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Joseph Clark Grew (May 27, 1880 – May 25, 1965) was an American career diplomat and Foreign Service officer. He is best known as the ambassador to Japan from 1932 to 1941 [1] and as a high official in the State Department in Washington from 1944 to 1945.
Nov 7, 2022 · Learn how Joseph C. Grew tried to prevent the war between the U.S. and Japan as the U.S. ambassador to Tokyo from 1932 to 1942. Read about his diplomatic efforts, his internment, and his book Our Man in Tokyo.
Dec 4, 2022 · “Japan may go all out in a do-or-die effort, actually risking national hara-kiri,” cabled Ambassador Joseph C. Grew to the State Department on November 10, 1941, five weeks before Pearl Harbor.
Mar 24, 2023 · Joseph Clark Grew was born on May 27, 1880, the third son of a prominent Boston family. He entered Groton School in 1892, where he met Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was 2 years his junior. He graduated from the school in 1898 and entered Harvard University.
Joseph Clark Grew (May 27, 1880 – May 25, 1965) was an American career diplomat and Foreign Service officer. He is best known as the ambassador to Japan from 1932 to 1941 and as a high official in the State Department in Washington from 1944 to 1945.
A review of the two-volume memoir of Joseph C. Grew, who served as a diplomat for forty years in various posts, including Japan and Washington. The review praises the book as a valuable source for American foreign policy history and a case study of the diplomat in action.
Jun 27, 2024 · Turbulent Era, the account of the forty years he spent as a career diplomat in the American Foreign Service, is convincing evidence that Joseph Grew was present on an extraordinary number of occasions when something of importance broke and that, above all, he was always doing useful work for the country he served so faithfully and so well.
