Proud Servant The Memoirs of a Career Ambassador
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. He also served in Cuba, Chile, Liberia, and China. This is a collected volume of his memoirs.
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Contents
Foreword by Monteagle Stearns
Preface
1 Angus and the Acolytes
2 The Foreign Service School
3 Young Mr. United States in the Port of Callao
4 In the Footsteps of Pizarro
5 Uncle Alec Settles Tacna-Arica
6 Mr. Hoover's State Department
7 The Love of Liberty Brought Us Here
8 Cuba with Jefferson Caffery
9 President Roosevelt Conducts Foreign Policy
10 The Secretary and the Undersecretary
11 Good Neighbors
12 Expropriation Is Stealing
13 False Calm in Chile Before Pearl Harbor. ""14 Everything, Literally Everything, Is at Stake""""Part One: George Messersmith""; ""Part Two: Pearl Harbor""; ""Part Three: Spruille Braden""; ""15 Dominican Republic: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow""; ""16 Pat Hurley's China""; ""17 The State Department Struggles with Peace""; ""Part One: The Argentine Problem: Perón, Braden, and Messersmith""; ""Part Two: The Pentagon, Panama, and Alger Hiss""; ""Part Three: The Move to Foggy Bottom""; ""18 Gaucho Interlude: The Good Old Days in Uruguay""; ""19 A Turn to the Left: Czechoslovakia""; ""20 Korea: The First War We Did Not Win"". ""21 After Thirty Years: Peru""""22 World Power or Fumbling Giant?""; ""23 And Last a Monarchy: Greece""; ""24 Pride Dwelt Upon � A Time for Reflection""; ""Index""
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