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Since 1979 the Department of State has been publishing a comprehensive documentary record of the foreign policies of the Eisenhower administration in its Foreign Relations of the United States series. Volume III, 1958-1960, National Security Policy; Arms Control and Disarmament, … Read more

FROM THE PUBLISHER ~ Frank Crigler is publisher of “American Diplomacy” and president of newly-formed non-profit corporation American Diplomacy Publishers. He lives in Durham, North Carolina. His biographic sketch was published in Vol. I, No. 3 of this journal. We … Read more

Stuart Kennedy, a retired Foreign Service officer, is director of the Foreign Affairs Oral History Program, based at the Foreign Service Institute outside Washington, D.C. In a previous issue of American Diplomacy (Vol. I, No. 2), Mr. Kennedy, described the … Read more

A Bit of Boasting . . .  Signs of Intelligent Life Out There! by Frank Crigler J o d i e   F o s t e r, the single-minded, highly unconventional astronomer in the film “Contact,” relies more heavily … Read more

Editorial Corner We believe it possibly useful and interesting for our readers to know something about the backgrounds of the members of American Diplomacy’s editorial review board and staff. Holding that thought, for what it may be worth, we have … Read more

EDITOR’S CORNER   Biographic Information (cont.) As the reader of these scrolled pages may have noticed, only a small band of colleagues make up the staff and Editorial Advisory Board of this journal. But as Seneca so wisely noted long … Read more

O ur readers will note, we hope, that in this ‘issue’ of American Diplomacy all three of our featured, more lengthy articles — those by Dick Kohn, Frank Crigler, and Curt Jones — take the form of essays rather than … Read more

Mr. Kennedy, director of the Foreign Affairs Oral History Program based at the Foreign Service Institute outside Washington, DC, and a retired Foreign Service officer, has provided American Diplomacy the following description of the Program and its offerings, along with … Read more

by Henry E. Mattox