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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... present to give away the bride , Ambassador Briggs volun- teered to do the honors — although he much preferred hunting clothes to striped pants and Tennessee sour mash to champagne . ) Having a great aversion to salon diplomacy and the ...
... present us to the secretary of state . We trooped solemnly upstairs to the second floor , where , after being taken in hand by Eddie Savoy , the black factotum who served every secretary of state from John Hay to Dean Acheson , we were ...
... present at the request of an American participant , and to issue under his hand and the consular seal a certificate declaring that the wedding had taken place in accordance with the laws of the country . Thereafter , consuls were indeed ...
... present of two bears to President Eisenhower . ) In the 1960s Panagra was absorbed by Braniff International . 3. The Caterpillar Club was founded in the days when parachutes were made of silk . If the pilot bailed out of a crippled ...
... present her case , perhaps with the support of the United States as the recent mediator . He said so , in unambiguous terms , and the code books once again experienced heat treatment . Peru and Chile , consulted , turned their backs on ...
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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 |