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JOHN S. SERVICE (1909-), State Department official and UC Berkeley China expert, discusses family background; childhood in Szechwan; Oberlin College, 1931; Foreign Service clerk at Yunnanfu; posts in Shanghai and Chungking; travels in China, 1942-45; first "Dixie Mission" to Yenan; in caves with Mao Tse-tung, Chou En-lai, and other Chinese Communist leaders; Amerasia case, 1945: arrest, charge, and unanimous clearing by grand jury; postings to Japan, Washington, New Zealand, and India; charges of communism by Senator Joseph McCarthy; dismissal from Foreign Service, 1951; reinstatement ordered, 1956; consul, Liverpool; specialist, Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley, 1964-76; trips to China, 1970s. Video-tape; In process.

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