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Ambassador Charles Woodruff Yost has been appointed Deputy Representative in the Security Council in 1961. As such he was a principal political adviser to the United States Representative at the United Nations, Adlai E. Stevenson. After Stevenson's death in 1965, Yost stayed on as deputy to Ambassador Arthur Goldberg. Yost was promoted to career ambassador, the highest professional Foreign Service rank, before resigning from the Foreign Service in 1966 to begin his career as a writer, at the Council on Foreign Relations, and as a teacher, at Columbia University. |
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In 1969, President Richard Nixon called Yost out of retirement to become the United States Permanet Representative to the United Nations. He resigned in |
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1971 and returned to writing, at the Brookings Institution, and teaching at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. |
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A native of New York, Mr. Yost went to school at Hotchkiss and graduated from Princeton in 1928. He was appointed to the Foreign Service in 1930 and served in Alexandria, Egypt, and Warsaw. After resigning from the Foreign Service, Mr. Yost became a journalist but returned to Government service in 1935, when he was appointed Assistant Chief, Office of Arms and Munitions Control in the Department of State. From this post he moved on to gain varied experience in the State Department and in 1945 was appointed Assistant to the Chairman of the United States Delegation to the San Francisco Conference where the foundations were laid for the United Nations Organization. Later that year "he acted as Secretary General of the United States Delegation at the Potsdam Conference. In 1946 Mr. Yost served as political adviser to the United States Delegation at the United Nations General Assembly. The ensuing years found Mr. Yost serving at various foreign capitals such as Prague, Vienna and Athens. After a return to Vienna in 1953 with the rank of Deputy High Commissioner, Mr. Yost was appointed the American envoy to Laos in 1954 with the rank of Ambassador. Subsequently he served as United States Ambassador to Syria and most recently to Morocco. |
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In 1934 he married Irena Oldakowska. Mr. and Mrs. Yost have three children. |
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