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Henderson, Loy Wesley (1892- 1986) |
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A diplomat who achieved such stature in the American profession that he came to be known as ‘Mr Foreign Service’. Henderson was a founder member of the State Department\'s influential ‘Soviet Service’, serving in Riga and Moscow as well as in Washington. However, he was profoundly out of sympathy with Roosevelt\'s wartime policy of friendship towards Stalin and in July 1943 threw up his expertise in Soviet questions to become head of mission in Iraq. This led to a concentration on the Middle East which culminated in his appointment as ambassador to Iran in 1951, though – following a disagreement with the Truman administration over policy towards Israel – he had been diverted to India for the three years preceding this.
By 1955 a grandee of the profession, in that year Henderson was appointed deputy under-secretary of state for administration. This gave him responsibility for two issues which were of cardinal importance to the morale and efficiency of American diplomacy: the merger of the Foreign Service with the personnel of the State Department which had been recommended in the Wriston Report of the previous year; and the Department\'s foreign building programme, which had been launched so successfully by Larkin after the war but was now facing mounting congressional resistance. In 1956 Henderson was given the coveted rank of career ambassador; he retired in 1961. |
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