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John Service, the son of missionaries who grew up in China, was one of the Department’s “China hands,” an expert…
Despite getting extremely close to agreeing to negotiations to avert hostilities, the U.S. and Japan failed to make peace and…
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On November 22nd, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas while traveling with his wife in a…
Back to Diplomats and Diplomacy Radio Free Europe: An Insider’s View Veteran RFE insider J. F. Brown’s story of the…
The early 1950s witnessed a thaw in the Communist monolith. Stalin’s death in 1953 led to Khrushchev’s “secret speech” in…
In 1968, growing opposition to the failing sociopolitical and economic policies of hard-line Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, led by Antonín…
Newspapers that had long been the Party mouthpiece were allowed to criticism the government, labor unions were given more rights…
With the end of World War II in August 1945, there was still no consensus on Korea’s fate among Allied…