First Line of Defense: Forty Years' Experiences of a Career Diplomat

John Moors Cabot

Reviewed by Gaddis Smith

Spring 1980

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Title First Line of Defense: Forty Years' Experiences of a Career Diplomat

Author John Moors Cabot

Publisher Foreign Service School, Georgetown University

Year 1979

Pages 167 pp.

Even-tempered memoirs, with extensive diary excerpts, of a distinguished Foreign Service officer. The material on Argentina in the days of Peron and on China during the collapse of the Nationalist regime is especially interesting.

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First Line of Defense: Forty Years' Experiences of a Career Diplomat

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