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...life of a career diplomat in the United States Foreign Service varies from chasing llamas across the barren hills of Turkestan to arranging intrigues in the smoke-filled backrooms of Communist capitals. For most, the excitement and variety of the work constitute its prime reward, and Henry Serrano Villard, a career diplomat for fifty years, would agree. But the niggardly budget of the State Department has not kept up with rising costs around the world, and the U.S. diplomat consequently has been exposed to severe indignities. Villard has collected all the gripes of his fifty years in the Service...
...Villard nobly does battle with the paper windmills of State Department bureaacracy. He talks of the rigid hierarchy of command, of the mounds of messages and memos which float around Foggy Bottom in ever-increasing amounts, and of the extremely compartmentalized nature of modern decision-making. With nostalgia he recalls the days before 1947, when policy was formed at the top in an atmosphere of pipes and good cigars, and when "Discussions were unruffled, wide-ranging, and unhampered by squads of technicians and specialists...
AFFAIRS AT STATE, by Henry Serrano Villard. From his vantage of 34 years in the U.S. diplomatic corps, retiring Ambassador Villard measures the current effectiveness of the Foreign Service and finds it not only wanting but crippled...
AFFAIRS AT STATE, by Henry Serrano Villard. An eminent career diplomat about to retire from the corps as Ambassador to Mauretania writes an acid lament for the lost art of diplomacy. His arguments are bitter: career men are undermined by rich, gauche political appointees; the supposedly myopic State Department has almost bankrupted the prestige of the U.S. ambassador...
AFFAIRS AT STATE, by Henry Serrano Villard. An eminent career diplomat about to retire from the corps as Ambassador to Mauretania writes an acid lament for the lost art of diplomacy. His arguments are bitter: career men are undermined by rich, gauche political appointees; the meddlesome, myopic State Department has almost bankrupted the prestige of the U.S. ambassador...