Mr. Tavenner. What was the nature of your employment by the United Nations?
Mr. Stenhouse. I had a 3-month special appointment to go out to Shanghai to work on the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, which was a separate section of the United Nations. And the work was related to the rehabilitation of trade, with special reference to the development of interregional trade in the light of the changed situation after the war.
I wrote a report which was included in a document published by the United Nations.
At the end of the 3-month period I was appointed administrative assistant to the—I don’t know what his actual title was, but it was something like director of food and agriculture mission in China; a 3-month appointment again, and I worked in that capacity for about 3 months; I think until the end of September, when I was found to have some possibilities of tuberculosis. So I wanted to go back to the United States and get a thorough investigation of that, and I got a letter from the director of the mission there to the home office suggesting that I be given a permanent contract—not a permanent contract but a more long-range contract to go out under circumstances that would allow me to take my family out. However, on the way back from China I stopped here in Seattle and met some businessmen for whom I had done some work in my official capacity in the Department. They were pleased with the work I had done and they suggested that I join their firm in Seattle.
Mr. Tavenner. What was the approximate date of your return to the United States when you first became a resident of this community?
Mr. Stenhouse. Well, my return to the United States was about September or October of 1948. I went back to Washington——
Mr. Tavenner. I understand that. But you told us about your return to the United States and stopping here in Seattle.
Mr. Stenhouse. You asked me when I first came here, and became a resident. There was a gap of a couple of months because I went back to Washington to pick up my family, and we actually came here to Seattle as residents in January of 1949.
Mr. Tavenner. Have you resided in Seattle since that date?
Mr. Stenhouse. Yes, sir.