1960

Dr. Wriston is interviewed by Edward Green, executive assistant to the President on the Westinghouse Air Brake Corporation, and Dr. Joseph Zasloff, professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Wriston discusses his life-long interest in the State Department. His interest grew while he was a graduate student at Harvard. He traces the State Department from the time of George Washington to the present. He claims the department had little serious responsibility before World War I, that in past years the Foreign Service was a corps of independently wealthy elite, and that now the United States had an extraordinarily well-trained foreign service. However, according to Dr. Wriston, the idea of a Foreign Service Institute to train diplomats as thoroughly as the military academies train military man, is a good one which has been poorly executed.

WQED; Dr. Henry Wriston; Edward Green; Joseph Zasloff

National Educational Television; Indiana University Audio-Visual Center

Educational

United States--Armed Forces--Foreign service.

National Educational Television

IUL Moving Image Archive

English

1 Film (0:29:19); 16mm

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