Evening star., 1950-04-16
Diplomacy Schooling
Coined During
War Yeurs

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Mr.. Rusk returned to the United
States In 1894 to become associate
professor at Mills College, q school
for girls at Oakland. Calf, Q post
he held for the next six years. He
taught political science. specialize
ing in comparative governments
and international relations. In
1887. he began studying law but
never completed his studies. He
was q Reserve Army officer, as a
result Of his service in the ROTC,
and was called up on December is,
1910. and commissioned q captain
and assigned to the Sd Infantry
Division during his last semester
at the University Of California.
Just Missed Bataan
In October. 1941. most Of the
Sd Divisions captains were as
signed to the Philippines because
Of an acute shortage of company
commanders there. and Capt. Rusk
was one Of those ordered to
Manila. At almost the last mo-
ment. however, he was reaSsigned
to Military Intelligence in Wash
ington, and his fellow officers
sailed. unknowing, to the somber
horrors Of Bataan without him.
Capt. Rusk remained in the
United States until 1943. He was
then assigned to the China
Burma-India theater and became
operations officer on the staff Of
1t. Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell. He
served under Stilwell until "Vine-
gar Joe" returned to this country
in the fall Of 1914. The Chira-
Burma-India theater was then
divided into a China theater un-
der 1t. Gen. Albert c. Wedemeyer
and an India Burma theater un-
der Maj. Gen. Daniel I. Sultan.
Rusk became Sultan's deputy chiet
of staff. engaged mostly in liaiscn
with the British and Chinese on
operational plans.
Both personal and national PAS
sions ran high in the China
Burma India theater. Thele we're
bitter differences among Gems.
Stiiwell and Claire L. Chennault
OF the Flying Tigers and Chang
Kai-Shek: among the Americans,
British and Chinese in the thea
ter, and among their governments
at home. Thus Rusk had a bap-
tism of fire in international poll
tics, as we'll as in warfare. during
his two years IN Asia-exnerience
which doubtless will stand him In
good stead in his new post in the
State Department nov.
Named Chief Aide
He returned to this country in
March, 1945, on what was intended
to be a temporary assignment. AS
the war drew to close, however.
his orders were changed and he
was reassigned to the general staff
in Washington.
He left the Army in January,
1946, with the rank of colonel and
entered the State Department as
assistant chief Of the Division of
International Security Affairs,
which had been established to
deal, through the United Nations,
with disarmament. the proposed
international police force and
other questions of world military
security. Mr.. Rusk stayed only
five months in this post. In May,
1916. he returned to the War De-
partment and worked for 10
months with Assistant Secretary
of War Howard Peterson on "po-
litico-military" problems such as
those involved in the military gov
ernment of occupied Axis territory
and relations among the War.
Navy and State Departments.
This mission accomplished, Mr..
Rusk went back to the State De-
partment in March. 1947. His
rise in diplomacy was now even
more rapid than his rise in the
Army had been. His first post
was that Of director Of the Office
OF Special Political Affairs, which
dealt with United Nations ques-
tions. In January. 1949. he be-
came Assistant Secretary for
United Nations Affairs. On May
81 that same year he was named
Deputy Undersecretary.
(By Special Advancement With the Ut
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