Douglas MacArthur II

Douglas MacArthur II

Douglas MacArthur 2nd (born July 5, 1909 in Bryn Mawr , Pennsylvania , † November 15, 1997 in Washington, DC ) was an ambassador to the United States .

Life

Douglas MacArthur was the son of Mary McCalla and Arthur MacArthur III and the nephew of Douglas MacArthur . He attended Milton Academy and graduated from Yale College in 1932 with a Masters in History and Business Administration . He was employed in the Merchant Navy for a few months and served as a lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve for over two years . On August 21, 1934 he married Laura Louise Barkley, daughter of Alben W. Barkley . In 1935 he joined the foreign service and became Vice Consul in Vancouver . From 1936 to 1937 he was Vice Consul in Naples in Fascist Italy.

In 1937 he was transferred to Paris . In 1942 MacArthur was accredited to the Vichy regime as third class embassy secretary and chargé d'affaires. Laura MacArthur was therefore referred to as the ambassador's wife. When the Wehrmacht with the Case Anton on 10 and 11 November 1942 the French occupied and the government of Philippe Pétain in the Sigmaringen Castle moved, he was interned US Legation with the rest of the. In 1944 it was exchanged with the Gripsholm via Lisbon and arrived in New York Harbor on March 16, 1944 . In 1944 he became political advisor to Dwight D. Eisenhower . After the Battle of Paris , MacArthur headed the Politics department of the US Embassy in France until 1948 .

From 1948 to 1949, Douglas MacArthur was First Class Embassy Secretary in Brussels . In 1949 he headed the Western Europe department at the US State Department . In 1950 he became deputy head of the regional affairs department. From 1951 to 1953 he was political advisor to Dwight D. Eisenhower at the North Atlantic Council in the Palais de Chaillot . He took part in a conference that led to the signing of SEATO and worked on the Austrian State Treaty .

The framework for his work as Ambassador to Tokyo from 1957 to 1961 was a treaty signed in 1952 between the United States and Japan. MacArthur helped negotiate the mutual assistance pact that was signed in 1960. Kishi Nobusuke had invited President Eisenhower to come into force of the treaty in Tokyo. The contract met with protests from parts of the Japanese population. On June 10, 1960, the advance detachment, consisting of Thomas E. Stephens and James Hagerty , was held up by protesters for 15 minutes on their way from Tokyo Haneda Airport to the US Embassy and continued on their way by helicopter. Kishi Nobusuke withdrew Eisenhower's invitation and resigned as prime minister a week later.

During his time as ambassador to Brussels from 1961 to 1965, MacArthur coordinated Operation Dragon Rouge and Dragon Noir . From March 14, 1965 to March 6, 1967 he was in the US State Department as Assistant Secretary of State concerned with relations with Congress . From May 24, 1967 to September 16, 1969 he was ambassador to Vienna .

From 1969 to 1972 he was ambassador to Tehran . With US loans and US arms, the regime of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi developed into one of the powerful neighbors of the Persian Gulf . In October 1971, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi had the 2500th anniversary of the Iranian monarchy held. In January 1972, MacArthur made it clear in a telegram how important a visit from Richard Nixon to Pahlavi would be. MacArthur acted as a broker between the petroleum company and the Schahre regime. When the passenger car with Laura and Douglas MacArthur approached their home on November 30, 1970 , MacArthur recognized an ambush, instructed the driver to accelerate, a hatchet was thrown through the rear window and shots fired. On February 9, 1972, an Iranian military tribunal sentenced four people to life imprisonment for attempted kidnapping and another 16 to three to ten years imprisonment.

In 1972 Douglas MacArthur was retired . In June 1988 he wrote a letter to George P. Shultz expressing his concern about the order situation of the US defense industry .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Michael S. Mayer: The Eisenhower Years . P. 451
2. ↑ history.state.gov
3. ^ Tore T. Petersen: Richard Nixon, Great Britain and the Anglo-American alignment in the Persian .
4. ↑ Maggie's mega-deal with the Saudis . In: Der Spiegel . No. 29 , 1988 ( online ).

predecessor	Office	successor
John Moore Allison	United States Ambassador to Japan February 25, 1957 to March 12, 1961	Edwin O. Reischauer
William AM Burden	United States Ambassador to Belgium 1961 to 1965	Ridgway B. Knight
Fred Dutton	Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs March 14, 1965 to March 6, 1967	William B. Macomber, Jr.
James W. Riddleberger	United States Ambassador to Austria May 24, 1967 to September 16, 1969	John P. Humes
Armin H. Meyer	United States Ambassador to Iran 1969-1972	Joseph S. Farland