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Trivers, Howard was born on September 30, 1909 in New York City.
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A distinguished former Foreign Service Officer looks at four key issues in recent American foreign policy, offers personal insights, and adds new, never-before-made-public, information to the record. The issues are the Berlin Wall, the Cuba Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the impact of science on foreign policy. On the Berlin Wall I am convinced that one of the many factors which made possible or led to the U.S.-Soviet confrontation in the Cuba missile crisis was the weak reaction of the U.S. government at the time of the Berlin Wall. Khrushchev misread the weak reaction to mean an endemic weakness.” On the Cuba Missile Crisis In the Cuba missile crisis, both the American and the Soviet estimators were wrong: the Americans were wrong in their estimate of the likelihood of the Soviets introducing offensive missiles into Cuba; the Soviets were wrong in their estimate of the likely American response to such action.” On the Vietnam War American political and military leaders seem to have been caught in a web of abstractions spun by themselves. The folly of Vietnam has been the most complete triumph of specious abstraction’ in the history of our foreign affairs.” The continuing revolution Dr. Trivers sees is in the future. The following is an excerpt from this chapter. On Science, Technology, and Foreign Affairs The only chance for human survival lies in the development of international institutions strong and resilient enough to direct and control the import of technological development in the interest of all mankind. The United Nations is a weak reed in this direction, with a charter based on anachronistic premises.”
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Trivers, Howard was born on September 30, 1909 in New York City.
Graduate, Worcester Academy, 1926. AB, Princeton University, 1930. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1932.
Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1941. Student, Heidelberg University, Germany, 1933. Student, University Freiburg, Germany, 1938.
Graduate, National War College, 1950.
Teaching assistant, Harvard University, 1934-1935; with, Department State, 1941-1969; staff European division, Department State, 1941-1943; division territorial studies, Department State, 1943-1945; staff Cen European division, participant Postdam Conference, Moscow Conference, Berlin blockade meeting, Department State, 1945-1949; staff Northern European division, Department State, 1952-1954; officer-in-charge Czechoslovak, Polish, Baltic affairs, Department State, 1955-1957; assigned American embassasy, Copenhagen, Department State, 1950-1952; chief Eastern affairs section United States mission, Berlin, Department State, 1957-1960; deputy to assistant chief mission, Department State, 1960-1962; director Office Research and Analysis for Sino-Soviet Bloc, Department State, 1962-1965; senior examiner, Board Examiners Foreign Service, 1965-1966; American consul general, Zurich, Switzerland, 1966-1969; member of faculty, National War College, 1954-1955; visiting professor department government, Southern Illinois U., Carbondale, 1969-1972; visiting professor political science, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, 1972-1974; Adjunct Professor, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, 1974-1987.
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Member American Philosophical Association, Fssn. Foreign Service Association, American Political Science Association M C.
Married Mildred Raynolds, December 22, 1934. Children: Aylmer, Robert, Jonathan, Kate, Ruth, Mildred, Howard E.