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. DEDICATED TO MY GRANDCHILDREN Everett , Catherine , Allen , Lucy , and Church Every very great house is full of proud servants .
The Memoirs of a Career Ambassador Ellis Briggs. Every very great house is full of proud servants . JUVENAL , Satire 5,66 CONTENTS Foreword by Monteagle Stearns Preface 1 Angus and the.
... house is full of proud servants . " 1 This autobiography has been described by one critic as a history of the beginnings of the professional Foreign Service . It is that , and more . Ambas- sador Briggs's life ( 1899-1976 ) was one of ...
... House . At the front door we left our official cards , the right - hand corner turned down ; Miss Cornelia Bassel , Dawson's assistant , had seen to it that each card had the proper engraving and dimensions . We were told that in due ...
... houses is pervasive and chilly . Lowering myself into a tub of icy water every morning was the roughest experience since I had earned my commission . Thus 1926 merged into 1927. One of the principal events in 1927 was the flight across ...
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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 |