Charles Woodruff Yost

Charles Woodruff Yost (November 6, 1907 – May 21, 1981) was a career U.S. Ambassador who was assigned as his country's representative to the United Nations from 1969 to 1971.

Biography

Yost was born in Watertown, New York. He attended the Hotchkiss School, where he was a member of the class of 1924 that included Roswell Gilpatric, Paul Nitze and Chapman Rose, before graduating from Princeton University 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 Croswell Bowen), Poland, Rumania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Spain, and Vienna.

Yost joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1930 on the advice of former Secretary of State Robert Lansing, and served in Alexandria, Egypt as a consular officer, followed by an assignment in Poland. In 1933 he left the Foreign Service to pursue a career as a freelance foreign correspondent in Europe and a writer in New York.

After his marriage to Irena Rawicz-Oldakowska, he returned to the U.S. State Department 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 Board of Economic Warfare. 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 Dumbarton Oaks Conference from August to October 1944, when he worked on Chapters VI and VII of the United Nations Charter. He then served at the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco in April 1945 as aide to Secretary of State Edward Stettinius. In July of that year he was secretary-general of the Potsdam Conference.

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 Lord Louis Mountbatten in Kandy, Ceylon. He then became chargé d'affaires in Thailand during the short reign of Ananda Mahidol. Throughout the late 1940s and the 1950s, his assignments took him to Czechoslovakia, Austria (twice), and Greece. In 1954, he was named minister to Laos, and he became the first United States ambassador there a year later. In 1957, he was minister counselor in Paris. At the end of the same year he was named ambassador to Syria. Shortly after his appointment, Syria and Egypt formed the United Arab Republic, and the U.S. was asked to close its embassy in Syria. 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 Council on Foreign Relations, and as a teacher, at Columbia University.

In 1969, President Richard Nixon 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 Brookings Institution, and teaching at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.

Yost set forth his views in a syndicated newspaper column, for ''The Christian Science Monitor'', 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 Senate for passage of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. He was a trustee of the American University in Cairo, Egypt, and director of the Aspen Institute for cultural exchanges with Iran. He took part in the unofficial Dartmouth Conferences of United States and Soviet scholars. In 1973, he was named head of the National Committee on United States-China Relations; he visited the People's Republic of China in 1973 and 1977.

Yost died of cancer on May 21, 1981, at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.

His papers are at Princeton University Library, Mudd Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.

Family

Yost's ancestors, who were driven out of the German Palatinate by Louis XIV's armies at the end of the 17th century, settled in the valley of the Mohawk River in New York State. Others were of Scotch-Irish origin and came to this country with the immigration that took place about the middle of the 18th century.

Yost's ancestor, Edward Howell, founded Watermill on Long Island, New York and his ancestor Abraham Cooper founded Oxbow, New York. His ancestor, Brigadier General Nicholas Herkimer, was a Revolutionary War hero.

Yost's father Nicholas, an attorney, judge and bank president was married to his mother Gertrude by Pastor Dulles, the father of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.

In 1934, Yost married Irena Rawicz-Oldakowska in Poland. Her father was Kazimierz Ołdakowski, the pre-war director of Fabryka Broni. They had two sons, Nicholas and Casimir, and a daughter Felicity.

