Messersmith, G.S.
Date
2011-06-15
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University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press
Abstract
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Dictating memoranda without concern for sequence of events and without checking documents for facts or dates; cannot do that until documents are arranged and that in itself would require year or more; some checking must of course be done before anything is published; had opportunity from beginning of career in Foreign Service in 1914 to work in interesting places and to know interesting people, many of them in high places; would like to be as frank as possible, but some comments too personal for publication yet; if these memoranda never serve any useful purpose and never appear in print, the reliving of the events is of personal interest and that is compensation in itself.
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Messersmith, George S. (George Strausser), 1883-1960.