Memoir of a trustbuster

Eleanor M. Hadley

"Eleanor Hadley was a woman ahead of her time. An undergraduate student of Japanese and economics in wartime Tokyo, she was one of the first Westerners to visit Japanese-occupied Nanking following the massacre of 1937. While working on a Ph.D. in economics at Harvard, she was recruited by the U.S. government for her knowledge of Japanese zai-batsu (business combines) and subsequently became one of MacArthur's key advisors during the Occupation. After completing her doctorate, she looked forward to a career in Washington until she learned she was being blacklisted for "close personal and professional association with known leftist personnel" while in Tokyo. Seventeen years passed before Hadley's name was cleared; in the meantime she worked in social service organizations and taught economics at Smith College. She returned to government service in 1967 and a distinguished career as a...

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