Edmund Asbury Gullion
Edmund Asbury Gullion (born March 2, 1913 in Lexington , Kentucky , † March 17, 1998 ) was an ambassador to the United States .
Life
From 1943 to 1950, Edmund Asbury Gullion was Secretary of State, Henry L. Stimson, of a Combined Policy Committee that coordinated the US, UK and Canadian nuclear energy programs.
During his tenure as ambassador in Leopoldville , Moïse Tschombé signed the Kitona agreement, with which he recognized the Loi Fondamentale and placed the Katanga gendarmes under the orders of Joseph Kasavubu .
1964 to 1978 he was dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University .
In 1966, Gullion was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Publications
- Crisis management: Lessons from the Congo . April 1965
Individual evidence
- ↑ Niels Bohr, Finn Aaserud: Niels Bohr: collected works . The political arena (1934–1961)
- ↑ trumanlibrary.org
- ↑ http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Loi_fondamentale_sur_la_structure_de_l%E2%80%99%C3%89tat_du_Congo_belge
- ^ Robert Theobald: The UN and its future . HW Wilson, 1963, p. 73; 190 pp.
- ↑ Past deans of the Fletcher School ( Memento from March 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ publicdiplomacy.wikia.com
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Secretary of War's Interim Committee on Atomic Energy 1943 to 1948 |
R. Gordon Arneson | |
| Donald R. Heath |
U.S. Chargé d'Affaires in Saigon June 25, 1952 |
Donald R. Heath |
| Clare Hayes Timberlake |
U.S. Ambassador to the Congo September 11, 1961 to February 20, 1964 |
G. McMurtrie Godley |
| Robert Burgess Stewart |
Dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University from 1964 to 1978 |
John P. Roche |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gullion, Edmund Asbury |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lexington , Kentucky |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1998 |