UID:
almafu_9958352431102883
Format:
1 online resource (376 pages) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Edition:
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ISBN:
9780812206319
Series Statement:
Haney Foundation Series
Content:
In this wry and insightful memoir, distinguished American diplomat John Paton Davies, Jr. describes his upbringing and wartime adventures in Asia, encounters with key twentieth-century figures from Mahatma Gandhi to Joseph Stalin, and how he carried on after his Foreign Service career was cut short by McCarthyism.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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FOREWORD /
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I. The Firing --
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II. From China to America --
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III. My Itinerant Education --
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IV. Hankow, the Far East Desk, and Pearl Harbor --
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V. To Asia with Stilwell --
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VI. A Moment with Mr. Gandhi --
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VII. Nehru and ‘‘The Problem’’ --
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VIII. An American in India --
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IX. Willkie, Washington, and Vinegar Joe --
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X.Among the Naga Headhunters --
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XI. The Politics of War --
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XII. Cairo: With Roosevelt, Churchill, and Chiang --
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XIII.The Resurrection of Britain’s Empire in Asia May Be Said to Lie Outside the Scope of Our Mission --
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XVI. Patricia’s Passage to India; A Soong Family Fracas --
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XV. Stilwell’s Wars --
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XVI. The Generalissimo Versus the General --
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XVII. Meeting Mao --
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XVIII. Communists Versus Nationalists Versus Hurley --
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XIX. Posted to Moscow --
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XX. Hurley’s Opening Salvo --
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XXI. Postwar Moscow xxi Postwar Moscow --
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XXII. Returning to America, and the China Lobby --
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XXIII. Assigned to Kennan’s Policy Planning Staff --
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XXIV. Working with the National Security Council --
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XXV. Revisiting Asia in 1948 --
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XXVI. ‘‘The Most Nefarious Campaign of Half-Truths and Untruth in the History of the Republic’’ --
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Epilogue /
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Index --
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Acknowledgments /
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.9783/9780812206319
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812206319
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812206319
