Charles Woodruff Yost

Charles Woodruff Yost ( born November 6, 1907 in Watertown, Jefferson County, New York, † 21 May 1981 in Washington DC) was an American diplomat.

Biography

After attending the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville (Connecticut), he studied at Princeton University and graduated in 1928 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA ) from. After postgraduate studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes International in Paris, he entered the diplomatic service.

First, he was from 1932 to 1933 vice-consul in Warsaw and several years thereafter employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( State Department). After the Second World War he was in 1946 for a short time U.S. Ambassador ad interim in Thailand and was in the same year Konsularsekretär in Prague and then in Vienna in 1947. In 1949, he was Special Assistant to the Special Envoy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then from 1949 to 1950 director of the Office for Eastern Affairs of the Foreign Ministry.

In 1950 he was Counsellor at the Embassy in Athens and was then Deputy between 1953 to 1954 Head of the Embassy in Vienna. 1954 to 1956 he was first Ambassador to Laos before he was to 1957 Legation in Paris. After a short time as ambassador to Syria from 1958 to 1961 he was ambassador to Morocco. From 1961 to 1966 he was Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York City.

In 1969 he was appointed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations and held that office under Johnson's successor, Richard Nixon until 1971.

Publications

His experiences and adventures as a diplomat described Yost in several books such as:

• The Age of Triumph and Frustration: Modern Dialogues (1964 )
• The Insecurity of Nations: International Relations in the Twentieth Century (1968 )
• The Conduct and Misconduct of Foreign Affairs (1972 )
• History and Memory (1980 )