John M. Allison

(1905-1978) lived in Lincoln. Diplomat at minor posts in China until 1941 when he was interned by the Japanese for several months, held ambassadorships to Japan, Indonesia, and Czechoslovakia, handled problems relating to U.S. atomic bomb test fallout. Consult Current Biography (1956) 9-10 and American National Biography, Vol 1 (1999) 362-363 and UNL Nebraska Alumnus, Spring 1999, pp. 11-13.

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