Joseph Earle Jacobs Papers

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Inventory of the Joseph Earle Jacobs papers

Inventory of the Joseph Earle 69071 1 Jacobs papers Title: Joseph Earle Jacobs papers Date (inclusive): 1909-1971 Collection Number: 69071 Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Archives Language of Material: English Physical Description: 3 manuscript boxes(1.2 linear feet) Abstract: Writings, correspondence, reports, and printed matter relating to various aspects of American diplomacy, especially reconstruction in Korea, mutual security programs in Europe after World War II, the Italian communist movement, the Philippine independence movement, and the Shanghai riot of May 30, 1925. Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives Creator: Jacobs, Joseph E., 1893-1971 Access The collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least two business days in advance of intended use. Publication Rights For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Joseph Earle Jacobs papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Archives. Acquisition Information Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1969. Accruals Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the catalog is larger than the number of boxes listed in this finding aid. 1893 Born, Johnston, South Carolina October 31 1913 A.B., College of Charleston 1915 Student interpreter in China and detailed to Peking November 5 1917-1918 Vice Consul, Foochow 1918 Vice Consul and interpreter, Shanghai 1918-1925 American Assessor, International Mixed Court, Shanghai 1919-1920 Judge, Consular Court, District of Shanghai 1921 Appointed Consul 1924 Reclassified as foreign service officer 1925 Administrative Consul, Shanghai May-December 1926 Technical Adviser to American Commissioner on Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in China 1926-1928 Consul, Yumanfu, China 1928-1930 Consul, Shanghai 1929 December-1930Representative of American Minister to China in negotiations with regard to the Provisional Court, Shanghai February 1930 Married Elizabeth McNutt August 23 1930-1934 Duty, Far Eastern Division, Department of State 1935-1936 Foreign Service Inspector 1936-1940 Chief, Office of Philippine Affairs, Department of State 1937 Member, Joint Committee of Experts on Philippine Affairs 1940-1945 Counselor of Legation, Cairo, Egypt 1945 Attached to Political Adviser, Allied Headquarters, Mediterranean Command, Caserta, Italy January

Inventory of the Joseph Earle 69071 2 Jacobs papers 1945 May-1946 American Representative to Albania November 1947-1948 Political Adviser to the Commanding General in Korea 1947 Career Minister, U.S. Foreign Service November 1948 Adviser, Far Eastern Affairs, 3rd session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, Paris 1948-1949 U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia 1949 Awarded Patriotic Civilian Service Medal by Department of the Army 1949-1955 Minister to American Embassy, Rome - special assistant for Mutual Defense Assistant Program 1953 LL.D., College of Charleston 1955-1957 U.S. Ambassador to Poland 1971 Died Scope and Content of Collection Writings, correspondence, reports, and printed matter relating to various aspects of American diplomacy, especially reconstruction in Korea, mutual security programs in Europe after World War II, the Italian communist movement, the Philippine independence movement, and the Shanghai riot of May 30, 1925. Subjects and Indexing Terms United States. Department of State. Communism--Italy. Diplomats--United States. Nationalism--Philippines. Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Korea (South) Textile Workers' Strike, Shanghai, China, 1925. United States--Foreign relations.

Political Adviser to the Commanding General in Korea file Box/Folder 1 : 1 Press release on Korea and the Soviet Union 1948 April 9 Scope and Contents note Includes two newspaper clippings, one in Korean.

