John Carter Vincent, the Glossary
John Carter Vincent (August 19, 1900 – December 3, 1972) was an American diplomat, Foreign Service Officer, and China Hand.[1]
Table of Contents
36 relations: Alger Hiss, Anti-communism, Beijing, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Changsha, Chiang Kai-shek, China Hands, Chongqing, Dalian, Dean Acheson, Diplomat, Dixie Mission, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Envoy (title), Foreign Service officer, Hankou, Harry S. Truman, Henry A. Wallace, John Foster Dulles, John S. Service, Joseph C. Satterthwaite, Joseph McCarthy, Kuomintang, Leland B. Harrison, List of ambassadors of the United States to Morocco, Louis F. Budenz, Massachusetts, Mercer University, Nanjing, Patrick J. Hurley, Richard Cunningham Patterson Jr., Seneca, Kansas, Shantou, Shenyang, Soviet Union, The New York Times.
- China Hands
- People from Senec
Alger Hiss
Alger Hiss (November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was an American government official accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
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Anti-communism
Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communist beliefs, groups, and individuals.
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Beijing
Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Changsha
Changsha is the capital and the largest city of Hunan Province of China.
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Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 18875 April 1975) was a Chinese statesman, revolutionary, and military commander.
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China Hands
The term China Hand originally referred to 19th-century merchants in the treaty ports of China, but came to be used for anyone with expert knowledge of the language, culture, and people of China.
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Chongqing
Chongqing is a municipality in Southwestern China.
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Dalian
Dalian is a major sub-provincial port city in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, and is Liaoning's second largest city (after the provincial capital Shenyang) and the third-most populous city of Northeast China (after Shenyang and Harbin).
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Dean Acheson
Dean Gooderham Acheson (April 11, 1893October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer.
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Diplomat
A diplomat (from δίπλωμα; romanized diploma) is a person appointed by a state, intergovernmental, or nongovernmental institution to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or international organizations.
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Dixie Mission
The United States Army Observation Group (Chinese: 美軍觀察組; pinyin: Měijūn Guānchá Zǔ), commonly known as the Dixie Mission (Chinese: 迪克西使團; pinyin: Díkèxī Shǐtuán), was the first US effort to gather intelligence and establish relations with the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Liberation Army, then headquartered in the mountainous city of Yan'an, Shaanxi.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
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Envoy (title)
An envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, usually known as a minister, was a diplomatic head of mission who was ranked below ambassador.
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Foreign Service officer
A Foreign Service officer (FSO) is a commissioned member of the United States Foreign Service.
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Hankou
Hankou, alternately romanized as Hankow, was one of the three towns (the other two were Wuchang and Hanyang) merged to become modern-day Wuhan city, the capital of the Hubei province, China.
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Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.
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Henry A. Wallace
Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was an American politician, journalist, farmer, and businessman who served as the 33rd vice president of the United States, from 1941 to 1945, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as United States secretary of state under president Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 until his resignation in 1959.
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John S. Service
John Stewart Service (August 3, 1909 – February 3, 1999) was an American diplomat who served in the Foreign Service in China prior to and during World War II. John Carter Vincent and John S. Service are China Hands.
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Joseph C. Satterthwaite
Joseph Charles Satterthwaite (March 14, 1900 – November 19, 1990) was an American career diplomat.
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Joseph McCarthy
Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957.
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Kuomintang
The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially based on the Chinese mainland and then in Taiwan since 1949.
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Leland B. Harrison
Leland B. Harrison (April 25, 1883 – June 6, 1951) was a United States diplomat. John Carter Vincent and Leland B. Harrison are United States Foreign Service personnel.
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List of ambassadors of the United States to Morocco
This is a list of ambassadors of the United States to Morocco.
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Louis F. Budenz
Louis Francis Budenz (pronounced "byew-DENZ"; July 17, 1891 – April 27, 1972) was an American activist and writer.
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
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Mercer University
Mercer University is a private research university with its main campus in Macon, Georgia.
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Nanjing
Nanjing is the capital of Jiangsu province in eastern China. The city has 11 districts, an administrative area of, and a population of 9,423,400. Situated in the Yangtze River Delta region, Nanjing has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having served as the capital of various Chinese dynasties, kingdoms and republican governments dating from the 3rd century to 1949, and has thus long been a major center of culture, education, research, politics, economy, transport networks and tourism, being the home to one of the world's largest inland ports.
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Patrick J. Hurley
Patrick Jay Hurley (January 8, 1881July 30, 1963) was an American politician and diplomat.
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Richard Cunningham Patterson Jr.
Richard Cunningham Patterson Jr. (1886–1966) was an American government official and diplomat.
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Seneca, Kansas
Seneca is a city in and the county seat of Nemaha County, Kansas, United States.
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Shantou
Shantou, alternately romanized as Swatow and sometimes known as Santow, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern coast of Guangdong, China, with a total population of 5,502,031 as of the 2020 census (5,391,028 in 2010) and an administrative area of.
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Shenyang
Shenyang is a sub-provincial city in north-central Liaoning, China.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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See also
China Hands
- Charles Ruas
- China Hands
- Edgar Snow
- George Atcheson Jr.
- Gideon Nye
- John Carter Vincent
- John King Fairbank
- John Paton Davies Jr.
- John S. Service
- Oliver Edmund Clubb
- Owen Lattimore
- Thomas R. Jernigan
People from Senec
- Abraham Lincoln DeMond
- Adam Beattie
- Andrew Jackson Felt
- Bill Whitmire
- Brad Glenn (American football coach)
- Britt Reames
- Cassie Gaines
- Chad Emmert
- Chrissy Adams
- Clarence Kay
- Dave Callahan
- David Archibald Harvey
- David L. Thomas
- Dennis Hughes (American football)
- Edward White (Medal of Honor)
- Erica Tremblay
- Frank Holleman
- Frank Rice (politician)
- Henry Heitfeld
- Ira K. Wells
- Jeff Scott
- Jimmy Orr
- John Carter Vincent
- John E. Hines
- John Edwards
- John Riggins
- John Tracy Ellis
- John Wilson (soccer)
- Kathlyn Kelley
- Letitia H. Verdin
- Lewis G. Watkins
- Little Britches (outlaw)
- Marshall Parker
- Marv Rackley
- Mary Jewett Telford
- Merl Code
- Mike Godfrey
- Morris Watts
- Rich McCready
- Ron Hein
- Roy E. Moore
- Steve Gaines
- Thomas C. Alexander
- Timothy M. Cain
- Tommy Pope (politician)
- Viola Thompson
- Wallace A. Downs
- Willie Aikens