JAPAN AND AMERICA, c1930-1955
THE PACIFIC WAR AND THE OCCUPATION OF JAPAN

Series Two: The O'Ryan Mission to Japan and Occupied China, 1940 The Whitney Diary; Correspondence and Papers of Dr Whitney, General O'Ryan and other members of the Economic and Trade Mission

REEL 1

 - Diary of Dr Simon N Whitney
 - Notes on conversations and conference prepared by Dr Whitney
 - Report to General O’Ryan by Professor Hunsberger and Dr Whitney
 - Background and memoranda prepared for General O’Ryan by Professor Hunsberger
 - Excerpts from General O’Ryan’s report to the Japan Economic Federation and Notes on General O’Ryan’s report by Dr Whitney and Professor Hunsberger
 - Materials prepared for the mission by the Japan Economic Federation
 - Professor Hunsberger’s pencil notes

REEL 2
 - Text of a radio broadcast speech by General O’Ryan on 15 August, 1940
 - Professor Hunsberger’s CV and miscellaneous letters concerning the O’Ryan Mission written by Professor Hunsberger
 - Article entitled The Coming War with Japan written by Professor Hunsberger in the autumn of 1940 and submitted to, but rejected by a number of magazines (includes the rejection letters and covering letters)
 - Comments of Dr Whitney and General O’Ryan re: the material listed above
 - Materials relating to the Joint Committee of Thirty, an American Club in Shanghai that entertained the mission while it was in China, including a newspaper article (source not indicated) to which Whitney makes reference in his diary.
 - Press releases and newspaper clippings collected while the group was in Asia
 - Materials prepared and given to Professor Hunsberger by Frank S Booth, an American the group met in Asia. Includes an article written by Booth in Japanese and clearly published in Japan, but with no indication to where it was published.
 - Miscellaneous agendas, timetables, etc
 - Lists of personnel, guests, interviewees, etc. Also business cards identifying some of the Japanese interviewed.
 - Materials prepared for General O’Ryan by Professor Hunsberger. O’Ryan Mission 1940.
 - Miscellaneous materials collected by Professor Hunsberger
 - Photographs collected by Mrs Whitney

Published Materials
 - Whitney, Simon N. ‘Impressions of a Far Eastern Trip’. The Yale Review. December 1940
 - Hunsberger, Warren S. ‘The O’Ryan Mission to Japan’. Pacific Affairs. September 1943
 - Center for American Studies. University of Tokyo, College of Education ‘An Interview with Dr Warren S Hunsberger’. American Society During World War II, Oral History Series Vol 5. 1982

National Archives and Records Administration: State Department Documents
RG59 Documents relating to the O’Ryan Mission (photocopies)
 - Documents relating to the formation of the mission FW 711.94/1529
 - The Department’s reactions to General O’Ryan’s letter of 13 July sent from Japan to President Roosevelt FW 711.94/2101
 - Report to the American Consul General in Shanghai concerning the O’Ryan Mission visit to that city FW 711.94/1664
 - Excerpts from General O’Ryan’s letter of December 1940 to Baron Goh of the Japan Economic Federation and the Department’s reaction to it. FW 711.94/1769
 - Materials relating to proposals made to the Department by Mack Kleiman FW 711.894.00/998, 894.00/977
 - General O’Ryan’s letter of July 13 sent from Japan to President Roosevelt FW711.94/1670

National Archives - War Department Documents
RG59 G-2/2515-H-125 (photocopies)
 - Memoranda of Brigadier General Sherman Miles on conversations with General O’Ryan in September 1940.
 - Documents relating to the Kleiman negotiations listed in the last item above.

Franklin D Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, New York
Relevant documents from PPF 1948 and PSF Box 59 (photocopies)
 - Correspondence concerning the mission between General O’Ryan and President Roosevelt. Included are comments on the same by Cordell Hull, featuring a typewritten copy of General O’Ryan’s letter of 13 July listed in item two of the State Department documents.