The Foreign Service Journal, May 2004

Foster Dulles in the negotiation of the Japanese peace treaty, and was technical adviser to the Japanese Peace Conference in San Francisco in 1951. In 1952 he joined the United States Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — first in London, then in Paris. In 1959, after a year’s study at the National War College in Washington, Mr. Fearey returned again to Tokyo. There he assisted Ambassador Doug- las MacArthur III in the negotiation of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty of 1960. On returning to Washing- ton, he became officer-in-charge of Japanese affairs and then director of East Asian affairs (Japan, Korea and Taiwan). He served from 1966 to 1969 in Honolulu as political adviser to the commander-in-chief Pacific, with the rank of minister. From 1969 to 1972 he was the civil administrator of the Ryukyu Islands. Mr. Fearey was awarded the Japanese govern- ment’s Order of the Sacred Treasure for his role in negotiating return of administrative control over the islands to Japan in May 1972. Returning to Washington once more, Mr. Fearey served successive- ly on the National War College facul- ty, as special assistant to the Secretary of State and chairman of the Inter-Departmental Committee for Combatting Terrorism, and as special assistant to the Coordinator for Population Affairs. He retired from the Foreign Service in 1979 and joined the Washington-based Population Action International, where he continued working until a few years before his death. Mr. Fearey wrote a number of books and articles, including The Occupation of Japan (MacMillan, 1950), and served as a vital source for historians of the war with Japan. A selection of Mr. Fearey’s papers may be found online: Might the Pacific War Have Been Avoided? December 1991 (www.connectedcommunities. net/raf); T he Occupation of Japan: Economic Policy and Reform, April 1978 (www.connectedcommunities. net/landreform); a nd, International Terrorism , March 1976 (www. connectedcommunities.net/terror ism). He is the recipient of the Department of the Army’s Decora- tion for Distinguished Civilian Service. He was a member of the Hasty Pudding (DKE) and Spee Clubs at Harvard, the Metropolitan Club, Chevy Chase Club and DACOR Bacon House. Mr. Fearey was an avid player of racquet sports. In 2000 and 2001 he was ranked fifth nationally in the 80- and-over bracket for hardball by the U.S. Squash and Rackets Associa- tion. Surviving are his wife, Shirley Granum Fearey; five children, Seth G. Fearey of Menlo Park, Calif., Barbara F. West of Bethesda, Md., Ann L. Fearey of Jupiter, Fla., Peter C. Fearey of Bainbridge Island, Wash., and Paul L. Fearey of McLean, Va.; and 10 grandchildren. The family maintained a residence in the Spring Hill section of Bethesda, Md., for over 40 years before moving to Washington D.C. in 1998. William DeSales Killea , 85, a retired FSO who spent most of his career with the U.S. Information Agency, died of congestive heart fail- ure May 9, 2003, at the Jefferson Retirement Community in Arling- ton, Va. Born in Scranton, Pa., Mr. Killea was raised in Oswego, N.Y. He was a 1941 ROTC graduate of the Uni- versity of Kentucky, where he was president of the Sigma Chi fraternity. He served with the Army in World War II as a tank commander and bat- talion staff officer with the 11th Armored Division of the Third Army, and saw combat during the Ardennes, Rhineland and Central Europe campaigns. His military dec- orations include a Bronze Star. Mr. Killea joined the State Department in 1950 and began serv- ing abroad the next year with an assignment for USIA in Mexico City. He was subsequently posted in Pakistan, Peru, Nigeria, Austria and Iran. Interspersed with his overseas assignments were tours in Washing- ton, including an assignment with the Federal Emergency Manage- ment Agency. He retired from the Foreign Service in 1975 and moved to Eugene, Ore. He relocated to San Diego in 1981, and came back to the Washington area in 1998. His wife of 37 years, Anne Killea, died in 1980. Survivors include two daughters, Kathleen A. McIntire of Wintergreen, Va., and Anne K. Killea of Arlington, Va.; a son, William R. Killea of Chatham, N.J.; eight grand- children; and a great-grandson. Raymond Frank Kohn , 87, retired FSO, died Jan. 15 at Mease Countryside Hospital in Safety Harbor, Fla. Mr. Kohn was born in Bemus Point, N.Y. He was an Army veteran of World War II, and served as an operations officer at the Medical Field Service School in Carlisle, Pa. In 1948, he and a group of former soldiers co-founded the Penn-Allen Broadcasting Co. in Allentown, Pa. In 1958, Mr. Kohn moved to Washington, D.C., where he was manager of WGMS-FM, Washing- ton’s commercial classical music sta- tion. In 1959 he became business manager of the National Symphony Orchestra, and worked with Jacqueline Kennedy to organize the M A Y 2 0 0 4 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 69 I N M E M O R Y