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Alfred Kohlberg

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175:, a major IPR supporter, as the "millionaire communist." By 1944, Kohlberg resigned from the IPR, after "a dozen years membership," because he found it infiltrated by Communists. By October 1946, Kohlberg's court order to see IPR's reply, which it had not shared with him. In 1945, Kohlberg continued his campaign against the IPR. He consulted anti-Communist experts like journalists 143:
and US Brigadier General T.S. Arms, both of whom expressed their continuing supporting for Chiang Kai-shek and expressed doubt about corruption in ABMAC. Returning to the States, Kohlberg filed a second report and proposed that ABMAC drop its support for United China Relief if people like Dwight
523:. pp. ix (neighbors), xxv (ACPA 1946.07.17, Plain Talk 1946.10), xvi (1951.06.25), 1 (Mandel), 3 (Lattimore, Jessup), 54-71 (ABMAC), 77-93 (IPR), 166-208 (IPR), 233-234 (ACPA vs. IPR), 235 (Clare Booth Luce), 253-253 (SISS testimony), 257 (Mason), 313 (offices), 314 (dozen years) 70:, where local weavers turned the raw linen into fine textiles. The finished products were then sent to the United States where they were sold to consumers as luxury fabrics. His company, "Alfred Kohlberg, Inc.: Chinese Textiles" had its office at 1 West 37 Street, New York City. 318:
goverment to build The Alfred Kohlberg Memorial Medical Research Laboratory and to go along with $ 75,000 donation from Jane Myers. The building was set to built on the east side of the hospital. The inauguration ceremony was held on November 11, 1963. Both vice president
135:) "democratic". Bisson called those areas under the control of the Chinese Communist Party "bourgeois democracy." In June 1943, Kohlberg flew back to China to make a second report, where he met with US General 78:
His business interests led him to travel often to China. During one such trip in 1943, after inspecting the progress of the Chinese war effort, he became convinced that the many stories in the American press of
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Upon resigning from ABMAC, he focused his attentions on IPR. Although a long-time IPR member, previously he had not read their publications closely. He did so now—also reading Communist publications like the
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In 1941, he served as a director for ABMAC (which received $ 2M annually from the United States during WWII) and traveled much of the country, after which he presented a report to ABMAC. In Spring 1943,
171:(1941) to opposing him again by 1943. Kohlberg began a personal campaign to have IPR acknowledge its pro-Communist bias and circulated this criticism among IPR members. Kohlberg began referring to 119:. In February 1943, Dwight Edwards at ABMAC Chungking cabled ABMAC New York attacking as corrupt the local partners whom Kohlberg had praised in his report. Kohlberg criticized Edwards; 208: 207:(where Utley worked). Kohlberg continued to criticize IPR and file lawsuits against it. On July 25, 1951, Kohlberg could relent, when the "McCarran Commission" ( 718: 708: 289:
Kohlberg married Jane Myers in 1921 and had two daughters and two sons. The youngest was Lawrence Kohlberg (1927-1987), noted American psychologist.
278: 211:) started public hearings to investigate IPR. In 1952, Kohlberg testified against IPR in those hearings. The IPR countered by calling Kohlberg a 184: 144:
Edwards were not barred from interfering. ABMAC disregarded his report and proposal, and Kohlberg resigned after a 15-year affiliation.
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Compromised Campus: The Collaboration of Universities with the Intelligence Community, 1945-1955
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The Not-So-Far Right: Radical Right-Wing Politics in the United States, 1941-1977
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had changed policies in tandem regarding Chiang Kai-shek opposing him after the
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advised Kohlberg of his "hopelessness" in the national government of the
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wrote an article called "China's Part in a Coalition War" in the IPR's
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and member of Fidelity Lodge No. 120 of San Francisco for decades.
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Kohlberg moved to New York and set up a business buying linen in
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Globalization, Empire, and Imperialism in Historical Perspective
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A staunch 8: 557:McCarran Committee testimony, April 16, 1952 455:Social Transformations in Chinese Societies 646:"Lawrence Kohlberg: American Psychologist" 574:Encyclopedia of Chinese-American Relations 218:Kohlberg's "long-time adversaries" at the 88:American Bureau for Medical Aid for China 596:"Register of the Alfred Kohlberg papers" 279:American Jewish League Against Communism 368: 323:and Jane Myers attended the ceremony. 449:Leahy, Stephen M. (3 September 2018). 257:The same year, he funded the magazine 185:House Un-American Activities Committee 187:, Felix Morley and Frank Hanighen of 34:, he was a member of the pro-Chiang " 7: 719:20th-century American businesspeople 570:"American China Policy Association" 376:Herzstein, Robert E. (2006-06-01). 16:American businessman and politician 159:. He noted that both IPR and the 14: 709:Businesspeople from San Francisco 338:American China Policy Association 240:American China Policy Association 312:Taipei Veterans General Hospital 310:, who was the superintendent of 220:Institute for Pacific Relations 92:Institute for Pacific Relations 277:. He was a co-founder of the 1: 238:In 1946, Kohlberg joined the 167:in 1939 to lauding him after 296:neighbor of his biographer, 542:Reynolds, Colin E. (2016). 740: 714:John Birch Society members 521:Arlington House Publishers 467:10.1108/STICS-04-2018-0006 314:, proposed a funding from 173:Frederick Vanderbilt Field 66:which was then shipped to 46:, a friend and advisor of 667:臺北榮民總醫院院史廳 (2019-05-13). 38:", as well as an ally of 24:San Francisco, California 623:Southern Jewish History 576:. McFarland. p. 21 572:. 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Index

San Francisco, California
New York City, New York
anti-Communist
China lobby
Wisconsin
Joseph McCarthy
John Birch Society
Robert W. Welch Jr.
Ireland
China
Chiang Kai-shek
American Bureau for Medical Aid for China
Institute for Pacific Relations
New Deal
Lauchlin Currie
Republic of China
Chiang Kai-shek
Edward C. Carter
T.A. Bisson
Mao Zedong
Claire Chennault
Flying Tigers
New Masses
Comintern
Hitler-Stalin Pact
Operation Barbarosa
Frederick Vanderbilt Field
Nelson Frank
Max Eastman
House Un-American Activities Committee

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