James W. Symington, a former United States Chief of Protocol, explained the rules of diplomatic ceremony in 1971. William Franklin Sands looked back on American diplomacy in Asia and Latin America in a wartime memoir. D. P. Crook set the American Civil War within the diplomacy of the powers, Britain above all, and a committee report published on November 1, 1933 set out what stood between the United States and the Soviet Union shortly before Washington recognized the Soviet government.
James W. Symington’s 1971 memoir.
William Franklin Sands’s wartime memoir, written with Joseph M. Lalley.
D. P. Crook’s history of the war’s diplomacy, 1861–1865.
A committee report published shortly before the United States recognized the Soviet government.
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