Distinguished Service : Lydia Chapin Kirk, Partner in Diplomacy, 1896-1984

by Kirk, Lydia Chapin

• ISBN13: 9780815608912
• ISBN10: 0815608918
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-30
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr

Summary

Soon the news leaked out of Washington that the President had selected Alan as our new Ambassador to the Soviet Union. I was stunned.... That night I twisted and turned along with my thoughts, proud that my husband should have been selected, but fearful of what the assignment would entail. Good sense told me there was little chance he would be rejected [by the Russians]....Just as with the Normandy command I knew Alan was secretly pleased and looked forward to the challenge. He was ready to face the Russians, as he had been to face the Germans. This being so, who was I, a service woman born and bred, to object, especially as this time I could share the challenge with him." Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Early Life, 1896-1939
Beginnings, 1896-1908	p. 3
Paris, 1908-1911	p. 13
The United States and Paris, 1911-1913	p. 25
At Home in the United States, 1914-1938	p. 36
London, 1939-1940
On the Threshold of War in England, 1939	p. 55
Wartime England, 1939-1940	p. 73
The United States, 1940-1946
Washington Before Pearl Harbor, 1940-1941	p. 97
America at War, 1941-1946	p. 106
Belgium, 1946-1949
A Good Start in Brussels, 1946	p. 125
Belgium, the Balkans, and a Royal Visit, 1946-1949	p. 146
The Soviet Union, 1949-1951
Behind the Dreaded Iron Curtain, 1949	p. 171
Making It Work in Moscow, 1950-1951	p. 196
The Republic of China, 1962-1963
A Flattering but Unwelcome Assignment, 1962	p. 219
A Mission and a Life Cut Short, 1962-1963	p. 234
Postscript, 1963-1984
Final Years	p. 251
Index	p. 263
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