Charles Woodruff Yost (November 6, 1907 – May 21, 1981) was a career U.S. Ambassador who was assigned as his country's

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to the

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from 1969 to 1971.

Early life and education

Yost was born in

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. He attended the

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, where he was a member of the class of 1924 that included

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, Paul Nitze and Chapman Rose, before graduating from

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in 1928. He did postgraduate studies at the École des Hautes Études International ( École pratique des hautes études) in Paris. Over the next year he traveled to Geneva, Berlin, the Soviet Union (with author

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), Poland, Rumania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Spain, and Vienna.

Career

Yost joined the

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in 1930 on the advice of former Secretary of State

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, and served in

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, Egypt as a consular officer, followed by an assignment in

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. In 1933, he left the Foreign Service to pursue a career as a freelance foreign correspondent in Europe and a writer in

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. After his marriage to Irena Rawicz-Oldakowska, he returned to the

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in 1935, becoming assistant chief of the Division of Arms and Munitions Control in 1936. In 1941, he represented the State Department on the Policy Committee of the

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. Yost was appointed assistant chief of special research in 1942, and was made assistant chief of the Division of Foreign Activity Correlation in 1943. In February of the next year he became executive secretary of the Department of State Policy Committee. He attended the

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from August to October 1944, when he worked on Chapters VI and VII of the

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. He then served at the

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in San Francisco in April 1945 as aide to Secretary of State

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. In July of that year he was secretary-general of the

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. In 1945, Yost was reinstated in the Foreign Service, and later that year he served as political adviser to U.S. Lieutenant General Raymond Albert Wheeler on the staff of

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Kandy Kandy ( si, මහනුවර ''Mahanuwara'', ; ta, கண்டி Kandy, ) is a major city in Sri Lanka located in the Central Province. It was the last capital of the ancient kings' era of Sri Lanka. The city lies in the midst of hills ...

, Ceylon. He then became chargé d'affaires in Thailand during the short reign of

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. Throughout the late 1940s and the 1950s, his assignments took him to

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(twice), and

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. In 1954, he was named minister to

Laos Laos (, ''Lāo'' )), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, French: République démocratique populaire lao), is a socialist ...

, and he became the first United States ambassador there a year later. In 1957, he was minister counselor in

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. At the end of the same year he was named ambassador to Syria. Shortly after his appointment, Syria and Egypt formed the

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, and the U.S. was asked to close its embassy in

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. Yost was then sent as ambassador to Morocco in 1958. In 1961, he began his first assignment at the United Nations as the deputy to Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. After Stevenson's death in 1965, Yost stayed on as deputy to Ambassador Arthur Goldberg. In 1964, Yost was promoted to the rank of Career Ambassador, the highest professional Foreign Service level, in recognition of especially distinguished service over a sustained period. In 1966 he resigned from the Foreign Service to begin his career as a writer, at the

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, and as a teacher, at

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. In 1969, President

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called Yost out of retirement to become the permanent United States representative to the United Nations. He resigned in 1971 and returned to writing, at the

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, and teaching at

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's School of Foreign Service. Yost set forth his views in a syndicated newspaper column, for ''

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'', and in four books — ''The Age of Triumph and Frustration: Modern Dialogues,'' ''The Insecurity of Nations,'' ''The Conduct and Misconduct of Foreign Relations,'' and ''History and Memory''. In 1974, Yost was awarded the Foreign Service Cup by his fellow Foreign Service officers. In 1979, Yost was co-chairman of Americans for SALT II, a group that lobbied the

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for passage of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. He was a trustee of the

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in Cairo, Egypt, and director of the

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for cultural exchanges with

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. He took part in the unofficial

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of United States and Soviet scholars. In 1973, he was named head of the

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; he visited the People's Republic of China in 1973 and 1977.

Death

Yost died of cancer on May 21, 1981, at Georgetown University Hospital in

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, at age 73.

Legacy

Yost's papers are at Princeton University Library's Mudd Library in its Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.

Family

Yost's ancestors, who were driven out of the German Palatinate by

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's armies in the late 17th century, settled in the valley of the

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. Others were of Scotch-Irish origin and came to America with the immigration that took place around the mid-18th century. Yost's ancestor Edward Howell founded Watermill on Long Island, New York, and his ancestor Abraham Cooper founded

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. His ancestor Brigadier General

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was a Revolutionary War hero. Yost's father, Nicholas, an attorney, judge, and bank president was married to Yost's mother, Gertrude, by Pastor Dulles, the father of Secretary of State

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. In 1934, Yost married Irena Rawicz-Oldakowska in Poland. Her father was , the pre-war director of

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. They had two sons, Nicholas and Casimir, and a daughter, Felicity.

