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Hillis Lory
HILLIS LORY was an American academic and a well-known authority on the Far East. Born in 1900, Professor Lory was an alumnus of Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, and had a strong interest in...view moreHILLIS LORY was an American academic and a well-known authority on the Far East. Born in 1900, Professor Lory was an alumnus of Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, and had a strong interest in the Japanese military. He began visiting, living and teaching in Japan in 1926, and at various intervals through 1937. He lectured for three years at the Hokkaido Imperial University in Tokyo on a special appointment of the Japanese government. While abroad during this period, he traveled extensively throughout the Far East and contributed articles to the China Weekly Review and other Far East periodicals. After his return from Japan, Professor Lory taught political science at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, as well as at Stanford University in California. Professor Lory worked for the Division of Japanese Affairs of the Department of State in 1944, writing reports about the Imperial institution. A member of the Carnegie Endowment Institute for International Law since 1933, he was invited, along with other distinguished authorities on International Law, to participate in the 1934 summer session in International Law held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for five weeks.
JOSEPH CLARK GREW (1880-1965) was an American career diplomat and Foreign Service officer. He became the Under Secretary of State in 1924 and in this position he oversaw the establishment of the U.S. Foreign Service. Grew was the Ambassador to Turkey (1927-1932) and the Ambassador to Japan beginning in 1932. He was the American ambassador in Tokyo at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and the opening of war between the United States and the Japanese Empire.view less