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Title: Alonzo Bland Calder papers
Date (inclusive): 1911-1956
Collection Number: 75007
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
46 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box
(19.2 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Memoranda, reports, correspondence, clippings, photographs, and pamphlets, relating to American foreign and economic relations
with China in the interwar period and immediately after World War II, and to American foreign and trade relations with the
Soviet Union, Egypt and Malaya.
Creator:
Calder, Alonzo Bland, 1892-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
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[Identification of item], Alonzo Bland Calder papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
| 1892 | Born, Iowa |
| 1915 | Secretary to Jeremiah Smith, Jr. on relief mission to Turkey, Rockefeller Foundation |
| 1916 | Clerk, American Legation, Berne, and American Embassy, Petrograd |
| 1917-1920 | Petrograd, New York City and Shanghai in various capacities for W.R. Grace & Co. |
| 1920-1922 | Department of Commerce clerk, Peking; later, Trade Commissioner and Assistant Commercial Attache under Julean Arnold |
| 1923-1926 | Assistant Trade Commissioner, Tokyo |
| 1926-1928 | Trade Commissioner, Shanghai |
| 1928-1930 | Assistant Commercial Attache, Peking |
| 1930-1939 | Assistant Commercial Attache, Shanghai |
| 1939-1941 | Consul, Shanghai |
| 1940 (?) | Held in diplomatic custody by the Japanese until June 1942 |
| 1942 | Repatriated and assigned to Moscow as First Secretary in charge of economic studies |
| 1942-1943 | Second Secretary and Consul, American Embassy, Moscow |
| 1943-1945 | First Secretary and Consul, Moscow |
| 1945 | First Secretary, American Embassy, Cairo |
| 1945 | First Secretary, American Embassy, Chungking |
| 1945-1949 | Commercial Attache, Shanghai |
| 1952 | Retired |
Subjects and Indexing Terms
China -- Foreign relations -- United States
United States -- Foreign relations -- China
Diplomats -- United States
Soviet Union -- Commerce -- United States
United States -- Commerce -- Soviet Union
China -- Commerce -- United States
United States -- Commerce -- China
Egypt -- Commerce -- United States
Malaya -- Commerce -- United States
United States -- Commerce -- Egypt
United States -- Commerce -- Malaysia -- Malaya
United States. Department of State