Douglas Phillips Miller (Rhodes 1916)

Author. Diplomat. Businessman. Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University.

1 Jan 1944, Published ‘Via Diplomatic Pouch’.[4]

1 Jan 1942, Published ‘You Can’t Do Business with Hitler: What a Nazi Victory Would Mean to Every American’ by Douglas Phillips Miller.[3]

8 Mar 1938 - Four days before Germany invaded (annexed) Austria, Former President Herbert Hoover, Hugh Robert Wilson (S&B 1906) met with Adolf Hitler.

1933 to 1939 - Commercial Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Germany.

1927 - Internation Economic Conf., Geneva.

1921 - Entered Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.[2][5]

1921 - Expert, conference on Limitation of Armament, Washington.[2]

1921 - Export business in London and New York.[2]

1920 - Repatriation of German and Russian prisoners.[2]

1917 to 1919 - Y.M.C.A. work in Mesoptamia and Siberia.[2]

Married[2]

[1] - Rhodes Database

[2] - Biographic Register By United States. Dept. of State

[3] - You Can’t Do Business with Hitler: What a Nazi Victory Would Mean to Every American (Pocket Books, No. 139) Mass Market Paperback – January 1, 1942 by Douglas Phillips Miller

[4] - Via Diplomatic Pouch Hardcover – January 1, 1944

[5] - FYI - National Archives - Records of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce (BFDC)

[6] - Mtholyoke.edu - The Appointed Minister to Austria (Messersmith) to the Under Secretary of State (Phillips), Transmitting a Memorandum to the Embassy on the “Main Purpose of the Nazis,” written by Douglas Miller, the Acting Commercial Attache, 21 April 1934

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