The 'Go-Getter' as Diplomat: Charles Beecher Warren and US-Japanese Relations, 1921-1924
Our understanding of the history of US foreign policy is enriched by examining the backgrounds, formative influences and policy-making contributions of many less prominent US officials who served in Washington or overseas posts and, for the most part, left only fragmentary records. This paper is the...
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| description | Our understanding of the history of US foreign policy is enriched by examining the backgrounds, formative influences and policy-making contributions of many less prominent US officials who served in Washington or overseas posts and, for the most part, left only fragmentary records. This paper is the first scholarly effort to examine the early life and career of Charles Beecher Warren (1870-1936), appointed US Ambassador to Japan in 1921 by President Harding. Warren’s brief tenure in Tokyo coincided with the historic Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armaments and a significant easing of US-Japanese tensions. Prone to over-work, and restless with the routine of diplomatic life, Warren was a solidly conservative and relentlessly self-promoting Republican with a longstanding taste for international law and a heartfelt conviction that higher public office was his natural due. His cameo role in US relations with Japan was more than negligible, but less than earth-shattering. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c0b28ba9be6346bb835b0570e6ca24c22022-12-21T19:12:02ZengUniversity of Western AustraliaLimina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies1833-34192002-06-018None5474The 'Go-Getter' as Diplomat: Charles Beecher Warren and US-Japanese Relations, 1921-1924Roger HodgkinsOur understanding of the history of US foreign policy is enriched by examining the backgrounds, formative influences and policy-making contributions of many less prominent US officials who served in Washington or overseas posts and, for the most part, left only fragmentary records. This paper is the first scholarly effort to examine the early life and career of Charles Beecher Warren (1870-1936), appointed US Ambassador to Japan in 1921 by President Harding. Warren’s brief tenure in Tokyo coincided with the historic Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armaments and a significant easing of US-Japanese tensions. Prone to over-work, and restless with the routine of diplomatic life, Warren was a solidly conservative and relentlessly self-promoting Republican with a longstanding taste for international law and a heartfelt conviction that higher public office was his natural due. His cameo role in US relations with Japan was more than negligible, but less than earth-shattering.https://www.archive.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/__data/page/186574/3Hodgkins2.pdfus foreign policy, charles beecher warren, us-japanese tensions, pacific relations, diplomacy |
| spellingShingle | Roger Hodgkins The 'Go-Getter' as Diplomat: Charles Beecher Warren and US-Japanese Relations, 1921-1924 Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies us foreign policy, charles beecher warren, us-japanese tensions, pacific relations, diplomacy |
| title | The 'Go-Getter' as Diplomat: Charles Beecher Warren and US-Japanese Relations, 1921-1924 |
| title_full | The 'Go-Getter' as Diplomat: Charles Beecher Warren and US-Japanese Relations, 1921-1924 |
| title_fullStr | The 'Go-Getter' as Diplomat: Charles Beecher Warren and US-Japanese Relations, 1921-1924 |
| title_full_unstemmed | The 'Go-Getter' as Diplomat: Charles Beecher Warren and US-Japanese Relations, 1921-1924 |
| title_short | The 'Go-Getter' as Diplomat: Charles Beecher Warren and US-Japanese Relations, 1921-1924 |
| title_sort | go getter as diplomat charles beecher warren and us japanese relations 1921 1924 |
| topic | us foreign policy, charles beecher warren, us-japanese tensions, pacific relations, diplomacy |
| url | https://www.archive.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/__data/page/186574/3Hodgkins2.pdf |
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