Part five of an autobiographical sketch by Dean Rusk, as told to Richard Rusk. Topics include St. John’s College, Oxford (Outbreak of World War II; vacations in Germany during Hitler’s rise to power), the China-Burma-India theater during WWII (New Delhi, serving under General Stilwell, Burma Road to China, Chinese forces in Burma), recollections of Pearl Harbor Day, India and its people, Roosevelt’s attitude towards colonialism (Asia), U.S. policy in Indochina, Office of Strategic Services (OSS), North Korean attack on South Korea (1950), and the Allies’ dispute on China-Burma-India front.
For more information, see the
Russell Library finding aid for the Dean Rusk Oral History Collection.