Hugh R. Wilson
Hugh R. Wilson | |
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United States Minister to Switzerland | |
In office June 11, 1927 – July 8, 1937 | |
President | Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Preceded by | Hugh S. Gibson |
Succeeded by | Leland B. Harrison |
Personal details | |
Born | Hugh Robert Wilson January 29, 1885 École Libre des Sciences Politiques |
Occupation | Diplomat |
Hugh Robert Wilson (January 29, 1885 – December 29, 1946) was a member of the
Biography
Wilson was born on January 29, 1885, in
He held the position of
He attended the
Wilson coined the phrase "pretty good club" while he described the foreign service. While he was the ambassador to Germany, he sought to emphasize the positive aspects of the country. He accused the American press of being "Jewish controlled" and of singing a "hymn of hate while efforts are made over here to build a better future." He praised Hitler as "the man who has pulled his people from moral and economic despair into the state of pride and evident prosperity they now enjoyed."[11]
Yale awarded Wilson an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1939.[12] Bryant College awarded him an honorary degree the same year.[13]
Wilson held the title Advisor to Secretary of State until he retired from the Foreign Service on December 31, 1940.[14] He returned to government service after the attack on Pearl Harbor and worked at the Office of Strategic Services from 1941 to 1945. He then accepted an appointment as chief of the foreign affairs section of the Republican National Committee.[15]
With Pierre Cot, a French Cabinet Minister throughout the 1930s, Wilson taught a course at Yale in the spring of 1941.[16]
Wilson died on December 29, 1946, in Bennington, Vermont, after a long illness.[17]
Wilson's son Hugh R. Wilson, Jr., deposited his father's papers at the
Works
- The Education of a Diplomat (NY: Longmans, Green and Co., 1938)[18]
- Diplomat between Wars (NY, Longmans, Green & Co., 1941)[19]
- A Career Diplomat: The Third Chapter, The Third Reich (NY: Vantage Press, 1960)
- Disarmament and the Cold War in the Thirties (NY: Vantage Press 1963)
- Descent into Violence - Spain, January–July 1936 (Ilfracombe, Stockwell, 1969)
Sources
- ^ New York Times: "Hugh R. Wilson Takes Oath," August 24, 1937, accessed August 31, 2011
- ^ a b c d e Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum: "Hugh R. Wilson Papers" Archived 2011-08-20 at the Wayback Machine, accessed August 31, 2011
- ISBN 9781878592606.
- ^ New York Times: "Wilson to Attend Party," December 2, 1938, accessed August 31, 2011
- ^ New York Times: "Win Diplomatic Posts," January 9, 1912, accessed August 31, 2011
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
- ^ TIME: "Chameleon & Career Man," December 20, 1937, accessed August 31, 2011
- ^ New York Times: "Hugh R. Wilson Takes Oath," August 24, 1937, accessed September 1, 2011
- ^ New York Times: "Wilson to Attend Rally," August 26, 1938, accessed September 1, 2011; New York Times: "Nazi Victory in Austria Stressed as Nuremberg Congress Opens," September 6, 1938, accessed September 1, 2011
- ^ New York Times: "U.S. Envoy Arrives to Report on Reich," November 26, 1938, accessed September 1, 2011
- ^ In the Garden of Beasts, Erik Larson
- ^ New York Times: "2,700 Cheer Benes Getting Yale LL.D.," June 22, 1939, accessed September 1, 2011
- ^ Bryant Alumni Bulletin: Deaths, January 1947, accessed September 1, 2011
- ^ New York Times: "H.R. Wilson Retires; Was Envoy to Reich," November 25, 1940, accessed September 1, 2011
- ^ New York Times: "Hugh R. Wilson Joins Republican Advisers," April 12, 1945, accessed August 31, 2011
- ^ New York Times: Pierre Cot Appointed to Give Course at Yale," January 27, 1941, accessed September 1, 2011
- ^ TIME: "Milestones," January 6, 1947, accessed September 1, 2011
- ^ New York Times: J. Donald Adams, "A Diplomat's Formative Years," March 27, 1938, accessed August 31, 2011
- ^ New York Times: C. Hartley Grattan, "A Diplomat's Experience between Wars," March 30, 1941, accessed August 31, 2011
External links
Media related to Hugh R. Wilson at Wikimedia Commons
- Newspaper clippings about Hugh R. Wilson in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
- Hugh R. Wilson at the Office of the Historian