Proud Servant: The Memoirs of a Career AmbassadorKent State University Press, 1998 - 430 páginas "These memoirs, by a seasoned and highly competent career diplomatist, covering his various involvements with Latin America and his frequent tiffs with his own government, give an authoritative and amusing picture of the trials of foreign service life and work around the period of the Second World War." --George F. Kennan Ellis O. Briggs (1899-1976) entered the Foreign Service of the United States in 1925. During the next 37 years he was ambassador to seven countries: the Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Czechoslovakia, Korea, Peru, Brazil, and Greece. An eighth appointment, to Spain, was cancelled when he retired due to illness. He also served in Cuba, Chile, Liberia, and China. His memoirs are an exhuberant record of a gifted diplomat. Briggs reached the highest rank attainable in the Foreign Service--Career Ambassador--and received the Medal of Freedom from President Eisenhower for his service in wartime Korea. He gained a reputation for successfully handling large diplomatic missions and dealing with difficult situations. But his greatest virtue was his honesty, his passion to report things just as he saw them and make policy recommendations regardless of conventional wisdom in Washington. He employed a high sense of humor, often to devastating effect, on bureaucrats at home as well as adversaries abroad. His strong views about policy sometimes placed him in conflict with others; fellow Dartmouth graduate Nelson Rockefeller had him fired from the Foreign Service because of disagreements (Briggs soon returned to the Service). A down-to-earth New Englander with an abiding love of the outdoors, Briggs was devoted to his wife and family as well as to his country. Proud Servant is full of insights about the practice of diplomacy in this century and provides a fascinating account of the modern Foreign Service. |
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... Peru , Brazil , and Greece . An eighth ambassadorial appointment , to Spain , was cancelled when he retired because of illness . His memoirs are an exuberant record of a gifted diplomat , spanning the pre - World War II and war- time ...
... 21 After Thirty Years : Peru 330 22 World Power or Fumbling Giant ? 349 23 And Last a Monarchy : Greece 365 24 Pride Dwelt Upon A Time for Reflection 400 Index 417 FOREWORD by Monteagle Stearns Ellis O. Briggs entered the Foreign.
... Peru , Cuba , and Chile ; with brief tours in Liberia ( 1932 ) and China ( 1945 ) ; intermittently at the Department of State in Washington , D.C .; and as ambassador to seven countries : the Dominican Republic , Uruguay ...
... Peru , al- though my first choice had been Harbin , Manchuria . The ten Foreign Service officers comprising the class of 1926 were proud of the venerable establishment they had joined . We worked hard to prepare ourselves for our ...
... Peru on the SS Santa Luisa of the Grace Line . 1. Six members of the class were to serve thirty or more years in the Foreign Service . The last to retire was David Bruce ; he was the only American diplomat who served as am- bassador to ...
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Cuba with Jefferson Caffery | 81 |
Expropriation Is Stealing | 137 |
False Calm in Chile Before Pearl Harbor | 144 |
Everything Literally Everything Is at Stake | 157 |
Pearl Harbor | 168 |
Spruille Braden | 172 |
Here Today Gone Tomorrow | 184 |
Pat Hurleys China | 203 |
The State Department Struggles with Peace | 230 |
President Roosevelt Conducts Foreign Policy | 106 |
The Secretary and the Undersecretary | 113 |
Good Neighbors | 121 |
The Pentagon Panama and Alger Hiss | 239 |
The Move to Foggy Bottom | 248 |