Career timeline

*1931: Vice Consul

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*1932: Vice Consul

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*1933: Resigned from the Foreign Service and became a journalist *1935: **1) Progress Report Specialist at the Resettlement Administration **2) Divisional Assistant, U.S. Department of State, Division of Western European Affairs **3) Assistant Chief, U.S. Department of State, Office of Arms and Munitions Control *1936: Division of Arms and Munitions Control *1939: Assistant Chief, U.S. Department of State, Division of Controls *1941: **1) Assistant Chief, U.S. Department of State, Division of Exports and Defense Aid **2) Assistant to the U.S. High Commissioner to the

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*1941-42: Designated to act in Liaison between Division of European Affairs of State Department and British Empire Division of the Board of Economic Warfare *1942: **1) Assistant Chief, U.S. Department of State, Division of European Affairs, Office of Foreign Territories, Security Committee **2) Member of the Inter-Divisional Country and Area Committees of the

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**3) Assistant Chief, U.S. Department of State, Division of Special Research *1943: **1) Division of European Affairs **2) Office of Foreign Economic Coordination, U.S. Department of State *1943-44: Assistant Chief, U.S. Department of State, Division of Foreign Activity Correlation *1944: **1) Executive Secretary, Department of State Policy Committee **2) Division of International Security and Organization **3) Executive Secretary, U.S. Department of State, Joint Secretariat of the Executive Staff Committee **4) Assistant to the chairman for the

*1945: **1) Special Assistant to the chairman, Secretary of State Stettinius, U.S. Delegation to the

Conference on International Organizations, San Francisco **2) Secretary-General, U.S. Delegation, Berlin Conference,

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**3) Assigned as U.S. Political Adviser to General Wheeler, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander to the

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(SEAC),

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Ceylon Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

**4) Assigned as U.S. Political Adviser to General Thomas Terry, Commander of the American India-Burma Theater *1946: **1) Chargé d'affaires,

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**2) U.S. Delegation to UNESCO, United Nations, Lake Success, New York **3) Political Adviser to U.S. Delegation, General Assembly of the United Nations *1947: First Secretary & Counselor,

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*1947-49: Deputy High Commissioner, and First Secretary & Counselor of Legation,

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*1949: **1) Member of U.S. Delegation; Special Assistant to Ambassador at Large for Sixth Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers Meeting, Paris, France **2) Member of Delegation to Fourth Regular Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations as Special Assistant to Ambassador at Large **3) Director of the Office of Eastern European Affairs, Department of State *1950: **1) Director of the Office of Eastern European Affairs, Department of State **2) Special Assistant to Ambassador at Large, Deputy Policy Adviser to the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations, New York **3) European Affairs Rep., U.S. Department of State, on Policy Comm. on Immigration and Naturalization **4) U.S. Department of State, Policy Planning Staff *1950-53: Counselor with Personal rank of Minister,

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*1953: Deputy High Commissioner & Deputy Chief of Mission, Vienna, Austria *1954: Minister,

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*1955-1956: Ambassador, Laos *1956-57: Minister,

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*1957-58: Ambassador,

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*1958: Foreign Affairs Specialist, U.S. Department of State, Policy Planning Staff *1958-61: Ambassador,

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*1961-66: U.S. Deputy Representative to the United Nations *1966: ** 1) Resigned from the Foreign Service ** 2) Chairman,

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(ECAFE),

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** 3) Bureau of Near East & South Asian Affairs, State Department *1966-69: Senior Fellow at the

*1967: ** 1) Consultant to the State Department, member of the Panel of Advisers on Near East, South Asian and International Organizations ** 2) American Society of International Law Proceedings, Board of Review and Development: Conflict Control by Non-Violent Means (April) ** 3) President Johnson's Special Envoy to the Middle East (May–June) ** 4) Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Bermuda conference on the Vietnam War (December) *1968: ** 1) Head of the State Department Cyprus Study Group ** 2) President Johnson's Special Envoy to the Middle East (July) *1969-71: U.S. Representative to the United Nations, New York. President of the Security Council *1970-80: Member of the Dartmouth Conference Delegation *1971: Resigned from the Foreign Servic

*1971-73: ** 1) Counselor to UN Association ** 2) Professor at Columbia University's School of International Affairs *1972: U.S. presidential envoy to Egypt *1973-75: President, National Committee on US-China Relations *1974: Professor at Rockefeller Foundation's Villa Serbelloni Study and Conference Center in Bellagio *1975: Presidential envoy to Egypt *1975-81: ** 1) Senior Fellow,

** 2) Professor at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University ** 3) Chairman, National Committee on US-China Relations *1976-81: Coordinator,

East-West, Iran and China Activities *1977: President Carter's Woodcock MIA delegation to

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and

*1978: 1969 Security Council speech on Jerusalem codified in Camp David Accord Annex *1979: ** 1) Co-chairman Americans for SALT

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** 2) Honorary Co-chairman United Nations Association of the United States

Writings

* ''The Age of Triumph and Frustration: Modern Dialogues'' (Speller, 1964) * ''The Insecurity of Nations: International Relations in the Twentieth Century'' (Praeger, 1968) * ''The Pursuit of World Order'' (Villanova University Press, 1969) * ''The Conduct and Misconduct of Foreign Affairs'' (Random House, 1972) * ''History & Memory'' (Norton, 1980) - nominated for National Book Critics Circle General Non-fiction Award

References

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