DOCSLIB.ORG

1 the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR CARL EDWARD DILLERY Interv

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
1 the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR CARL EDWARD DILLERY Interv The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR CARL EDWARD DILLERY Interviewed by: Charles Stuart Kennedy Initial interview date: March 2, 1994 Copyright 199 ADST TABLE OF CONTENTS Raised and educated in Seattle 19 0-1955 Assigned to Department as Foreign Service Officer 1955-1957 Complied FE wee)ly briefing boo) for the Secretary View of FE Assistant Secretary Robertson ,mpression of Department Press Corps -apan- To)yo 1957-195. Arranging for -apanese-American marriages Americans in -apanese jails Entertainment at the Ambassador/s residence -apan- 0obe1Osa)a 195.-1921 Passing the e3terior of the Security Treaty Encouraging -apanese e3ports Voluntary agreement to limit te3tile e3ports Teaching English to -apanese e3ecutives Office of the Assistant for Atomic Energy and Outer Space 1921-1925 4abeling Soviet objects in outer space Sitting trac)ing stations abroad Functional bureau vs. regional bureau Science attaches Herman Pollac) as a manager Atlantic Affairs speciali6ations 1925-1922 Training at 7er)eley 7elgium- 7russels 1922-1927 7elgium, 9aire and copper ,mpressions of Ridgway 0night 1 Vietnam 192.-1929 CORDS training ;uang Ngai Province Province senior advisor Enemy military pressure Attitude of Vietnamese peasants Support from the US military Young FSOs My 4ai investigation Defense Department 1970-1971 Office of Chief of Naval Operations Establishing naval facility on Diego Garcia ANeither confirm nor denyA US Navy and Vietnam Value of out-of-Department assignments 7ureau of Political1Military Affairs 1971-1972 US military rights abroad ,ndustrial College of the Armed Forces 1972-197 4ondon 197 -1972) 7 Political1military officer M7FR Deputy chief of Political Section Getting to )now political leaders Ambassador Annenberg Ambassador Richardson 7ritish class system Cyprus, DCM 1972-197. Gree) Cypriot frustration Tur)ish Cypriot attitude Gree)-Tur)ish animosity US policy toward Cyprus Crawford as Ambassador EUR, Deputy and Director of Southeastern Affairs 197.-19.2 The Nimet6 Plan for Cyprus 7ilateral problems with Tur)ey and Greece Papandreou 7ases in Greece ,O, Director of United Nations Political Affairs 19.2-19.C 2 -eane 0ir)patric)/s attitude toward UN Fiji, Ambassador 19.C-19.7 Tuvalu DEllice ,slands) 0iribati DGilbert ,slands) Tonga Fiji Fishing problems South Pacific nuclear free 6one Fijian Army corps Peace Corps activities Office of Management Operations 19.7-19.9 Function of the office Problems with other agencies 7ureau of Finance and Management Policy 19.9-1992 -ill 0ent Program planning Prioriti6ing resources ,nternational 7roadcasting 1992-199 Should it be continuedE Committee on Foreign Service Personnel 1992-199 Office of Management Planning 199 -199C INTERVIEW $: Today is March 2, 1994 and this is an interview with Carl Edward Dillery, who goes by Ed, on behalf of the Association for Diplomatic Studies, and I am Charles Stuart Kennedy. Ed, could you tell me about your bac)ground--you were born in 1930, where you grew up, a little about your family and your education. D,44ERY: , was born and raised and totally educated in Seattle, Gashington. , came from a family that was half Norwegian. The other half was sort of a motley crew but the name ADilleryA was actually Alsatian. ,t was ADelarouA when the family immigrated. , thin) they came basically to escape the troubles in Alsace around the time of the Gar of 1.70. The family were glass blowers. My education was in a Scandinavian part of the city of Seattle, and my mother still lives in the same house , grew up in. , ended up going to a small church-related school, Seattle Pacific University, where , majored in history and got my bachelor/s degree. , ended up in the Foreign Service by accident. The Department of State was recruiting but they didn/t bother to have a meeting with any possible candidates at SPU -- the recruiter dropped off literature in the history department, which consisted of two teachers. , was very close to one of them. He said, AYou might be interested in this,A and gave me the recruiting pamphlet. And here , am. $: -ad you ever thought about the Foreign Service before that/ D,44ERY: , had not. The two things , concentrated on were European and American history so , had some feeling for international affairs. , intended to go into academia and wanted to be a historian. 7y the time , too) the Foreign Service E3amination in 195 , Eisenhower had put a hold on bringing people in or even having the orals. So , didn/t ta)e the oral until 1955. 7etween 195 -55, thin)ing this probably would not wor) out, , started graduate school in history at the University of Gashington. , was wor)ing part time and married, so , didn/t get too far. $: I too) the written e0am in 1913 also. I too) it in 2ermany where I was in the Air .orce. As I recall it was the last long e0am, 3 and a half days. D,44ERY: Yes. Ge li)e to thin) we are the remnants of the old Foreign Service. $: 3here did you go to graduate school/ D,44ERY: Actually, , went to the University of Gashington but only for about one Huarter on a part-time basis. , did not do any other graduate school wor) until , was at the ,ndustrial College of the Armed Forces in 1972-7 , and then , got a Masters of Science in the Administration of National Security from George Gashington. , also had a year of graduate studies at the University of California at 7er)eley, but