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Up for sale "German Affairs Officer" James W. Riddleberger Hand Signed TLS Dated 1952.
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James Williams Riddleberger,
(September 21, 1904 in Washington, D.C. – October 17, 1982 in Woodstock, Virginia), was
a United States diplomat and career foreign service officer.
During his career, he served three ambassadorships: in Austria, Yugoslavia and Greece. Riddleberger
was born in Washington,D.C. He earned a B.A, from Randolph-Macon College in
1924 and MA in Foreign Service from Georgetown University in
1926. He also attended American University from
1926–27 and was an assistant professor for international relations at
Georgetown University from 1926 to 1929. Before joining the Foreign Service in
1929, he worked for the Library of Congress and Tariff
Commission. Riddleberger began his foreign service career in Geneva,
where he served as Vice Consul and later as Consul at the League of Nations and Berlin as Third Secretary(1936–37)
and Second Secretary(1937–41). He served as chief of the Central European
Affairs division during the Second World War. After the war, he became the
chief political adviser to Gen. Lucius
D. Clay and later to John J. McCloy in occupied Germany. He was then
transferred to Paris in 1950 to serve as a senior political advisor aiding in
the administration of the Marshall Plan. He served as director of the Bureau of
German Affairs before beginning a four-year term as ambassador
to Yugoslavia. After Yugoslavia broke away from the Soviet orbit of influence
in 1948, Riddleberger was credited with persuading Josip Broz Tito to rebuff coaxing by Nikita Khrushchev to return. As Ambassador to Greece, he
worked to smooth relations between Greece and Turkey in their dispute
over Cyprus.
