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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... This filling was an irresistible target for termites , the Peruvian comejenes . Ambassador Poindexter had such a desk , and at the time of my arrival it had been thoroughly riddled by. 15 3 Young Mr United States in the Port of Callao.
... Peruvian clerk , whose joy was the telephone . When it rang , I would hear him - 1. As described in Shots Heard Around the World ( Viking Press , 1957 ) : a story of the earnest attempt of a vice consul to fill the request of a frog ...
... Peruvian and American currency . We did not issue visas in Callao , except on crew lists for American vessels , which were certified gratis ; most fee - producing services were handled in Lima . Not all my consular business was with the ...
... Peruvian coast to the other , from Tumbes to Ilo . The two railroads , the Central from Callao , and the Southern from Mollendo to Lake Titicaca and Cuzco , although marvels of engineering , did not connect with one another or knit the ...
The Memoirs of a Career Ambassador Ellis Briggs. ed Peruvian Airways Limited , the first link in the chain that soon became Pan American Grace ... Peruvian link was started , with single - { Young Mr. United States in the Port of Callao } 23.
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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 |