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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The Memoirs of a Career Ambassador Ellis Briggs. This was American diplomacy in 1926. One was impressed then , as on many occasions thereafter , by the essential decency of United States objectives . There was little in the world that ...
The Memoirs of a Career Ambassador Ellis Briggs. There was a baker's dozen of junior officers in the class of 1926 , more than half of us Angus Crawford alumni . We were sworn in as Foreign Service offi- cers , unclassified ( C ) , by ...
The Memoirs of a Career Ambassador Ellis Briggs. say " Consulado general de los Estados Unidos de America , oficina de Callao . Habla Carlos , " and I would know that we were in business . Later , when my own Spanish became serviceable ...
The Memoirs of a Career Ambassador Ellis Briggs. In practice the consul had a good deal of leeway because he was the one who determined when a sailor was destitute ; the finding on that score was not subject to reversal , although it was ...
The Memoirs of a Career Ambassador Ellis Briggs. aboard , he obtained a receipt from the second mate , in charge of the mails , which receipt was duly delivered to the embassy the following morning . Ships usually sailed at 6 P.m. If the ...
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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 |