Description
Memoirs, printed matter, and photographs relating to American foreign relations and commerce with Japan, Russia, Australia,
China, and Ethiopia, 1906-1945, and to American participation in international narcotics control agencies; and motion picture
film depicting scenes of daily life in China, 1930-1942. Digital copies of select records also available at
https://digitalcollections.hoover.org.
Background
American diplomat; consul, Vladivostok, Russia, 1914-1920; secretary of embassy to Japan, 1921-1924; chairman, United States
delegation, Conference on the Limitation of the Manufacture of Narcotic Drugs, Geneva, 1931; consul general, Sydney, Australia,
1932-1935; consul general, Tientsin, China, 1935-1941; minister to Ethiopia, 1943-1945.
Availability
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.