Career timeline

*1931: Vice Consul Alexandria, Egypt
*1932: Vice Consul Warsaw, Poland
*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 Commonwealth of the Philippines
*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 Advisory Committee on Problems of Foreign Relations
**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 Dumbarton Oaks Conference
*1945:
**1) Special Assistant to the chairman, Secretary of State Stettinius, U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Conference on International Organizations, San Francisco
**2) Secretary-General, U.S. Delegation, Berlin Conference, Potsdam Agreement
**3) Assigned as U.S. Political Adviser to General Wheeler, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander to the Southeast Asia Command (SEAC), India & Ceylon
**4) Assigned as U.S. Political Adviser to General Thomas Terry, Commander of the American India-Burma Theater
*1946:
**1) Chargé d'affaires, Bangkok, Thailand
**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, Prague, Czechoslovakia
*1947-49: Deputy High Commissioner, and First Secretary & Counselor of Legation, Vienna, Austria
*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, Athens, Greece
*1953: Deputy High Commissioner & Deputy Chief of Mission, Vienna, Austria
*1954: Minister, Vientiane, Laos
*1955-1956: Ambassador, Laos
*1956-57: Minister, Paris, France
*1957-58: Ambassador, Damascus, Syria
*1958: Foreign Affairs Specialist, U.S. Department of State, Policy Planning Staff
*1958-61: Ambassador, Rabat, Morocco
*1961-65: U.S. Deputy Representative to the United Nations with Adlai Stevenson
*1965-66: U.S. Deputy Representative to the United Nations with Arthur Goldberg
*1966:
** 1) Resigned from the Foreign Service
** 2) Chairman, United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE), New Delhi
** 3) Bureau of Near East & South Asian Affairs, State Department
*1966-69: Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
*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, Brookings Institution
** 2) Professor at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University
** 3) Chairman, National Committee on US-China Relations
*1976-81: Coordinator, Aspen Institute East-West, Iran and China Activities
*1977: President Carter's Woodcock MIA delegation to Vietnam and Laos
*1978: 1969 Security Council speech on Jerusalem codified in Camp David Accord Annex
*1979:
** 1) Co-chairman Americans for SALT Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
** 2) Honorary Co-chairman United Nations Association of the United States

Associations/memberships

* Trustee of the American University in Cairo
* Member of the Council on Foreign Relations
* American Academy Political and Social Science
* American Society International Law
* Princeton Club
* University Club
* Century Association
* The Trilateral Commission
* Honorary Co-chairman UN Association of U.S. America
* Chairman Editorial Committee UN Association VISTA magazine
* Chairman of the Board, International House, New York City
* American Philosophical Society
* Visiting Committee of the Center for International Affairs (CFIA)
* Chairman of the National Advertising Review Board
* Editorial Board, Foreign Service Journal
* Editorial Committee, VISTA Magazine
* Institute for World Order
* Executive Director of the USUN-NYC Host Country Advisory Committee
* American Association for the Advancement of Science
* The Fund for Investigative Journalism
* Member of the Dartmouth Conferences
* Fund for Peace
* New Directions
* World Federalist Association
* Co-chair Americans for SALT
* American Council of Young Political Leaders (Board of Governors)
* Chairman Atlantic Council Working Group on the United Nations

Honors

*Hotchkiss Man of the Year
*1958: Appointed Career Minister
*1961: Lotus Award of Merit
*1964: Appointed Career Ambassador
*1964: Rockefeller Public Service Award
*1967: Order of the Distinguished Diplomatic Service Merit First Class, Republic of Korea
*1969: Honorary Degree, LL.D, Princeton University
*1971: State Department Distinguished Honor Award
*1974: Awarded The Foreign Service Cup
*Honorary Degree, St. Lawrence University
*Honorary Doctor of Laws, Hamilton College
*Honorary Doctor of Social Science, University of Louisville

