Chapter Six War
1. Memorandum, Recent Conversations with Generalissimo, November 30, 1941, LP.
2. Ibid. [BACK]
1. Memorandum, Recent Conversations with Generalissimo, November 30, 1941, LP.
2. Ibid. [BACK]
3. Omita (Lattimore) to Currie, November 27, 1941, FDRL. [BACK]
4. Memorandum, Recent Conversations with Generalissimo, November 30, 1941, LP. [BACK]
5. Mayling Soong Chiang to Lattimore, December 3, 1941, LP. [BACK]
6. Memorandum, Generalissimo: Northeast China, December 4, 1941, LP. [BACK]
7. Memorandum, Generalissimo: Counteracting Propaganda of Chinese Communists in U.S., December 4, 1941. [BACK]
8. Memorandum, Generalissimo: Fundamental Question of the Pacific Area, December 4, 1941, LP. [BACK]
9. Memorandum, Generalissimo: Economics, December 4, 1941, LP. [BACK]
10. Memorandum, Generalissimo: Military, December 5, 1941, LP. [BACK]
11. Memorandum, Generalissimo: December 5, 1941, LP. [BACK]
12. McHugh to Currie, December 3, 1941, McHugh Papers. [BACK]
13. Lattimore to Currie, December 9, 1941, FR 4: 738-39. [BACK]
14. Omita to Currie, December 11, 1941, FDRL. [BACK]
15. Untitled three-page memorandum with note at end, "Submitted through Madame, December 14, 1941. No Chinese translation," LP. [BACK]
16. Omita to Currie, December 21, 1941, FDRL; see also the discussion of this loan in Tuchman, Stilwell , 251-52. [BACK]
17. Aide Memoire, Submitted through Madame, December 21, 1941, LP.
18. Ibid. [BACK]
17. Aide Memoire, Submitted through Madame, December 21, 1941, LP.
18. Ibid. [BACK]
19. Omita to Currie, December 28, 1941, FDRL. [BACK]
20. Omita to Currie, January 1, 1941 (error: should read 1942), FDRL; Omita to Currie, January 4, 1942, FDRL. [BACK]
21. Omita to Currie, January 7, 1942, FDRL. [BACK]
22. Chiang Kai-shek to President Roosevelt, January 12, 1942, FDRL. [BACK]
23. FBI/OL, 5864. [BACK]
24. Hamilton Owens, "Back from China, Lattimore High in Praise of Chiang's War Leadership," Baltimore Sun , February 9, 1942. [BACK]
25. "Roosevelt Signs Chinese Loan Bill," New York Times, February 14, 1942. [BACK]
26. FBI/OL, 5864. [BACK]
27. Lattimore to Madame Chiang, February 16, 1942, LP. [BACK]
28. Creighton Hill to Currie, February 25, 1942, LP. [BACK]
29. Lattimore to Chiang Kai-shek, March 4, 1942, LP. [BACK]
30. Memorandum, "Studies of American Interests in the War and the Peace," Territorial Group, CFR, March 18, 1942, CFR Archives. [BACK]
31. Lattimore to Hollington Tong, March 15, 1942, LP. [BACK]
32. FBI/OL, 1752. [BACK]
33. Canadian Club Meeting No. 1 (Season of 1942-43), Chauteau Laurier, Ottawa, May 7, 1942, LP. [BACK]
34. Currie to Roosevelt, May 15, 1942, FR , China, 46. [BACK]
35. FBI/OL, 5864. [BACK]
36. Lattimore, "How to Win the War," 15.
37. Ibid., 111. [BACK]
36. Lattimore, "How to Win the War," 15.
37. Ibid., 111. [BACK]
38. Tuchman, Stilwell . [BACK]
42. FBI/OL, 3693. The McCarthyite charge that Lattimore "had an office in the Department of State" was entirely false. Currie's was an Executive Department office, located in the Old State Department Building, but it had no connection with State at that time. [BACK]
43. "Conference with Dr. Owen Lattimore," June 10, 1942, Preston Goodfel-
low Papers, Box 3, Hoover Institution. In 1978 even so careful a scholar as Christopher Thorne misinterpreted this document to suggest that Lattimore thought that the Chinese Communists were not genuine ideologues. This was not what he thought at all; he knew well that Chu Teh's ''Democratic regime" was a temporary tactical expedient. See Thorne, Allies of a Kind , 183. [BACK]
44. Lattimore, Asia in a New World Order , 150, 161. A decade later this even-handed discussion triggered a bitter attack on Lattimore by isolationist-turned-McCarthyite John T. Flynn. In While You Slept and The Lattimore Story , Flynn outrageously distorts Lattimore's position, grossly misrepresenting Asia in a New World Order to paint Lattimore as a Kremlin agent. [BACK]
45. "Tribute Is Accorded Chinese Army Deeds; Adviser to Chiang Urges U.S. to Send More Planes Quickly," New York Times , July 27, 1942. [BACK]
46. Mayling Soong Chiang to Lattimore, August 5, 1942, LP. [BACK]
47. O'Mahoney MS, 42. [BACK]
48. Draft telegram for Generalissimo, no date, LP. [BACK]
49. Roosevelt to Generalissimo, September 16, 1942, FDRL. [BACK]
50. Clipping from unidentified newspaper, LP. [BACK]
51. "New Front in China Seen," New York Times , October 24, 1942. [BACK]
52. O'Mahoney MS 44. The five thousand dollar gift figured prominently in McCarran's SISS hearings. McCarran could not accept it as a genuine indication of Chiang's satisfaction with Lattimore's services; it had to be seen as routine. [BACK]
53. H. H. K'ung to Lattimore, November 15, 1942, LP. [BACK]
54. Seagrave, Soong Dynasty , 380-81; Schleit, Shelton's Barefoot Airlines , 21-24. There were adventures on this trip. Jeanette Kung had no money and borrowed nineteen hundred dollars from Lattimore to buy watches in Brazil. She repaid it when she got access to her father's U.S. accounts. FBI/OL, 3005. [BACK]
55. "Lattimore Stresses We Must Win in China," New York Times , December 8, 1942. [BACK]
56. War and Peace in the Pacific (New York: Institute of Pacific Relations, 1943), vi. McCarran's SISS made much of the fact that William W. Lockwood, IPR secretary, had solicited from Alger Hiss suggestions as to who should be invited to Mont Tremblant. Hiss obliged, suggesting Dean Acheson, Adolf Berle, Adlai Stevenson, and Harvey Bundy, among others. None of them attended; they were nonetheless damned by this recommendation. Those who did attend were also damned. Among the twenty-six American delegates were Philip Jessup, Frank Coe, Lauchlin Currie, Len De Caux, Fred Field, and Owen Lattimore. [BACK]
57. Memorandum, "Studies of American Interests in the War and the Peace," Territorial Group, CFR, December 15, 1942, CFR Archives. [BACK]
58. Draft of letter from Lattimore to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, no date, FR 1942, China 185-187. [BACK]
59. Currie to Lattimore, December 28, 1942, LP. [BACK]
60. Lattimore to Currie, January 1, 1943, LP. [BACK]