ambassador Raymond A Hare SIGNED 1956 letter Director General US Foreign Service

Description: This is a letter bearing the signature of Raymond A. Hare. Raymond Arthur Hare (1901-1994) was an American diplomat who was Director General of the United States Foreign Service from 1954 to 1956, and Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from 1965 to 1966. Hare served as a United StatesAmbassador to several Middle Eastern countries,including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey,and North Yemen. Hare became Second Secretary at the U.S. embassy in Cairo in 1939. In 1944, Hare was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in London, where he was responsible for coordinating British and American policy towards the Middle East. He later served as an advisor at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference. After the war, Hare was sent to the National War College. He was later assigned to Nepal to serve as deputy chief of mission. Hare became Chief of the Division of South Asian Affairs at the State Department in 1947; Deputy Director of the Office of Near Eastern and African Affairs in 1948; and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs in 1949. In the latter capacity, Hare drafted and negotiated the Tripartite Declaration of 1950, by which the British, the French, and the U.S. agreed to limit arms sales to the Middle East in the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. In 1950, Hare was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. In 1953, he became ambassador to Lebanon. Less than a year later, he become the Director General of the United States Foreign Service, serving in that position for two years. In 1956, Hare was appointed Ambassador to Egypt. He arrived in Cairo shortly before the Suez Crisis began. Hare was ambassador to North Yemen in 1959. In 1960, Hare was named ambassador to Turkey, serving in that position until 1965. Hare was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs in 1965, serving from September 22, 1965 until late 1966. After his retirement from governmental service,Hare was president of the Middle East Institute, from 1966 to 1969. The letter is addressed to Charles R. Burrows,(1910-1986), a Foreign Service officer who is best known for having been the U.S. Ambassador to Honduras from 1960 to 1965. Burrows served as U.S. Vice Consul in Havana, Cuba, in 1939; in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from1943 to 1946; as U.S. Consul in Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic, in 1949; and also in variousdiplomatic offices in several other countries, suchas Venezuela, Peru, Mexico, and the Philippines. The letter is dated August 28, 1956, exactlytwo weeks after Hare was appointed to bethe United States Ambassador to Egypt. The signed letter comes with a certificate of authenticity from JG Autographs. The letter and the COA are enclosed in a plastic page, which is open at the top, allowing easy access, while keeping the letter protected. Shipping is FREE via USPS First Class Mail. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

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