Category: Foreign Service Stories
But What Do You Do?
by John L. Brown Rarely does a publication such as ours have an opportunity to publish father and son in the same issue on generally the same topic. Further, it is mighty unusual that the two articles should be so … Read more
A Footnote to History: 1942
How two young American vice consuls stole back from the Japanese Kempeitai a confidential U.S. diplomatic code seized on the outbreak of the Pacific War
by Niles W. Bond
The Imperfect Butler
by Bobbie Bergesen Once again the author brings her perspective to bear as a Foreign Service spouse, recounting this time her “break-in” experiences at her and her husband’s first post—Rangoon. For other of Ms. Bergesen’s illuminating commentaries on official life … Read more
The Brujas of Saipan
by Bobbie Bergesen Again we have the pleasure of offering up a vignette recounting the experience of the author, a sketch taken from her years as the spouse of a Foreign Service officer. You may click here for other of … Read more
On the Bangledesh Rocket
by Bobbie Bergesen It is the 1970’s and you are stationed in the newly independent nation of Bangladesh. Take a scenic trip with the author and her husband on a paddle wheel ship through the delta region called the Mouths … Read more
Mission to Mozambique
by Alfonso Arenales The author was a career U. S. diplomat from 1957 to 1988. In addition to senior assignments in Washington, DC, and on the U. S. delegation to the UN in New York, he held positions abroad in … Read more