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Octavo, decorative tan boards lettered in brown; pictorial dust jacket, slight edge-wear. First edition, with 16 halftone illustrations, 40 line-drawings, and maps. A presentation copy, inscribed: "To Phil and Lois Jessup, with warm regards, George Biddle, 1951," on the half-title page. --- The recipients: Lois Walcott Kellogg Jessup (1898-1986), worked tirelessly for the American Friends Service Committee, the U.S. Children's Bureau preparing reports on children in Europe during Second World War, and the United Nations, advocating for women's rights around the world. Her husband Philip C. Jessup, a judge on the International Court of Justice and veteran U.S. diplomat, was credited with playing a major role in ending the Soviet blockade of West Berlin. Jessup was a U.S. representative to the United Nations General Assembly, as well as a member of the International Court of Justice at The Hague. He also served as a U.S. ambassador at large from 1949 until his resignation in 1953. During that time, he was one of the closest advisers of then-Secretary of State Dean Acheson. After Jessup was maligned by Senator Joe McCarthy for purported communist "affinities," General Dwight D. Eisenhower heralded Jessup's "devotion to the principles of Americanism." McCarthy's charges kept Jessup from being reappointed to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations in 1951 but President Harry S. Truman made him an alternate delegate the following year. A compelling record of war with a distinguished provenance. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-16621537183
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