U. Alexis Johnson

Ural Alexis Johnson ( born October 17, 1908 in Falun, Saline County, Kansas; † March 24, 1997 in Raleigh, North Carolina) was an American diplomat, on during his tenure as deputy ambassador in South Vietnam on March 29, 1965 an assassination attempt failed with a car bomb and as Under Secretary of State is the third highest post held later for political Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United States.

Life

After schooling Johnson studied at Occidental College in Los Angeles where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1931. This was followed from 1931 to 1932 to study at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

He then joined the diplomatic service and was for uses of the State Department from 1935 to 1937 interpreter at the Embassy in Japan. After a subsequent use as a Vice Consul in Keijo, the then occupied by the Japanese Empire Seoul, in 1939 he was briefly vice-consul in Tianjin. He then went on 1940-1941 using as Vice Consul in Shenyang before it from 1942 to 1944 was Vice Consul and Third Secretary at the Embassy in Brazil after.

In 1945 he became consul at the embassy in the Philippines in 1946 and then returned back to Japan, where he became acting political adviser in Konsularstab of the Commander of the U.S. forces at his headquarters in Yokohama. Subsequently, he was 1947-1949 Consul General in Yokohama, and then returned to the Foreign Ministry and was there until 1951, deputy director of the Office of Northeast Asia Affairs, which is the responsible for the Mongolia and Japan, China, North Korea and South Korea office.

He then worked as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, before to 1953 deputy head of the U.S. mission he was in Czechoslovakia after November 1952. In December 1953, he was appointed as the successor of George Wadsworth as ambassador to Czechoslovakia, where he worked until 1957. Thereafter, however, he returned to Asia and was initially between February 1958 and April 1961 as a successor of Max Waldo Bishop Ambassador to Thailand.

After working as a Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 1961 to 1964, he was Vice - Ambassador to South Vietnam in 1964, and thus representative of the then Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor. At the same time he held as a recognized Asia expert also lectures on the diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Asian countries. During his time in South Vietnam assassinated with a car bomb was posted on March 29, 1965 outside the embassy in Saigon made ​​on his life, but that failed.

Nevertheless, he returned to the attack to the State Department and was there again for a year Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, before he was between November 1966 and January 1969 Ambassador to Japan as successor to Edwin O. Reischauer.

He then finally took from 1969 to 1973 as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs the third-highest post in the U.S. State Department a. Recently Johnson was during the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Lyndon B. Johnson between February 1973 and February 1977 as a successor to David M. Kennedy Special Envoy ( Ambassador -at -Large) Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During these years he was also instrumental in bringing about the first talks with the Soviet Union to disarm.

Publications

About his experience with the preparations for the disarmament negotiations, he wrote: Arms Control and the Gray Area Weapons System (1978).

In 1984, he published his memoirs under the title The Right Hand of Power, which gave an insight into U.S. foreign policy from the 1950s to 1970s.