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University Press, 1982), 58–66.
Chapter 4
- This episode is described at http://www.sabrizain.demon.co.uk/malaya/potomac.htm.
- It was not until the reorganization of the modern Foreign Service in 1924, with the
passage of the Rogers Act, that uniform standards among U.S. consular and diplomatic repre-
sentatives were established. See the Department of State Historian’s Web site, http://www.
state.gov/r/pa/ho/faq. - Early U.S. Navy operations in Asia arediscussed in Charles Oscar Paullin,American
Voyages to the Orient, 1690–1865; An Account of Merchant and Naval Activities in China,
Japan and the Various Pacific Islands,2nd ed. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1971).
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