Visitor of the Month

One of Dartmouth's top-ranking representatives in the U. S. Department of State paid a visit to the campus in mid-January when Ellis O. Briggs '21, director of the Office of American Republics, spoke irfformally to Dartmouth undergraduates interested in the American foreign service. His two-day visit, under the auspices of the International Relations Club, also involved individual conferences with interested students.

Mr. Briggs, now holding a position of importance in the shaping and execution of American foreign policy, has been a career diplomat for the past twenty years. After graduating from Dartmouth, teaching for two years at Roberts College in Constantinople, and doing free-lance writing, he began his State Department career in 1925 as vice consul at Lima, Peru. He then became embassy counselor at Habana, Cuba, and followed this with increasingly important State Department assignments in Chile, Liberia, Peru, the Dominican Republic, and China. In his present position as Director of the Office of American Republics, he is directly responsible to Spruille Braden, Assistant Secretary of State in charge of American Republics affairs.

ELLIS O. BRIGGS '21