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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... reached the top of the accommodation ladder . That time the captain rang down his engines , but what he said through his megaphone when I departed did not make good hearing . The consulate general had to get its official mail to the ...
... reached the ground and invariably thinned out by two thousand feet above sea level , the weather was almost perfect for flying- an important consideration before radar and instru- ment landings . The first crossing of the Andes had ...
... reached the United States in six and a half days , half the time it took by steamship . Even more important to Peru , later in the same year , was the ar- rival of the first of the new trimotor Fords , which more than doubled the ...
... with Ambassador Poindexter when I reached Lima ; he was amiable , stuffy , and 26 harmless . Notified of his transfer to Turkey and looking. In the Footsteps of Pizarro Uncle Alec Settles Tacna - Arica. 4 In the Footsteps of Pizarro.
... reached New York , I called on him in his suite at the Plaza . He was sailing in a few days for Callao , and in the meantime was receiving visits from executives and businessmen with interests in Peru . 1. I was the only third secretary ...
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Uncle Alec Settles TacnaArica | 36 |
Mr Hoovers State Department | 46 |
The Love of Liberty Brought Us Here | 63 |
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 |