no degree. $: 4ou came into the State Department when/ D,44ERY: , came into the State Department in May, 1955. $: I am pretty sure you didn5t end up in an FSO A-100 class because I was in the first .SO class and we started on July 1. D,44ERY: That is correct. There was no A-100 when , came. They had actually been bringing junior FSO/s in from the fall of 195C, but everybody was assigned to Gashington so all we got was a three-day orientation about security and things li)e that. , was assigned to the 7ureau of Far Eastern Affairs, as it was called in those days, in the Office of Public Affairs. , did finally ta)e the A-100 in -anuary, 1957. C $: 3hat were you doing/ D,44ERY: At that time we had about si3 people doing public affairs for Far Eastern Affairs. There were two China e3perts, a -apan e3pert, a Director and the rest miscellaneous. , was the most junior of those. My specific responsibility was the Philippines and Southeast Asia, but , really was a )ind of a gofer. -ohn Foster Dulles was Secretary of State and had a press conference every Tuesday in Gashington. That meant that on Monday we had to do a briefing boo) for him which he too) home that night to get ready for the ne3t day. , was the compiler of that boo) for the 7ureau of Far Eastern Affairs. , received the material from other people in the 7ureau, but occasionally wrote some things. One of the great privileges was that , got to go to the press conferences. So , was there at the famous Abrin) of warA session. $: This was what he called brin)manship where he declared you have to be prepared to go to the brin) in order to accomplish anything. D,44ERY: Precisely. , was also there during another very interesting moment. The transcripts of his press conferences were published verbatim, he was a beautiful spea)er, and there was one time when the Department revised his transcript after all the press had reported his actual words. The press all complained about that saying, APresident Eisenhower doesn/t do edit his press conference transcripts and he is well )nown for his lac) of grammatical accuracy or meaning, even, in his sentences....A $: Meandering sentences. Eisenhower was often accused of doing this on purpose. D,44ERY: That/s right. So Dulles said something li)e, AThis is the foreign affairs of the United States and it is too important to have it depend on the mental acuity of one person, even if it is me. So, if you are really going to insist on my not changing what , said when , say something wrong, , am going to stop having press conferences.A And they said, AOh, no, that is all right.A 7ut, ever after that the record of Dulles/ press conferences came out as the State Department/s AreportA of the Secretary/s press conference rather than as a AtranscriptA. $: 3ere you involved in editing what he said/ D,44ERY: No we weren/t. That would have been done probably in the Press Office. -ust to clarify our role in the press conference preparation, on Monday morning the heads of our offices all got together with the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs. They guessed what Huestions would be as)ed the ne3t day and assigned responsibility for suggested answers to the appropriate office. , would sort of carry those assigned to FE around and receive the drafts, get them all cleared, write whatever , had to and then turn the product over to Public Affairs that night. And that would be our part of the boo) for the ne3t day. As far as the transcripts were concerned, , am sure that was done by PA. 5 $: Can you give us a feel for Assistant Secretary 3alter Robertson who ran the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs/ I sort of have the feeling that he was the right wing representative of the Republican Senate and was put there so that they could pursue a more open course towards European Affairs and NATO. D,44ERY: , thin) that might be right. Assistant Secretary Robertson was a very imposing figure, a Virginia gentleman.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Addition to Summer Letter
    May 2020 Dear Student, You are enrolled in Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition for the coming school year. Bowling Green High School has offered this course since 1983. I thought that I would tell you a little bit about the course and what will be expected of you. Please share this letter with your parents or guardians. A.P. Literature and Composition is a year-long class that is taught on a college freshman level. This means that we will read college level texts—often from college anthologies—and we will deal with other materials generally taught in college. You should be advised that some of these texts are sophisticated and contain mature themes and/or advanced levels of difficulty. In this class we will concentrate on refining reading, writing, and critical analysis skills, as well as personal reactions to literature. A.P. Literature is not a survey course or a history of literature course so instead of studying English and world literature chronologically, we will be studying a mix of classic and contemporary pieces of fiction from all eras and from diverse cultures. This gives us an opportunity to develop more than a superficial understanding of literary works and their ideas. Writing is at the heart of this A.P. course, so you will write often in journals, in both personal and researched essays, and in creative responses. You will need to revise your writing. I have found that even good students—like you—need to refine, mature, and improve their writing skills. You will have to work diligently at revising major essays.
