a japanese face; they were the nisei troops who had come out and did a fabulous job in the war. [37] but this had happened …

Russell L. Riley Oral History Interview

… i think the new air force does very well. to make a long story short, the philippine air depot thing was solved by the japanese one day, which was very unfortunate. my problem just vanished over night. i hadn't finished it yet. but in march of …

Warner Gardner Oral History Interview

… european hostilities i came back to the pentagon, and as it was evident to me that i would never learn enough about the japanese army to be of any use to anyone, i did nothing for the summer and returned to the interior department, again as …

Edwin W. Pauley Oral History Interview

… big northern port up there, archangel. we at that time, of course, were tying our boats up in the pacific fighting the japanese war. under lend-lease, the original [59] concept that roosevelt sold the american people and the congress was that …

Theodore Tannenwald, Jr. Oral History Interview

… and i finally left with my section in the first week of july of '45, and i was there until september when the war with the japanese ended and i came home. we were on ie shima. [15] i was a civilian throughout this period. i had the simulated rank …

Perry R. Hardin Oral History Interview

… to recall it from memory. that master sergeant was his orderly, and that was right after the war when he was released as a japanese war prisoner. johnson: general [george] patton came to visit truman there at the white house too. did you ever see …

Robert G. Nixon Oral History Interview, October 16, 1970

… was that he had been conferring with [manuel luis] [103] quezon [y molina] about rehabilitation of the philippines. (the japanese had just ravaged the countryside wherever they went.) roosevelt told us what would be done to give independence to …

John H. Tolan, Jr. Oral History Interview

… from brooklyn. he will probably be sent to the pacific and assigned to a mountaintop for some quiet watching for japanese fleet movements." fuchs: did the truman committee ever ask for a report? tolan: no. mr. halley's file "tickler" … down." for several days and in one case, several weeks before pearl harbor, various agencies decoded messages from the japanese which clearly indicated that an attack was contemplated and imminent. not until after world war ii was any doubt … could not give him what he had a right to expect -- a court-martial. such a trial would have revealed the fact that the japanese codes had been broken. admiral kimmel was as defenseless and trapped as the pacific fleet had been at pearl harbor. …

Ken Hechler Oral History Interview

… about the reasons why roosevelt didn't want a full public hearing on pearl harbor, because it might have revealed to the japanese that we had broken their secret code. i had put this in the note and i said to george, "the judge wants to be … no objection to stating that roosevelt didn't want a full public hearing because such a hearing might have revealed to the japanese we had broken their code. however, the army-navy policy at present is to avoid any official confirmation or denial of assertions frequently made that we continued to break the japanese code after pearl harbor." now i began to look around for the kind of position that i wanted. on the record, i …

Shaw Livermore Oral History Interview

… long before 1949. you can see the twenty-five year effects in england as against west germany; the key answer is what the japanese and germans have done in the last twenty years. what were you to do after the marshall plan's rebuilding industrial …

Mary Paxton Keeley Oral History Interview

… her the boss, and frank, her brother, said, "bess was always the boss of us." we'd have lawn parties sometimes, with japanese lanterns strung around but it wasn't only after we'd gotten up to boy-meets-girl stage, though we didn't have so …

Judge William H. Hastie Oral History Interview

… or reading that the only alternative was a terribly bloody island-by-island assault [99] on up till one attacked the japanese heartland with countless uncounted loss of lives and treasury and so on. yet, from what one now hears and reads, one …

Oscar L. Chapman Oral History Interview, February 9, 1973

… would go to pieces; they'd go down. [948] their markets would be taken from them anyway, not by us particularly, but the japanese would have taken a lot of it, and your powerful enemies in the war would have taken a lot of it back, and they would …

Richard Farrington Oral History Interview

… saipan, north toward japan. when the planes would come back, they would be in radio contact, because the marianas had no japanese opposition, or installations that they could fire on. they'd be in radio contact, and sometimes they'd have to ditch …

Edward T. Folliard Oral History Interview

… you'll find reporters there from almost all over the world, including the russians representing tass . i think the japanese have more reporters here now than any other country. at any rate, the thing got too big while mr. truman was …

Matthew J. Connelly Oral History Interview, November 28, 1967

… and boston, and the los angeles speech was in connection with reconversion and national defense in connection with the japanese phase of the war. does that ring any bells? [106] connelly: that's about right. hess: do you recall who wrote that …

