Hugh Robert Wilson

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Hugh Robert Wilson; 1927 as the new envoy in Switzerland

Hugh Robert Wilson (born January 29, 1885 in Evanston , Illinois , † December 29, 1946 in Bennington , Vermont ) was an American diplomat, Ambassador of the United States in Bern, Berlin and Tokyo and 1937 Assistant Secretary of State .

Life

Hugh Robert Wilson's parents were Alice Tousey and Robert Wilson. In 1902 Wilson left high school in Pottstown , Pennsylvania and began studying at Yale University , where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1906 . From 1907–1910 Wilson was employed in his brother's furniture wholesale business . In 1910 he studied political science at the University of Paris . In 1911, Wilson joined the State Department , which sent him to Lisbon as Secretary of the Embassy until 1912 . Then he was a commercial attaché at the US legation in Guatemala City until 1914 . This was followed by appointments as second class embassy secretary from 1914 to 1916 in Buenos Aires , Argentina, and from 1916 to 1917 in Berlin in the German Reich . Wilson performed similar functions as from 1917 to 1920 successively in Vienna , Bern , Paris and Rome .

In 1920 Wilson returned to Berlin as counselor for the embassy and in 1921 moved to Tokyo , Japan , where he was accredited until 1923 . From 1924 to 1927, Wilson was a division head in the State Department. In 1927 he was a member of the US delegation to the Disarmament Conference in Geneva and in 1928 was the United States delegate to the League of Nations in Geneva. He was also the US Ambassador to Switzerland from April 1927 to August 1937. In 1930 Hugh Wilson attended the Fleet Conference in London .

In 1937 Wilson was named Assistant Secretary of State by President Franklin D. Roosevelt . In 1938, Wilson was the US ambassador to Berlin.

After that, Wilson was employed in the State Department until 1940. On January 1, 1941, he was retired and became a member of the planning group of the Office of Strategic Services .

With William Richards Castle, Jr., Joseph Grew and Joseph W. Ballantine, the Assistant Chief of the Eastern Division, Wilson formed the "Japan Connection", which in 1941 tried to prevent the conflict between the governments of Japan and the USA from armed is carried out.

In 1941 he published his memoirs Diplomat between wars (New York, Longmans Green).

Hugh Robert Wilson was buried in Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago , Illinois after his death .

Quotes

"We have assumed defense of the hemisphere and at the same time we have nothing south of the Caribbean Sea which will aid us in making such an assumption definitive. We have neither landing fields nor sea bases. nor have we such control of policy of the individual state which could prevent them from invinting trouble. "

- Hugh R. Wilson Diary May 20, 1940

(We have shouldered the defense of the hemisphere, but we have nothing in the south of the Caribbean that could help us. We have neither landing sites nor naval bases. We still control the politics of individual states so that problems can be averted.)

predecessor Office successor
Hugh S. Gibson US envoy in Bern
June 11, 1927 to July 8, 1937 		Leland B. Harrison
William Edward Dodd US Ambassador to Berlin
March 3, 1938 to November 16, 1938 		Charge d'Affaires Alexander Comstock Kirk

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ REPORT OF HUGH R. WILSON, CHARGE D'AFFAIRES AT GUATEMALA. The steamship lines engaged in trade on the Pacific side of Guatemala - that is, between the Pacific ports of this country and San Francisco - are: The Pacific Mail Steamship Co. United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, United States. Dept. of State, Special diplomatic and consular reports: prepared for the use of the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, in answer to instructions from the Department of State, and dealing with methods and practices of steamship lines engaged in the foreign carrying trade of the United States , Govt. Print. Off., 1913 - 334 pp.
  2. ↑ for example: Barth, Schweizer, Grimm: Der Fall Noel Field, p. 890.
  3. ↑ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/32_f_roosevelt/psources/ps_germanletter.html
  4. ↑ Götz Aly , The Persecution and Murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933-1945 , Volume 2
  5. ↑ Barney J. Rickman III, “Trying to Avoid a Japanese-American War: America's 'Japan Connection' in 1937 and 1941,” Southeast Review of Asian Studies, 26 (2004), 7, 8.
  6. ↑ Uwe Lübken, Threatening Proximity: the USA and the National Socialist Challenge in Latin America, 1937-1945 , 2004, 438 pp., 316
personal data
SURNAME Wilson, Hugh Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilson, Hugh R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Evanston , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1946
Place of death Bennington , Vermont