A diplomat looks back on Korea, Panama and the rest
William Franklin Sands, writing with Joseph M. Lalley in wartime, looks back on American diplomacy in Asia and Latin America, from Korea to Panama. His drafts and papers survive in the Sands collection at Georgetown University.
The story
Early in the twentieth century William Franklin Sands held American diplomatic posts that put him in the middle of several crises, among them upheavals in Korea and in Panama. Decades later, in wartime, he looked back on what he had seen, writing with Joseph M. Lalley, and the University of North Carolina Press published the book in 1944.
It is diplomacy told from the inside: his own experiences, the judgements he formed and the things he remembered. That makes it a first-hand witness to the years when American influence abroad was growing, and to how one of the country’s own diplomats came to see its foreign policy.
This copy is in green-grey publisher’s cloth, worn and stained, most of all on the back cover, with no dust jacket. The front flyleaf is inscribed with Sands’s name and the date December 1944; the handwriting has not been confirmed as his.
Details
- Date
- 1944
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill
- Binding
- cloth
- Condition
- Green-gray publisher's cloth with visible wear/stains particularly on rear cover, no dust jacket photographed. On the front flyleaf is a genuine handwritten name-and-date inscription reading 'William Franklin Sands / December 1944.' Handwriting is not authenticated as the author's; no identified recipient.
- Inscription
- William Franklin Sands / December 1944.