Testimony before Congress

* 1958: Executive Sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Historical Series), Vol. X, Eighty-Fifth Congress, Second Session- Statement and questioning of Yost to be Ambassador to Morocco
* 1961 - February 7: Executive Session, Tuesday- Nomination of Yost to be Deputy U.S. Representative, Security Council, United Nations
* 1963 - October 29: Amendment to the United Nations Participation Act of 1945
* 1967 - October: United States Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations, Submission of the Vietnam Conflict to the United Nations
* 1969 - January 21: United States Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations, Nomination of Yost to be U.S. Representative to the UN
* 1969 - January 21: Security Council Resolution on the Establishment of UN Peacekeeping Force
* 1970 - March 9: Expansion of UN Headquarters and Privileges and Immunities of UN
* 1970 - April 24: Senate Foreign Relations ad hoc Special Subcommittee on the Genocide Convention
* 1970: Policy Toward Africa for the Seventies
* 1971 - April 23: House Committee - Expansion of United Nations Headquarters
* 1971 - May 26: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Fulbright Hearings - Statement on Southeast Asia
* 1972 - May 18: Committee on Foreign Relations-Subcommittee on the Near East
* 1973 - February 22: Statement to Foreign Affairs Committee-Rhodesian situation
* 1973 - May 11: Senate Foreign Relations Committee-International Court of Justice
* 1973, December 5: Foreign Affairs Committee-United Nations Peacekeeping
* 1975, May 7: Senate Foreign Affairs Committee-U.S. Role in the United Nations
* 1975 - October 6: Foreign Affairs Committee-Further Consideration of Sinai Agreements
* 1979: Senate Hearings on International Human Rights Treaties
* 1979 - September 6: Senate Committee on Foreign Relations-SALT II treaty
* 1979 - November 14: Human Rights Treaties

Oral history interviews

* Adlai Stevenson - September 1966 (John Bartlow Martin)
* John Foster Dulles Oral History Project – December 1966
* Meet the Press - 1970
* International Negotiations Project - Columbia University – May 1974
* Dwight D. Eisenhower Library – September 1978
* JFK Library – October 1978
* Larry King - 1980

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

Articles and papers

* Carnegie Foundation "Bermuda" paper on Vietnam
* "The United Nations: Crisis of Confidence and Will," '' Foreign Affairs Magazine,'' Oct., 1966
* "Instability in International Relations," California Institute of Technology, April, 1967
* "The Arab-Israeli War: How It Began," '' Foreign Affairs Magazine,'' Jan., 1968
* "World Order and American Responsibility," '' Foreign Affairs Magazine,'' Oct., 1968
* "Israel and the Arabs: The Myths that Block Peace – ''Atlantic Magazine,'' 1969
* "Last Chance for Peace in the Mideast" ''Life Magazine,'' 1971
* "A Letter to a Soviet Friend", ''Life Magazine,'' September 24, 1971
* "The Instruments of American Foreign Policy," '' Foreign Affairs Magazine,'' Oct., 1971
* "The United Nations in the 1970s: a strategy for a unique era in the affairs of nations; a report, UNA-USA National Policy Panel on the United Nations in the 1970's, 1971
* "How to Save the United Nations" ''Saturday Review'', Dec. 14, 1974
* "Toward Peace in the Middle East: Report of a Study Group, The Brookings Institution, 1975
* ''American Foreign Policy in a New Era'' (Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, 1976)
* ''What future for the UN? An Atlantic Dialogue. The reactions of Western Europeans and others to the report of the Atlantic Council's Working Group on the United Nations,'' (written with Lincoln Bloomfield),'' ''The Atlantic Council, 1977''
* "Observing Close Encounters in the Third World" - International Security, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Summer, 1978)
* "Contacts with the Opposition: A Symposium" – The Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, 1979
* "National Security Revisited," ''Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,'' October, 1980
* BCSIA, Volume 6, Number 3, Winter 1981/82 "Commentary: The Governance of International Affairs"
* "National and Collective Responsibility: The Governance of International Affairs," Aspen Institute ‘Wye Paper,’ 1981
* Syndicated columnist for ''The Washington Post''
* Syndicated columnist for ''The Christian Science Monitor''''The Christian Science Monitor'' , Daily Online Newspaper
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Recordings

* JFK Library: President's Office Files, Presidential Recordings, tape # 49 (Cuban Missile Crisis)
* Radio Interview with Larry King (Washington, DC, 11/11/80)
* Interview with Charles W. Yost by Charley Holmes (United Nations, 1964)

Obituaries

*

From Yost biography

"Our Man in Morocco"
''Foreign Service Journal''

"The Emergence of a Diplomat"
'American Diplomacy''

"A Time of 'Great Malaise'"
''Foreign Service Journal''

