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050 4 _aE748.B846 -- A3 1998eb
082 0 _a327.73/0092
100 1 _aBriggs, Ellis.
245 1 0 _aProud Servant :
_bThe Memoirs of a Career Ambassador.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aAshland :
_bThe Kent State University Press,
_c2012.
264 4 _c©2011.
300 _a1 online resource (479 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 _aCover -- 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.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aBriggs, Ellis, -- 1899-1976.
650 0 _aAmbassadors -- United States -- Biography.
650 0 _aUnited States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aBriggs, Ellis
_tProud Servant
_dAshland : The Kent State University Press,c2012
_z9780873385886
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3119471
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