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...reporters but a bull dog to rowdy ones, "cut that out, or we'll throw you out." "I'll ask the boss about that," said Wilson in a mock huff, and walked down the hall to the office of the then Assistant Secretary of State Nelson Trusler Johnson (who had just been notified of his appointment as Minister to China). Two hours later someone put his head in the Assistant Secretary's door. Nelson Johnson and Lyle Wilson were tossing the airplane at each other, laughing like ten-year-olds...
Career Diplomat is the phrase to remember about Nelson Trusler Johnson. Born in Washington 52 years ago, he studied at Friends School and George Washington University. He was such a whiz at Latin, Greek and German that one of his professors casually said he ought to get a language appointment in the foreign service. He liked the idea, got a list of required subjects for the diplomatic exams, borrowed some books, read without instruction, passed in a walk, and before he knew it was at the end of the world...
...firetrap, Nelson Johnson might say, and the apartment of the two people across the hall catches fire, you don't go on reading that romantic novel; you get busy. Occidentals want to go on hearing the sweet music of trade in the orient. For the time being, Nelson Trusler Johnson must bear the White Man's baton...
Thus ticks a prime foreign servant of the U. S. He may seem happy-go-lucky, too casual to force a grave issue, too apt to wait and see. But no legate could be a better Bearer of Good Will to the gentle people of China. Nelson Trusler Johnson is the sort of roly-poly man a Chinese can respect, love, even fear far more deeply than the man with bayonet, dollar, or arrogance...
...other side of the war, the Chinese appeared cocky. Back in Washington, Nelson Trusler Johnson, able and well-informed U. S. Ambassador to China, reported that Chinese morale was excellent, China's hopes high. In Chungking, Sun Fo, President of the Chinese Legislative Yuan, son of the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, substantiated Mr. Johnson: "Our prospects are progressively brighter. We fight on with growing confidence, new unity and new strength...