Item COLD WAR 27/16 - Transcript of interview with US State Department employee John S Service, 1996

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COLD WAR 27/16

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Transcript of interview with US State Department employee John S Service, 1996

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  • 1996 Feb (Creation)

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23pp

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Typescript transcript of interview with John S Service, US State Department, 1945-1951, relating to the reaction in the US to the establishment of the People Republic of China under a communist regime, Oct 1949, including the dismissal of members of the US State Department as scapegoats for the break in US Chinese relations; the campaign against alleged communists and communist sympathisers in US society instigated by Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy, 1950-1954, (McCarthyism); allegations against Service and his experience of the Tiding Subcommittee (US Senate) hearings, investigations by the State Department board and the Loyalty Review Board leading to his dismissal from the State Department, (1951); the findings of the US Supreme Court of illegal discharge by the State Department, 1957. 23pp

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