    [Show full text]
  • The Cultural Cold War in the Middle East : William Faulkner and Franklin Book Programs
    The cultural Cold War in the Middle East William Faulkner and Franklin Book Programs Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam Universiteit Leiden William Faulkner is an interesting case for the history of American cultural diplomacy. Although the State Department hailed him as a Cold War war- rior, it had difficulty sponsoring his “modernist” novels in a book program that promoted American ideals during the Cold War. In this article I exam- ine how the Franklin Book Programs arranged for some of Faulkner’s novels to be translated into Arabic and Persian by using sources from the Program’s archive and an interview with a former Franklin editor. The analysis is framed by Faulkner’s rise in status from a marginal to a major world writer. I also assess the cultural forces that led to his inclusion in Franklin’s list of publications. The analysis reveals a tension between American idealism and Cold War imperatives, further challenging the propagandist reading of the program and calling for a more nuanced understanding of the dynamics of the cultural Cold War in the region. Keywords: William Faulkner, the cultural Cold War, Franklin Book Programs, cultural diplomacy, the Middle East Mr. Smith writes a letter 10 January 1957, New York To: Mtre. Hassan Galal el-Aroussy, Cairo, Egypt Subject: Faulkner, [the] ‘Sound and [the] Fury Maybe I am just a sissy, but I honestly cannot bear the thought of the criticism which I believe would come down upon Franklin from both Arabs and Americans if this hair-raising piece of realism – which, as indicated in my cable I prefer to call “nihilism’ – should appear under our sponsorship when the total number of American novels in Arabic is still so small.There is no question about Faulkner’s greatness, and I am inclined to agree that this work is typical; but if you are inclined to be impatient with me about the judgment I have expressed I would beg that you yourself read the book and see whether you do not agree with me.
    [Show full text]
  • The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Honors a Distinguished Work of Fiction by an American Author, Preferably Dealing with American Life
    Pulitzer Prize Winners Named after Hungarian newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, the Pulitzer Prize for fiction honors a distinguished work of fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. Chosen from a selection of 800 titles by five letter juries since 1918, the award has become one of the most prestigious awards in America for fiction. Holdings found in the library are featured in red. 2017 The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead 2016 The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015 All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 2014 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 2013: The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson 2012: No prize (no majority vote reached) 2011: A visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan 2010:Tinkers by Paul Harding 2009:Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 2008:The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz 2007:The Road by Cormac McCarthy 2006:March by Geraldine Brooks 2005 Gilead: A Novel, by Marilynne Robinson 2004 The Known World by Edward Jones 2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo 2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri 1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham 1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth 1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Stephan Milhauser 1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford 1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields 1994 The Shipping News by E. Anne Proulx 1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler 1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
    [Show full text]
  • Pulitzer Prize
    1946: no award given 1945: A Bell for Adano by John Hersey 1944: Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin 1943: Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair Pulitzer 1942: In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow 1941: no award given 1940: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 1939: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Prize-Winning 1938: The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand 1937: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 1936: Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis Fiction 1935: Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson 1934: Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller 1933: The Store by Thomas Sigismund Stribling 1932: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck 1931 : Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes 1930: Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge 1929: Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin 1928: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder 1927: Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield 1926: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (declined prize) 1925: So Big! by Edna Ferber 1924: The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson 1923: One of Ours by Willa Cather 1922: Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington 1921: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 1920: no award given 1919: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington 1918: His Family by Ernest Poole Deer Park Public Library 44 Lake Avenue Deer Park, NY 11729 (631) 586-3000 2012: no award given 1980: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer 2011: Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan 1979: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever 2010: Tinkers by Paul Harding 1978: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson 2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 1977: No award given 2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz 1976: Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow 2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy 1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara 2006: March by Geraldine Brooks 1974: No award given 2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 1973: The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty 2004: The Known World by Edward P.
