I is for "International." In 1938, @stanford’s student body elected Mel Jacoby chair of its international relations committee. He tried to develop a residence for foreign students and championed financial aid for students in wartime China. Alas, both efforts failed.
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A black and white photograph of men passing checkpoints on either side of the entrance to a bridge. Some men in uniform seem to be checking documents of other men in street clothes presenting documents.
"G" is for "Garden Bridge," in Shanghai. This 1939 photo by Mel Jacoby shows a Japanese checkpoint on the bridg, which separated Shanghai's International Settlement from Hongkou, where more than 17,000 Jewish refugees forced from Europe and refused entry elsewhere lived.
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D is for Dog. Melville Jacoby loved dogs, and even wrote postcards to his family’s border collie, Elmer, seen here with Mel in early 1941. #meljacobyatoz #history #dogs #adangershared
C is for Chungking (or Chongqing, as it is transliterated today), free China’s wartime capital. Except for the map, these photos were taken by Melville Jacoby in 1940-1941 while he was working as a reporter in Chungking. The map was made in 1943 by the U.S. Army.
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B is for Bataan.
Northwest of the Philippines capital of Manila, the Bataan Peninsula saw fierce resistance by U.S. and Filipino forces in the months that followed Pearl Harbor despite a severe lack of supplies, weapons, and ammunition.
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A is for Asia. In this case, the cover of the May, 1941 edition of Asia Magazine, which featured Melville Jacoby’s exhaustive report on Japanese pressure on present-day Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, titled “How Japan Moved Into Indo-China.”
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