WWI JAPAN / 1917 PRESIDENT Woodrow Wilson SIGNED Diplomatic APPOINTMENT Document

Description

- 1917 PRESIDENT Woodrow Wilson SIGNED Document -
- FAR EAST Asian, WW1 Diplomatic APPOINTMENT  -
- Interpreter to the Consulate General at Yokohama, Japan -
SUPERB, partly-printed
FAR EAST Asian / U.S. DIPLOMATIC Appointment during World War I
- genuinely
SIGNED by PRESIDENT Woodrow Wilson
.   Document is additionally
SIGNED
by U.S. Secretary of State ROBERT LANSING, with the U.S. State Department
embossed
paper seal to the left of his signature.
The document is
dated
January 4th 1917
and
reads
in
part
– “
Know Ye, that reposing special trust and confidence in the Integrity and Ability of William R. Langdon, of Massachusetts, I do appoint him Interpreter to the Consulate General of the United States of America at Yokohama, Japan
”.
Japan entered WWI on the side of the Allied Powers on August 23rd 1914.  During the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, Japan participated along with France, Britain, Italy, and the United States – setting the peace terms (Treaty of Versailles) for the defeated Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Ottoman Empire).
WILLIAM RUSSELL LANGDON (1891 - 1963)
was an important American diplomat and Far East Asian expert who was appointed to posts in Japan, China, Korea and Singapore.  He was born in Smyrna, Turkey to American parents, graduated from Trinity College in Connecticut, and entered the foreign service in 1911.   Langdon was the Assistant Japanese Secretary to the Embassy of the United States in Japan (Tokyo) from 1918 to 1921.  He was Vice Consul in Yokohama from 1920 – 21.  From 1922 to 1941, Langdon was Consul in Antung, Tsinan, Mukden, Dairen, and Seoul.  He served in the State Department during WWII (1941 – 43) and was the U.S. representative on the Swedish ship Gripsholm, overseeing the exchange of Japanese and American internees.  From 1943 – 45, Langdon was the Consul General in Kunming, China.   From 1945 – 46, he was a political advisor to John R. Hodge, the military Governor of South Korea under the United States Army Military Government in Korea (USAMGIK).  After the war, Langdon was Consul General in Seoul from 1946 to 1948 and Consul General in Singapore from 1948 to 1951.
CONDITION:
document measures about 18 ¾ x 22 5/8 inches in size and is in EXCELLENT original condition with dark hand written entries and a strong signature.  There are NO folds or tears on the document itself, with the exception of one tiny 1/8 inch tear along the left edge of the document.  The paper Presidential seal (3 ½ inch diameter) is fully intact, with a minor tear to one of outer “nubs” in the upper left portion of the seal (see SCANS).
The
signature / autograph of PRESIDENT Woodrow Wilson and that of Secretary of State Robert Lansing are BOTH guaranteed authentic
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