U.S. Foreign Service reports on Syngman Rhee, the establishment of the Korean government, etc. Box/Folder 1 : 2 "Intimate Report on Syngman Rhee" (8 pp.) 1948 February 9 Box/Folder 1 : 2 Syngman Rhee to John R. Hodge (3 pp.) 1948 August 6 Box/Folder 1 : 2 Memorandum (2 pp.) 1948 August 12 Box/Folder 1 : 2 Memorandum, re arrival of Douglas MacArthur (3 pp.) 1948 August Box/Folder 1 : 2 Press release, Rhee address (4 pp.) 1948 August 15 Box/Folder 1 : 2 Press release, MacArthur address (2 pp.) 1948 August 15 Box/Folder 1 : 2 Press release, Gen. John Hodge's remarks (3 pp.) 1948 August 15 Box/Folder 1 : 2 Speech of H.E. Ambassador Liu Yu-wan (1 p.) 1948 August 15 Box/Folder 1 : 2 Address of Rev. P. J. Byrne (2 pp.) 1948 August 15 Box/Folder 1 : 2 Enclosure #2 to despatch No. 270, "List of Officials of Government of Republic of Korea" 1948 August 21 Box/Folder 1 : 2 Press release re Jacobs' return to Washington 1948 August 25 Box/Folder 1 : 2 Memorandum for Jacobs, re establishment of government of South Korea 1948 November 3 Box/Folder 1 : 2 Booklet, "Korea Reborn" South Korean political matters 1947-1948 Box/Folder 1 : 3 Material re visit of Lt. General A. C. Wedemeyer, etc. to Korea (30 pp.) 1947 August 26-September 3 Box/Folder 1 : 3 Liaison and Consular Officials attached to the U.S. Army Forces in Korea (2 pp.) 1948 August 1

Inventory of the Joseph Earle 69071 3 Jacobs papers Box/Folder 1 : 3 American Delegation, U.S.-U.S.S.R. Joint Commission, Political Advisory Group (7 pp.) 1947 August 2 Box/Folder 1 : 3 Official letter of by Jacobs to Secretary of State, regarding Pyongyang Conference (4 pp.) 1948 May 3 Box/Folder 1 : 3 Airgram, Jacobs to Department of State, re disorder on Cheju Island (3 pp.) 1948 May 4 Box/Folder 1 : 3 Memorandum, regarding threats to representative of Korea from North Korean radio broadcasts (17 pp.) 1948 December 1 Box/Folder 1 : 3 "What Is a Korean National Youth?" (5 pp.) 1947 January 28 Box/Folder 1 : 3 "The Spirit of Korean Chivalry" 1947 January 29 Box/Folder 1 : 3 Despatch enclosure regarding the South Korea Labor Party (6 pp.) 1948 March 28 Box/Folder 1 : 3 Letter, Jacobs to Secretary of State, regarding Kimm Kivsic - Kim Koo Unification Movement (2 pp.) 1948 August 4 Despatches, memoranda, and printed matter 1947-1948 Box/Folder 1 : 4 Memorandum for General Wedemeyer, subject: "Comments on Memorandum dated July 15, 1947" 1947 August 22 Box/Folder 1 : 4 Memorandum for General Wedemeyer, subject: "Political Observations on Korea" 1947 August 23 Box/Folder 1 : 4 Memorandum for General Wedemeyer, subject: "Recommendations With Regard to Korea" 1947 August 29 Box/Folder 1 : 4 Memorandum for General Wedemeyer, subject: "Some Highlights of United States Policy Toward Korea" 1947 September 2 Box/Folder 1 : 4 Memorandum, South Korean Interim Government, subject: "Cost of Occupation - Military government" (4 pp.) 1948 April 29 Box/Folder 1 : 4 Memorandum, subject: "Concert for the American Delegation" 1947 July 2 Box/Folder 1 : 4 Memorandum, "People killed in South Korea from 01 January 1948 to 26 April 1948" (1 p.) Box/Folder 1 : 4 Despatches No. 1028, 1029, to the State Department (4 pp. each) 1948 July 8 Box/Folder 1 : 4 Despatches No. 961, 962, to the State Department (9 pp., 8 pp.) 1948 June 26 Box/Folder 1 : 4 Despatches No. 923, No. 924, to the State Department (4 pp. each) 1948 June 21 Box/Folder 1 : 4 Despatches No. 917, 918, to the State Department (8 pp., 4 pp.) 1948 June 19 Box/Folder 1 : 4 Despatch No. 829 (1 p.) 1948 June 8 Box/Folder 1 : 4 Despatch No. 736 (7 pp.) 1948 May 26 Box/Folder 1 : 4 Despatch (carbon), to State Department (8 pp.) 1948 February 12 Box/Folder 1 : 4 Note on American expenditures (1 p.) Box/Folder 1 : 4 Copy of State Department telegram (No. 142) (3 pp.) 1947 July 14 Box/Folder 1 : 4 Press conference of General Hodge (off the record) 1948 May 7 Box/Folder 1 : 4 TiP (Troop information Program) newsletter, "The Progress and Problems of the Joint Commission" 1947 August 15 Box/Folder 1 : 4 "The Occupation of Korea," Foreign Policy Reports, by George M. McCune 1947 October 15 Box/Folder 1 : 5 Printed material on Korea, booklets, newspapers, periodical clippings U.N. Temporary Commission on Korea 1947-1948 Box/Folder 1 : 6 Telegram #361 to Dept. 1947 September 19 Box/Folder 1 : 6 Letter to Lt. Gen. John Hodge from Maj. Gen. C. A. Willoughby (3 pp.) 1948 July 15 Box/Folder 1 : 6 Memorandum, State Department Office of Intelligence Research, "Moscow Radio Criticism of the United Nations and the United Nations Temporary Commission on Korea" (23 pp.) 1948 November 1 Box/Folder 1 : 6 Memorandum, "Description of the Interim Committee Proceedings on Korea, Feb. 19-26, 1948" (19 pp.) 1948 April 14 Box/Folder 1 : 6 Despatch No. 184, to Secretary of State regarding "Draft documents... (of) Australian delegate...at 65th and 66th Plenary Sessions of the U.N. Commission on Korea," plus enclosures (6 pp.) 1948 June 24 Box/Folder 1 : 6 U.S. Mission to the United Nations, Soviet statements in Comm. I, General Assembly, 2nd Session V, "The Problem of the Independence of Korea" (38 pp.) 1948 August 31 Joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. Commission on Korea, reports and positions 1947-1948

