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Title: James (Daniel) Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1953-1969
Collection number: Mss69
Creator:
Daniel James
Extent: 54 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
Stockton, CA 95211
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item], James (Daniel) Papers, Mss69, Holt-Atherton Department of
Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
James, Daniel (b. 1914)
Guevara, Ernesto "Che"
Lopes Mateos, Adolfo
Castro, Fidel
Diaz Ordaz, Gustavo
Communism -Latin America
Business and politics -Latin America
Labor -Latin America
Business and politics -Brazil
Labor -Brazil
Communism -Guyana
Latin America -Economic conditions
Argentina -Politics and government
Bolivia -Politics and government
Guyana -Politics and government
Central America -Politics and government
Chile -Politics and government
Cuba -Politics and government
Dominican Republic -Politics and government
Guatemala -Politics and government
United States -Foreign relations
Mexico -Politics and government
Panama -Politics and government
Peru -Politics and government
Venezuela -Politics and government
Free-lance American journalist, Daniel James (b. 1914), covered Latin America during the
Cold War years. His writings reflect two themes: 1) that the region had become a primary
target for Soviet aggression against interests of the United States; and, 2) that
American policies had failed to reflect the importance of the region to the United
States. The author of hundreds of columns, articles and at least four books on these
topics, including: "Red design for the Americas: Guatemala prelude" (1954), James first
went to Latin America in 1953. He described Communist activity in Guatemala and in
British Guiana in articles published in that year. James continued to publish articles
reflecting his favorite themes in "Harper's," "The Saturday Evening Post," and the
"London Observer." Later, he prepared a study of U.S. business activities in Mexico for
the United States Embassy and the American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico (1956). From
1955 through 1967 Daniel James was a syndicated columnist for the Hearst Newspapers and
SPADEA, publishing his views under the title: "Dateline Latin America." During the 1960s
he published: "Cuba: the first Soviet satellite in the Americas" (1961); "Mexico and the
Americas" (1963); and, "Che Guevara; A biography" (1969), the last written with the aid
of diaries found when their author was killed while trying to start a Communist
revolution in Bolivia (1967). Subsequently, James was for four years a tourism director
in Mexico City (1974-1978). After 1987 he operated the Mexico-United States Institute in
Washington, D.C.
The Daniel James Collection contains James' correspondence, notes and drafts (1953-1969),
including most of his "Dateline Latin America" columns and an unpublished work titled
"Communism in Mexico." The collection also contains information files on Latin America
and individual Latin American nations (1953-1969) made up of clippings, pamphlets and
other similar materials, many of them in Spanish. The bulk of these files is devoted to
Cuba and to Mexico.