Dissertations on Yost

* 2004: Victoria Lynn Penziner, Florida State University
"The Story Behind the Story: Experience and Identity in the Development of Palestinians Nationalism
1917-1967"
* 2009: Ronald Ranta, University College London
"The Wasted Decade: Israel’s Policies towards the Occupied Territories 1967-1977"
* 2010: Ronan Nestor, University College Dublin
"The Role of US Ambassador to the UN, Charles Woodruff Yost, in the Formation of the Middle East Policy of
the Nixon Administration, 1969-1971"
* 2019: Patrick Rosenow, Council of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
"The role of the Permanent Representative of the United States at the United Nations
An investigation based on case studies
Henry C. Lodge Jr., Charles W. Yost, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick and Madeleine K. Albright"
'Die Rolle der Ständigen Vertreter der USA bei den Vereinten Nationen Eine Untersuchung anhand der Fallbeispiele Henry C. Lodge Jr., Charles W. Yost, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick und Madeleine K. Albright''https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00038306

References

Sources

* On Laos
** "Some Left on Stretchers, Others on Straightjackets" - Yale Richmond (''Foreign Service Journal'', May 1988)
** "Ah! La Vie en Vientiane" - James F. Prosser (''CANDOER'', January 2001)
** Meeker, Oden - ''The Little World of Laos'' (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1959)
** Menger, Matt J. - ''In the Valley of the Mekong: An American in Laos'' (Paterson, NJ St Anthony Guild Press 1970)
** ''Laos: Beyond the Revolution'' - Edited by Joseph J.Zasloff &Y Leonard Under (St Martin's Press, New York, 1991)
** Rives, L. Michael - The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project
* On Thailand
** "Staying Behind in Bangkok: The OSS and American Intelligence in Postwar Thailand" - E. Bruce Reynolds (''The Journal of Intelligence History 2'', Winter 2002)
** McDonald, Alexander – ''Bangkok Editor'' (MacMillan, 1949)
**
''Thailand's Secret War: OSS, SOE and the Free Thai Underground During World War II''
- E. Bruce Reynolds
** "Democracy, Elections and Internal Security: U.S. Policy Toward Laos in the Late 1950s" - Koji Terachi (Rutger's University)
** Wikipedia: King Ananda Mahidol Ananda Mahidol
* On Vietnam
** Hass, Richard (editor), O’Sullivan, Meghan L. (editor) - ''Honey and Vinegar: Incentives, Sanctions, and Foreign Policy'' (Brookings Institution Press 2000) Chapter 8-The United States and Vietnam: Road to Normalization - Brown, Frederick Z.
* On the UN
** Walton, Richard J. – ''The Remnants of Power: The Tragic Last Years of Adlai Stevenson'' (Coward-McCann, Inc., 1968)
** Beschloss, Michael - ''Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson’s Secret White House Tapes, 1964-1965'' (Touchtone, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2001)
** Finger, Seymour Maxwell - ''American Ambassadors at the UN: People, Politics, and Bureaucracy in Making Foreign Policy'' (UNITAR, 1992)
** McKeever, Porter – ''Adlai Stevenson: His Life and Legacy'' (William Morrow and Company, 1989)
** Martin, John Bartlow – ''Adlai Stevenson and the World'' (Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1978)
** Oral history of Charles Easton Rothwell
** May, Ernest R.& Zelikow, Philip D. Editors –''The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis'' – (The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1997)
** Ambassador Christopher H. Phillips, Association for Diplomatic Studies, Foreign Affairs Oral History Program, Georgetown University
** United States Ambassador to the United Nations – William C. Moore (''Hotchkiss Alumni News'', April, 1969)
** Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Cold War International History Project. Russian Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis/14 September-21 October 1962
** Johnson, Walter Editor – ''The Papers of Adlai Stevenson: Ambassador to the United Nations, Volume VIII, 1961-1965'' (Little, Brown and Company, 1979)
** May, Ernest R.