    [Show full text]
  • Spring Semester 2013
    Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies Spring Semester 2013 Monday, March 4 – Friday, June 7 Chicago and Evanston Study Groups 1 Monday Group # Chicago Study Groups At-A-Glance Start Time 3888 The Great American M usic People 10am 3889 Great Short Stories 10am 3890 Literary Masters 10am NEW 3891 Our Evolving Social Behavior 10am NEW 3892 Story of American Freedom 10am NEW 3893 British History Lite 1:30pm 3894 M onday at the M ovies (3 HRS) 1pm 3895 The New Yorker, Monday 1:30pm NEW 3896 The Unfolding of Language 1:30pm 3897 Women in Literature 1:30pm 3898 Writing Life Stories 1:30pm Tuesday 3899 The Creature from Jekyll Island, a Second Look at the Federal Reserve 10am 3900 Economic Viewpoints 10am 3901 The Geography of Modernism: Art, Literature, and Music between the Wars 10am NEW 3902 The Harlem Renaissance 10am NEW 3903 India—The Definitive History 10am 3904 Monarchs: Queens Who Made a Difference 10am NEW 3905 To Err is Human? 10am 3906 Curtain Up! 1:30pm NEW 3907 History: A Muslim Perspective 1:30pm International Perspectives: Iron Curtain – 3908 The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 1:30pm NEW 3909 Let’s Talk About the Movies – Lunchtime Bonus Group (5 SESSIONS) 12:15pm NEW 3910 Shutterbug —Fun with Digital Photography 1:30pm 3911 The Writing Group 1:30pm Wednesday NEW 3912 The American Century 10am 3913 Art in the Twenty-First Century 10am NEW 3914 Devil in the White City (12 SESSIONS) 10am 3915 Foreign Affairs 10am 3916 Like Suspense? Go Against the M aster Alfred Hitchcock 9:30am 3917 The New Yorker, Wednesday
    [Show full text]
  • 1 the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs
    The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project ARNOLD DENYS Interviewed by: Self Copyright 1998 ADST TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements A out the Author Note to the Reader Preface A Crisis in the Life of a Foreign Service Officer My Beginnings (S Citi)enship Return to Civilian Life Panama Assignment Crisis in Panama London Egypt Athens Mexico Canada ,ashington, DC Antwerp ,ashington to Tijuana Tijuana Tijuana to Retirement Conclusion DIARY Son of Flanders The Making of a Consul. Diary of an American Foreign Service Officer In Memory of Emiel Denys 01103411767 8odelieve Maria Denys 01101411117 AC9NO,LED8MENTS 1 I feel deep gratitude to my late parents for their encouragement to write this memoir. The late Mrs. 9atherine McCook 9nox, an art historian from ,ashington, DC, was in great part responsi le for my efforts in compiling letters and notes on the American Foreign Service. My thanks also go to Rhoda Riddell, Ph.D., a writer and teacher, who transcri ed and edited my handwritten account, which was taken from my diary. I also wish to thank Art Drexler, who completed the editing and prepared the book for printing. I wish also to thank the following persons, whom I have known in the long course of my foreign service career, and who have meant so much to me both personally and professionally, and deserve special acknowledgment. Consul 8eneral John D. Barfield Vice Consul 0Ret.7 Frank J. Barrett Miguel Angel 8arcia Charles Stuart 9ennedy, Director of the Association for Diplomatic Studies, who inspired me with his work on the Foreign Affairs Oral History Program.
    [Show full text]
  • 2 Ndour Overcoming Boundaries
    Overcoming Boundaries: Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter and Toni Morrison’s Sula Moustapha Ndour This study utilizes Toni Morrison’s Sula (1991) and Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter (1981) to examine the ways in which women interact with cultural boundaries in West African and African American contexts. While Morrison explores the sociocultural role of Black woman in North America, Bâ focuses, in her novel, on the sociopolitical implications of polygamy and cultural conflicts in postcolonial Senegal on women in the country. Both novelists engage in a struggle to reposition Black women, who have often been marginalized in men’s narratives. Therefore, by giving agency to their heroines, they make a clear political move with regard to a long established form of writing. Despite the fact that women make up the majority of the world’s population, they are often given a lower position in society and treated as a minority group. Their ambitions for careers and power have regularly been hindered by social, racial, ethnic, religious, and political constructions. Female authors the world over have frequently sought to counter this perception by exploring issues affecting women in their novels, standing against sexual stereotypes or other restrictions. In other words, through their writing, they seek the same political, social, sexual, intellectual, and economic rights as men. Black Diaspora Review 4(2) Summer 2014 1 It could be said that the postcolonial period is marked by social inequities in the US for women. Moreover, women’s social position in the US cannot be fully explored without referencing racial segregation, which has impacted all minority social groups, including Black women.
