12 Facts About Stanley Hornbeck

Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck was an American professor and diplomat.

Stanley Hornbeck was chief of the State Department Division of Far Eastern Affairs, a special adviser to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, and ambassador to the Netherlands.

Stanley Hornbeck attended University of Oxford as the first Rhodes Scholar from Colorado from 1904 to 1907, before receiving his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin in 1911 under Paul Reinsch.

Stanley Hornbeck's dissertation discussed most favored nation clauses in economic treaties.

Stanley Hornbeck taught in various institutions in China from 1909 to 1913, beginning at Hangchow University.

Stanley Hornbeck was in China during the Xinhai revolution, though did not see any battles.

Stanley Hornbeck continued to be a major proponent of Open Door Policy.

In November 1941, contemptuous of the Japanese capacity to challenge US strength, Hornbeck dismissed the fears of a young Foreign Service officer, Charles W Yost, that Japan might initiate war out of desperation over the oil embargo imposed by the United States.

Confident that his tough approach would cause Japan to back down, Stanley Hornbeck wrote in a memorandum the following day:.

For more than a decade, Stanley Hornbeck had urged the United States to pursue a policy of economic pressure on Japan.

On September 2,1948, Stanley Hornbeck wrote a letter to Alger Hiss as follows:.

Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck died age 83 in December of 1966, in Washington, DC.