Inventory of the Joseph Earle 69071 4 Jacobs papers Box/Folder 1 : 7 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the U.S.S.R., "The Soviet Union and the Korean Question - Documents," Moscow 1948 Box/Folder 1 : 7 Joint communiqué (12 pp.) 1947 June 12-11 Box/Folder 1 : 7 U.S. Foreign Service, No. 24, subject: "Methods of Dealing with Soviet Officials" (6 pp.) 1948 February 6 Box/Folder 1 : 7 U.S. Foreign Service, No. 97, subject: "Visit to Seoul of Underseer of Army, Wm. H. Draper," plus attachment (7 pp.) 1947 September 26 Box/Folder 1 : 7 U.S. Foreign Service, No. 102, subject: "Visit to Seoul of Underseer of Army, Wm. H. Draper" 1947 September 30 Box/Folder 1 : 7 U.S. Foreign Service, No. 126, subject: "Visit to Seoul of members of intrastate and foreign commerce congressional committee" (2 lv.) 1947 October 21 Box/Folder 1 : 7 Drafts on thoughts re Korea, in letter form to Hugh Borton, State Department (12 pp.) 1947 July 25 Box/Folder 1 : 7 List of dates of Joint Commission meetings - meetings 38-62 (1 leaf) 1947 Box/Folder 1 : 7 Soviet proposal re plan of work in Pyongyang during 30 June - 3 July 1947 (2 lv.) 1947 July 23 Box/Folder 1 : 7 "Position of the Soviet Delegation," 48th meeting (5 lv.) 1947 July 29 Box/Folder 1 : 7 "Position of the Soviet Delegation," 49th meeting (3 lv.) 1947 July 31 Box/Folder 1 : 7 "Position of the Soviet Delegation," 50th meeting (3 lv.) 1947 August 1 Box/Folder 1 : 7 "Position of the Soviet Delegation," 51st meeting (3 lv.) 1947 August 5 Box/Folder 1 : 7 "Position of the Soviet Delegation," 52nd meeting (4 lv.) 1947 August 7 Box/Folder 1 : 7 "Position of the Soviet Delegation," 53rd meeting (carbons, 6 pp.) 1947 August 12 Box/Folder 1 : 7 "Position of the Soviet Delegation," 54th meeting 1947 August 20 Box/Folder 1 : 7 "Position of the Soviet Delegation," 55th meeting 1947 August 20 Box/Folder 1 : 7 "Position of the Soviet Delegation," 56th meeting (7 lv.) 1947 August 26 Box/Folder 1 : 7 "Position of the Soviet Delegation," 57th meeting (8 lv.) 1947 September 3 Box/Folder 1 : 7 Draft, U.S. position on freedom of expression and eligibility for consultation (re Korean government statements) (4 lv.) 1947 June 28 Box/Folder 1 : 7 List of Soviet objections to parties and Social organizations (1 leaf) 1947 July Box/Folder 1 : 7 Observations of Interpreter of Joint Commission trip to Pyongyang (10 pp.) 1947 June 29-July 3 Box/Folder 1 : 7 Korean organizations in the U.S., as of 16 October 1947 (3 lv.) Box/Folder 1 : 7 Notes on Korean politics compiled by the Political Advisory Group, American delegation, U.S.-U.S.S.R. Joint Committee in cooperation of G-2, Hg. XXIV Corps 1947 September 1 Box/Folder 1 : 8-9 "Notes on Korean Politics" 1947 Box/Folder 1 : 10 Joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. Commission on Korea, invitations and programs 1947 Box/Folder 1 : 11 Telephone directory, Greater Seoul Area 1948 March 1 Box/Folder 1 : 12 Communism in Italy, embassy reports and printed matter 1950-1953 Scope and Contents note Includes a preliminary report on the VII Congress of the Italian Communist Party and a map of Italy showing communist areas.

