Register of the Joseph William Ballantine Papers, 1909-1970.

Processed by Ronald M. Bulatoff; machine-readable finding aid created by James Ryan

Hoover Institution Archives

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Register of the Joseph William Ballantine Papers, 1909-1970

Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, California

Contact Information

Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Phone: (650) 723-3563
Fax: (650) 725-3445
Email: archives@hoover.stanford.edu

Processed by:: Ronald M. Bulatoff
Encoded by:: James Ryan

Descriptive Summary

Title: Joseph William Ballantine Papers,

Date (inclusive): 1909-1970

Collection number: 73076

Creator: Ballantine, Joseph, b. 1888.

Collection Size: 3 manuscript boxes (1.3 linear feet)

Repository: Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford, California 94305-6010

Abstract: Memoirs, notes, reports, articles, and printed matter, relating to American foreign policy in East Asia, and to the foreign policy views of Owen Lattimore.

Language: English.

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Joseph William Ballantine Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.

Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1973.

Accruals

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Access Points

Lattimore, Owen, 1900-

United States. Dept. of State.

East Asia.

East Asia--Foreign relations--United States.

United States--Foreign relations.

United States--Foreign relations--East Asia.

Biographical Note

1888	Born, Abmednaga, India
1909	Joined the U.S. Foreign Service
1930	Secretary of the American Delegation to the London Naval Conference
1944	Directed the Office of Far Eastern Affairs
1945-1947	Special Assistant to the Secretary of State

After his retirement, served with the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. and lectured at NYU

Series Description

Box No. 1.

Memoirs, 1888-1970.

Scope and Content Note

Xerox copy of a typewritten, autobiographic manuscript. (2 copies)

Box No. 2.

Content Analysis - Writings of Owen Lattimore, 1935-1949.

Scope and Content Note

Mimeograph copy of a digest of selected writings of O. Lattimore with commentaries by J. W. Ballantine.

Box No. 3.

Subject File, 1909-1963.

Scope and Content Note

Memoranda, reports, notes, and printed matter arranged alphabetically by subject.

Box No. 3.

Speeches and Writings, 1940-1968.

Scope and Content Note

Speeches and writings arranged alphabetically by title.

Container List

MEMOIRS, 1888-1970 (2 copies)

Box 1.

Chapter I - An Unusual Upbringing

Chapter II - Introduction to the Far East

Chapter III - Our Embassy at Tokyo

Chapter IV - Broadening of Experience

Chapter V - London Naval Conference

Chapter VI - Consul General at Canton

Chapter VII - Holidays in Southeast Asia

Chapter VIII - Consul General at Mukden

Chapter IX - Our Far Eastern Division (1937-1941)

Chapter X - Prelude to Pearl Harbor

Chapter XI - Wartime Activities

Chapter XII - Special Assistant to the Secretary of State

Chapter XIII - The Allied Military Occupation of Japan

Chapter XIV - At Brookings Institution

Chapter XVI - What Happened in Korea (1945-1954)

Chapter XVII - Problem of Vietnam: Some Facts and Considerations

Chapter XVIII - Epilogue

CONTENT ANALYSIS - WRITINGS OF OWEN LATTIMORE, 1935-1949

Box 2.

Chiang Kai-Shek (1945-1950)

China

Character of National Government (1944-1949)

Chinese Revolution (1935-1945)

Coalition Government (1944-1949)

Formosa (1944-1949)

Manchuria (1944-1949)

Recognition of People's Government of China in UN (1949-1950)

U.S. policy (1937-1943)

Indonesia (1944-1949)

Indo-China (1947, 1949, 1950)

Japan

Democratization (1946)

Economic and military support (1949)

Emperor institution (1944-1949)

Japanese communists (1946-1947)

Japanese peace settlement (1947, 1949)

Japanese-Soviet relations (1938)

Korea (1944-1949)

Lattimore and communism in general (1935-1950)

Mongolia

Nature of government and recognition of Mongolia and admission to UN (1944-1949)

Nature of government and Soviet policies (1928-1941)

Soviet policy in Mongolia

Leadership (1944-1949)

Sinkiang (1940, 1945, 1949)

Soviet foreign policy (1935, 1936, 1940, 1942, 1943)

Soviet Union (1938, 1943)

SUBJECT FILE, 1909-1963

Box 3.

Amherst College. Biographical Record. Class of 1909. (1963)

"Backdoor Diplomacy in the Pacific", Footnotes, by R. J. C. Butow

"Background of American Policy Regarding China" by Stanley K. Hornbeck

Brookings Institution - Southern University Conference. Seminar on Problems of U.S. Foreign Policy. San Antonio, Texas. April 1952. "A Political Settlement in Korea".

"China in Stalin's Grand Strategy" by Hu Shih (reprint, Foreign Affairs, January 1949)

Department of State Bulletin, Index. Vols. LV, Nos. 1410-1435 (July-December 1966).

Far Eastern Civilizations

"Mainland China - Geographic Strengths and Weaknesses" by G. Etzel Pearcy (reprint, Department of State Bulletin)

"Oral History" by Ann Mozley. (reprint, Historical Studies Australia and New Zealand, April 1967, Vol. 12, No. 48)

Oral History Research Office, Columbia University, 1961 - Reminiscences of Joseph Ballantine

Sino-American Amity Fund, Inc. 12th Annual Double Ten Dinner. New York. 1967. Seating List.

"The United Nations and Red China" (Committee of One Million)

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1940-1968

Box 3.

"American Far Eastern Policy: A History Study" (lecture given on May 13, 1968 at the Center of Asian Studies, St. John's University, New York)

"The Arts and Religion"

"Far Eastern Civilizations"

"The Future of Nationalist China" (1954)

"The Future of the Ryukyus" (reprint, Foreign Affairs, July 1953)

"The Great Power Struggle for Advantage in China"

"The New Japan" (VII)

"Scholarship and Diplomacy"

"Some Observations on American Foreign Policy"

"The United States and East Asia"

Miscellaneous

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