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Lauren, Paul Gordon
The Diplomats, 1939-1979, 01/2019, Letnik: 5256Book Chapter
THE FIRST OCCUPANT of this position in diplomacy ominously described it as “the most impossible job in the world.”¹ “It was a challenge A beyond my wildest dreams,” he later wrote, “a nightmare” and “the target of criticism from right, left and center” from the great and the small powers of the world alike.² His successor stated publicly, “Nobody, I think, can accept this position … knowing what it means, except from a sense of duty.”³ Others who followed used similar language, describing their job as a “cockpit of world tensions” and the center of heavy burdens of international politics.⁴
