Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette

Judd family history and childhood in Nebraska; how Congress has changed since the 1940s; the future of US democracy; how WWII changed US citizens' perceptions of their rights; the rise and fall of governments; 1944 trip to China; WWII US aid to China; General Claire Lee Chennault's personality and suggestions for military action; Judd's relationship with Joseph Stilwell; conflict between Stilwell and Chiang Kai-shek; the work of Stilwell's successor, Albert Wedemeyer; how communists reacted to the threat of defeat; Judd's visit to China as a congressman; Judd's experience as the Japanese attacked Chungking; Judd's involvement in a dispute between Pan American and Northwest Airlines over an air route to Asia; US relations with China in the 1940s compared to US relations with Greece and Turkey; how US involvement in China led to communist victory; financing the Marshall Plan; Judd's 1947 meeting with Chiang Kai-shek regarding the lack of US support to China; meeting with Chiang Kai-shek in 1967 and discussing the development of Taiwan; communist tactics in defeating other countries; Judd's interaction with Joe McCarthy and McCarthy's list of communists in Washington, DC; Judd's work with the United Nations; the organization of US supporters of Chiang Kai-shek; working with the American Federation of Labor to protest communist China's admission to the UN