Box/Folder 1 : 13 Joint Committee in the Philippines, report and press release (5 pp.) 1937-1939 Scope and Contents note Includes a press release of 1939 August 7 regarding the bill to amend the Philippine Independence Act.

Netherland India Box/Folder 1 : 14 Tourist booklets and guides circa 1935 Scope and Contents note Titles include "A Short Guide to the Boro-Budur," "Dutch East Indies, Indo-China, Malaya, Siam," "Tourist Map: Bali and the Idjen-Highland," "The Best of Java," "Sumatra," "Bali," and "Handbook of Information and Intended Time Table: K.P.M. Line."

Box/Folder 2 : 1 Tourist booklets and guides circa 1935

Inventory of the Joseph Earle 69071 5 Jacobs papers Box/Folder 2 : 2-5 International Mixed Court, Shanghai, trial 1925 Correspondence Scope and Contents note Mainly personal correspondence documenting Jacobs' various appointments with in the Department of State. Includes a series of letters relating to his forced resignation as Ambassador to Czechoslovakia by President Truman and correspondence with friend Alger Hiss.

Box/Folder 3 : 1 1922-1924 Scope and Contents note Includes one photograph, undated.

Box/Folder 3 : 2 1925-1927 Box/Folder 3 : 3 1928-1930 Box/Folder 3 : 4 1933-1936 Box/Folder 3 : 5 1937-1939 Box/Folder 3 : 6 1940-1942 Scope and Contents note Includes newspaper clipping from the Manila Daily Bulletin, 1940 September 10.

Box/Folder 3 : 7 1945-1946 Box/Folder 3 : 8 1947-1948 Scope and Contents note Includes newspaper clipping in Czech, 1948 December 19.

Box/Folder 3 : 9 1949 Scope and Contents note Includes newspaper clipping from the New York Times, 1949 June 16.

Box/Folder 3 : 10 1950-1954 Box/Folder 3 : 11 1955-1956 Scope and Contents note Includes two photographs, 1955.

Box/Folder 3 : 12 1957 Box/Folder 3 : 13 Official orders 1946-1955 Box/Folder 3 : 14 Material related to U.S. involvement in China 1915-1926 Scope and Contents note Includes correspondence, memoranda on judicial procedure, 1922 congressional resolution and presidential proclamation, 1921 executive order, 1915 booklet titled "Outlines of the System of Civil Government in China," and newspaper clippings.

Box/Folder 3 : 15 Congressional report and act 1909, 1922 Scope and Contents note Report of the Sixtieth Congress, Session II, and "An Act Relative to the Naturalization and Citizenship of Married Women."

Box/Folder 3 : 16 "Reports on the Peculiarities of Consular Service Work in China Under Extraterritoriality," report and correspondence 1920 Box/Folder 3 : 17 Obituaries 1967-1971

Inventory of the Joseph Earle 69071 6 Jacobs papers