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He advanced in the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs and attended the 1951 Japanese Peace Treaty Conference in San Francisco. He was promoted to deputy assistant secretary later that year and returned to the Far East to help start the truce negotiations to end the Korean War, talks that went on for two years before an armistice was signed.
President Eisenhower wrote him a letter of commendation for his part in the negotiations and kept him in the deputy assistant's job when he named John Foster Dulles as his Secretary of State. He next became Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, a highly sensitive post then. |