Background
Armstrong, Hamilton Fish was born on April 7, 1893 in New York City. Son of D. Maitland (artist.
(A memoir by Hamilton Fish Armstrong. He was at Princeton ...)
A memoir by Hamilton Fish Armstrong. He was at Princeton with President Wilson and F. Scott Fitzgerald. He counted among his aquaintences : Ernest Hemmingway, FDR, Queen Marie if Rumania, Prime Minister Chamberlain, and King Alexander. He interviewed both Hitler and Mussolini. Armstrong worked on The NY Evening Post as an editor of Foreign Affairs. A fascinating read.
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Armstrong, Hamilton Fish was born on April 7, 1893 in New York City. Son of D. Maitland (artist.
Consul general to Italy) and Helen (Neilson) A. Bachelor of Arts, Princeton, 1916, Doctor of Letters, 1961. Doctor of Laws, Brown University, 1942, Columbia, 1963.
Doctor of Letters, Yale, 1957, Harvard, 1963. Doctor Honorary Causa, U. Basel, 1960.
Married second, Carman Barnes, December 27, 1945. Married 3rd, Christa Von Tippelskirch, July 11, 1951. Commissioned Second lieutenant United States Army, October 26, 1917, and assigned 22nd Infantry.
First lieutenant, 17, 1917.
Appointed military attache to Serbian War Mission in the United States, 1917. Appointed acting military attache, American legation, Belgrad, Serbia, December 1918.
Member editorial staff New York Evening Post, 1919-1921. Special correspondent in Eastern, Europe, 1921-1922.
Managing editor Foreign Affairs (quarterly review) 1922-1928, editor 1928-1972.
Member of advisory commission on Post-War Foreign Problems, State Department, 1942-1944. Special assistant to the United States ambassador in London, with personal rank of minister, 1944. Special adviser to secretary of state, 1945.
Adviser United States delegation, San Francisco Conference, 1945.
Director Council Foreign Relations, Incorporated. Trustee New York Society Library (president 1944-1958), Woodrow Wilson Foundation (vice president 1928-1930.
President 1935-1937). Member President's Advisory Committee on Political Refugees.
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Member editorial staff New York Evening Post, 1919-1921. Member of advisory commission on Post-War Foreign Problems, State Department, 1942-1944. Member President's Advisory Committee on Political Refugees.
Member American Philosophical Society.
Club: Century.
Married Helen Mac G. Byrne, December 31, 1918. Married second, Carman Barnes, December 27, 1945.