Guggenheim´s report on Chinese communications 1924
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CHINA. (2). GUGGENHEIM, MEYER ROBERT. The Army War College, Washington Barracks, D. C. Course at the Army War College, 1924-25. G - 2. Supplementary document #3E to Report of Committee No. 12, Subject: Communications - China. Prepared by Lt. Colonel Robert Guggenheim, A. C. of S. G. 2.27 Div., Chairman. Date of Conference, Sept. 29, 1924.
4:o (about 268x200 mm.). Typescript on paper. (5), 1-294 ll. 55 maps, plans and diagrams (3 folding, backed on linen). Yellow card section dividers. Bound in 2 volumes in cloth by Edward F. Gruver Co. Washington DC, lettered in gilt on upper covers. Bookplate of M. Robert Guggenheim. Number 2 of 5 copies. 2 volumes.
The author´s own copy of his report on communications in China, compiled from information gathered as the result of military intelligence.
In his foreword, Guggenheim acknowledges the co-operation of various governement departments, in particular: the Military Intelligence Division (Far Easten Section) of the War Department, the Office of Naval Intelligence, the Far Eastern Division of the Department of State, the Far Eastern and Transportation Divisions of the Department of Commerce.
The report is divided into 13 sections, devoted to: roads, railroads, waterways, airways, air transportation, motor
transportation, human transportation, water transportation, telegraphs, telephones, cables, and radio facilities.
Of these, the longest is that relating to the railways, which clearly form the backbone of communication in such a vast country.
Waterways and shipping are also considered in some detail. The roads of China, numerous but poorly maintained, are considered to be of little military use.
The remaining sextions are all brief. The report concludes with a bibliography.
Meyer Robert Guggenheim (1885-1959), entered military service in 1917 and served first as a First Lieutenant in the New York National Guard and in the Quartermaster Corps before serving in World War I as a Major in the Infantry. He resigned his commission immediately at the end of the war in November 1918, and was placed on the Reserve List. He became Lieutenant Colonel and Assistant Chief of Staff in 1923. In 1925 he began working with M. Guggenheim and Son Mining and Smelting Company, and became a director and member of the Executive Committee, American Smelting and Security Company of Colorado, and director of the Guggenheim Exploration Company, before retiring from business in 1929. He resigned from the army again in January 1936. In 1952 he was honorary chairman of the Inaugural Committee for Dwight D. Eisenhower, and was U.S. Ambassador to Portugal from 1953-1954. He died in 1959 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).
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2016-06-21