& Zelikow, Philip D. Editors – ''The Presidential Recordings: John F. Kennedy, The Great Crisis, Volume Three, October 22–28, 1962'' (W.W.Norton & Company, 2001)
** Foreign Relations, Organization of Foreign Policy; Information Policy; United Nations; Scientific Matters. Kennedy Library, Arthur M. Schlesinger Papers, UN Speeches, 8/2/61-8/11/61, Box WH22. U.S. Strategy in the 16th General Assembly
** Schlesinger Jr., Arthur – ''A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House'' - (Houghton Mifflin, 1965)
** Urquhart, Brian – ''Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey'' (W.W. Norton & Company, 1993)
*
Joseph Johnson UN interview 1985
** Harlan Cleveland Oral History, JFK Library
* On Iran
** Ganji, Moocher - ''Defying the Iranian Revolution'' (Praeger, 2002)
* On the Middle East
** "Cold War and Covert Action: The U.S. and Syria, 1945-1958" ''Middle East Journal'', Winter 1990
** Yaqub, Salim - ''Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East''
** AlRoy, Gil Carl - The Prospects of War in the Middle East (''Commentary''/March 1969)
** Draper, Theordore - Israel and World Politics (''Commentary''/August 1967)
** Draper, Theodore - The United States & Israel (''Commentary''/April 1975)
** Nef, Donald – ''Warriors for Jerusalem: The Six Days that Changed the Middle East in 1967'' (Amana Books, Brattleboro, Vermont, 1988)
** Sheehan, Edward R.F. – ''The Arabs, Israelis, and Kissinger: A Secret History of American Diplomacy in the Middle East'' (Reader's Digest Press, 1976)
** Riad, Mahmoud - ''The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East'' (Quartet Books, 1983)
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* The Dartmouth Conferences
** Voorhees, James – ''Dialogue Sustained: The Multilevel Peace Process and the Dartmouth Conference'' (United States Institute of Peace Press, Washington, D.C.; Kettering Foundation, 2002)
* On Morocco
** Nes, David, Association for Diplomatic Studies, Foreign Affairs Oral History Program, Georgetown University
* On Syria
** The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project
*** Jane Smiley Hart
*** Parker T. Hart
*** Curtis F. Jones
* On Greece
*
Markezinis, Spyros - Truman Presidential Museum and Library Interviewer: Theodore A. Wilson
- July 22, 1070
** Goldbloom, Maurice - What Happened in Greece (''Commentary''/December 1967)
** The Role of Britain in Greek Politics and Military Operations: 1947-1952 - Eleftheria Delaporta
** The Economic Dimensions of the Marshall Plan in Greece, 147-1952 - Apostolos Vetsopoulos
** The Greek Rally (1952-1955) and the Reconstruction of the Greek Capitalism - Adrianos Sagkiotis
** Who is Afraid of the Americans? - Konstantina E. Botsiou
** The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project
*** Norbert L. Anschutz
*** Betty Jane Peurifoy
* On the USSR
** Laqueur, Walter - America and the World: The Next Four Years (''Commentary''/March 1977)
** Laqueur, Walter - Rewriting History (''Commentary''/March 1973)
* On Human Rights
** Laqueur, Walter - The Issue of Human Rights (''Commentary''/May 1977)
* On China
** Borg, Dorothy & Heinrichs, Waldo Editors - ''Uncertain Years: Chinese Relations''. 1947-1950
* On Potsdam
*

*
The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project
** ALfred Leroy Atherton Jr.
** Lucius D. Battle
** Robert O. Blake
** Samuel De Palma
** Dwight Dickinson
** C. Douglas Dillon
** Richard Funkhouser
** Samuel W. Lewis
** Cecil B. Lyon
** Robert B. Oakley
** Mary Seymour Olmsted
** Claiborne Pell
** Frederick H. Sacksteder
* Misc.
** "Will the Balance Balance at Home" Stanley Hoffmann (''Foreign Policy Magazine'', Summer 1972)