Thomas C. Mann Oral History Interview

… and then i was sent to montevideo to help to advise the embassy and the uruguayan government on freezing of german and japanese trade credits, which treasury was particularly interested in at that time. and so i went to montevideo, and then i …

Raymond P. Brandt Oral History Interview

… and when you thought of five hundred thousand casualties, americans, and this way it was two hundred and fifty thousand japanese. that was the argument at the time and i would have agreed with it. then the korean action, because i think if they …

Robert L. Dennison Oral History Interview, September 10, 1971

… they handled some very important problems. one of them that was of great interest to the navy was what to do with the ex-japanese mandate. the state department,wanted to give them back to the natives, practically the entire navy, and certainly …

Nicholas G. Thacher Oral History Interview

… screws. at the end of 1942 three propellers were knocked out of action by one of those highly accurate torpedoes from a japanese submarine. we had about 200 men killed. we limped back to pearl harbor, and it took about six or seven months to …

Richard L. Strout Oral History Interview

… affairs i think he did better than average though i have never been sure it was necessary to drop the atom bomb on crowded japanese cities. (i thought so at the time; reporters knew that it was to be done and were quite powerless to intervene.) the …

Major General Kenner F. Hertford Oral History Interview

… gulf of mexico and in the caribbean. the barrage balloons and smoke pots were all over the canal, and we didn't think the japanese were going to land down there. we were getting ships through. so, the logical thing to do was to stop the road. the …

Elbert G. Mathews Oral History Interview

… closed down by the time i got there, although there were still some of the italian diplomats there. and, of course, the japanese embassy was going strong. well, when the surrender in europe came and the german embassy was closed down, the …

Francis O. Wilcox Oral History Interview, February 10, 1984

… departure from the scene meant an immediate eclipse of the bipartisan approach, because it was used in connection with the japanese peace treaty, in connection with the southeast, asian collective defense pact, and other matters that i think fitted …

Harry N. Howard Oral History Interview

… being found in scattered places in war-torn germany. many of the minutes of hitler's conversations with the russians, the japanese, the italians, and the rumanians, for example, turned up and we had a chance to make preliminary studies of them. …

Henry H. Fowler Oral History Interview

… fowler: in the meantime roosevelt has passed away, truman had taken over, and the german armies have surrendered. the japanese war was still going on. while i was flying over with a small staff, with these reports, on my way to frankfurt and …

Carleton Kent Oral History Interview

… young scientists for his part in the development of the hydrogen bomb, he said he had wanted the government to ask the japanese to attend a demonstration of the violence of the explosion, and that dr. oppenheimer had talked him out of it. i …

Frank Holeman Oral History Interview

… . johnson: i see. do you have any recollection of august 14, 1945? holeman: oh yes, everybody does. the night that the japanese surrender offer was announced, we were watching a movie; you know, an outdoor movie around a tent hospital. the …

Lincoln Gordon Oral History Interview

… civilian production, but in a moderate way so that it wouldn't detract from the necessary war production for the residual japanese phase of the war, [8] and yet avoid a postwar depression. we set up in july or august of '44 a little committee … of thing? gordon: well, there was a little bit. we got much [13] involved in my last few months on the job -- after the japanese surrendered -- with housing. wilson wyatt had been brought in by president truman as the housing expediter, and …

Richard R. Beckman Oral History Interview

… without his interpreter and told him that we were going to drop the most powerful explosive that was ever made on the japanese. now, bear in mind, my sole source of outside knowledge came from the stars and strips and the "pony" edition of …

Dale E. Doty Oral History Interview

… at that time for indians, and had the indians as one of my bureaus. dillon had come over from agriculture, where the japanese relocation administration was at that time. he was an administrator of that. a very excellent administrator and he …

Louis H. Bean Oral History Interview

… my father's migration here a year earlier. i like to say that the reason why i'm here in your presence is the russo-japanese war, as my father migrated as a result of that war. and if that hadn't happened i don't know where i'd be today. but …

Richard Cull Jr. Oral History Interview

… . johnson: he was one of the first american marines to land? cull: yes, he was, and he landed on kyushu, the southernmost japanese island. he was there with a group and he has told me how they couldn't be sure what reception they were going to get …

