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Loy Henderson (1892-1986) is one of the most storied figures in American diplomatic history. Beginning his career in 1922, he…
Frances Willis was the first female to rise to the rank of Ambassador as a career Foreign Service Officer. After…
Nepal is a small mountainous country in South Asia, bordered by India and the Tibetan autonomous region of China, which…
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While the work at embassies can often put Foreign Service officers in harm’s way, on occasion they have the chance…
The Soviet Union, in Churchill’s famous words, was a “riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma”; as such it made…