Dean Acheson Papers. 1928 - 1972. Princeton Seminars Files

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Dean Acheson Papers. 1928 - 1972. Princeton Seminars Files

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Kirkpatrick, Ivone, Sir, 1897-1964

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Ivone Kirkpatrick was born on 3 February 1897 in Wellington, India. He entered the diplomatic service in July 1919. During the Second World War Kirkpatrick was appointed Director of the Foreign Division of the Ministry of Information in April 1940; he became Controller of the European services of the BBC in October 1941. In June 1950, Kirkpatrick was appointed by King George VI as British High Commissioner for Germany. As one of the three joint sovereigns of western Germany, Kirkpatrick carried ...

Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971

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Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State, born Dean Gooderham Acheso, in Middletown, Connecticut, on April 11, 1893. After being educated at Yale University (1912-1915) and Harvard Law School (1915-18) he became private secretary to the Supreme Court Justice, Louis Brandeis from 1919 to 1921. A supporter of the Democratic Party, Acheson worked for a law firm in Washington, D.C., before President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him Under Secretary of the Treasury in 1933. During World War II (1941),...