Proud Servant : The Memoirs of a Career Ambassador.
Briggs, Ellis.
Proud Servant : The Memoirs of a Career Ambassador. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (479 pages)
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- 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.
9781612771595
Briggs, Ellis, -- 1899-1976.
Ambassadors -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century.
Electronic books.
E748.B846 -- A3 1998eb
327.73/0092
Proud Servant : The Memoirs of a Career Ambassador. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (479 pages)
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- 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.
9781612771595
Briggs, Ellis, -- 1899-1976.
Ambassadors -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century.
Electronic books.
E748.B846 -- A3 1998eb
327.73/0092