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March l4, 1950 OWEN LATTIMCRE Temporary Appointee Bcononic Affairs Division. United Nations DETAILS Owen Lattimore was born in Washington, D. C. on July 29, 1900. puu squored sTq uT euyq3 xoJ 7Jo7 9y 'o8r yo Jzof ono sen 9y uoqM resided there until he was thirteen years of age when h. was sent to Switzerland and England to complete his cducation. He retrned to China in lyly and engaged in newspaper sork and business in Shanghai, Tientsin, and Pieping. He traveled extensively in China and Asia and. did resoarch work in Manchuria and yongolis under grants from the Social Science Research Council, the Harvard - Yenching Institute and the In l933 he joined the staff of the Institute of pacifie Relations as editor of its journal -pacific Affairs* and worked in Ithat capacity in China and the United States until l938 when ho was. appcinted Director of the Walter Hines Page School of International TRolations at Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, Maryland. In July, iy4l, he was appointed personal political adviser to Generalissiao N Chiang Kai-Shek upon the recommendatian of President Roosevelt. In. PO l945, was appointed as tbe Director of Pacific Operations for OwI. In Decenber, lyl4, he resigned fron Owl to return to his work at Johns Hopkins Jniversity, where he is currently cmployed as Director of the. 4 The October 30, 1945, issue of the *Bsltiaore Sun" reportod Reparations Comnission for Japan. U. It has been reported that Lattimore has been engaged as a consultant and adviser on Far Eastern Affairs by various officials of the State Department, but inquiry by the Liaison Section of the State 121-277-47 2.21.80