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Hamilton Fish Armstrong was an American diplomat and editor.
Background
Hamilton Fish Armstrong was born on April 7, 1893 in New York City, New York, United States, the son of David Maitland Armstrong, an artist and stained-glass designer and onetime consul general to the Papal States, and Helen Neilson. His entire life was spent in his boyhood home in New York City.
He was a grandnephew of Hamilton Fish, secretary of state under President Grant. One of seven children, Armstrong achieved less public notice than his sister Margaret, a painter and author of Fanny Kemble: A Passionate Victorian. Yet his influence as editor and adviser was felt around the world.
Education
Armstrong attended the Gilman Country School in Baltimore, Maryland.
He entered Princeton University in 1912, where he majored in English.
Career
Armstrong served four years on the Daily Princetonian and in his senior year edited the Nassau Literary Magazine. He also helped create the International Polity Club, and was its secretary and then president. After receiving his B. A. in 1916, he spent a year in the publicity department at the New Republic magazine in New York City. A memento of his literary years was Book of New York Verse (1917).
In the early 1920's he published poetry in literary magazines. Armstrong played soccer and football at school. He joined the United States Army late in 1917 and was appointed military attaché to the Serbian War Commission in the United States. Late the next year he was assigned to the Military Intelligence Section of the United States General Staff. In December 1918, he became military attaché to the American Legation in Belgrade and remained there until he was demobilized in 1919.
Armstrong joined the New York Post in 1919 and in 1921 and 1922 served the newspaper as special correspondent in eastern Europe. He was to make a specialty of the area in later studies. When the Council on Foreign Affairs founded the quarterly Foreign Affairs in 1922, Armstrong became its managing editor.
On the death in January 1928 of the editor in chief, Archibald Cary Coolidge of Harvard, Armstrong became editor. He retained the post almost to his own death half a century later. Armstrong and his colleagues at Foreign Affairs sought to provide readers at home and abroad with accurate information on politics and foreign concerns. Based in New York City, Foreign Affairs began with a circulation of 3, 700. By the year of Armstrong's death, it had risen to 70, 000, with subscribers all over the world. Under Armstrong, Foreign Affairs provided a forum for political leaders and authoritative spokesmen at home and abroad, especially in Europe.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Henry Stimson, Anthony Eden, Leon Trotsky, Marshall Tito, V. I. Lenin, and Konrad Adenauer were among the formidable names whose views he solicited. Although their opinions were self-serving and possibly deceptive, it was possible for trained analysts to gain from their pronouncements. Armstrong himself contributed many articles to his publication.
He was the first American to interview Adolf Hitler after he assumed power in Germany. From this and his Berlin visit came Hitler's Reich (1933). It began with the somber words, "A people has disappeared. " Foreign Affairs itself leaped into the news in 1947 with its publication of "The Sources of Soviet Conduct, " by an author identified only as "X. " The author later was identified as George F. Kennan, the chief of State Department policy planning, who advocated containment of the Soviet Union in the Cold War era. Armstrong's own writings multiplied with the years as he emphasized peace and the difficulties of achieving it.
Although he wrote clearly, his emphasis on chronology and an overabundance of data tended to appeal to experts rather than to general readers. He was, however, able to reach firm conclusions at critical times. Presidents and others often solicited his advice. In 1923, he became a trustee to the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and he later became its president. He served as director of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Armstrong was thrice delegate to the International Studies Conference of the Institute of Intellectual Cooperation. He counseled diplomat John G. Winant on the European Advisory Commission. In 1944, Armstrong was appointed special adviser to Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. , and in 1945 served as adviser to the United States delegation to the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco.
Armstrong's authoritative book, The New Balkans (1926), contained warnings for the future regarding Germany and the Soviet Union. Chronology of Failure: The Last Days of the French Republic (1940) wrote finis to his warnings of the year before, in When There Is No Peace. In The Calculated Risk (1947), a fearful Armstrong demanded a plan for Europe similar to what would later become the Marshall Plan, one that would be equal to the emergency created by Stalin's warlike actions. In Tito and Goliath (1951), he took satisfaction in Tito's disruption of Stalin's Cominform.
Armstrong retired in 1972. He died in New York City.
Achievements
Throughout his career Armstrong wrote many books, including the early Hitler's Reich: The First Phase. He also received many ordens and honorary degrees from Brown (1942), Yale (1957), Basel (1960), Princeton (1961), Columbia (1963), and Harvard (1963) universities.
