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Eisenhower Parkway ■ P.O Box 1346 ■ Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346 ■ USA ■ Tel: 734.461.4700 ■ Toll-free 800-521-0600 ■ www.proquest.com A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Records of the Treasury Department in Foreign Affairs Office of the Assistant Secretary for International Affairs Geographic Files: The Far East, 19441959 A UPA Collection from i Records of the Treasury Department in Foreign Affairs Office of the Assistant Secretary for International Affairs Geographic Files: The Far East, 19441959 Edited by Robert E. Lester Guide compiled by James Shields A UPA Collection from 4520 East-West Highway • Bethesda, MD 20814-3389 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Office of the Assistant Secretary for International Affairs. Geographic files, The Far East, 19441959 [microform] / edited by Robert Lester. microfilm reels ; 35 mm.(Records of the Treasury Department in foreign affairs) Accompanied by a printed guide compiled by James Henry Shields. Summary: Reproduces documents from Record Group 56, Records of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Records of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, Geographic files, 19341959. Consists of correspondence, memoranda, studies, reports, briefing books, and other documents pertaining to U.S. economic relations with Japan and the Far East. ISBN 1-55655-993-3 1. United StatesForeign economic relationsJapanSources. 2. JapanForeign economic relationsUnited StatesSources. 3. United StatesForeign economic relationsEast AsiaSources. 4. United StatesCommercial policyHistory20th centurySources. I. Lester, Robert. II. Shields, James Henry. III. United States. Dept. of the Treasury. IV. Series. HF1456.5.J3 337.7305'09'045dc22 2004048543 CIP Copyright © 2004 LexisNexis Academic & Library Solutions, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. ISBN 1-55655-993-3. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Scope and Content Note .................................................................................................... v Source Note .......................................................................................................................... vii Editorial Note ....................................................................................................................... vii Abbreviations ....................................................................................................................... ix Reel Index Reel 1 Far East, General ........................................................................................................... 1 Afghanistan .................................................................................................................... 1 Burma ............................................................................................................................ 1 Ceylon ............................................................................................................................ 2 Reel 2 Formosa .........................................................................................................................2 French Indochina ........................................................................................................... 2 Reel 3 French Indochina cont. .................................................................................................. 2 India ............................................................................................................................... 3 Reels 46 India cont. ...................................................................................................................... 3 Reel 7 India cont. ...................................................................................................................... 4 Indonesia ........................................................................................................................ 4 Reel 8 Indonesia cont. ............................................................................................................... 5 Korea ............................................................................................................................. 5 Reels 919 Korea cont. .................................................................................................................... 5 Reels 2031 Japan .............................................................................................................................. 10 Reel 32 Japan cont. .....................................................................................................................16 Malaya ........................................................................................................................... 16 Nepal .............................................................................................................................. 16 iii Outlying Islands: Ryukyus.............................................................................................. 16 Pakistan .......................................................................................................................... 17 Reel 33 Pakistan cont. ................................................................................................................ 17 Thailand .......................................................................................................................... 17 Reel 34 Thailand cont. ................................................................................................................ 18 Tibet ............................................................................................................................... 18 Principal Correspondents Index ....................................................................................... 19 Subject Index ....................................................................................................................... 21 iv SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The Office of the Secretary of the Treasury has had several divisions devoted to international affairs since the 1930s. As was the case with many federal agencies, World War II and Americas expanded role in world affairs increased the importance of these offices and led to administrative changes. The Treasury Department established the Division of Monetary Research in 1938 and the Office of Foreign Funds Control in 1942. In 1947, these two groups were combined into the Office of International Finance. A further permutation was the creation of the Office of International Affairs in 1962. In 1964, all foreign activities of the Treasury Department were consolidated into the departments new Office of the Assistant Secretary for International Affairs (OASIA). Records of OASIA and its predecessor agencies document the function and role in advising and assisting the secretary of the Treasury and other senior departmental officials in the formulation and execution of policies and programs relating to the responsibilities of the Treasury Department in the international economic, financial, and monetary fields. This collection from the Treasury Department records at the National Archives presents the Geographic Files from the OASIA. These Geographic Files focus on the Far East, represented by Afghanistan, Burma, Ceylon, Formosa, French Indochina, India, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, Malaya, Nepal, Pakistan, the Ryukyu Islands, Thailand, and Tibet. The files date from 1944 to 1959, with some material from the 1930s. The collection consists of various document types, including memoranda, correspondence, articles, administrative records, informal notes, transcripts of meetings, and special reports. This microfilm publication highlights essential documentation on Far East economic and financial relations, funding and budget policies, aid and technical programs, and economic missions. The collection begins with a special report, Problems of Economic Development in the Far East by Harlan Cleveland, analyzing issues on trade, economic assistance, prices, and the United Nations. The rest of the documents in the collection are organized alphabetically by country, except Korea, which precedes Japan. Materials in the country files address a wide range of topics, including banks and banking, currency stabilization, foreign exchange rates, external assets, securities and investments, trade agreements, military pay, reparations, and war surplus. The two major groups of documents in this collection cover Korea and Japan. The Korea file group includes official gazettes from 1945 to 1948 with translations in Korean (Reels 12 15). Another document series on Korea presents Treasury program briefing materials (Reels 1619) on the currency conversion rate, logistic support for military forces, the economic mission under Clarence E. Meyer, the United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency,