Thomas Williams Wilson, Jr.

Background

Thomas Williams Wilson, Jr. was born on September 1, 1912, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

Education

Wilson graduated from Princeton University.

Career

Wilson had a varied career, which included government service in the American State Department. He joined the staff of the Baltimore Evening Sun in 1934. He followed with stints at the New York Herald Tribune and the Wall Street Journal. During World War II, Wilson worked with the American War Production Board and the Board of Economic Warfare. He joined the State Department in the late 1940s and served with its international organizations affairs bureau. He was the information director of the Marshall Plan in Europe.

Wilson also served as a political adviser to North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) American delegation. In the mid-1960s he left the government and went to work for World Wide Development Corp. He was the firm’s Middle East representative and worked in Cairo, Egypt.

Later positions included work as a vice president of United World Films in New York, a program director with the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies in Washington and Colorado, and a principal officer with the United Nation’s office of the secretary-general. He also found time to teach at the American Naval Academy and at the Foreign Service Institute.

He wrote several books, such as Cold War and Common Sense, The Great Weapons Heresy, and Science, Technology and Development: The Politics of Modernization.

Works

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  • Cold war and common sense

    (A close look at the record of Communist gains and failure...)

    1962
  • The Great Weapons Heresy 1970