Inventory of the Joseph Earle Jacobs papers
1893 October 31 | Born, Johnston, South Carolina |
1913 | A.B., College of Charleston |
1915 November 5 | Student interpreter in China and detailed to Peking |
1917-1918 | Vice Consul, Foochow |
1918 | Vice Consul and interpreter, Shanghai |
1918-1925 | American Assessor, International Mixed Court, Shanghai |
1919-1920 | Judge, Consular Court, District of Shanghai |
1921 | Appointed Consul |
1924 | Reclassified as foreign service officer |
1925 May-December | Administrative Consul, Shanghai |
1926 | Technical Adviser to American Commissioner on Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in China |
1926-1928 | Consul, Yumanfu, China |
1928-1930 | Consul, Shanghai |
1929 December-1930 February | Representative of American Minister to China in negotiations with regard to the Provisional Court, Shanghai |
1930 August 23 | Married Elizabeth McNutt |
1930-1934 | Duty, Far Eastern Division, Department of State |
1935-1936 | Foreign Service Inspector |
1936-1940 | Chief, Office of Philippine Affairs, Department of State |
1937 | Member, Joint Committee of Experts on Philippine Affairs |
1940-1945 | Counselor of Legation, Cairo, Egypt |
1945 January | Attached to Political Adviser, Allied Headquarters, Mediterranean Command, Caserta, Italy |
1945 May-1946 November | American Representative to Albania |
1947-1948 | Political Adviser to the Commanding General in Korea |
1947 November | Career Minister, U.S. Foreign Service |
1948 | Adviser, Far Eastern Affairs, 3rd session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, Paris |
1948-1949 | U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia |
1949 | Awarded Patriotic Civilian Service Medal by Department of the Army |
1949-1955 | Minister to American Embassy, Rome - special assistant for Mutual Defense Assistant Program |
1953 | LL.D., College of Charleston |
1955-1957 | U.S. Ambassador to Poland |
1971 | Died |
Scope and Content of Collection
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Political Adviser to the Commanding General in Korea file
U.S. Foreign Service reports on Syngman Rhee, the establishment of the Korean government, etc.
"Intimate Report on Syngman Rhee" (8 pp.) 1948 February 9
Syngman Rhee to John R. Hodge (3 pp.) 1948 August 6
Memorandum (2 pp.) 1948 August 12
Memorandum, re arrival of Douglas MacArthur (3 pp.) 1948 August
Press release, Rhee address (4 pp.) 1948 August 15
Press release, MacArthur address (2 pp.) 1948 August 15
Press release, Gen. John Hodge's remarks (3 pp.) 1948 August 15
Speech of H.E. Ambassador Liu Yu-wan (1 p.) 1948 August 15
Address of Rev. P. J. Byrne (2 pp.) 1948 August 15
Enclosure #2 to despatch No. 270, "List of Officials of Government of Republic of Korea" 1948 August 21
Press release re Jacobs' return to Washington 1948 August 25
Memorandum for Jacobs, re establishment of government of South Korea 1948 November 3
Booklet, "Korea Reborn"
South Korean political matters 1947-1948
Material re visit of Lt. General A. C. Wedemeyer, etc. to Korea (30 pp.) 1947 August 26-September 3
Liaison and Consular Officials attached to the U.S. Army Forces in Korea (2 pp.) 1948 August 1
American Delegation, U.S.-U.S.S.R. Joint Commission, Political Advisory Group (7 pp.) 1947 August 2
Official letter of by Jacobs to Secretary of State, regarding Pyongyang Conference (4 pp.) 1948 May 3
Airgram, Jacobs to Department of State, re disorder on Cheju Island (3 pp.) 1948 May 4
Memorandum, regarding threats to representative of Korea from North Korean radio broadcasts (17 pp.) 1948 December 1
"What Is a Korean National Youth?" (5 pp.) 1947 January 28
"The Spirit of Korean Chivalry" 1947 January 29
Despatch enclosure regarding the South Korea Labor Party (6 pp.) 1948 March 28
Letter, Jacobs to Secretary of State, regarding Kimm Kivsic - Kim Koo Unification Movement (2 pp.) 1948 August 4
Despatches, memoranda, and printed matter 1947-1948
Memorandum for General Wedemeyer, subject: "Comments on Memorandum dated July 15, 1947" 1947 August 22
Memorandum for General Wedemeyer, subject: "Political Observations on Korea" 1947 August 23
Memorandum for General Wedemeyer, subject: "Recommendations With Regard to Korea" 1947 August 29
Memorandum for General Wedemeyer, subject: "Some Highlights of United States Policy Toward Korea" 1947 September 2
Memorandum, South Korean Interim Government, subject: "Cost of Occupation - Military government" (4 pp.) 1948 April 29
Memorandum, subject: "Concert for the American Delegation" 1947 July 2
Memorandum, "People killed in South Korea from 01 January 1948 to 26 April 1948" (1 p.)