Archives

* United Nations Archives, Private Papers of the Secretary-General: U Thant: Post Retirement 1971–1974, Correspondence with Individuals and Organizations- Misc. - 03/10/1972-28/12/1972 (Series 0893, Box 11, File 5, Acc. DAG 1/5.2.9.2
* United Nations Archives, Peace-Keeping Operations Files of the Secretary-General: U Thant: Vietnam, Correspondence with Permanent Representatives of the United States of America to the UN and USA - 09/04/1965-08/10/1970 (Series S-0871, Box 1, File 9, DAG 1/5.2.2.3.1
* United Nations Archives, Peace-Keeping Operations. Files of the Secretary-General: U Thant: Other Countries, Laos - Visit from Harriman and Yost- 19/05/1962-19/05/1962
* United Nations Archives, Correspondence Files of the Secretary-General: U Thant: With Heads of State, Governments, Permanent Representatives and Observers, USA - Yost, Charles W.- 21/12/1968-13/04/1971 (Series 0882, Box 5, File 1, Acc. DAG 1/5.2.3
* United Nations Archives, Peace-Keeping Operations. Files of the Secretary-General: U Thant: Middle East, Four-Power Meetings S, USSR, Great Britain, France21/06/1967-25/05/1971 (Series S-0861, Box 1, File 7, Acc. DAG 1/5.2.2.1
* John Foster Dulles Personal Papers

Joseph E. Johnson Oral History

Foreign relations

* Foreign Relations of the US, Diplomatic Papers, 1941, Vol. IV, General: The Far East
* Foreign Relations of the US, Diplomatic Papers, 1945, Vol. I, General: The United Nations
* Foreign Relations of the US, Diplomatic Papers, 1945, Vol. VI, The British Commonwealth, The Far East
* Foreign Relations of the US, 1946, Vol. I, General: The United Nations
* Foreign Relations of the US, 1946, Vol. VIII, The Far East
* Foreign Relations of the US, 1947, Vol. II, Council of Foreign Ministers; Germany and Austria
* Foreign Relations of the US, 1949, Vol. II, United Nations Organization
* Foreign Relations of the US, 1949, Vol. III, Council of Foreign Ministers; Germany and Austria
* Foreign Relations of the US, 1950, Vol. I, Foreign Economic Policy
* Foreign Relations of the US, 1950, Vol. V, The Near East, South Asia, and Africa
* Foreign Relations of the US, 1952–1954, Vol. VII, Germany and Austria (in two parts) Part 2
* Foreign Relations of the US, 1961–1963, Vol. XI, Cuban Missile Crisis & Aftermath. #86

#153, #156

#210, #212-213, #220

#233-234, #239

#253, #256

* Foreign Relations of the US, 1961–1963, Vol. XVI, Cyprus; Greece; Turkey, #33, #63, #76, #78, #207, #358, #359, #369
* Foreign Relations of the US, 1961–1963, Vol. XVII, Near East, 1961–1962, #242, #298
* Foreign Relations of the US, 1961–1963, Vol. XVIII, Near East, 1962–1963, #320
* Foreign Relations of the US, 1961–1963, Vol. XXIII, Southeast Asia
* Foreign Relations of the US 1961–63, Volume XXV, Organization of Foreign Policy; Information Policy; United Nations; Scientific Matters, #35, #162, #165, #168, #177, #187, #207, #284, #287, #299
* Foreign Relations of the US, 1964–1968, Vol. II, Vietnam, January–June 1965: Feb. 11-March 8, #161-162

* Foreign Relations of the US, 1964–1968, Vol. II: Vietnam, July 29-November, 1965, #99

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* Foreign Relations of the US, 1964–1968, Vol. XIX, Arab-Israeli Crisis and War, 196
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* Foreign Relations of the US, 1969–1976, Vol. IV, Foreign Assistance, International Development, Trade Policies, 1969–1972, #26

Foreign Relations of the US, 1969–1976, Vol. V, United Nations 1969–1972

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