Marshall Green

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Marshall Green
United States Ambassador to Indonesia
In office
June 4, 1965 – March 26, 1969
PresidentLyndon B. Johnson
Preceded byHoward P. Jones
Succeeded byFrancis J. Galbraith
Personal details
Born(1916-01-27)January 27, 1916
Holyoke, Massachusetts
DiedJune 6, 1998(1998-06-06) (aged 82)
Chevy Chase, Maryland, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materYale University
ProfessionDiplomat

Marshall Green (January 27, 1916 – June 6, 1998) was an American diplomat whose career focused on

President Nixon's visit to China in 1972
.

During the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66, Green actively aided and abetted the massacres by systematically supplying lists of members of the Communist Party of Indonesia to the death squads.[1]

Biography

Marshall Green was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts on January 27, 1916. He was educated at Groton School, graduating in 1935, and then at Yale University, graduating in 1939.[2]

After university, Green became the secretary of

translator
(he had learned Japanese during his time in Tokyo).

After the war, Green was discharged from the Navy and joined the Foreign Service. His first posting was as

Embassy of the United States in Wellington. Over the next decade, Green rose rapidly through the ranks of the Foreign Service, ultimately becoming principal assistant to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles; he was Dulles' principal assistant at the time of the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, which brought the United States and China
to the brink of war.

Green was then appointed

Embassy of the United States in Seoul. He was the senior American diplomat chargé d'affaires in South Korea at the time of the 1961 coup d'état that brought Major-General Park Chung Hee
to power. During this time, Green maintained the position that the U.S. continued to back ousted but democratically elected Prime Minister Chang Myon (John M. Chang). Green served as U.S.
Consulate General of the United States in Hong Kong
from November 1961 until August 1963.

anti-communist purge in which Suharto led a coup against Sukarno following the murder of six generals by the 30 September Movement, which was blamed on the PKI by the Indonesian military based on dubious evidence.[3] Green supported the Indonesian Army's version of the events,[4] but contemporary historians have challenged it, with historian Geoffrey B. Robinson of UCLA in particular noting that Green and other US officials involved in supporting the Suharto coup "published memoirs and articles that sought to divert attention from any possible US role, while questioning the integrity and political loyalties of scholars who disagreed with them."[5] An estimated 500,000 to one million Indonesians were killed in the massacres that followed.[6][7] Recent revelations from government archives confirm that Green himself endorsed the Indonesian military "destroying PKI" through executions, noting in an October 20, 1965, telegram that he had "increasing respect for its determination and organization in carrying out this crucial assignment."[8] According to Mark Aarons, he is "seen as one of the principal officials involved in encouraging the slaughter."[9][10]
Green was Ambassador to Indonesia until March 26, 1969; during his four years in Indonesia, he practiced what he called "low-profile diplomacy".

President

President Nixon's visit to China in 1972, and he was one of thirteen State Department officials who accompanied Nixon during this trip.[citation needed
]

In 1973, President Nixon selected Green as

United States Ambassador to Australia, a post he held until 1975. He has been implicated in the dismissal of the Whitlam Government by Australia's Governor General, John Kerr. In 1975, he became Coordinator of Population Affairs in the United States Department of State.[citation needed
]

Later life and death

Green retired from government service in 1979, joining the board of

non-profit committed to combating overpopulation
. In retirement, he wrote three books dealing with his time in East Asia.

Green died of a heart attack on June 6, 1998, at the age of 82. He was father to three sons: Marshall W., Edward C., and Brampton S., and husband to Lispenard Crocker Green (1924-1996).

Works

References

  1. ISSN 0190-8286
    . Retrieved 2024-01-17.
  2. ^ "Marshall Green Dies at 82; Longtime Diplomat in Asia". The New York Times. June 11, 1998.
  3. ISBN 978-1-4008-8886-3
    .
  4. ^ Marshall Green, "Indonesia: Crisis and Transformation"
  5. ISBN 978-1-4008-8886-3
    .
  6. ISBN 978-1-4008-8886-3
    .
  7. ISBN 978-1-138-57469-4
    .
  8. ^ Kai Thaler (December 2, 2015). 50 years ago today, American diplomats endorsed mass killings in Indonesia. Here’s what that means for today. The Washington Post. Retrieved December 2, 2015; see also: 158. Telegram From the Embassy in Indonesia to the Department of State. Office of the Historian.
  9. ISBN 9004156917 pp. 80–81
    .
  10. ISBN 9780099152316
    , pp. 139, 203, 218, 235, 246, 251.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
United States Consul General Hong Kong and Macau

November 1961 – August 1963 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
United States Ambassador to Indonesia

July 26, 1965 – March 26, 1969 		Succeeded by
Francis Joseph Galbraith
Preceded by
United States Ambassador to Australia

1973 – 1975 		Succeeded by
Government offices
Preceded by Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
May 5, 1969 – May 10, 1973 		Succeeded by

External links

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