Despatches No. 1028, 1029, to the State Department (4 pp. each) 1948 July 8
Despatches No. 961, 962, to the State Department (9 pp., 8 pp.) 1948 June 26
Despatches No. 923, No. 924, to the State Department (4 pp. each) 1948 June 21
Despatches No. 917, 918, to the State Department (8 pp., 4 pp.) 1948 June 19
Despatch No. 829 (1 p.) 1948 June 8
Despatch No. 736 (7 pp.) 1948 May 26
Despatch (carbon), to State Department (8 pp.) 1948 February 12
Note on American expenditures (1 p.)
Copy of State Department telegram (No. 142) (3 pp.) 1947 July 14
Press conference of General Hodge (off the record) 1948 May 7
TiP (Troop information Program) newsletter, "The Progress and Problems of the Joint Commission" 1947 August 15
"The Occupation of Korea," Foreign Policy Reports, by George M. McCune 1947 October 15
Printed material on Korea, booklets, newspapers, periodical clippings
U.N. Temporary Commission on Korea 1947-1948
Telegram #361 to Dept. 1947 September 19
Letter to Lt. Gen. John Hodge from Maj. Gen. C. A. Willoughby (3 pp.) 1948 July 15
Memorandum, State Department Office of Intelligence Research, "Moscow Radio Criticism of the United Nations and the United Nations Temporary Commission on Korea" (23 pp.) 1948 November 1
Memorandum, "Description of the Interim Committee Proceedings on Korea, Feb. 19-26, 1948" (19 pp.) 1948 April 14
Despatch No. 184, to Secretary of State regarding "Draft documents... (of) Australian delegate...at 65th and 66th Plenary Sessions of the U.N. Commission on Korea," plus enclosures (6 pp.) 1948 June 24
U.S. Mission to the United Nations, Soviet statements in Comm. I, General Assembly, 2nd Session V, "The Problem of the Independence of Korea" (38 pp.) 1948 August 31
Joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. Commission on Korea, reports and positions 1947-1948
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the U.S.S.R., "The Soviet Union and the Korean Question - Documents," Moscow 1948
Joint communiqué (12 pp.) 1947 June 12-11
U.S. Foreign Service, No. 24, subject: "Methods of Dealing with Soviet Officials" (6 pp.) 1948 February 6
U.S. Foreign Service, No. 97, subject: "Visit to Seoul of Underseer of Army, Wm. H. Draper," plus attachment (7 pp.) 1947 September 26
U.S. Foreign Service, No. 102, subject: "Visit to Seoul of Underseer of Army, Wm. H. Draper" 1947 September 30
U.S. Foreign Service, No. 126, subject: "Visit to Seoul of members of intrastate and foreign commerce congressional committee" (2 lv.) 1947 October 21
Drafts on thoughts re Korea, in letter form to Hugh Borton, State Department (12 pp.) 1947 July 25
List of dates of Joint Commission meetings - meetings 38-62 (1 leaf) 1947
Soviet proposal re plan of work in Pyongyang during 30 June - 3 July 1947 (2 lv.) 1947 July 23
"Position of the Soviet Delegation," 48th meeting (5 lv.) 1947 July 29
"Position of the Soviet Delegation," 49th meeting (3 lv.) 1947 July 31
"Position of the Soviet Delegation," 50th meeting (3 lv.) 1947 August 1
"Position of the Soviet Delegation," 51st meeting (3 lv.) 1947 August 5
"Position of the Soviet Delegation," 52nd meeting (4 lv.) 1947 August 7
"Position of the Soviet Delegation," 53rd meeting (carbons, 6 pp.) 1947 August 12
"Position of the Soviet Delegation," 54th meeting 1947 August 20
"Position of the Soviet Delegation," 55th meeting 1947 August 20
"Position of the Soviet Delegation," 56th meeting (7 lv.) 1947 August 26
"Position of the Soviet Delegation," 57th meeting (8 lv.) 1947 September 3
Draft, U.S. position on freedom of expression and eligibility for consultation (re Korean government statements) (4 lv.) 1947 June 28
List of Soviet objections to parties and Social organizations (1 leaf) 1947 July
Observations of Interpreter of Joint Commission trip to Pyongyang (10 pp.) 1947 June 29-July 3
Korean organizations in the U.S., as of 16 October 1947 (3 lv.)
Notes on Korean politics compiled by the Political Advisory Group, American delegation, U.S.-U.S.S.R. Joint Committee in cooperation of G-2, Hg. XXIV Corps 1947 September 1
"Notes on Korean Politics" 1947
Joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. Commission on Korea, invitations and programs 1947
Telephone directory, Greater Seoul Area 1948 March 1
Netherland India
Tourist booklets and guides circa 1935
Tourist booklets and guides circa 1935
International Mixed Court, Shanghai, trial 1925
Correspondence
Material related to U.S. involvement in China 1915-1926