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Dates: during 1930-1939
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On Sept. 17, 1935, Nelson Johnson was graduated from Minister to Ambassador, his salary raised from $10,000 to $17,500. All the while Japan was becoming more & more threatening, and by July 1937, when North China hostilities began, Ambassador Johnson had a really big job on his hands. It...
At 52, Nelson Johnson is a regular Old King Cole. He is plump as a pillow. He has thinning pale-gold hair, with lashes and brows to match, a face all shades of pink, from salmon to sunset, big enough nose, strong chin, mouth with a chronic smile. In ricksha...
The quality which above all others makes Nelson Johnson a really good diplomat is the ease with which he translates his corny U. S. traits into polished Chinese formulas. When he sits down at an important conference with Chinese statesmen, he begins by saying (in Chinese): "Well, boys, have I...
In his Chungking home, across the Yangtze from the city proper, Nelson Johnson rises at seven, eats a hearty breakfast (Sundays he has the staff in for waffles and chicken). He rides to the Embassy Office in a four-coolie sedan with specially strong bamboo lift-poles. There he reads...
Britain and France had just reduced their China garrisons. Japan was fulminating against the U. S. in its role of watchdog. The conferees went off to Manila with their boss's judgment (coinciding with their own): if Japan takes the present war as an occasion to move in on...