    [Show full text]
  • 1 the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR WILLIAM LUERS Interviewed
    The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR WILLIAM LUERS Interviewed by: Charles Stuart Kennedy Initial interview date: May 12, 2011 Copyright 2020 ADST TABLE OF CONTENTS Background Born in Springfield, Illinois in 1929 Family Background Childhood in Springfield BA with Honors in Chemistry and Math, Hamilton University 1947–1951 Officer in U.S. Navy 1952–1956 MA in International Relations, Columbia University 1956–1957 Entered the Foreign Service 1957 Background in Socialist and Communist Theory Naples, Italy—Visa Officer 1957–1959 Note Taker and Translator for Consular General Jim Henderson U.S. Policy Failure Excluding Leftist Parties Achille Lauro Visa Process Translating for Truman and De Nicola McCarthyism Washington, D.C.—Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Junior FSO 1959–1962 Soviet-Castro Relations Soviet Youth Propaganda U-2 Incident Outer Mongolia Relations Khrushchev-Kennedy Relations Oberammergau, Germany—Detachment R Language Trainee 1962–1963 Russian Language Training Moscow, USSR—Assistant General Service Officer 1963–1965 Family Adjustment Problems Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Cultural Exchange Program Year One 1 Kennedy Assassination Cultural Exchange Program Year Two Moscow Underground Andrei Amalrik KGB Surveillance Khrushchev Ousting State Department Mentality towards Russia Washington, D.C.—Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Internal Analyst 1965–1967 Soviet Research Open Forum Panel Chairman 1965–1969 Vietnam War Changing Role of INR Soviet Governance Soviet Expansionism
    [Show full text]
  • The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project GLENN R. CELLA Interviewed By: Charles
    The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project GLENN R. CELLA Interviewed by: Charles Stuart Kennedy Initial interview date: July 18, 2006 Copyright 2021 ADST TABLE OF CONTENTS Background 1935-1960 Italian and German Ancestry New York lower middle class ethnic community youth World War Two memories Jesuit high school education High school summers in the merchant marine Holy Cross-Navy ROTC scholarship, 1953-57 Passed Foreign Service Exam, 1957 US Navy, 1957-60—meeting Foreign Service Officers Entering Foreign Service 1960-1961 A-100. June-August Staff Assistant Office of Congressional Relations, September Rolling over and playing dead to Congress Working for Bill Macomber French Language Training, October-January, 1961 INR Resources Branch 1961 National Intelligence Surveys Country Demographics Branch abolished Staff Assistant Political Military Affairs 1961-6x Creating the PM Bureau Staffing DAS Jeffrey Kitchen Law of the Sea-Three Mile debate Berlin Impressions of Kennedy and the Kennedy Administration Vice Consul, Alexandria, Egypt 1962-1964 Nasser and Nationalization Impressions of Ambassador John Badeau 1 Yemen invasion Consul General Harlan Clarke Alexandria perspective vs Embassy Cairo perspective Consular Duties Admin Duties Consulate Martinique 1964-1966 Two person Consulate Principal Officer William Marvin A diplomatic backwater Martinique politics and social cleavages FSI Tangier, Morocco Arabic Language Training 1966-1968 Poor quality of language studies Six Day War - reporting popular sentiment Detailed to USIA - National Space Mobile Appearing on Moroccan television Traveling the region- attitudes toward America Principal Officer, Oran, Algeria 1968-1971 Post independence mood Decaying infrastructure Tracking the Soviet presence Israel Desk - Political-Military Affairs Officer 1971-1973 Scope of duties Scope of influence on policy Country Director Haywood H.