John M. Cabot Oral History Interview

… quite understandably. we'd just been able to complete arrangements when the war department announced that the danger of a japanese landing in southern california no longer existed. therefore, [6] they didn't want to build the highway. we had to …

Edward D. McKim Oral History Interview, February 19, 1964

… pick is the man who built the ledo road. that was the road to circumvent the burma road, as you recall, which was in japanese hands. that was a terrific job. i don't know how many bridges they had to build, and they had to build everything …

John K. Hulston Oral History Interview

… home. johnson: so the atomic bomb saved you from... hulston: saved me from going to wherever it was. johnson: meeting the japanese face-to-face on their own soil. hulston: that's right. johnson: okay, just to clarify possibly some of the people …

Rufus B. Burrus Oral History Interview, October 22, 1985

… lived. he finally was able to get back to the states after the surrender. johnson: was this a guerilla action against the japanese? burrus: that's right. johnson: was truman still attending the summer training camps? burrus: he did as a senator a …

J. Leonard Reinsch Oral History Interview

… illuminated scroll of his declaration of the cessation of war in the european theater. i was in washington preceding the japanese treaty, but i was assigned to a group to go to europe to review communication problems following the cessation of …

John C. Campbell Oral History Interview

… the president would have had the greatest interest. they weren't crucial. they weren't the german issues, they weren't the japanese issues, they were italy and the balkans. that was what it amounted to. the balkans were already gone, and for italy … their people of having full freedom without their own countries. of course, in 1950-1951 he was engaged in negotiating the japanese peace treaty, so that he wasn't around the department on european affairs from 1950 on, as far as i can recall. he …

Nathan M. Becker Oral History Interview

… discussion of it. but to take 50 thousand people who are comparatively illiterate, who have lived for 50 years under japanese domination in which they were not allowed to receive any technical, as well as general education--now, the first …

Isaac N. P. Stokes Oral History Interview

… solicitor. that was fred eaton, and when he moved up to be general counsel, laurence lombard became solicitor. after the japanese surrender, lombard became general counsel and i served very briefly as solicitor before moving to the state …

Andrew J. Biemiller Oral History Interview

… congress. lewis thill the day after pearl harbor, made a speech inferring that roosevelt had practically [ 47] invited the japanese to bomb pearl harbor so as to have an excuse for taking us into the war. he was playing an extreme right wing game. …

Mrs. Stuart A. Rice Oral History Interview

… us just grandfather and grandmother rice. my husband was decorated both by the korean government posthumously and the japanese government, and some citations by other governments at different times during his lifetime. at the time of his death … and they did not know where they were, whether they were still in concentration camps or what had happened. so, before the japanese part of the war was ended, but the european part was over, my husband went to europe i think two or three times that …

Roger W. Jones Oral History Interview

… plain. i know what it would have [119] required by way of military effort and loss of american lives. an attack on the japanese homeland would have made the kamikaze attacks on our carriers and the fleet look like nothing at all compared with …

Harold G. Robinson Oral History Interview

… [elbert duncan] thomas from utah." "oh, great guy, great guy. student of chinese. he studied chinese." she says, "it was japanese, mr. clark." charlie gracefully backed himself out of the room, but this was him, brash. came down one day, tom …

Joseph D. Coppock Oral History Interview

… now here is one of the critical comments about truman; he let [leo t.] crowley, one sunday afternoon, shortly after the japanese surrender, according to the story, come over and say, "let's cut these bastards off," or something like that. "let …

Robert K. Walsh Oral History Interview

… but not right away, even after he came back from potsdam, he was a little unsteady, even at the time of the--german and japanese surrenders. all he did was go through the motions of announcing, he didn't make any wild statements there of what we … it, even at the time i remember, i didn't like the idea of dropping them on a city like that. why not drop it out--the japanese would have gotten the idea. drop it on some little island over there. of course, they didn't know whether it was …

Stanley Andrews Oral History Interview

… at that once great university was the poultry professor. we toured the grounds; it was completely blasted down by the japanese and burned. and he said, "well, what do you think?" i said, "we're going to rebuild this university for you." at …

Joseph E. Johnson Oral History Interview

… different regime. lend-lease under which this request came was supposedly for efforts related to the war. by this time the japanese were back to saipan some seven thousand miles from peru. i don't know whether i had the idea or my boss had the …