Proud servant
Subtitle: the memoirs of a career ambassador
By: Ellis O. Briggs.
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Kent, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
Subjects: Briggs, Ellis, 1899-; Ambassadors -- United States -- Biography.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century.
Description: Ellis O. Briggs (1899-1976) entered the U.S. Foreign Service in 1925. During the next thirty-seven years he had thirteen foreign assignments, seven (a career record) as ambassador - to the Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Czechoslovakia, Korea, Peru, Brazil, and Greece. An eighth ambassadorial appointment, to Spain, was cancelled when he retired because of illness. His memoirs are an exuberant record of a gifted diplomat, spanning the pre-World War II and wartime years, and the height of the cold war.
Notes: Includes index.