The China Mission

by Daniel Kurtz-Phelan

  363 he read thick volumes Pogue, Organizer, 306; asked newspaper publishers Papers Vol. 3, 530; “By looking back” Neustadt, Thinking, 248.

  363 “too many conflicting and disturbing factors” Papers Vol. 7, 688; “impressions retained” Papers Vol. 1, 220; “great value in broadening” Papers Vol. 3, 530.

  SOURCES

  ARCHIVAL MATERIALS

  Dean Acheson Papers, Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Missouri

  David D. Barrett Papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Palo Alto, California

  W. Walton Butterworth Papers, George C. Marshall Research Library, Lexington, Virginia

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  L. J. Lincoln Papers, George C. Marshall Research Library, Lexington, Virginia

  John Lucas Papers, Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania

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  George C. Marshall Papers, George C. Marshall Research Library, Lexington, Virginia

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  Richard C. Wing Papers, George C. Marshall Research Library, Lexington, Virginia

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  ORAL HISTORIES

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  Chen Kuang-fu, Chen Li-fu, Wellington Koo

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  Henry Byroade, Ralph Clough, Everett Drumright, John F. Melby, John S. Service

  George C. Marshall Research Library, Lexington, Virginia:

  Dean Acheson, David D. Barrett, W. Walton Butterworth, James F. Byrnes, Henry A. Byroade, Marshall S. Carter, John Hart Caughey, A. Fairfield Dana, Dwight D. Eisenhower, William M. Farr, Alvan C. Gillem, Averell Harriman, Richard Hickey, John E. Hull, C. E. Hutchin, Philip Jessup, George F. Kennan, George C. Marshall, Katherine Marshall, Frank McCarthy, John Melby, Luther D. Miller, William D. Pawley, Walter Robertson, Eleanor Roosevelt, James R. Shep­ley, Harry S. Truman, George V. Underwood, Wang Shih-Chieh, Albert Wedemeyer, Richard C. Wing, Yu Ta-wei

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