Diplomats

John Paton Davies: "Photograph taken from the mess dining room looking across the courtyard to my living room. Peiping, China."

Identification by diplomat John Paton Davies: "Photograph of my study. To the left, my bedroom, parlor and bath. To the right (also not visible) the mess dining room. Glimpsed thru the vase-shaped doorway, a small guest apartment. Peiping, China."

Snapshot of John Paton Davies, Jr. riding a horse in Peiping, China. Handwriting on back of picture "Are you smoking to calm your nerves because of an obviously spirited horse? Carl Brewer"

Snapshot of John Paton Davies, Jr. in Peiping, China, taken during a day of riding horses.

Snapshot of John Paton Davies, Jr. in Peiping, China, taken during a day of riding horses.

Snapshot taken from the interpreter's office to the loggia connecting the quarters of diplomat John Paton Davies, Jr. with the central residence in Yunnanfu, China.

Identified by John Paton Davies, Jr. "Left to right: my girl friend, the opium-sotted gateman, the piratical cook and Reed's girl friend." In the background: the reception room of the office taken from the front steps of the residence in Yunnanfu, China.

Snapshot of Diplomat John Paton Davies, Jr. seated outside by what appears to be a picnic basket.

The Yunnanfu, China office of Charles Reed, Senior Vice Counsel, and diplomat John Paton Davies, Jr.

Color snapshot of Edwin A. Locke, Jr., third from right, and unidentified military men standing beside airplane, probably in the Azores. Photo taken on Edwin A. Locke, Jr.'s way home from his third mission to China.