    [Show full text]
  • The Foreign Service Journal, May 2014
    PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION MAY 2014 CELEBRATING 90 YEARS OF THE ROGERS ACT THE AMERICAN WAY OF DIPLOMACY OUR MAN IN MOROCCO FOREIGN May 2014 SERVICE Volume 91, No. 5 AFSA NEWS FOCUS 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF AFSA AND THE FOREIGN SERVICE Senate Releases Hold on FS Employees / 51 Diplomacy in Dangerous Foreign Service, Civil Service: Places / 51 How We Got to Where We Are / 19 State VP Voice: Millennial Diplomacy / 52 The burden of two very different personnel systems, and a large and FAS VP Voice: New USDA growing cohort of appointees exempt from the disciplines of either, Under Secretary Position / 53 is taking a real toll on the Department of State—and the Foreign Service. AFSA on the Hill: BY HARRY KOPP The Multiplier Effect / 54 Honoring Toni Tomasek In the Beginning: The Rogers Act of 1924 / 26 on Foreign Affairs Day / 55 The Foreign Service Act of 1924, known as the Rogers Act, created Department of State by State / 56 the U.S. Foreign Service as we know it today. Here is how it happened. UNA-NCA Honors BY JIM LAMONT AND LARRY COHEN Amb. Edward Perkins / 56 Members Support Merit Awards Program / 57 Foreign Service Stories: What Makes Us Proud / 33 Advocating for Members of the U.S. Foreign Service share moments from their careers. FS Child Care Options / 58 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM AFSA MEMBERS International Studies: AFSA Meets Academia / 59 An AFSA Timeline: Selected Highlights / 38 “Nowruz Pirooz!” / 60 COLUMNS President’s Views / 7 In Defense of Nation-Building FEATURE BY ROBERT J. SILVERMAN Letter from the Editor / 8 The American Way of Diplomacy / 40 Remembering Our History How do we rescue U.S.
    [Show full text]
  • Cormac Mccarthy's Border Trilogy and the Modern American Identity
    Grand Valley State University ScholarWorks@GVSU Masters Theses Graduate Research and Creative Practice 8-2019 Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy and the Modern American Identity Crisis Michael G. Cox Grand Valley State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/theses Part of the Literature in English, North America Commons ScholarWorks Citation Cox, Michael G., "Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy and the Modern American Identity Crisis" (2019). Masters Theses. 941. https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/theses/941 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate Research and Creative Practice at ScholarWorks@GVSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Masters Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy and the Modern American Identity Crisis Michael G. Cox A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts in English Department of English August 2019 Preface Ever since reading The Brothers Karamazov in college, I’ve been interested in the concept of persons in isolation. There is a moment in Dostoevsky’s masterwork when a man estranges himself from his community after committing a murder. In his isolation, he is tormented by guilt and struggles to self-identify. It is a struggle that I’ve since found to be an operative conflict in the works of other authors as well. Jack London’s Alaskan explorers, Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam survivors, Annie Proulx’s reclusive Newfoundlanders all cope with the problem of isolation in different ways, but it seems to be a dilemma that permeates the human experience.
    [Show full text]
  • Fiction Award Winners 2019
    1989: Spartina by John Casey 2016: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen National Book 1988: Paris Trout by Pete Dexter 2015: All the Light We Cannot See by A. Doerr 1987: Paco’s Story by Larry Heinemann 2014: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt Award 1986: World’s Fair by E. L. Doctorow 2013: Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson 1985: White Noise by Don DeLillo 2012: No prize awarded 2011: A Visit from the Goon Squad “Established in 1950, the National Book Award is an 1984: Victory Over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist by Jennifer Egan American literary prize administered by the National 1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker 2010: Tinkers by Paul Harding Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization.” 1982: Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike 2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - from the National Book Foundation website. 1980: Sophie’s Choice by William Styron 2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 1979: Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien by Junot Diaz 2018: The Friend by Sigrid Nunez 1978: Blood Tie by Mary Lee Settle 2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy 2017: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward 1977: The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner 2006: March by Geraldine Brooks 2016: The Underground Railroad by Colson 1976: J.R. by William Gaddis 2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Whitehead 1975: Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone 2004: The Known World by Edward P. Jones 2015: Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson The Hair of Harold Roux 2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 2014: Redeployment by Phil Klay by Thomas Williams 2002: Empire Falls by Richard Russo 2013: Good Lord Bird by James McBride 1974: Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon 2001: The Amazing Adventures of 2012: Round House by Louise Erdrich 1973: Chimera by John Barth Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon 2011: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward 1972: The Complete Stories 2000: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri 2010: Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon by Flannery O’Connor 1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham 2009: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann 1971: Mr.
    [Show full text]